No idea, but the US actively exports a fair bit of coal

Pretty much: he’s taken a lot of oil industry money.

We don’t actually know if Steyer will make it through the primary yet.

Since Democrats hold a minority in both houses of Congress, noise is the one thing they can actually do. It works occasionally

Been a standard argument of theirs for a long time. Eg: the fact that human decisionmaking limited acid rain and ozone depletion is seen as a reason to not need to address any other environmental issues

It probably won’t look quite like that because cheap solar is going to power air conditioning at a scale which gets most people through it

What’s actually happening:

Far far less than if you keep on driving a gas car. It’s better to not drive at all, but we’re not going to get everybody out of cars.

Proper scrapping does mean destroying the old car and not merely selling it

It actually makes sense to replace a gas car that is still running in a lot of cases

Batteries do wonders for letting people keep on cooking. So does putting power lines underground.

The point is that in many places, it makes financial sense sense to scrap a still-running gas car.

It’s a top-two primary, so we’re likely to end up with Steyer/Becerra or Becerra/Hilton in the general.

Yes. Which they do by dropping coverage. Already happened in some parts of the country

Same way large parts of the US did as high temperature went from being a mild and occasional annoyance to being a frequent thing.

California lets companies directly fund political campaigns, so a large fraction of politicians feel they owe the oil industry a favor.

It didn’t really get started with the smashing records thing until a few decades ago

The rest of the world basically does not exist in the US press so that’s what people think about

Sounds like it was at the request of Minnesota prosecutors and for assault

Realistically a lot. Especially for drivers with dark skin.

Automated enforcement gets actual violations if done right. But it tickets the white and rich a lot more, so there is huge pushback

I don’t know how she did it, but the solution I’ve seen was to attach a spinner knob to the wheel. Cheap and easy to do. And gives mobility to somebody who otherwise wouldn’t have it

My guess is that it was intended to dangle in front of environmental groups so they wouldn’t openly support employees who had organized into what was turning into a union called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice