Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Donald Trump bulldozed a third of the White House, destroyed the lawn, choked the Reflecting Pool in slime, and wrapped the Kennedy Center like a corpse in the morgue for America's 250th which flopped because of climate change.

As much of the Eastern U.S. experiences potentially record-breaking daytime temperatures, the nights are also staying unusually warm, leaving the human body no time to recover.

This is a big issue for the US power sector (around 40% gas-fired!), but one of the best ways to protect customers from the risk of rising natural gas prices is to quickly build resources - solar, energy storage, wind, efficiency, VPPs - that don't rely on fuel. energyinnovation.org/report/let-t...

5 years ago the unthinkable happened... the heat killed 100s of people in the formerly mild NW in a matter of days. Most people died in their homes. A place that is supposed to be safe. While Oregon jumped into action back then, the progress that began has now stalled. Let's pick it back up! #ORleg

Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as ‌Australia or France www.reuters.com/business/ene...

NEW: Americans are pessimistic about the future. But which actors do they think are having the worst impact on the economy/society? Voters find the most harmful actors to be: 1) Billionaires 2) Corporate landlords 3) Sports gambling 4) Artificial intelligence 5) Cryptocurrency

I‘ve see heat pumps plumbed into things you wouldnt believe. Attack ships off the shoulder of Orion.

It’s five years this week since the PNW heat wave killed hundreds, wreaked havoc on ecosystems, and left Lytton BC in ashes after hitting 49.6 °C / 121.3 °F. As adaptation and mitigation lag, loss and damage - the things climate change takes from us that we can’t get back - will continue to grow.

A circuit court ruled that air pollution limits tightened by the EPA under President Biden should remain in force. The ruling thwarts efforts by the Trump administration to vacate that standard and return to a previous one.

The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social

May i suggest not running for re-election on this platform. The people are keenly aware of what's trickling down, and it ain't wealth.

The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.

Insane investigation by @propublica.org & @drilledmedia.bsky.social: One of the most influential climate studies ever — it was cited in "An Inconvenient Truth"! — was extensively shaped by BP, which wanted to build support for continued fossil fuel reliance. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

Crime should pay, what's the big deal?, says criminal.

Discounted Tesla Powerwalls are now available to New England homeowners — if they agree to help out the grid.

When Oregon lawmakers summon the courage to #MakePollutersPay and pass the Climate Resilience Superfund bill, we can make big oil pay for dried up wells instead of tax payers.

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First heatwave of 2026, and it's not technically summer yet! 🥵 Our neighbors who don't have efficient cooling at home are in danger. With the climate crisis worsening, cooling is a human right. Oregon lawmakers must step up and fund programs to help people with an upgrade.

I want to remind everyone that this was in Spokane Valley. Spokane Valley was unable to obtain a federal grant for fire mitigation due to the Trump Admin’s new restrictions to accept those grants. They warned of exactly this. Here is that story. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Today was a really tough start to wildfire season. We had near 4 wildfires erupt in the INW within the same 3 hours. I watched homes burn in Spokane County today. I am thinking of those people and the firefighters who stood there to do what they could. Here are some cell phone photos.

My local gas utility recently stopped by my home to convince me to turn my gas service back on since I haven’t touched it in the 3 years I’ve lived here. I told him to take the meter and permanently shut off service because my electric heat pump and induction stove serve me quite well!

How teams/delegations are received in Mexico versus the US

Diesel generators are omnipresent, but almost completely ignored in decarbonization discourse. eg: Backup diesel is how most data centers today provide the "flexibility" climate advocates are calling for to protect grid decarbonization - making a supposed climate solution into a clean air disaster

Once again, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is the only one I hear talking about this key dynamic: the more corrupt the GOP & its lackeys on the court get, the more they have to lose if the elections go the wrong way & the more they'll be willing to do to prevent it.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

The U.S. lagging the world in superior technology adoption. Political leaders here continue to push or keep policies in place that have us handing over $3,000 per second to oil companies. This is what losing looks like.

Oregon is home to some of the most beautiful landscapes and diverse habitats. Sadly, Trump is attempting to roll back critical environmental protections. I'm doing everything I can to safeguard our environment so the next generation can enjoy our state's natural wonders 🌎🌲 #WorldEnvironmentDay

Trump admin is handcuffing people to expensive utility bills to protect the profits of monopoly methane gas corporations. They don't care about Americans expenses. This rebate was about freedom for people to leave old, polluting, expensive gas behind for energy efficient heat pumps. They killed it.

@titus.house.gov did a roundtable last week at Whitney Library on Nevada's broiling heat: “It’s so important to recognize extreme heat as a national disaster, and it’s getting worse. As climate change comes, this is not going away, it’s going to get worse."

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

GOP priorities on full view:

59 straight and 125 of 149 (84%) days in 2026 with WindWaterSolar meeting >100% of demand on the California ISO grid for an avg of 4.9 h/d among all 149 days. CAISO had the lowest U.S. wholesale electricity prices 2025-26, indicating most stable grid. No blackout since 2020 eia.gov/electricity/...

The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.

insane to me that @patagonia.com is suing incredibly impactful drag queen and climate activist Pattie Gonia for “harming their brand” is Patagonia not a brand for the LGBTQ+ community or for climate activists? because you’ve spent a lot of time pretending to be both.

Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Democratic secretary of state, removed a ballot question on transgender athletes Tuesday that she had previously cleared to go before voters in November. She cited evidence that thousands of petition signatures submitted by the measure’s proponents were not valid.

This is the right image to use for a heat wave; not one of children playing in the fountain or people frolicking on the beach.

What if taxing the rich works?

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

Legendary rocker and vocal Trump critic Bruce Springsteen has received an increasing number of death threats during his tour. It's a dangerous time to speak up in 'The Land Of Hope and Dreams'...

New report from IRENA confirms that "in prime solar and wind regions, hybrid solutions combined with storage deliver round-the-clock power at lower costs than fossil fuels." Renewables+storage = round-the-clock power, cheaper than fossil fuels, in an ever-widening set of geographies. Pretty cool.

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities. This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes. Just imagine the traffic queues if every bicycle here was a car.

😠 $17.5 BILLION -- that's how much Amazon got in federal income tax subsidies last year!! To be clear, this figure doesn't include the massive subsidies Amazon gets from states like Oregon for data centers. https://bit.ly/4dGs5aE #EndAmazonSubsidies #taxtherich #ridiculous

This @volts.wtf podcast explains how states are working to stop spending billions on our aging gas pipelines & instead encourage the adoption of #Heatpumps, #ThermalEnergyNetworks & other #BuildingDecarb solutions that lower energy costs & reduce pollution. #EnergySky #ClimateSky #GreenSky

We're feeling the pain. A reckless military incursion has jacked up gas prices, inflation, and anxiety. Oregon's people are suffering, and our economy. What's the one thing we shouldn't do? Double down on the thing that's hurting us: fossil fuels. Don't believe anyone who sells you a short term fix.

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

I work in the largest academic HVAC research lab in the US. Tons of my prof and grad student colleagues have worked for years to characterize low-GWP refrigerants and adapt equipment to use them. In collaboration with most major manufacturers. That train is moving, fast. Trump lackeys won't stop it.