Between 2020 and 2023, TVA executives were awarded about $3.1 million in bonuses for decisions to expand fossil fuel infrastructure. This is because TVA has “performance metrics” that incentivize fossil fuel deployment
Stacy D VanDeveer Dr Paul Dorfman wpln.org/post/tva-execu…

Natural hazards, chum edition

Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money
Stacy D VanDeveer electrek.co/2024/04/29/nev…

New tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating climate crisis
Stacy D VanDeveer Dr Paul Dorfman theguardian.com/environment/20…

Overwhelming sentiment from investors was that the company was failing to address their concerns, and not living up to its rhetoric that it aimed to have net zero emissions by 2050
Stacy D VanDeveer Dr Paul Dorfman theguardian.com/environment/co…

New #article from Rodriguez-Giralt et al: Digital Social Connectedness as a Lifeline for Older People: Use and Non-use of VinclesBCN During the Pandemic
TL;DR: significance of entertainment as a resilience-building strategy during times of uncertainty.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New #article from Campling et al: A geopolitical-economy of distant water fisheries access arrangements
TL;DR: develop a geopolitical-economy of access that attends to contingent and context-specific economic, ecologic, and geopolitical forces
nature.com/articles/s4418…

New #article from Rajaperumal et al: GIS-based Social Vulnerability Integration for Robust Flood Response, Disease Prevention and Community Resilience
TL;DR: Flood-affected areas had heightened social vulnerability.
worldresearchersassociations.com/Archives/DA/Vo…

New #article from Connon et al: Social Disability as Disaster: Case Studies of the COVID-19 Pandemic on
People Living with Disabilities
TL;DR: systems intended to mitigate disaster
can exacerbate social disability as a kind of collateral damage.
semanticscholar.org/reader/b1db846…

New #article from Dr. Yvonne Su et al: Empty Pantries: The Death of Survival Myths Among Typhoon Haiyan Survivors in Resettlement Sites During Covid-19
TL;DR: survivors relied on themselves + bonding ties (close family members) for support during the pandemic
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

How not to mitigate floods, dump truck version

Biden administration’s crackdown on power plants’ planet-warming emissions will accelerate a shift away from coal, and potentially speed the U.S.’s adoption of renewable energy sources
Stacy D VanDeveer Dr Paul Dorfman
thehill.com/policy/energy-…

US has just commissioned the largest geothermal power plant in the entire world, an undertaking that spans 900 megawatts
Stacy D VanDeveer Dr Paul Dorfman ecoticias.com/en/geothermal-…

An act of academic defiance: I bring my kids with me on my scientific expeditions nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

New #work from Chris Ansell et al: Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
TL;DR: robust governance aims to maintain core functions, goals and values by means of flexibly adapting and proactively innovating the modus operandi of the public sector.
cambridge.org/core/elements/…

OSHA look away, high tension wire version

With just weeks before the start of hurricane season, thousands of homeowners in Southwest Florida are being dropped by their home insurance companies.
Dr. Sara K. McBride 👠 Dr. Samantha Montano nbc-2.com/article/florid…