Jane Winn
@janeatbeat.bsky.social
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Environmental troublemaker
This is the most hopeful and positive take I've seen on COP30.
350.org/all-you-need...
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All you need to know about the outcome of COP30
The world’s biggest climate talks have just ended, and it was people power that shone. But did leaders deliver real climate action?
https://350.org/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-outcome-of-cop30/
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"more than 55 percent of homes in Monterey are seasonally vacant". That drives up home prices and keeps those who can't afford two (or more) homes, without a home! Tax people who don't vote in a town at a MUCH higher rate! If they move out community members will have housing.
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"...when Reagan came to power in 1980, the U.S. tax rate on income over $212,000 ($781,755 in today’s dollars) was 70%--which meant the country had far fewer billionaires. In other words, far fewer oligarchs."
energymixweekender.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
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Trump’s Tariff Temper Tantrum Tells Us Which Nation-Building Projects Canada Needs
There's a big gap in PM Mark Carney's climate competitiveness strategy. Municipal leaders in the #ElbowsUp for Climate coalition have got him covered.
https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/trumps-tariff-temper-tantrum-tells
about 1 month ago
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Tom Nichols
about 1 month ago
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
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The Conversation U.S.
about 1 month ago
The USDA has more than $5 billion in emergency funds available to cover SNAP benefits but is refusing to spend them during the government shutdown. It's the first time in the history of the program that the federal government has refused to spend those funds
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SNAP benefit freeze will leave millions nationwide struggling to pay for food – including 472,711 people in Philadelphia
Starting Nov. 1, 2025, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will stop being distributed in Pennsylvania due to the federal government shutdown, which began Oct. 1.
https://buff.ly/pQbxRNu
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"Every fully operational liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the US has violated federal pollution limits in recent years, a new report has found."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report
Analysis of public records comes as Trump administration aims to fast-track approval of new LNG export terminals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/liquefied-natural-gas-terminal-pollution-limits
about 1 month ago
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ICE vehicles cause noxious air pollution that can kill.
www.clf.org/blog/five-th...
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Five Things To Know About Tailpipe Emissions
Tailpipe emissions from gas cars and trucks was the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States in 2022.
https://www.clf.org/blog/five-things-to-know-about-tailpipe-emissions/
2 months ago
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How about raise taxes on unearned income? Lower taxes on income made by working your tail off?
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David Roberts
2 months ago
Oh! Well, ok then.
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Michael E. Mann
2 months ago
What does it say about a movement when it is built entirely upon brazen lies?
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Ketan Joshi
2 months ago
Good morning from a nice German wind farm 🙏🏽 👍🏽 😍
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Climate & Energy Watch ☀️💨🌻🌡️📈
2 months ago
⚡ENERGY-MONITOR: - Daily renewable share (DE, last 12 months) - Updated 02.10.2025 - 10:52 UTC - Source: www.energy-charts.info
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Heat pump, solar and storage deployment could offset AI load through 2029: report
www.utilitydive.com/news/heat-pu...
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Heat pump, solar and storage deployment could offset AI load through 2029: report
Subsidies of 50% for heat pumps and 30% for solar and storage would free up well over 100 GW of grid capacity at a cost comparable to new gas generation, Rewiring America said last week.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/heat-pump-solar-and-storage-deployment-could-offset-ai-load-through-2029/761013/
2 months ago
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Trump is putting workers - including fishermen - out of work while letting billionaires pay him to allow them to cheat their workers. Pay to play and to hell with people who work for a living!
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/fishermen-oppose-trump-revolution-halt
3 months ago
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"Americans for Prosperity claims its driving mission is helping Vermonters afford to live in the state. But its founding and financing by some of the richest oil men in the world, and a history of spewing climate disinformation, casts that in doubt."
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"The deployment of GETs means that the system can accommodate the chargers five years ahead of schedule at one sixth of the cost. The approach offers a flexible way to bridge near-term needs without locking in permanent, potentially oversized infrastructure..."
www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-en...
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How grid-enhancing technologies are shaping New York’s planning and protecting ratepayers
New technologies and planning approaches can help speed the energy transition while ensuring power system reliability and affordability.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-enhancing-technologies-gets-new-york-electric-grid-planning/758295/
4 months ago
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Why would anyone choose to make electricity by using expensive, limited supply fossil fuels, instead of cheaper, easier to site and build, electric generation with free, endless-supply fuels?
4 months ago
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Lyn Heideman
4 months ago
Petroleum-producing nations (that's us/U.S.), which make the building blocks of plastic, opposed any ambitious efforts to tackle plastic pollution and argued for a treaty that more narrowly targeted waste management. Next steps are unclear:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c...
