Scott Peters

San Diegan, 2x dad, husband, enviro lawyer, elected, urbanist. #CA50 #permitreform #SDinDC #YIMBY🥑 #GoDuke #Padres Work acct: @RepScottPeters

[Scott Peters @ScottPetersSD]

Kinda retro but I still like it.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Unpopular opinion: Pricing the externality (rather than pretextual litigation against infrastructure) is still the correct way to address the undeniably real climate harms caused by burning fossil fuels.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Unpopular opinion: Pricing the externality (rather than pretextual litigation against infrastructure) is still the correct way to address the undeniably real climate harms caused by burning fossil fuels.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Actual climate scientist here. The permitting reform bill was introduced by Senate climate champions like @SenWhitehouse. It will reduce US emissions.

We don't have the luxury to make the perfect the enemy of the good – which time and time again has led to doing nothing at all.

[Scott Peters @ScottPetersSD]

smh

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

It’s instructive to see groups ostensibly dedicated to fighting climate change say they don’t think a bill should be judged by whether it reduces carbon emissions.

[Steve Sher @stevesher_7]

Back home from SD and despite the outcome for the #Cubs , I want to take a moment and give a shoutout to all #Padres fans. Enjoyed a lot of great interactions with many Padres fans who were friendly and welcoming in and around @PetcoPark . #FightForTheFaithful

[Scott Peters @ScottPetersSD]

This is wonderful. Inspiring and heartwarming. Kelly lives.

[WendyFry @WendyFry_]

We’ve been hard at work to get this memorial fund launched and today we’re proud and honored to announce the Kelly Davis Prize for Courage and Compassion in Journalism.

We’re looking forward to continuing Kelly’s outstanding work advancing the public’s understanding of social justice issues. And Kelly, we miss you.

Learn more here:

https://t.co/HsBDWnsA2u

[WendyFry @WendyFry_]

We’ve been hard at work to get this memorial fund launched and today we’re proud and honored to announce the Kelly Davis Prize for Courage and Compassion in Journalism.

We’re looking forward to continuing Kelly’s outstanding work advancing the public’s understanding of social justice issues. And Kelly, we miss you.

Learn more here:

https://t.co/HsBDWnsA2u

[Jane Flegal @JaneAFlegal]

Want lower power bills? This bill makes data centers pay MORE than the costs they cause, and the surplus brings everyone else's rates down. It also lets states bring in FERC to oversee local spending and cut utility profits and levy fines when its' going wrong. It's good!

[New Democrat Coalition (NDC) @NewDemCoalition]

Statement from New Dem Environment, Climate, & Clean Energy Working Group Chair @RepScottPeters, Chair @RepSchneider, & Vice Chair of Policy @RepNikkiB on the Senate’s released energy permitting reform legislation.

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

We cannot decarbonize if we cannot build at a scale and speed not seen in decades. We cannot harness clean energy to power the data center boom if we cannot build more, fast. No permitting reform deal is going to ONLY smooth the way for your preferred resources. But the sclerotic system of environmental permitting and grid planning today is unquestionably a barrier. We have to clear these barriers way, and then continue the fight to build the clean infrastructure necessary to decarbonize America. Take a hard look at this permitting deal. It's (long past) time to get something done.

[Scott Peters @ScottPetersSD]

Exactly this.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This is silly, any deal that passes in 2027 would still need to be bipartisan to be enacted.

The deal in hand is good, will make it easier for a Dem administration in 2029 to hit the ground running, and if the new congress has new energy ideas they can always do another bill.

[Scott Peters @ScottPetersSD]

💯

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I am getting very concerned that green groups are going to try to kill a permitting deal that makes it harder to do pretextual Clean Water Act litigation to block natural gas pipelines without even bothering to estimate the emissions impact of the change they are mad about.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I am getting very concerned that green groups are going to try to kill a permitting deal that makes it harder to do pretextual Clean Water Act litigation to block natural gas pipelines without even bothering to estimate the emissions impact of the change they are mad about.

[Pavan Venkatakrishnan @ppavnr]

Permitting reform is many things… an energy affordability policy, a prerequisite for reshoring manufacturing, etc.

But as @JaneAFlegal and I write in @WSJopinion, a deal this Congress is also integral to the success of the next Dem admin.

[Inclusive Abundance @InclsvAbundance]

We've lost 20% of the world’s sequoias to catastrophic fire. Saving the rest means acting fast, and a four-year review on every grove is time the trees don't have. @RepScottPeters wrote in the Abundant Future on what fighting to save the sequoias taught him about permitting reform.

[Don Orsillo @DonOrsillo]

It’s that time again. Hoping to repeat. @MLB

[Buffy Wicks @BuffyWicks]

If we want to make homeownership more attainable in California, we have to start building condos again.

Today, we barely do.

Here's why that matters — and why I'm working on reforming California's construction defect laws. 🧵

[Tom Erb @Erb_Tom10]

We are severely underestimating the costs of the wildfire crisis. Post-fire flooding is usually a higher cost than the fire itself, compounding costs. Congress needs to pass the Fix Our Forests Act to give agencies authority to rapidly complete wildfire resilience projects.

[Tom Erb @Erb_Tom10]

It just doesn't make sense.

Dems top priority = transmission.

A top impediment to transmission build = NHPA.

No deal materializes until Dems accept that clean energy abundance requires major reform of NEPA & NHPA. These laws simply weren’t built for the moment we’re in.

[Rep. Scott Peters @RepScottPeters]

Team Peters has lost a talented and tenacious member of our alumni family after a years-long battle with cancer. Kelly Davis was an award-winning journalist who served as our Press Secretary from 2023-2024.

For several years before she joined the office, we admired Kelly’s skill in writing stories that made a difference for our region – about homelessness, housing affordability, and criminal justice reform. Investigative reporting was her calling, and her work led to new state laws that have made California a more just and transparent place for everyone. It was an honor that she came to work with us. We appreciated the history, depth, and context she brought to the role of Press Secretary, as well as the kind, compassionate demeanor she brought to the team. We learned from her quiet maturity. She taught us more about how journalism and storytelling work and we taught her a little about how government ought to function; we gained invaluable insights from each other. Today, we’re especially remembering our staff retreat in Washington, D.C. that year. She was a lot of fun on that trip! When she felt called back to journalism, we understood and knew that she would continue to shine a light on injustice and give a voice to those who needed it. She did just that for as long as she could.

Our community has lost a trusted source of information and a fierce advocate for change. We will miss her deeply and send Kelly’s loved ones our warmest condolences.