🔐 510,932 acres of our state’s public land are locked in oil and gas leases. Only 5.7% of those lands is producing anything.. The other 482,000 acres sit idle: Land Nevada could be using for solar, geothermal, or outdoor recreation. 🎲 Read the full report: buff.ly/SYJVMYz

From a pause in Reno to code change discussions in rural counties, Nevada’s local governments are taking steps to regulate data centers. The Indy is tracking what steps are being taken. thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-...

🍬 $0.25 cents gets you a gumball. For oil & gas companies, it bought an entire acre of Nevada's public lands. That's exactly how 36,000 acres of our lands were locked into oil & gas leases by a single company — land that has never produced a drop of oil. ⏩ Read the full report at: buff.ly/SYJVMYz

🌡️ We waited in 100° heat just to be heard. That's why today, every gift to @NVConservation.bsky.social is doubled through Friday, July 10, up to $2,500. Give now and double your impact: buff.ly/mbatKNu

Currently, there is no federal protection for LGBTQ+ people in disaster relief. When the environmental crisis escalates, equal aid isn't guaranteed. Jo (they/them): "We can't celebrate Queer people, PoC, women, or any marginalized group if our planet is on fire." 🌈

Up to 45% of unhoused youth identify as LGBTQ+. Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, climate disasters, these communities take the hardest hit. Bri (they/them), NCL's NNV Communications Organizer, organizes for them every day: "When the world says you must pick one — I say no." 🌈

🌞 Five pieces of good news, NV! Solar outpaced coal for the first time. Sage grouse are bouncing back. A bipartisan bill targets public lands protections. And a local car wash reclaims 80% of its water. #Nevada #ClimateNews #GoodNews

LGBTQ+ neighborhoods bear a disproportionate burden of air pollution, the result of discriminatory housing and exclusion. Hannah (they/them): "My queerness has expanded my imagination for liberation." 🌈 The fight for clean air and water is a queer issue. It always has been.

✊ In the 1950s, Black families in Northern Nevada were blocked from buying property in Reno and Sparks. They purchased and built a neighborhood anyway. And by 1977, Grand View Terrace had paved roads, and a water system supporting more than 50 homes.

🎊 Happy Juneteenth, Nevada! We've got 5️⃣ stories uplifting our Black community this weekend. ➡️ Over half the U.S. recognizes Juneteenth as a legal holiday this year ➡️ Juneteenth gatherings across the state ➡️ Black-owned businesses you can support this weekend

Many great organizations were represented here, including @planevada.bsky.social, @nvconservation.bsky.social, @nvenvirojustice.bsky.social, Faith in Organizing, @maketheroadnv.bsky.social, @solarunitedneighbors.org, and many others I can't remember. These folks do great work making NV better. End/

Then, once a speaker had spoken, they were asked to leave so that more folks from outside could take their place. However, there was no real-time video of the session, and no recording is available, so we couldn't hear what folks who spoke after us said. 3/

Second, instead of everyone just going up to the hearing room, we had to line up outside in the heat. My weather app forecasted a high of 105F for that area. Then, once the session started, only 50 people at a time were allowed inside. Everyone else had to wait outside in the heat. 2/

Yesterday was the annual consumer session at the Public Utility Commission of Nevada. To say it was chaotic is underselling it. First, there was a huge law enforcement presence, doubtless over concerns after the previous day's protest. Still, what wee saw seems like an overreaction. 1/

🌡️ Nevadans showed up in 108-degree heat yesterday and waited outside for nearly *TWO* hours to tell regulators what rising utility bills are doing to our families. Here's what the Las Vegas #PUCN General Consumer Session looked like: 🧵

🗣️ Today. 1:30 P.M. Las Vegas. Walk in with the facts: → NV Energy passed rejected costs onto customers 5 times in 2 years → They overcharged Nevadans for decades → They paid $0 in fines → Their parent company's CEO made $21M in 2024

📅 Tomorrow at 1:30 P.M., NCL's Kristee Watson asks state regulators to reject three new methane-burning gas plants proposed to power data centers. Data centers could consume 64% of NV Energy's electricity within 20 years. Ratepayers could carry the $5–6 billion price tag.

