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The Air District Board voted today to strengthen building appliance rules to reduce harmful NOx and PM2.5 emissions, protecting public health and air quality. New regulations will phase out NOx-emitting natural gas furnaces and water heaters. Learn more: baaqmd.gov/news-and-events/p… – at Vine Hill, CA
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At BAAQMD, we just adopted historic clean air rules, sending a clear market signal to accelerate the development and expansion of zero NOx furnaces and water heaters.
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@California_HCD don't play.
Despite our best efforts to strengthen Berkeley's Housing Element, HCD says we have more work to do 👇🏽
Specifically, HCD tells Berkeley to fix our sites inventory & do more to affirmatively further fair housing.
Gotta keep pushing!
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ongoing thread of my favorite 3rd spaces or "community living rooms" in the East Bay aka Berkeley/Oakland 🛋️
Berkeley's my hometown so esp excited to share these gems 😄
📍Hidden Cafe, Berkeley - overlooking a small park, the cafe supports local artists & culinary artisans.
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"the price of housing should increase faster than inflation over time" is catastrophically bad public policy.
in fact, an interesting framework for setting public policy would be "make everything get less expensive over time".
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This is what state climate leadership 🌎 on buildings 🏙 looks like!! Well done, @GovInslee & WA Building Code Council. Who's next @GavinNewsom @KathyHochul @USClimate ? #ActOnClimate
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... folk in SF are prob. infected. (FYI, this % @UCSF was 0.4% [1-in-250] 1 mth ago.
Remember, this means that if you go into an indoor space w/ 15 people, it’s almost certain that someone is breathing out live virus. Can’t think of better argument for N95 or equivalent.(9/20)
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The Berkeley city council voted to spend $53 million to develop hundreds of new affordable homes at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations. ktvu.com/news/berkeley-oks-s…
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Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it.
#CountdownToMars
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You can see in this chart the result, a plunge in generation just as demand begins to soar. My crudely drawn red lawns represent the delta between generation and demand. At 7 a.m. Monday morning the difference was about 20GW.
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You have probably heard many observers mention that this is a systemic failure rather than a breakdown of an individual technology like wind or gas.
That's easier to see visually. Note how all power generation falls of a cliff around midnight on Monday morning.
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Today’s the day. Trip to Mars, 99.9% complete. The most dangerous part comes last: the final seven minutes.
Watch my landing live starting at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST / 19:15 UTC. #CountdownToMars
teapawt.net/i/events/1360292319782…
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So what is leading to widespread and long-lasting electricity outages in Texas?
1. Total electricity demand was ~3,000 MW over the "Extreme Peak Load" scenario ERCOT planned for.
2. Thermal power plant outages were 10,000-16,000 MW over the "Extreme Generator Outages" scenario.
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This #TexasFreeze event is FAR outside what ERCOT planned for. Their 2020/2021 Winter Resource Adequacy Assessment estimated a worst case scenario "Extreme Pead Load/Extremee Generation Outages" scenario that included 13,953 MW of total thermal outages ⤵️
ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/…
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Covid-19 has drawn new attention to indoor air pollution. Science has long considered gas appliances to be key culprits. nytv.to/dvXB7
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MAPPED: The world's biggest methane emitters 🌍 trib.al/rNGJ4tA
