
Dean and Professor of Law @CumberlandLaw @SamfordU; research natural resources/land use/climate change law & policy; more thoughts https://xitter.cf/t.co/LWQa4RBpc6.
Birmingham, AL
Joined May 2011
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Google Earth captures the stunning transformation of our planet over 3 decades. Via WiseCartographer5007.
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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets.
Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.
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This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything.
What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger.
It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption.
A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger.
No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes.
No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours.
Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP.
Using what’s already there.
For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.”
It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy.
No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers.
No massive charging hubs.
Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do.
And that’s the point.
The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to.
Simple.
Effective.
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Gorsuch to Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to uphold what the President did. However vague the statute, however unprecedented the action, however attenuated the causation, you voted yes. So why are you in the majority with me in this case? Why?
Gorsuch to Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to strike down what the President did. You said vague statutes, unprecedented actions, attenuated causation, that those are all fatal. So why are you in the dissent in this case? Why?
Agree with many others here that the most interesting thing going on in this case is Gorsuch's Corleone-settling of all family business on the Major Questions Doctrine. His knifing of half the majority he voted with, to say nothing of the dissents on the Right, will be what gets cited from this case by posterity.
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It's astonishing to witness the improvement in public education--reading, math, attendance, grad rates--in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. But we're busy fighting culture wars rather than scaling up what these three states have done. Please do read: nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opini…
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If only there were a guide, some kind of book, Christians could consult.
A Christian battle grows over whether empathy is virtue or weakness as the U.S. diversifies trib.al/lMHglMt
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Before the 1990s, kids experienced more risk, more thrills, more physical injuries, and fewer psychological injuries than they do today. Kids had more freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. We have forgotten that kids are antifragile.
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The Iberian Peninsula has lost 21% of its 2000 tree cover between 2001 and 2023. It also regained 4% of its 2000 cover between 2001 and 2012. In Portugal in particular things look bleak. Great work by @milos_agathon.
The scholarship of Samford University Cumberland School of Law faculty members is frequently cited in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited from July 1-Sept. 30, 2024 and sourced by Westlaw Precision.
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Antarctica, the world's iciest continent, is 'greening' at a dramatic rate - USA TODAY apple.news/ApPCGfQSFSZyqGSil…
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? | Oceans | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…
Earth’s wildlife populations have disappeared at a ‘catastrophic’ rate in the past half-century, new analysis says - The Washington Post apple.news/Aa4OXwmFgRPuD-KRB…
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Interesting and startling figure👇
Globally, the TOTAL area of land burned has trended down over the last two decades, and the TOTAL area of FOREST burned has been relatively flat.
Sad to see the TOTAL area of tree cover lost to fires INCREASING so significantly.
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You've heard of the "Urban Heat Island" effect... A new study published today in Nature finds there's a similar type of residual surface warming effect in burned BOREAL forest areas in summertimes for years AFTER a large Wildfire:
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Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world?
This @NatureComms paper says yes.
Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
What a representation of the human condition and climate change. #GreeceFires




