🌻 Happy Friday, Nevada! There's so much to celebrate this week, and we've got 5️⃣ stories to highlight. ⏩ Restoration of the Virgin River watershed. ⏩ 350 free life jackets at Lake Mead. ⏩ $42 million invested in Nevada's outdoor recreation and conservation.

Go birding at night, break out your best neon threads for a Boulder City ’80s party and more this weekend in Las Vegas for zero dollars.

🗣️ NV Energy overcharged 100,000 customers. No fines. Now they want to raise our bills for gas plants to power data center growth. The PUCN Consumer Session in Las Vegas is on Tuesday, June 16, and NCL hired a Communications Director to make sure our families show up ready:

⏰ The Las Vegas General Consumer Session is next week. Here's what you should know: $21M. That's what NV Energy's parent company paid its CEO last year, while 10.5 cents of every dollar on our bill went to their shareholder profits. The #PUCN decides whether that continues.

🇺🇸 Today is the last day to vote early in the June primary, Nevada! NCL-endorsed candidates are on your ballot: Fighting for clean energy, public lands, and communities hit hardest by extreme heat and drought. Make your plan to vote today or on Primary Day: Tuesday, June 9.

🏞️ We've got 5️⃣ pieces of good news, Nevada! ➡️ Sloan Canyon expanded by 9,300 acres. ➡️ Henderson gets a backup water pipeline that saves $200M. ➡️ Free Adventure Day at all NV State Parks on June 13!

⏰ The Reno General Consumer Session is this week! NV Energy overcharged customers for decades. Regulators found it. They paid $0 in fines. This Friday, you can walk into that room and say: Enough is enough.

Over 500 Nevadans died from extreme heat in 2024. This May, Las Vegas hit 104°F, two weeks early. Hurricanes get FEMA funding. Extreme heat doesn't. Last week, Rep. @titus.house.gov heard from doctors, workers, and advocates about what that gap costs our families. buff.ly/vTvbuWe

💰 13.4% of every Sierra Pacific Power bill in Northern Nevada goes to shareholder profit. 10.5% in Southern Nevada. NV Energy's parent company CEO made more than $22M last year. Utility execs are celebrating in Vegas this week. Run your numbers ➡️: UtilityProfitTracker.org

‼️Your NV Energy bill paid for this... Gregory Abel, Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s CEO, NV Energy's parent company, made $22M in 2025. 5th highest in the nation. That's over $220M lining the pockets of 10 utility CEOs as customers continue to fall behind.

✍️ Can't attend the General Consumer Session in-person? Submit a written comment! The Public Utilities Commission accepts written testimony, and it goes on the official record just like spoken comments. ➡️ Reno Deadline: Tuesday, June 2 ➡️ Las Vegas Deadline: Friday, June 12

Southern Nevada lost more than 1,000 people to extreme heat in 2024 and 2025 combined. Last week we convened frontline advocates, clinicians, and lawmakers with @titus.house.gov to demand action. Read the full story from @reviewjournal.com: buff.ly/59337bm

🌄 Five pieces of #GoodNews to close out May, NV! Mary Jane Falls Trail is being rebuilt. Solar and batteries cut blackout risk this summer. Clark County kids are seeing Red Rock and Mt. Charleston for the first time. Which story hit home for you? 👇 #Nevada #ClimateNews

🌡️ There were 513 heat-related deaths in Clark County in 2024. Yesterday, #TeamNCL, frontline advocates, clinicians, legislators, and Rep. @titus.house.gov sat down at Whitney Library to name what solutions Nevada needs, while Trump strips the tools we need to survive extreme heat.

🔥 Southern Nevada needs champions who treat extreme heat as the emergency it already is. Rep. @titus.house.gov is one of them. We're grateful she brought that fight to our roundtable, and that she's taking our community's voice back to Washington.

✍️ Your testimony goes on the official record. The Public Utilities Commission is holding two General Consumer Sessions this June. Show up. Speak out. Make the monopoly utility answer for their overcharging scandal, and their energy plan that could raise our bills for decades.

