The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Fun fact - Among all the good things the forest service has done, they were instrumental in the development of the modern chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel

So inspiring

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Way to go Jen Wallling! @ilenviro.bsky.social IL needs to get a handle on the HUGE power & water demand threatening our environment, health and wallets! #PassThePOWERAct

Donald Trump will cut $1 trillion to Medicaid — with as many as 400,000 Illinoisans losing their health care coverage by 2028. Tax breaks for his donors and friends on the backs of working families. Where are the President’s priorities?

Interesting factoid... On average, 1% increase in gasoline price would increase the sales of EVs by 0.85% and the effect is larger for EV models with relatively lower purchase cost ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Illinois needs to put limits on where power-sucking AI data centers get electricity. They are driving up your powerbills as well as adding to unbreathable air, not to mention global warming which makes both worse. #renewables #PassThePOWERact

Zero emissions buses accounted for just 6% of the US bus market in Q1 2025 theicct.org/publication/...

Nearly 50 people have died in immigration custody under Trump.

Now if only in Chicago....

We need the state of Illinois to protect our health, since the federal government leadership keeps working to kill more Americans. chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

Scenes from a day in Springfield passing for support or asthma, radon and clean air programs, policies and funding. Volunteer activists make it happen! Respiratory Health Association.

Useless. Utterly pathetically maddeningly useless. And filthy expensive. For NOTHING.

Wondering if the deal now is if you complain about long airport delays while in line you will now just get arrested and imprisoned? (or otherwised 'eliminated' as a morale downer for other passengers). Maybe if you are the 'wrong' color? 'wrong' religion? etc.

Looking at gas prices thinking new or used EV? Illinois EPA has a $2k/$4k EV rebate program for qualified applicants. At least 3/5 of the money STILL AVAILABLE for THIS YEAR (until 6/30). (It is an AFTER the sale rebate, so apply after you buy) #ElectricVehicle #EV epa.illinois.gov/topics/ceja/...

Hot Damn. pretty cool. Good thing #Illinois last year said lets get 3000MW of batteries on the grid here ASAP, while simultaneouly expanding renewable power generation faster. Can't happen fast enough!

The current American government leadership is basically a bad dog. It's at doggy school and is just going around trying to dominate and make smaller dogs pee themselves. Bad dog.

Again, second time this month Chicago area hitting #AirQuality level #Unhealthy of Senstive Groups/Orange. We have company, as St.Louis and Twin Cities in MN also seeing orange air quality levels today.

Never Stop Sharing the Truth…..

MISO Cycle 3: Battery storage now 27% of total capacity (2.3 GW of 8.8 GW), up from under 2% in Cycle 1. Data center demand is driving utilities to treat BESS as core infrastructure, not pilot technology. https://modoenergy.com/research/en/miso-eras-cycle-3-bess-fast-track

"China sold more electric vehicles in 2025 than the rest of the world combined, creating demand for charging stations across the country." #alwaysbecharging ‪

Soon Illinois will rise due to the passage of CRGA act passage la5e last year. #batteries

Republicans know that they cannot win the midterms with a free and fair election, and that's why they don't want to have one. newrepublic.com/article/2077...

Trump regime punishes dissenters. Lee Zeldin disciplined EPA dissenters after ethics office found no ‘concern’ Staffers were suspended or fired for signing an open letter excoriating the Trump administration for its treatment of EPA #science and workers. www.eenews.net/articles/zel...

Of course! A climate denier eye surgeon is perfect for EPA’s clean air advisory committee. Eye Doctor Named to Air Pollution Advisory Board Draws Pushback www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/c...

Deadly #coal power plant emissions rose by the highest rate in the last 25 yrs in 2025. #Lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, soared >18%, increasing to 705,000 tons. Coal power emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides swelled 12%, to 521,000 tons. #CleanAir www.eenews.net/articles/air...

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

[3:12 am] brain: hey wake up let's think about everything me: what do you mean by everyth- brain: I SAID EVERYTHING

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Over and over, the patterns repeat

Lucifer has a point

Study finds people aged 65 and older exposed to high pollution levels early in the decade, even for a relatively short time, had worse episodic memory (early sign of dementia) in 2011 than those without early high exposure. usrtk.org/healthwire/a...

GOOD EV news in #Illinois! #EV & charging infrastructure rebates offered by @ComEd - nearly $70m available in 2026. This despite a federal retreat from accelerating EVs that increase affordability, clean the air & reduce global warming #health threats. #CleanAir insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

If you see this guy at a community meeting you know your bullshit is about to be put to pasture.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)

be honest. when was the last time you tested your carbon monoxide alarm? no, not changed the batteries. actually tested it.

#Chicago #AirQuality moved into the orange/Unhealthy for Sensitives Groups range this today. Comparison between US EPA's AirNow webpage & the brand new city of Chicago Open Air network that has sensors all over the city. Federal system w/fewer monitors is missing some spots....

Despite the clouds, #AirQuality stinks today in #chicago region. Be careful out there. Tomorrow also slated to be at levels '#unhealthy for sensitive groups' per EPA. #USG #dirtyair #Breathing

ONE new data center about to be approved in metro #Chicago, near #Joliet: "The Joliet data center will need 1.8 gigawatts of electricity, Schoenheider said. That’s more than enough for all Chicago households." #BringYourOwnNewCleanEnergy #BYONCE www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/j...

THIS is why #Illinois needs warning labels on unvented #gas appliances like kitchen stoves! From 2019-23, >4,500 ER visits, 600 hospital admittances & >200 deaths of IL residents were linked to carbon monoxide. #Gasisnotclean @Faithinplace @IllinoisPIRG dph.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

Oil prices are up? WELL. (yes, a pun) - S0 check this out "Real-world test: electric semi trucks can save fleets nearly $160,000 per truck", AND they the trucks were IN CANADA, not sunny California... electrek.co/2026/02/28/r...

VW just sold its 2 millionth EV.

137 diesel generators proposed at one location in Mount Prospect, IL. EACH the size and power of the massive diesel engines used in powerful locomotives. This is ONE data center, of many.

The dynamic described here - many huge computer warehouses detecting the same grid voltage excursion and simultaneously tripping to backup power - is the same basic effect that led to the Iberian power outage last year, just on the demand side rather than supply. Should stagger their trip thresholds

Natural gas utilities will pass these wholesale price spikes straight through to ratepayers by raising retail prices. Before the late Obama years the US exported almost no natural gas, so domestic prices were insulated from global markets

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

A PSA from Thomas Massie: