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@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 10, 2026, 1:58 AM

Hey I know let's help Trump desecrate everything #BAAJA

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 10, 2026, 1:54 AM

Guess who isn't going to vote for #BAAJA

@hknorton.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:12 AM

Section III of #BAAJA makes dangerous title 54 amendments that will GUARANTEE every development project gets to bulldoze sacred sites.

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:52 PM

Stop #BAAJA

@jasondovemark.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:22 PM

OK, OK. Against my better judgement, I'm going to stick my hand into the meat grinder and write something abt the proposed permitting reform bill. Looking for voices who are arguing loudly in favor. Suggestions?
#BAAJA

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 5:35 PM

In an inspiring speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov calls for "battle" against the fossil-fuel front groups endorsing his fossil-fuel fast-tracking bill #BAAJA because "we will bitterly regret any failure to prepare or failure to fight."

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 4:43 PM

@rhg.com is working on #BAAJA modeling right now.

Rhodium's 2015 estimate for additional production from removing the crude export ban was between "0 and 1.2 million extra barrels per day." US crude production at that time was 9.4 mbpd.

Today, US crude production is closing in on 14 mbpd.

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 3:59 PM

great to have Google's chatbot explain #BAAJA to me

Section 1121 of BAAJA ("eNEPA Technologies") does explicitly mandate the integration of AI tools directly into the federal permitting apparatus. By codifying what was originally known as the ePermit Act, the bill forces the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to implement a unified, interagency cloud-based ePermit system by December 1, 2028.
This creates the exact structural closed loop required for a post-humanity techno-Eocene. The mechanism transforms from a human agency constrained by timelines into an automated, programmatic pipeline:

1. AI-Generated Submissions Met by AI-Automated Reviews

Under Section 1121, the statute mandates the creation of tech tools designed for two symbiotic functions:
• For Corporations/Project Sponsors: Automated systems to generate the thousands of pages of required environmental documents.
• For Federal Agencies: AI-assisted screening and comment analysis to ingest and process those exact documents.
In practice, underfunded and understaffed federal agencies—struggling under BAAJA's mandatory 1-to-2-year completion limits for Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs)—will have no choice but to delegate the evaluation process to the AI portal to meet statutory deadlines. The system becomes an automated machine-to-machine handshake: corporate AI models write the compliance data, and federal agency AI models approve it.

3. The Self-Sustaining Feedback Loop

This automation completely decouples the expansion of mega-energy projects from the slow, deliberate expectations of human society:
1. Compute Demand: Next-generation AI training clusters demand massive, multi-gigawatt baseloads of energy.
2. Infrastructure Fast-Track: BAAJA provides the mandatory ePermit/eNEPA automated pipeline to clear the grid transmission lines, gas pipelines, and power stations required to feed those data centers.
3. Institutional Dominance: The energy grid and the administrative permitting state become too complex and fast-moving for human regulators to comprehend or audit, cementing AI as the sole operator of both energy distribution and environmental compliance.
By replacing human oversight with a mandated digital engine, BAAJA ensures that the human desire for a stable Holocene climate is programmatically filtered out. The system optimization function is reset entirely to maximum energy velocity, systematically burning through the planet's remaining carbon budget to feed the computational architecture of a post-human, ice-free Eocene.

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:15 PM

Support for #BAAJA "pretends that immolating our environmental laws can somehow render the data center buildout as currently conceived compatible with stabilizing the climate. It can’t."

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 1:51 PM

With respect to climate, #BAAJA is going to lock the US into the high oil & gas supply, high electricity demand pathway. Humans will be cooked.

www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo...

The electricity generation mix depends on resource availability and market conditions

Liquids exports remain historically elevated in nearly all cases

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 6:26 AM

also if that claim were true, then data-center-industry trade associations like the Corporate Energy Buyers Association and Information Technology Industry Council wouldn't be enthusiastically backing #BAAJA.

It's a dirty deal for dirty data centers everywhere.

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@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 6:26 AM

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social's claim that data centers are "losers" with #BAAJA is belied by the economic fact that the bill's fast-tracked certainty for megaprojects is worth *billions* of dollars to data center developers, at least an order of magnitude over the increased energy cost share

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 5:09 AM

there's a lot of "don't believe your lying eyes" special pleading by the #BAAJA shills out there. Fortunately a lot of it is quarantined on X but it's spread over LinkedIn too

#nodirtydeal

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 4:58 AM

the claim that a bill forcefully backed by the Trump White House, the American Petroleum Institute, and Koch Industries is "clearly a net positive for the climate" is, and I believe this is the technical term, utter horseshit.
#BAAJA

Jane Flegal: "16/Permitting involves tradeoffs and hard calls, no question. But this bill is clearly a net positive for climate and for the country. Heartfelt thanks to the senators who got it done. Let’s make it law./end"

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 4:50 AM

Really amazing that @whitehouse.senate.gov and @heinrich.senate.gov plan to completely screw over @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social with their Unstoppable Data Centers Everywhere Act before he gets into office
#BAAJA

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 12:54 AM

This is why the corrupt GOP-run Congress is desperate to pass the data-centers-everywhere #BAAJA during the lame duck

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 12:53 AM

We have *got* to stop #BAAJA!

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 12:52 AM

Tom Barrett is going to get another chance to vote for data centers with #BAAJA - even if @wewill2026.bsky.social is elected. Johnson & Thune plan to sneak this through the lame duck!

@climatebrad.hillheat.com Oct 9, 2026, 12:51 AM

we have got to stop the Trump-Lee-Capito data-centers-everywhere bill #BAAJA!