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NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

As @leahstokes.bsky.social @joeldodge07.bsky.social and I told @zcolman.bsky.social of @politico.com this morning, we need to start early with a plan to tackle climate at speed and scale... and with results seen quick enough to build and sustain public support. www.eenews.net/articles/pro...

In my introduction, I dispel some climate doomerist narratives: 💥The problem is as tangible as ever 💥We've broken glass on policy tools like public equity stakes that can help address it 💥The politics are moving in the right direction rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Our contention is that - in the wake of DOGE and SCOTUS attacks on the administrative state - we can't just hit restart or provide a list of favored policies. Instead, we need to address power and structural barriers to government delivering for all. subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

In this, we are very much in sync with @jamellebouie.net, who wrote last month on the need for progressives to think in terms of power and constitutional authority. This is true generally, but especially of systemic challenges like climate. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Let's run through some of the specific essays. 1. I kick things off with an intro and a tour of the pros and cons of the recent US turn towards government-owned equity stakes. There is some promise here for climate, but getting the balance of ownership v. control is tricky.

2. @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social - former OIRA head - urges the next administration to be clear-eyed about how the Supreme Court and new surveillance state will attempt to limit progress, and to plan for a Reconstruction-scale project. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

3. @timlmeyer.bsky.social says we need to get rid of the self-imposed double standard, where anti-climate administrations use executive power to the hilt, but pro-climate administrations hold back action in the name of outdated norms. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

4. Will Dobbs-Allsopp echoes points made recently by @jonathanbchait.bsky.social & others: the unique countermajoritarianism baked into our Senate is an obstacle to governing for the majority, and climate-induced migration will make that problem worse. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

5. Sara Meyers - formerly of the CHIPS office - walks through a problem that gets too little attention: how to hire staff quickly and competently into government roles, and retain high performers. The public won't trust a government that can't execute. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

6. CEA alums @hboushey.bsky.social and @noahqkaufman.bsky.social dig into another governing challenge: outdated economic models and regulatory review that put the thumb on the scale against government acting on climate. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

8. @rohansandhu.bsky.social argues for going local. There's a hidden developmental state in state and city government, and by spreading resources and capacity to them, we guard against seesawing at the federal level. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

9. There's another hidden developmental state: our utilities. @shelley-w.bsky.social walks through how to marshal it for climate planning. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

10. Satyam Khanna - one of the architects of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund - lays out how government can move faster by being willing to take financial risks like the private sector, and sending clear demand signals for clean. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

11. One particular way to make finance work better for climate ends is a US sovereign wealth fund. @stomarova.bsky.social shows how this could help leapfrog capacity and budgeting challenges. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

13. Making domestic policy sticky is better when international frameworks are also sticky. @erinrgraham.bsky.social addresses the urgent need to figure out a global climate finance strategy at the World Bank and elsewhere. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

14. @leahstokes.bsky.social takes us to the world of production, and how support for electrification can put US manufacturing on sounder footing. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

15. @joeldodge07.bsky.social uncovers the hidden history of publicly-owned factories in the US, and shows how they could be used to bypass permitting and other challenges that have bedeviled the clean energy buildout. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...