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Plastic Pollution Talks Collapse as Oil States Oppose Tough Treaty
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/climate/plastic-pollution-treaty-talks-collapse.html
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Lyn Heideman
4 months ago
On August 27. the environmental law group
@earthjustice.org
is holding a webinar on the Roadless Rule and how we can stop Trump from undoing it. Register here:
act.earthjustice.org/a/people-pub...
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Evan Frost
4 months ago
"Thinning is often used as an excuse to take out larger, more valuable trees for commercial logging, when these trees should be left behind bc of their importance in biodiversity, carbon storage, and [their resistance] to fire, drought and beetle infestations." 🌍
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/fixi...
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Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management
This is the first installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire. Over the ne...
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/fixing-forests-or-fueling-fires-scientists-split-over-active-management/
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Since when did being the good guy and doing the right thing, even when it is hard, become looked down upon; and being the bad guy, hurting others for pleasure, become the goal?
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Science matters! Denying reality doesn't make it not be real.
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4 months ago
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The cost of electricity is being driven up by new federal policies - "The U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to prevent large fossil-fuel power plants from retiring could cost ratepayers about $3.1 billion a year in 2028"
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-man...
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$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won’t allow to retire
One coal plant owner told the SEC it spent $29 million in the first 38 days of an Energy Department order to keep it online.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-mandate-fossil-fueled-power-plants-emergency/757653/
4 months ago
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Please don't use pesticides! Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study
New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/monarch-butterflies-mass-die-off-pesticides
4 months ago
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The administration is making energy more expensive by stopping inexpensive solar and wind. Fossil and nukes can't get built fast enough. Plus the US is selling fossil fuel overseas. The people of the US will suffer financially. The whole world will suffer.
www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/r...
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Globally, "Solar power now is 41% cheaper and wind power is 53% cheaper globally than the lowest-cost fossil fuel,..."
www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-...
And yet, the country of stupid is ready to quit the IEA because it doesn't promote fossil fuels.
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Oil and Gas ‘Running Out of Road’ as Renewables Cover 92.5% of New Power Demand
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point” where solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread, according to two United Nations reports released Tu...
https://www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-running-out-of-road-as-renewables-cover-92-5-of-new-power-demand/
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Sending CO2 through pipelines is a very bad idea. Cutting pipeline rules and inspections are also a very bad ideas.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Like something you see in a movie’: Trump cuts stir fears of more pipeline ruptures
In Satartia, Mississippi, locals say a CO2 pipeline leak created an aftermath ‘like a zombie apocalypse’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/pipeline-safety-fears-trump-cuts
5 months ago
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Phil Levin
5 months ago
Wonderful piece by Emmett Duffy. Science is a sacred obligation—and a team sport. It thrives on curiosity, humility, and the wisdom of crowds. Let’s keep exploring, questioning, and building a better world together. Let’s do this, people!
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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Let’s do this, people
Abstract. Science is a labor of love. That’s why I got into the business after a childhood obsessed with animals. Here, I offer a few scenes along my own w
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf112
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Virtual Power Plants save the day during heat dome, keeping electricity prices down. Use what we already have rather than making ratepayers pay transmission builders a guaranteed profit to build new poles and wires.
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Dana Drugmand
5 months ago
A healthy & stable climate system is a human right, & urgent climate action is required under human rights law to address the
#climateemergency
, says the IACHR Yet the US under Trump is actively backtracking on climate progress - and violating human rights
www.oneearthnow.org/p/a-human-ri...
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A Human Rights Court Just Declared the Right to a Healthy Climate
While the Inter-American Court on Human Rights calls for urgent climate action, Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ further unwinds climate progress, violates human rights.
https://www.oneearthnow.org/p/a-human-rights-court-just-declared
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Drax Wood Pellet Plans Axed in California
www.desmog.com/2025/07/03/d...
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Drax Wood Pellet Plans Axed in California
Drax’s plans to source wood pellets from Californian forests have been shelved in what campaigners are hailing as an “historic victory”. The Yorkshire-based biomass company, which operates the UK’s bi...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/03/drax-wood-pellet-plans-axed-in-california/
5 months ago
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Patrick Lynch
5 months ago
Three of the more common autumn migratory insect species along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. 🧪🌿🌎
#sciart
#wildlife
#scicomm
#sciviz
#wildlifeart
#illustration
#scientificillustration
#natureart
#visualscicomm
#sciviz
#scicomm
#insects
#entomology
#migration
#monarchbutterfly
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The insect holocaust. My composite illustration, from my forthcoming book Streams: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, 2026. 🧪🌿🌎
#sciart
#wildlife
#scicomm
#sciviz
#wildlifeart
#illustration
#scientificillustration
#natureart
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"chlorothalonil, still commonly sprayed on American and Australian produce, cripples insect fertility by more than a third at residue levels typically found on food."