Growing up, our Digital Media Manager Dillon Livae pressed his hands into the earth of Oʻahu's taro patches: harvesting kalo, pounding poi, planting new stalks alongside his classmates. That cycle of reciprocity taught him everything. 🌺 It's also why he does this work here on the Ninth Island!

🗣️ NV Energy tried to sneak rejected costs onto your bill. Five times in two years. They were caught overcharging customers for decades. They paid $0 in fines. The Public Utilities Commission can push back. But only if they hear from you!

1/ A student leans over and whispers: "Is that a frog?" The whole group hushes. Nobody steps closer. It was a Relict Leopard Frog, a protected species. Most of these kids had never been to the Wetlands Preserve before and it's 30 minutes from their school:

🗳️ #EarlyVote starts today, Nevada! Our families are already bracing for another brutal summer. These NCL-endorsed candidates will fight to bring energy costs down and expand access to cheaper, clean, reliable power:

🌻 5 pieces of Good Climate News for your Friday, Nevada! ➡️ 25,000 pounds of trash pulled from Lake Tahoe. ➡️ $3M to reduce wildfire risk along the Sierra Front. ➡️ $157M in clean energy investment landing in North LV.

1/ A third-grader spotted a protected Relict Leopard Frog on a trail they’d never walked before, and hushed the whole group so they wouldn’t disturb it. It was her first time at the Wetlands Preserve. Half an hour from her school.

The decisions shaping Nevada's energy future are made in rooms that haven't always reflected the communities they serve. Tiffany Hsieh is changing that from the inside as the Western States Director at @climatepower.bsky.social, where she engages state leaders and drives environmental strategy.

Wildfire season is around the corner for #NV. But NV Energy wants customers to front the costs of fires caused by their infrastructure, while Tribal communities fight to protect the lands that sustain them. ⏩ Read more from Dackota York in the Reno Gazette Journal: tinyurl.com/StewardsNotS...

🚨 Steve Pearce now oversees 48M acres of public lands in #NV. And yes, we’ve seen this kind of threat before... Last year, Rep. Amodei tried to put Nevada's public lands on the auction block, and Nevadans overwhelmingly rejected it. ❌ Because our lands are *NOT* for sale.

BREAKING: The Senate just confirmed Steve Pearce as the new Director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and that means someone with a career-long record of pushing to sell off public lands now oversees 48M acres of ours here in #NV.

🌻 We've got 5 pieces of Good Climate News for your weekend, Nevada! ➡️ 200 free trees in North Las Vegas 🌳 ➡️ Mojave Max out of his burrow, latest emergence ever 🐢 ➡️ And Sen. Rosen is pushing to get cooling centers funded before summer peaks! 🌡️

🌺 Meet Caitlin Gatchalian, @sweep2001.bsky.social's #NV State Representative, fighting for low-income families navigating one of the most consequential shifts in our state's history: the #CleanEnergy transition.

🗣️ "We refuse to allow NV Energy to shift the burden of responsibility for catastrophes to us while they continue to profit off the energy supply." — Dackota York, Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe member 👉 Read more in the Reno Gazette Journal: tinyurl.com/StewardsNotS...

NV Energy wants wildfire immunity, meaning they want us to foot the bill when their equipment sparks a fire. Families in Washoe, Lyon, Douglas, Elko, and on the rez didn't cause these fires. We shouldn't carry the cost. Read Dackota's op-ed in the Reno Gazette Journal: tinyurl.com/StewardsNotS...

🌸 Happy May, #NV! We're springing into the new month with 5️⃣ pieces of #GoodClimateNews. Between legislative wins for geothermal energy and solar power for local animal shelters, it's a great time to love renewable energy!

This week I am proud to have earned the endorsement from both @nvconservation.bsky.social and @iatselocal720.bsky.social. #winwithvin #nvleg

🌎 Happy Earth Week, #NV! We've got 5️⃣ pieces of #GoodClimateNews to celebrate as we honor the world we share. 🌠 From night skies and solar panels to climate champions and outdoor recreation, there's lots of love for our state to go around.