Francisco 'A.J.' Camacho
@AJCamacho15
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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first? JD Candidate at Georgetown University. FERC & nuclear power reporter, E&E News.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2020
Just saw a tweet from March that said "warming stopped years ago" ... So that didn't age well.
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A California company says it has developed a novel way of making concrete that doesn’t contribute to global warming
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A California company says it has developed a novel way of making concrete that doesn’t contribute to global warming
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New @pewresearch poll: shows ~12% point drop in American support for renewables. Author @alec_h_tyson tells me: "Although there remains broad public support for renewable energy, the breadth of that support is less widespread than it was 4 years ago." https://t.co/vYSasdmsPb
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The Pew Research Center also found that electric vehicles are losing their luster and few people prioritize their personal carbon footprint.
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Happy to get syndicated by @sciam again! @chelseaeharvey and I brought microbiology and glaciology together for this piece highlighting fascinating new research from Greenland: viruses may be keeping further sea level rise at bay.
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Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet
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The largest U.S. renewable bus depot broke ground last week, but are new hydrogen buses worth their $1.3 M lifetime premium? Advocate @alanthefisher : Better to increase ridership. @MontCoExec : We want more riders, but the new buses are still worthwhile.
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The Montgomery County project received funding from the bipartisan federal infrastructure law.
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This month, multiple outlets said Venezuela 🇻🇪 was the first country to lose all of its glaciers in modern times (largely due to climate change). I thought I'd write the same, but as I delved deeper, I found Slovenia 🇸🇮 beat them to the punch in the 1980s.
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It’s a grim benchmark showing the progression of climate change.
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At 5:01 May 13, officials carried out a controlled explosion of the Key Bridge collapse debris. People walking their dogs and jogging along the harbor promenade stopped as the boom echoed over the water. Smoke began rising in the distance seconds thereafter.
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Solar drives renewables milestone in California ' "38 of the past 46 days, renewables have met the state’s full energy demand for part of the day" "It’s never happened before to this scale." https://t.co/Ivls9zVBjV
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Dengue fever infected more people in the Americas in the last 3 months than all of 2023 -- which was the previous worst year on record. If you live in the southern US, especially FL, you may want to buy some mosquito repellent for the summer. https://t.co/0AHbh0VkNf
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More than 1,800 people in North and South America have died this year from the mosquito-borne disease.
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@ByJohnFrank @axios 2) City officials said they have logged 0 reported incidents of residents buying e-bikes w/o UL certification and applying for a rebate voucher. The bike shops I reached out to said the city helped them clarify what in their stock was and wasn't eligible and reported no problems.
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1) I also want to highlight that a @ByJohnFrank @axios piece featured concerns that Denverites might unwittingly buy e-bikes that were ineligible for vouchers based on new requirements. My reporting indicates that worry hasn't materialized. https://t.co/D2Whd74obw
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A little-noticed rule change for rebates will limit the options for consumers to purchase.
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Want a cheap or even free e-bike? Dozens of entities across 11 states are happy to help! Denver official @MikeSalisbury78 talks about the surge in incentives since his city's pioneering voucher program: "It's a win-win!" https://t.co/shxj6ZBzLG
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s spruce and fir forests are rebounding from overlogging and acid rain but may be no match for higher temperatures
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s spruce and fir forests are rebounding from overlogging and acid rain but may be no match for higher temperatures
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As a new EPA rule pushes trucking further from diesel, @mikeroeth says "Don't bet against battery." But @arjunthangarajr tells me "electrifying trucks poses a much bigger challenge" than EV cars. I examine 3 techs that can support truck electrification. https://t.co/CIGi2Ut6GL
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These experiments could help reduce carbon pollution from cargo trucks.
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Biden's strategy for modern passenger rail? Grant $66 B to American rail, focusing on shorter-distance corridors that were historically under-funded. "We've never seen that," @alanthefisher tells me. https://t.co/dHyO4LzHD1
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Better train travel can cut emissions and reduce traffic — especially on routes that are “too long to drive, too short to fly.”
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Media outlets use his company's measurements to denounce EVs, but he thinks they're a great idea. @E_Analytics CEO Nick Molden yells "full steam ahead" on decarbonization, but says "we need to be cognizant of the side effects," like "tire emissions." https://t.co/VYdTwiu94K
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Studies show that heavy battery electric vehicles wear down tires, adding to pollution. But that doesn't mean EVs are bad for the planet.
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My new @EENewsUpdates article shows that ballooning vessel sizes and dated infrastructure can be a disasterous combo. Key Bridge engineers couldn't have reasonably foreseen that a ship the Dali's size would navigate beneath it. https://t.co/t75AkqIo7w
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Larger ships don’t necessarily increase accident rates, but the damage they cause can be more catastrophic.
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The ship that collapsed Bmore's Key Bridge is 3.4x bigger than the world record at the time the bridge was completed in 1977. @UTKCoAD Prof. Marleen Kay Davis tells me "it was a really strong bridge" but "such a catastrophic hit" would have been hard for designers to predict.
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Great Smoky Mts NP's forest centerpiece is recovering, but not out of the woods as climate change bears down. Guests say southern Appalachia's spruce-firs forest "looks like Canada," but @GrandDa's John Caveny says they may be gone in a "blink".
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park's spruce and fir forests are rebounding but may be no match for higher temperatures.
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With traffic closed after the Key Bridge collapse, my explainer on the Port of Baltimore. What comes in? What goes out? “Imports are salt, sugar, the bulk items" and Bmore exports a lot of "coal and vehicles," @CCBCMD's Kipp Snow tells me. https://t.co/j93qndPLgT
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Operations are indefinitely suspended after a container ship strike sent portions of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River.
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