Robbie Lock

Sustainability Manager @hphood, 🇿🇦 born, Massachusetts raised 🇺🇸 Toddler negotiator. Hiker. @ColumbiaSUMA. Own views.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

Across Massachusetts, towns are spending millions to take developable land off the market and block future housing and economic growth.

Many of these same communities are struggling to fund schools, infrastructure, and basic services while giving up millions in future tax revenue.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

One wealthy Massachusetts town’s housing plan won’t add much housing, and a local called them out.

🔗: https://t.co/XYMbEqvD7Y

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready.

Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in @nytopinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it:
https://t.co/wgJeAEzF8h

[Noa Dalzell 🏀 @NoaDalzell]

This is why Derrick White and Jayson Tatum are champions

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Winter 2025/2026 will go down as the warmest winter in recorded history for the Western United States.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Update: As of this morning Florida is at 100% drought cover for the first time since we’ve been keeping records in 2000. “Extreme” #drought (bright red) covers 2/3rds of the state! Fire 🔥 danger remains severe across much of #Florida. A little, but not much rain is expected Saturday for Central-North.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

Last year, as Donald Trump returned to office, 96 percent of new American electricity capacity was clean.

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Two new solar records today in Texas/ERCOT:

🏆 first time over 30,000 megawatts
☀️first time over 58% of supply

Quite the progression:
2015: 500 megawatts
2017: 1,000 megawatts
2021: 5,000 megawatts
2022: 10,000 megawatts
2024: 15,000 megawatts
Feb. 2026: 30,000 megawatts!!

[John Davitt @johndavittontv]

Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. It straight up murders the boom in battery, solar and wind manufacturing investment. It jacks up your utility bill & raises prices at the pump. It kills a half a trillion dollars of pending investment in US manufacturing and energy supply and 100s of thousands of associated jobs. It makes our air dirtier and our climate more dangerous.

Seriously: Who the fuck benefits from this, besides Joe Craft and his coal mining interests and a couple of big gas producers? Republicans are screwing over their constituents, American business interests, and our country's future in an epic way here.

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

What a scoop from the Post.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act would force the USPS to sell off its 7,200 EV delivery vehicles and *rip up post office facilities/lots* to uninstall their chargers.

The chargers have no real market value so it’s just incinerating public dollars.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

When thinking about creating a strong future for our downtowns, prioritize creating a great place to be rather than an efficient space to pass through.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

The Craigmeur Lookout Fire in Morris county, New Jersey.

Now 210 acres, but crews have bright it to 50% contained. Thanks to the subscriber who shared this view. 🙏
#njfire #njwx #wildfire

[Ali Zaidi Archived @alizaidi46]

.@POTUS Biden & @VP Harris have fundamentally changed the playbook on climate: Not focused on the doom and gloom, focused instead on the massive economic opportunity — a chance to build U.S. manufacturing and infrastructure and a chance to rebuild the American middle class.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The Economist is endorsing Kamala Harris. By making Donald Trump leader of the free world, Americans would gamble with the economy, the rule of law and international peace. Voters who minimise the risks are deluding themselves https://t.co/gRfh5Kg4fe 👇

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

.@TheEconomist is endorsing Kamala Harris for president. "We have editorials every week advising politicians around the world on what to do," says Editor in Chief Zanny Beddoes. "So it would be weird for us not to put that together and offer our assessment of a candidate."

[masslivenews @masslivenews]

Despite pleas from officials, drivers passing school buses common as ever https://t.co/5AYG4dUvo2

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

JUST IN: The US economy is having a remarkable year: 2.8% GDP growth in Q3. That’s in line with expectations and well above the usual norm of ~2% growth.

Strong consumer spending and government spending continue to boost growth.

[Governor Maura Healey @MassGovernor]

BIG NEWS: @MassDOT just won $36.8M from @USDOTFRA for improvements at Springfield's Union Station — another step toward making West-East Rail a reality.

Grateful to the Biden-Harris administration and to our Congressional delegation for their partnership.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred huge investment in America.

$165 billion of that investment has gone into red districts, compared to $54 billion of investment in blue districts.