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Gardener. Guitar player. Sustainability.
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Liverpool actually has tremendous talent on this squad. Arne Slot is getting nothing from this group. He's just not a fit for
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- tactically or emotionally (which matters greatly in Merseyside). They need to make a change.
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Ken Jenkins
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Good news for Westchester. Tours of the Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow are returning this April. This is one of our County’s most unique and historic landmarks, and I’m glad we’re able to reopen it to the public after completing repairs and strengthening security.
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Zack Labe
2 days ago
Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️ Information on methods:
wgms.ch/products_ref...
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Justin Gerdes
3 days ago
"The most fossil fuel-friendly government in recent U.S. history has shown us all just how risky reliance on oil and gas can be — and taught the world that true energy security lies in accelerating toward a cleaner, electrified future," writes
@jmingle.bsky.social
:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...
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Opinion | Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/oil-crisis-iran-electric-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.u-1_.Fw8K_OL8lCTV&smid=url-share
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Colin Kinniburgh
4 days ago
Kind of incredible how far ahead of the rest of the country California and Texas are on battery storage. CA hit 12 GW of storage on the grid at one point this weekend (42% of load); Texas 8 GW (16%). New York and all of the other ISOs/RTOs are functionally at zero.
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Prof. Bob Howarth
4 days ago
Very powerful blog by former NYSERDA staffer Jamie Dickerson. He describes the hard work he, I, and many, many others did on the NY Climate Law, and the need to now show courage and push ahead.
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Colin Kinniburgh
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“New York cannot keep walking itself up to the start line with a solid plan, only to back out of the race at the last minute.” Interesting perspective here from NYSERDA’s chief of staff during the scoping plan years:
acadiacenter.org/climate-and-...
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Climate and Affordability Do Go Hand in Hand. So Must Courage. - Acadia Center
Acadia Center – Climate, Affordability, and Courage – NYs Climate Act in 2026 “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,...
https://acadiacenter.org/climate-and-affordability-do-go-hand-in-hand-so-must-courage/#_ednref1
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Justin Gerdes
5 days ago
"Analysis from campaign group
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calculates surge in oil and gas prices has led to over $104bn of additional costs for consumers worldwide over the past month."
www.businessgreen.com/news/4527688...
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@james-bg.bsky.social
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Study: Iran War energy crisis loads over $100bn of additional costs onto households and businesses
Analysis from campaign group 350.org calculates surge in oil and gas prices has led to over $104bn of additional costs for consumers worldwide over the past month
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4527688/study-iran-war-energy-crisis-loads-usd100bn-additional-costs-households-businesses
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Energy Innovation
5 days ago
🔌💡 Why are
#natualgas
prices so high? Our
@shannonstirone.bsky.social
spoke with
@brendan.bsky.social
to bring some context and clarity to the topic.
thepowerline.substack.com/p/why-are-na...
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Why Are Natural Gas Prices So High?
Forced dependence on gas creates more risk during global turmoil
https://thepowerline.substack.com/p/why-are-natural-gas-prices-so-high?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post
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One of the great policy wins of our time. Undisputed at this point.
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8 days ago
"Britain's wind farms produced enough electricity to power over 23 million homes yesterday, setting a new maximum generation record that helped squeeze reliance on gas generation at a time when fossil gas prices are continuing to climb."
www.businessgreen.com/news/4527607...
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'A crucial buffer against expensive gas': Britain's wind farms set 'world leading' generation record
Offshore and onshore wind now the UK's largest source of electricity, helping to curb the nation's exposure to expensive and volatile fossil fuel imports
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4527607/crucial-buffer-expensive-gas-britains-wind-farms-set-world-leading-generation-record
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Zack Labe
9 days ago
🚨 It’s official: 2026 had the lowest annual maximum Arctic sea ice extent on record - essentially tied with last year’s record low. Climate change is reshaping the Arctic, and it's all throughout the year. For more information from
@nsidc.bsky.social
:
nsidc.org/news-analyse...
