Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

#MinnesotaWildfires Friend in Ely,MN sent this: "No fun here. Ash falling on everything. No birds singing. Sickly yellow smoke air. Staging to throw things in the truck. Taking down objects that might catch a spark. Yadda yadda. Air is awful Everyone should have respirators."

Wildfire smoke is affecting Western New York today 7/15/26 - check out our blog posts for resources on how to monitor wildfire smoke plumes and the Air Quality Index, as well as for tips on how to reduce harmful impacts, like how to build a DIY air filter. www.cacwny.org/resources/di...

Much more work to come, but we are celebrating today's news from Albany of Governor Hochul's data center executive order, and all the work of our members and supporters that brought about this win - thank you, @governor.ny.gov! Read our full statement on our blog - www.cacwny.org/2026/07/clea...

We'll have much more to say about this later today after the EO text is available - but some very exciting breaking news this morning! It's likely not going to be everything we need, but will be a step in the right direction, and momentum to build off from.

The Town of Tonawanda is revising it's Comprehensive Plan - take 5 minutes to share your thoughts with their planning team on what you would like to see in the next decade of development in the Northtowns! www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCYFZLL

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Buffalo Biodiesel has submitted an application for a Solid Waste Management Permit for it's operations at 225 Sawyer Ave in the Town of Tonawanda. Comments are being accepted through August 7 - info on the permit and about how to submit comments available at the link. dec.ny.gov/news/environ...

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Our energy bills are getting higher because of political decisions to keep us reliant on fossil fuels. The data center build out, as a new demand sector for natural gas power and diesel generators, is one aspect of this. We need our elected leaders to commit to a Just Transition to renewable energy.

Celebrate the 4th by urging a stronger democracy locally! actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

Chinese intelligence operatives have paid me to remind you that the Memphis grok data center dumps formaldehyde on black toddlers because U.S. regulators are too corrupt to do their jobs

a few bucks off your broadband bill doesn't address the fact that 57 largely unregulated natural gas data center turbines are pumping toxic pollution into predominately black neighborhoods that already see disproportionately high rates of pollution-based illness, hoss

This is very grim, and likely to get grimmer over the coming decades, but it doesn't have to be this way. We have the technology and the money to quickly improve energy efficiency, replace fossil-fueled power plants with clean generation, and replace fossil-fueled machines with electric versions.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

US data centers for AI tend to run on more fossil fuels than renewables → they produce proportionally more climate pollution → which is supersizing extreme weather → which is now the #1 risk to data centers themselves. The very definition of "coming right back around to bite you."

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Emissions tests conducted in 2022 showed Goodyear was polluting seven times above the state’s safe limit of ortho-toluidine. But an engineer alleged that the data was faulty.

Grim new numbers from the annual EI stats review - America is driving growth in energy-related emissions. www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

This week will be hot and humid, with heat index values in the 90s expected each day until Friday. Make plans now to keep your household prepared. For more tips go to erie.gov/weather and click on “Extreme Heat.”

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Couple notices in the Environmental Notice Bulletin of note this week - first, a brownfield application for cleaning up petroleum contamination from the tank farm at 3701 River Road, comments due July 24 dec.ny.gov/news/environ...

Federal Brownfield funding is in trouble, and Representative Langworthy is one of the members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment that is making the funding decisions - contact him today! smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/nationalbrow...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

🔥 commentary by @iwriteok.bsky.social - we've been organizing around data center issues in WNY since 2020, and officially launched a dedicated campaign last month. Join us!

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

East Aurora/Southtowns residents - public comments are open for the Title V permit renewal for MOOG. An increase in allowed VOC emissions is proposed. dec.ny.gov/news/environ...

Trump's DOJ is arguing that Elon Musk’s xAI has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in Mississippi despite not having permits. The reason? National security. The military is reportedly using a version of Grok to attack Iran. See what $300M in election spending gets you?

Fascists fear the labor movement and Minneapolis shows why. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minneapoli...

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Yes! It has always been totally obvious. If you don’t understand why, EDUCATE YOURSELF. Here’s a good place to start. www.thenerdreich.com

Email the leadership of Ontario Specialty Contracting today to urge them to pivot their industrial development projects to renewable energy uses, not data centers! OSC is the data center developer of the Riverview Innovation Tech Campus at the former Tonawanda Coke. actionnetwork.org/letters/plea...

Poisoning poor inner city children with exhaust gasses from the turbines that power "Grok" is vital to the national security of the white nationalist ethnostate.

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

“Reporting in The New York Times reveals Vance wanted to use the military ‘to crush the unrest in Minnesota.’” www.commondreams.org/news/vance-i...

We mentioned last week that the EPA is using the "hyperscale" industrial data center build out to try to eliminate regulations on new industrial projects, allowing developers to leapfrog over public engagement processes and begin construction without oversight - use this toolkit to submit a comment!

The state has found toxic industrial waste under the soil on Cayuga Island in Niagara Falls. It's working with homeowners to determine whether peoples' health are at risk.

Comments are being accepted on this unhinged proposed policy until June 29 - we will post guidance on how to submit a comment next week, but in the short term please feel free to submit one independently! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-a...

In rural Alabama, some people can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a hyperscale data center next door.

The EPA is accepting comments through June 17 on a proposal to weaken regulations on wastewater from coal fired power plants. Please refer to the toolkit below for more information on the proposed changes and guidance on how to submit a comment. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In spite of all the obstacles put in its way by the US administration + the fossil fuel industry, solar continues to grow in the US. In spite of all the support its had, coal produced it's lowest-ever share of the energy mix in the States, in April. share.google/IkrAAm18f8pQ...

@buffalonews.com Editorial Board agrees - we need @governor.ny.gov to sign the data center moratorium bill now! Take action using @foodandwater.bsky.social's email campaign - act.foodandwaterwatch.org/page/98981/a... buffalonews.com/opinion/edit...

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal

Mississippi residents sued xAI and SpaceX over noise from a data center power plant qz.com/mississippi-...

Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temps warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention.

"More than a million investors whose net losses totaled $2.3 billion." So that's around $2,000 a person. In other words, the Trumps fleeced a lot of small-fry supporters. Most of whom will still support them the next time around.

President Trump is using wartime presidential authority to hand $700 million to coal-fired power plants in the U.S., the latest move by the president to bolster what he called “clean, beautiful coal,” despite it being the dirtiest of fossil fuels. (via @theguardian.com) https://bit.ly/43X2xBj