Louisiana energy regulators get $15 million a year — from your power bill — to spend on energy efficiency projects in public facilities of their choosing. Who monitors the program? No one. floodlightnews.org/80-million-f...

Regulators in Louisiana voted along party lines to cancel an energy-efficiency program 14 years in the making. One official called it ​“a punch to the face to all Louisianians who are struggling to pay their bills.” Reporting by @pradtke.bsky.social via @floodlightnews.org

The Louisiana Public Service Commission might scrap an energy efficiency program after it spent more than $500K to put it in place – and took 14 years to come up with the program. Our @wesmuller.bsky.social & @pradtke.bsky.social w/ @floodlightnews.org report lailluminator.com/2025/04/15/l...

Solar advocates flooded Capitol Hill this week to save the Inflation Reduction Act. They say cutting tax credits now would stall progress, kill jobs, and raise costs. NEW in @floodlightnews.org from @pradtke.bsky.social‬:

Louisiana utilities are providing dirty power at higher and higher (and higher and higher) prices, and the state's industrial customers are getting sick of it. They want to opt out and procure their own (renewable) energy.

Increasing electric rates are out of control. Never has there been a bigger gulf b/t utility shareholder interests & those of ratepayers (including industrial customers, which as this @pradtke.bsky.social story notes, want direct access to cheap renewables!): floodlightnews.org/us-electrici...

#Oil And Gas Money Shapes Research, ‘Echo Chamber’ In Higher #Education #news #environment @pradtke.bsky.social reports for @floodlightnews.org @halleparker.bsky.social reports for @wwno.org & @WRKF @piperhutch.bsky.social reports for @lailluminator.com floodlightnews.org/fueling-know...

Fossil fuel Companies and higher ed seem To go hand in hand at LSU and other universities. Here’s why that might be a problem. Check out the story and podcast here:

Power for massive data centers like the one proposed in NE Louisiana could come at ‘staggering’ cost to consumers, @pradtke.bsky.social reports for @floodlightnews.org lailluminator.com/2025/03/06/d...

Fantastic reading in report from @aripeskoe.bsky.social on the potential costs of data center power for every day consumers. Read about it here floodlightnews.org/power-for-da...

"Carbon capture incentives are 'another subsidy for oil.'" Our ED @carolynraff.bsky.social quoted in NEW piece by @pradtke.bsky.social in the @lailluminator.com: lailluminator.com/2025/02/28/c... Links to our report (first comment) on the false promises and health harms of #EOR. #CSS #pipelines #45Q

My latest insideclimatenews.org/news/1702202...

insideclimatenews.org/news/1702202... Nice read from @pradtke.bsky.social

Elon Musk's xAI wants to use gas turbines long-term at Memphis site, documents show

Remember that Exxon-owned CO2 pipeline that leaked in Mississippi a few years ago and sent 45 people to the hospital? When federal inspectors showed up recently, they were "taunted, pushed and blocked from doing their jobs." floodlightnews.org/email/904c7b...

Company that owns ruptured CO2 Mississippi pipeline and another that leaked in Calcasieu Parish has been fined $2.4 million for menacing federal inspectors. @pradtke.bsky.social reports for @floodlightnews.org lailluminator.com/2025/02/12/p...

SCOOP: Denbury/Exxon draws $2.4M fine for menacing inspectors examining work to replace Saratia CO2 pipeline

floodlightnews.org/chinese-ai-t... Nice story from @pradtke.bsky.social

Important reading... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

A tale of two realities. If a company can build a data center on private land, without having to jump through red tape and doesn't have to procure and build renewable energy, capitalism says the later wins, 9 out of 10 times www.ft.com/content/63c3... vs. www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-d...

Same. Same

If you're interested in seeing how the stripes look in your area, I've updated graphics to this interactive tool to see temperature and precipitation stripes for each US county! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36fb... #ClimateStripes #ShowYourStripes

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.

Mo money, mo energy: www.ajc.com/news/amazon-...

@bizwriterkristi.bsky.social !!!

It has come to my attention that a former analyst at the Illinois Commerce Comm'n has written a novel about a "left-wing radical" who "settles down and sells out as a gas utility regulator." Just thought you would want to know:

A new analysis shows LNG export terminals harm the climate — but stops short of recommending a halt to the booming industry, @pradtke.bsky.social reports for @floodlightnews.org lailluminator.com/2024/12/18/e...

DOE's LNG export study isn't the final word on whether 68 bcf/d of new LNG gets built. The market is. My story floodlightnews.org/federal-gas-...

All #energysky reporters today awaiting LNG study when a DOE news release pops into their inbox (2 false alarms this morning)

Massages and country clubs: Your electric bill may be funding lavish perks 🗞️

With rules for federal offshore carbon capture more than two years behind schedule, developers look to state waters #energysky

Developers eye Louisiana, Texas coasts for offshore carbon storage, @pradtke.bsky.social reports for @floodlightnews.org lailluminator.com/2024/12/16/o...

Great point. Do we want AI thinking for us??

9/ Read the article by @marioarizabaez.bsky.social: floodlightnews.org/massages-and...

1/ Your electric bill isn't just covering energy costs — it might be funding massages, private jets, & country club perks for utility executives. A new Energy Institute report reveals how utilities can quietly pass these luxury expenses onto customers. 🧵

It's going to be truly wild if we start transporting electricity around the country on *trains* because we can't build any f'ing transmission lines. coloradosun.com/2024/12/05/c...

“Direct Air Capture is an opportunity cost that increases CO2, air pollution, fossil mining, fossil infrastructure and social cost (energy+health+climate costs) by a factor of 10 vs using the same money to replace fossil sources with clean, renewable energy.” lailluminator.com/2024/12/02/c...

If it's one thing I wish more people understood about Cancer Alley—that stretch of road full of fossil fuel facilities between New Orleans and Baton Rouge—it would be this: it is not the only Cancer Alley in the country, or even in the state of Louisiana.

Environmental advocates win a temporary hold on massive LNG plant in southwest Louisiana

Along Louisiana’s coast, tribes are witnessing their lands disappear underwater. Environment reporter Eva Tesfaye joins us to discuss how the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe is creating protective reefs using recycled oyster shells.

If you don't to read about it, listen to the segment on direct air capture that I did with the masterful @evartesfaye.bsky.social www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...

We keep hearing scary predictions about sea level rise, but it’s hard to imagine what it will mean for🌊to rise 2+ ft. In this WWNO Sea Change episode, we go to Virginia, San Francisco & Louisiana, where communities are coming up with w/solutions to the rising water. www.wwno.org/podcast/sea-...

Direct air capture sounds like a great idea, until you realize it would take a quarter of the world’s electricity to remove just 1/10 of the carbon produced each year floodlightnews.org/removing-car...

Wrote a lil something for GenX women

IEA: rising clean energy supply cuts global #oil demand. "Rapid deployment of clean energy technologies is also increasingly displacing oil in transport and power generation, adding downward pressure to otherwise weak demand drivers.” @Reuters www.reuters.com/business/ene... #energy

Baby, it’s cold outside

Three of the five pies my daughters baked. And….there were only the three of us for Thanksgiving dinner.