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901

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902

Peter Laufer, “The Tortoise Is Collateral Damage in the Mojave Desert,” High Country News, March 19, 2014, https://www.hcn.org.

903

Thomas Lovejoy, “A Mojave Solar Project in the Bighorn’s Way,” New York Times, September 11, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com.

904

Jonathan Franzen, “Carbon Capture,” The New Yorker, March 30, 2015, https://www.newyorker.com.

905

Michael Casey, “30,000 Wind Turbines Located in Critical Bird Habitats,” CBS News, May 20, 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com.

906

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907

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908

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909

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910

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911

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912

Solar energy production has been increasing in Vermont by 50 GWh per year according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency’s Electricity Data Browser. Together with Deerfield’s 9 GWh per year effective increase in wind energy from 2009 to 2018, Vermont Yankee’s 5000 GWh per year will be replaced if these rates of solar and wind deployment continue for eighty-five years. However, almost no new commercial solar projects were planned as of November 2019, putting the current rate of solar increase in doubt.

913

Katharine Q. Seelye, “After 16 Years, Hopes for Cape Cod Wind Farm Float Away,” New York Times, December 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com.

914

John Laumer, “US Wind Industry Follows ‘Starbucks Rule’ for Turbine Siting,” Treehugger, October 15, 2009, https://www.treehugger.com.

915

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916

Priyanka Boghani, “Meet Myron Ebell, the Climate Contrarian Leading Trump’s EPA Transition,” Frontline, PBS, November 14, 2016, https://www.pbs.org.

917

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918

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919

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920

Lee Wasserman, “Did Exxon Deceive Its Investors on Climate Change?” New York Times, October 21, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com.

921

Jon Queally, “ ‘Pete Takes Money from Fossil Fuel Billionaires’: Climate Activists Disrupt Buttigieg Rally in New Hampshire,” Common Dreams, January 17, 2020, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/17/pete-takes-money-fossil-fuel-billionaires-climate-activists-disrupt-buttigieg-rally.

922

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923

Bill Allison and Tom Maloney, “Billionaire Candidate Steyer Admits to Carbon ‘Dregs’ from His Hedge Fund Days,” Bloomberg, September 20, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com. Forbes estimated Tom Steyer’s real-time net worth to be $1.6 billion on January 21, 2020. “Financial Data: 2018 Financials,” 350.org, accessed January 30, 2020, https://350.org/2018-annual-report-financials.

924

Michael Barbaro and Coral Davenport, “Aims of Donor Are Shadowed by Past in Coal,” New York Times, July 4, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com. Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger, and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Tom Steyer’s Slow, and Ongoing, Conversion from Fossil-Fuels Investor to Climate Activist,” «The Washington Post», June 9, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com.

925

Bill McKibben (@billmckibben), “Important, and unsurprising since @TomSteyer has long been a climate champ. 21 of 24 Dems now signed on. Things are changing!” Twitter, July 17, 2019, 5:06 p.m., https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1151644321453674501; Bill McKibben (@billmckibben),“Since @TomSteyer has been laser-focused on climate policy for longer than just about any political player, it’s not surprising that his justreleased climate policy is damned good! #demunitytwitterproject,” Twitter, July 25, 2019, 3:22 p.m., https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1154517342467969024.

926

Mike Brune (@bruneski), “@TomSteyer has been a climate leader for yrs & I’m glad to see yet another climate champ join the primary. Dem candidates’ bold proposals to tackle the crisis continue to illustrate the divide between a field of candidates listening to the people vs. Trump who’s endangering them,” Twitter, July 9, 2019, 8:54 a.m., https://twitter.com/bruneski/status/1148621407233937408.A few weeks after that, McKibben tweeted praise to Steyer for opposing the Keystone pipeline and for investing millions to impeach Donald Trump.Bill McKibben (@billmckibben), “Worth noting that @TomSteyer was outpokenly opposed to #KXL pretty much from the jump,” Twitter, August 20, 2019, 2:22 p.m., https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1163924331577184259; Bill McKibben (@billmckibben), “Credit where due: @TomSteyer worked long and hard to build the baseline support for impeachment,” Twitter, September 24, 2019, 3:34 p.m., https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1176626062559760384.

927

Eric Orts (@EricOrts), “Please urge this guy to step down. Huge waste of money. And why say you nothing positive of @JayInslee? Too practical for you?” Twitter, July 17, 2019,