Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie And now wants to reboot The Apprentice — with Don Jr as host. Still shopping on Amazon?

If the fossil fuel industry had to pay all of its true costs it wouldn't be profitable.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Cost to Build a Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Surges by 66% in two years, BNEF Says. The average project expense for a US gas power plant with combined-cycle turbines, the more efficient CCGT type, rose to $2,157 per kilowatt last year from less than $1,500 in 2023. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Approximately 0% of Americans know that the US produces 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia. ig.ft.com/global-energ...

We have discovered, yet again, that pedestrianization *raises* traffic to stores & *boosts* sales. All the fear-mongering was baseless! I'm sure this time the lesson will stick & the *next* group of merchants around the *next* proposed pedestrian street won't raise a bunch of nonsense objections!

Breaking News: Gov. Janet Mills of Maine vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. It would have been the first state moratorium on data centers as the A.I. industry booms.

"Costs to build natural gas-fired power plants in the US increased 66% between 2023 and 2025" "More expensive power plants will likely mean higher utility bills for homes and small businesses." This won't end well.

It's just one week away. "No Kings" hopes for a major escalation of its anti-authoritarianism movement with a May 1 general strike, urging "no work, no school, no shopping" Online buzz has been light, but some major unions are on board. Can it work? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/may-...

Removing plastic from our food chain yields quick results, researchers say: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/plastic-packaging-body-chemicals-study/106594194

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Pakistan's solar buildout is truly incredible 2020: 4 TWh, 3% of the mix 2024: 20 TWh, 11% 2025: 37 TWh, 19% Nearly all distributed solar generation. Solar is modular, scalable and affordable and the fastest way to energy independence for many countries.

A nice reminder from Ember, using British data. Wind and solar are complementary. Our system works best when you have both, each calling on their own strengths in terms of generation patterns. If either struggles to grow like it should, we end up with a more expensive, slower fossil phase-out

Breaking: Big Wind www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

Electric buses cost much less to operate, are quiet, and generate no tailpipe emissions. Fleming County Schools in Kentucky purchased 24 electric buses using funding provided by the Biden administration's Transportation Bill. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵 spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvill...

”The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.” Seeing the difference as single person is rare in modernity, that’s why I post about it #Sufficiency www.nature.com/articles/d41...

”The largest increase was seen in tofu and canned legume products, with tofu sales rising 12 percent and legumes up 14 percent, year-on-year.” #Health #Sufficiency 🥦 yle.fi/a/74-20220701

So this is California's air regulator basically giving up on cap-and-invest until the 2030s, at least. ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/defaul...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.

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Dual world from Senja mountains… #photography #art #nature

Speaking of energy prices… “In all 50 states, the cost of home-charging an EV is considerably cheaper than fueling a car with gasoline” — @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/what...

“The map above shows the cost of charging an EV at home. The price is expressed in “eGallons,” which is the cost of charging an EV by an amount equivalent to one gallon of gasoline.” — @climateconnections.bsky.social

With the war in Iran threatening to choke off energy flows for the foreseeable future, Europe is facing a supply shock. How severe could the crisis become? 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/how-...

Things are moving fast in the energy world thanks to the latest war. I cover a lot of the highlights of the past week in this piece.

If you don’t follow this stuff it’s difficult to overstate how far ahead of us China is on EVs (and renewables). They’ve already won. We’d need a wartime economy dedicated to both to catch up.

Mapping the Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

But ballroom we can do

An economist friend passes along this graph of energy costs. He says, "Given this history, it is more than a little ironic that renewable energy is derided by fossil-fuel proponents as 'unreliable.'”

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Trump's war of choice in Iran has cost us the lives of 13 American service members & injured hundreds, killed thousands of civilians, & is costing $2 BILLION per day. With Trump considering putting boots on the ground, we must say loud & clear: End this war, NOW! 📍Aberdeen, MD

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Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation system known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊 The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

BEV trucking in Australia is now delivering loads faster and for less cost. Not a bad combination, particularly when all your diesel needs to be imported. We can shift from fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 thedriven.io/2026/03/30/f...

Time and time again surveys of heat pump owners show that the vast majority of people are happy with their heat pump. Here's data from Canada, a place known for its very warm winters. cleanenergycanada.org/report/heat-...

My resignation letter

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

There’s a reason AARP basically has urbanist politics around city planning stuff. We should all hope to live long enough to age out of driving. Should be we so lucky, we should still be able to get around!

I think this is what a lot of commentary today has been missing: This is a public payment to strategically shift foreign investment between sectors and states. That makes it a much, much more worrying precedent than a simple payment for lease abandonment.

And there it is. Making official what may of us said when Israel’s invasion began. Israeli officials want to annex southern Lebanon. They have always seen it as rightfully part of “Greater Israel” which extends from the river to the sea. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Correct. On the vast majority of the world's land, solar would produce 100x or more the useable energy per hectare vs. bioenergy. Meaning 1 hectare for energy, 99 hectares left over for food. (Also, solar farms don't necessarily need to be put on farmland, but crops do.)

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

Gavin Newsom could really stick it to Trump by ordering his DOT to build just an absolute fuck-ton of high-quality curb-protected bike lanes on every state road. Man it sure would make him mad. Are you listening to this @governor.ca.gov? You could really get under his skin this way, team his grits.