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New York Mets
9 days ago
BENGE GOES YARD 💥
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Justin Gerdes
10 days ago
"The tech industry needs massive amounts of electricity. The most overlooked power plant in the United States isn’t a gas turbine or a solar farm: It’s your house," writes
@mjcoren.bsky.social
:
wapo.st/4rTOtCm
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Column | How to get Big Tech to pay your energy bills
The most overlooked U.S. power plant isn’t a gas turbine or solar farm. It’s your house (and thousands of others). Firms want to use them to power data centers.
https://wapo.st/4rTOtCm
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Jen Taub
10 days ago
Is this AI?
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Democrats not in office. Honestly, that's the reason.
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10 days ago
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Sil: "I'm gonna take action here."
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10 days ago
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Jan Rosenow
10 days ago
Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.
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The greatest player of his era. An immortal. LFC won't be the same.
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11 days ago
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Pretty amazing statistic - 1% in 2005, 17% last year - despite the disastrous national policy. Challenge now: keep expanding.
abcnews.com/US/live-upda...
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Wind and solar generated record amount of US electricity in 2025 despite federal policy shifts
https://abcnews.com/US/live-updates/climate-environment-updates/?id=126308318&entryId=131339211&cid=social_twitter_abcn
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Hideous.
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12 days ago
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Mark Z. Jacobson
14 days ago
In the face of record March temperatures, the California ISO grid not only met 100% of demand with WindWaterSolar for part of the day on 3/20 but also smashed a 2-day-old battery peak discharge record with 11.91 GW, meeting 34% of peak demand. All with 60% less fossil gas use in '26 than '23.
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Justin Gerdes
14 days ago
"Just as the oil shocks of the 1970s transformed the economies of the then-rich world ... so too will this crisis likely transform how the entire world structures its dependence on oil and gas," writes
@zeitlin.bsky.social
. An industry-by-industry look:
heatmap.news/energy/energ...
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The Energy Supply Shock of the Iran War Changes Everything
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and destruction of Gulf fossil fuel assets is already having effects we’ll be dealing with in months and years to come.
https://heatmap.news/energy/energy-supply-iran
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digby
14 days ago
I actually thought this had to be fake and I always assume the worst of Donald Trump. There is no bottom.
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Nolan Hicks
16 days ago
“The rollercoaster encompassed much of the president’s approach to the war overall: creating distance from allies when things went wrong, while seeking to browbeat adversaries with threats that strained credulity.” —
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Iran Leaves an Isolated Trump Grappling With Historic Oil Crisis
With a fifth of global oil paralyzed, a chaotic campaign against Tehran leaves the White House scrambling to shield the US economy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-19/iran-war-trump-underestimates-oil-price-fallout-from-us-israeli-strikes
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Yale Environment 360
16 days ago
In the forests of central Mexico, monarch butterfly numbers grew for the second year in a row, suggesting the population has stabilized after years of decline.
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In Mexican Forests, Monarch Butterflies Halt Their Decline
In the forests of central Mexico, the number of monarch butterflies grew for the second year in a row, suggesting the population has stabilized after years of decline.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery
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Justin Gerdes
17 days ago
"The U.K. government is expected to publish a long-awaited plan to decarbonize new homes next week, with ministers set to mandate low-carbon heating for all new-builds and solar panels on the vast majority," reports
@charliecooper8.bsky.social
:
www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
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UK set to publish green homes plan amid Iran energy shock
One energy sector figure said they expected the plan to land next Tuesday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-green-homes-plan-amid-iran-energy-shock/
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Justin Gerdes
18 days ago
"One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of the Interior is in turmoil, hobbling many of the agencies overseeing the country’s public lands and waters," report
@jakebolster.bsky.social
and
@peteraldhous.com
:
insideclimatenews.org/news/1703202...
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After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say - Inside Climate News
The move happened as the agency shed thousands of workers. Critics and ex-employees say the administrative staff driven out were crucial for maintaining operations.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032026/trump-interior-department-staffing-cuts/
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I'm going with Vera on this one.