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#pesticides
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Banned in Europe, sprayed in America: The fungicide threatening our pollinators
Macquarie University researchers reveal that chlorothalonil, still commonly sprayed on American and Australian produce, cripples insect fertility by more than a third at residue levels typically found...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250701020657.htm
5 months ago
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The harm being done to the US will take decades to repair. Another example:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’
Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after defense department says it will drop irreplaceable program
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate
5 months ago
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Interesting
#emissions
detection tracker.
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6 months ago
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The federal government is pushing energy costs way up by cancelling the cheaper, cleaner energy projects that were underway in favor of air-polluting projects that will take a long time to bring online - if they ever get built. $1.4B clean energy projects canceled
www.utilitydive.com/news/1-4b-ne...
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$1.4B in new clean energy factories, projects canceled in May: E2
Nearly $15.5 billion in clean energy investments have been canceled since the beginning of the year, representing 30 canceled, closed or downsized projects.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/1-4b-new-clean-energy-factories-projects-cancelled-in-may-E2-report-reconciliation-tax-credits/751601/
6 months ago
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Massachusetts is the only state in the union in which all three branches of state government claim blanket exemption from public records law.
#Massachusetts
#FOIA
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Illustration: Common Swallowtails of the northeastern U.S.: Tiger, Black, and Spicebush. 🧪🌿🌎
#sciart
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We are looking for alternatives to lithium and it is used for a decade in cars then recycled. Oil is and has been destroying land, water, and air as well as indigenous lives for something that is used up instantly.
www.theenergymix.com/california-e...
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California Reviews Amazon Oil Ties After Indigenous Pleas
After meeting with Indigenous leaders from Ecuador, California—the world’s largest consumer of Amazonian oil—introduced a landmark resolution urging officials to scrutinize the state’s reliance on tho...
https://www.theenergymix.com/california-examines-its-amazon-oil-ties-following-pleas-from-indigenous-leaders/
6 months ago
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Funny how the West now calls it "personalized medicine", but they force Chinese medicine to go through double blind tests that don't work because they are personalized medicine.
6 months ago
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@dfarber1950.bsky.social
I think you are missing the biggest talking point for many folks when talking about EVs. Just let them drive one and feel the 60's muscle car power! Whatever speed you want to go, just put your foot down!
legal-planet.org/2025/06/19/t...
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Talking to Skeptics About Clean Energy - Legal Planet
Here are some talking points to think about, whether you’re talking to a relative who supports Trump or writing to a Republican legislator.
https://legal-planet.org/2025/06/19/talking-points-about-clean-energy/
6 months ago
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This is an amazing timeline of how environmental injustice is being reinstated!
legal-planet.org/2025/06/16/t...
#environmentaljustice
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The Annihilation of Environmental Justice: A Timeline - Legal Planet
Trump has spearheaded an effort to close off any consideration of whether government actions disproportionately harm minorities or the poor.
https://legal-planet.org/2025/06/16/the-annihilation-of-environmental-justice-a-timeline/
6 months ago
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New life for old wood.
e360.yale.edu/features/rec...
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Deconstructing Buildings: The Quest for New Life for Old Wood
A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and demolition that now ends up in landfills. The challenge, proponents say, is to deploy new techniques ...
https://e360.yale.edu/features/reclaimed-wood-deconstruction-cities
6 months ago
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SustainabilityOnline
6 months ago
Steel packaging has achieved a 82%
#recycling
rate in the European Union, new data from Steel for Packaging Europe has revealed. ♻️
sustainabilityonline.net?p=12225
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Steel packaging hits 82% recycling rate in the EU - Sustainability Online
Steel packaging has achieved a 82% recycling rate in the European Union, new data from Steel for Packaging Europe has revealed.
https://sustainabilityonline.net/?p=12225
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Michael E. Mann
6 months ago
"One Big Belligerent Bill" | Op-ed by
@peterdbuck.bsky.social
, Ken Shultes & yours truly, for
@statecollege-com.bsky.social
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www.statecollege.com/articles/col...
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Op-Ed: One Big Belligerent Bill
Euphemistically called the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), the budget passed by the Republican-controlled Congress, 215-214, attacks one of our best
https://www.statecollege.com/articles/columns/op-ed-one-big-belligerent-bill/
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ISO-New England pay attention! "Electric vehicles, HVAC systems and other grid-connected distributed energy resources could provide New York with 8.5 GW of cost-effective grid flexibility by 2040, Brattle Group said"
www.utilitydive.com/news/demand-...
#energy
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New York demand response capacity up 16% this summer: ISO
New York’s grid needs more transmission, generation and flexibility in the face of declining reliability margins and sharp load increases, according to the state’s independent system operator.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/demand-response-dr-new-york-energy-demand-iso/750400/
6 months ago
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RTO Insider
6 months ago
Host | Yes Energy's Flexible Load: An Emerging Market Driver What to expect? Join us for a webinar to explore the newest innovation and see how it can give you a strategic edge. Registration |
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Katie Mack
6 months ago
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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US brain drain continues.
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