This is the most hopeful and positive take I've seen on COP30. 350.org/all-you-need...

"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.

"...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...

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

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

"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...

ICE vehicles cause noxious air pollution that can kill. www.clf.org/blog/five-th...

How about raise taxes on unearned income? Lower taxes on income made by working your tail off?

Oh! Well, ok then.

What does it say about a movement when it is built entirely upon brazen lies?

Good morning from a nice German wind farm 🙏🏽 👍🏽 😍

⚡ENERGY-MONITOR: - Daily renewable share (DE, last 12 months) - Updated 02.10.2025 - 10:52 UTC - Source: www.energy-charts.info

Heat pump, solar and storage deployment could offset AI load through 2029: report www.utilitydive.com/news/heat-pu...

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...

"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."

"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...

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?

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... (gift). 🌎

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...? 🌎

"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...

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?

Science matters! Denying reality doesn't make it not be real.

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...

Please don't use pesticides! Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Drax Wood Pellet Plans Axed in California www.desmog.com/2025/07/03/d...

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

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 #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #InsectHolocaust

"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

The harm being done to the US will take decades to repair. Another example: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Interesting #emissions detection tracker.

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...

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

Illustration: Common Swallowtails of the northeastern U.S.: Tiger, Black, and Spicebush. 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #butterflies #insects

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...

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.

@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...

This is an amazing timeline of how environmental injustice is being reinstated! legal-planet.org/2025/06/16/t... #environmentaljustice

New life for old wood. e360.yale.edu/features/rec...

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

"One Big Belligerent Bill" | Op-ed by @peterdbuck.bsky.social, Ken Shultes & yours truly, for @statecollege-com.bsky.social: www.statecollege.com/articles/col...

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 #demandresponse

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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.

US brain drain continues.