Deleted Tweets From Sean Casten, D-Ill.
Sean Casten's accounts: VoteCasten, SeanCasten
Tracking Since: November 03, 2020
RT @RepAndyLevin: I led my colleagues in a letter to @SpeakerPelosi and @LeaderHoyer urging investments in the Build Back Better Act… https://t.co/XvCVaD1AsM
RT @RepCasten: Earlier this year we passed the American Rescue Plan with the goal of alleviating some of the hardships presented b… https://t.co/VnIbzAdlAr
RT @RepCasten: With the help of @theestallion and @Fergie, I started #HotFERCSummer because @FERC needed a 5th commissioner. Today, @POTUS… QT @RepCasten: 🚨🔥I just dropped a new #HotFERCSummer jam! As climate activist @Fergie would say, the FERCalicious definition is to… https://t.co/e4gRYXQg9t)
Please don't take medicine intended for horses that has not been tested or approved for human use and can make you sterile. #GetVaccinated instead. https://t.co/ntrloe7b5K
4/ In our @ClimateCrisis report, we retained outside experts to calculate the total GHG impact of all our legislation. It was a careful, honest and incomplete calculation.
5/ Careful & honest because we evaluated not just the impact of every piece of legislation we proposed, but also how they interacted with one another. (For example, the impact of a wind PTC is lower if you also have a CES decarbonizing PTC-displaced power)
6/ Incomplete because we did not have the time or protocols in place to evaluate the benefit of legislation that didn't expressly include a change in energy use, so understated the total impact.
7/ For example, legislation to require standard greenhouse gas disclosure by public companies would undoubtedly lower the cost of capital to clean tech and accelerate deployment but we were unable to calculate that impact.
8/ So now shift to where we are today. We are in a rush to craft the details of our infrastructure package. We have a scientific and moral obligation to make sure it slashes CO2 emissions. And yet we have no existing *independent* entity to do that calculation.
9/ And let's be clear: independence matters. There is a reason we have the non-partisan CBO calculate the fiscal impact of bills. The political temptations to tilt subjective judgments one way or the other are too strong. And (let's be honest) the math is complicated.
10/ An old colleague of mine liked to say "no one would bowl if you didn't keep score". When don't keep score of the climate impact of our proposed legislation, it's hard to prioritize climate-friendly legislation.
11/ And note that this is just as true for positive as negative changes. We calculate how many dollars legislation will cost the federal treasury AND how many dollars of revenue other bills will bring in. We need to do the same with greenhouse gas scoring.
12/ (The only reason that anyone still thinks CCS with enhanced oil recovery is a CO2-reduction measure is because there is no honest scoring... just so you understand the stakes.)
13/ For now, know that our office is pushing very hard for honest, and complete GHG scoring of our infrastructure legislation. Know also that such a protocol does not yet exist, and we're running out of time.
14/ And keep this in mind if you hear anyone claim to know what the GHG impact of that bill is. Unless they can show you their work, show you where the double counts are corrected and show you that they've netted out the dirty stuff... their work is incomplete. /fin
RT @mims: “So how do I best protect my 9 year-old unvaccinated kid? By making sure all adults around him are vaxxed“ QT @ashishkjha: There's a group of pesky unvaccinated ruffians I want to discuss You know -- no lottery tickets will get them vacc… https://t.co/tECwYnucjU)
RT @PoliticalEmilia: He calls his rivals and other leaders names like: Crooked Hillary Little Marco Lyin’ Ted Pocahontas Mr. Magoo Low e… https://t.co/4jpH4F5qdo
Glad to see my friend @Denver4VA joining the January 6 commission. His expertise and patriotism is a great addition. https://t.co/RME1xv0xCD
RT @Yair_Rosenberg: The Trump you are seeing now is exactly the same Trump he has been for his entire presidency. I'm glad many are rea… https://t.co/y20JtprXQs
RT @MollyJongFast: Imagine if Republicans hadn’t been anti-mask, anti-lockdowns and anti-vaccine, this pandemic would have been over so much faster.