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19 days ago
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Timothy Snyder
21 days ago
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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20 days ago
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Justin Gerdes
21 days ago
"China has two significant advantages over its geopolitical rivals. Many of its new cars run on electricity. And that electricity is mostly powered by sources at home," write Alexandra Stevenson and Murphy Zhao:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
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China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/china-oil-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.7N3H.EncoF5AIIBZW&smid=url-share
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Ides of March sobriety check: only 15 months out of 48. That leaves 33 months, folks. It's very bad.
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21 days ago
"After years of starts and stops, workers installed the final blades on the last turbine Friday evening to complete Vineyard Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind project," reports
@miriamwasser.bsky.social
:
www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...
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Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction
After years of starts and stops, construction on Vineyard Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind project, wrapped up this week.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/14/vineyard-wind-construction-complete-massachusetts-offshore-wind
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Justin Gerdes
22 days ago
My latest at
@quittingcarbon.bsky.social
: Utility bills are a regressive way to fund vital clean energy programs. Lawmakers should move the programs to general budgets, funded by taxpayers, so the wealthy pay more for these public goods:
www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/budgets-not-...
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Budgets – not utility bills – should be how we fund critical clean energy programs
Utility bills are a regressive way to fund vital programs to save energy or heat homes in winter. Lawmakers should move the programs to general budgets, funded by taxpayers, so the wealthy pay more fo...
https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/budgets-not-utility-bills-should-be-how-we-fund-critical-clean-energy-programs/
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26 days ago
"It’s not a choice of whether we go for wind farms or security. We need both,” Ben Bekkering, a retired vice admiral in the Netherlands and current partner of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, told
@peter.fairley.ca
:
spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-win...
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How Do Offshore Wind Farms Affect Military Radar?
With the right technology, offshore wind farms can bolster national defense, not hinder it.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-wind-military-radar
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David Corn
25 days ago
What happens when a mad king discovers that the war he launched is not going to go the way he envisioned it? Asking for a friend.
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Justin Gerdes
26 days ago
"The EPA lost more than 4,000 employees in the first year of Trump’s second term, bringing its staffing down to a total of 12,849—a level not seen since the Reagan administration."
insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...
via
@mlavelle.bsky.social
and
@peteraldhous.com
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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News
An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032026/trump-epa-staffing-lows/
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Patrick De Haan
27 days ago
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
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Will Stancil
27 days ago
Genuinely fascinating how widespread the idea is that Trump can simply walk away from anything and it’ll mostly reset to normal
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Clara Jeffery
27 days ago
November is gonna be something
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Carl Quintanilla
27 days ago
“.. The $55 cap is available to purchase on the president’s merch website.”
@thedailybeast.bsky.social
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Trump Finds Jaw-Dropping Way to Disrespect His Own War Dead
The president’s shocking move came during the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-finds-jaw-dropping-way-to-disrespect-his-own-war-dead/
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Yeah this was pretty awesome.
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Perfect clarity in this answer.
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Our side is the best side. Yeah, we disagree a lot. But still the best side.
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Keep hope alive! A beautiful and inspiring service. 🥹
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David M. Perry
about 1 month ago
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
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Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots
Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.
https://www.startribune.com/st-patricks-day-weekend-2026-punk-music-ice/601593267?utm_source=gift
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Dan Gearino
about 1 month ago
My annual dive into U.S. electricity generation data, with cool charts. Solar was way up (35%!!!). Coal was up too. Gas was down.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...
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Texas Seizes the Solar Crown From California, and Other Key Points From the Latest Electricity Data - Inside Climate News
Utility-scale solar soared in 2025 across the country; coal also grew, while natural gas was down.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05032026/inside-clean-energy-texas-utility-scale-solar/
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Colin Kinniburgh
about 1 month ago
👀 New letter from 29 NYS Senators (>2/3 of the Dem caucus) to Hochul this morning: “We categorically oppose any effort to rollback New York’s nation-leading climate law… and urge you to stand strong in the face of misinformation that seeks to blame the CLCPA for the energy affordability crisis”
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