Rhode Island Energy wants to cut the state’s energy efficiency program to reduce utility bills. The move would save households less than $2 a month, while risking more than $90 million in benefits, a new @acadiacenter.bsky.social analysis finds.

What swayed the decision for second Gatwick runway and what does it mean for Heathrow?

Tonight at 6 ET: Climate Night Live is streaming live from #ClimateWeekNYC with @volts.wtf, @climatetown.bsky.social’s Rollie Williams, and many more.

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The world’s top fossil fuel countries still plan to produce more than twice as much coal, gas and oil as would be consistent with climate goals. In fact, they’re planning even more than they were two years ago.

How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction. Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Sugar #Health #Climate #Wellness #Food #Nutrition #Heat #Temperature #Agriculture

If Grist created a climate fiction comic, who should we team up with? 🌍📚 We’re curious about indie creators and independent comic shops doing amazing work. Drop your recs! #ClimateFiction #IndieComics #ComicShops #GraphicNovels #Comics

The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway. The national day of action arrives at a time when clean energy is becoming more polarized. grist.org/culture/sun-... #Solar #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Polarization #Politics #GreenSky

Are we there yet? Everything you need to know about the electric vehicle revolution in Australia

A new lawsuit alleges a mining firm has threatened poor farmers impacted by a toxic waste spill, with the firm warning locals that their phones are being tapped and the company is using drones to monitor them. insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

Climate progress is alive + thriving 🌍✨ Meet the 2025 #Grist50: 50 changemakers driving bold, surprising climate solutions in every corner of the U.S. — from farms to startups, art to EVs. 10 years, 500 stories of action + hope. grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Nature #Environment #Climate #Solarpunk

Trump DOJ seeks to kill Vermont law that makes Big Oil pay for climate harm. The Justice Department asked a judge to shut down the "Superfund" law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissions. grist.org/politics/tru... #Vermont #VT #Burlington #Montpelier #VTpoli #vtleg #Politics

Meet the small business owners electrifying Maine’s rural coast. In Casco Bay’s remote waters, electric workboats and the aquaculture innovators who operate them are putting marine electrification to the test. grist.org/energy/meet-... #Maine #Boats #Climate #Ships #Transportation #EV

The people behind America’s disaster recovery. From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe. grist.org/labor/the-pe... #Disaster #Climate #Hurricane #flood #wildfire #ExtremeWeather #Weather #Work #Environment

Inspired by Indian ice stupas, Chilean engineers are creating artificial towers of ice to preserve winter precipitation for the spring and summer months, ensuring a steadier water supply for people and agriculture. Read more from María de los Ángeles Orfila. ⬇️

Sierra Club's new “Dirty Truth” report finds major U.S. utilities have collectively hit five-year lows on switching from fossil fuels to clean energy fast enough to combat climate change. Instead, they're doubling down on fossil gas, despite the costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... #energysky

Texas’ power grid was rock solid this year, and it has a raft of new solar and battery installations to thank.

Researchers are chipping away at the mountains of climate change evidence in Ireland's geology. Literally. What happened to Ireland's long-lost ice sheets may soon happen to those in Greenland and Antarctica, and geoscientists are working to better understand how.

Climate activists gather in New York for ‘Sun Day’ solar energy and anti-billionaire rallies

Tied tides? Canadian towns battle it out over tidal world record

Weather tracker: Flash floods and landslides wreak havoc in California

Extreme heat is killing tens of thousands of elderly people prematurely each year ...

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Leopard sharks mating in the wild captured on camera for first time – video

Country diary 1975: Death cap mushrooms can be a forager’s nightmare

‘Involved sequentially’: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome

Country diary: An autumn fireball that’s a sanctuary for insects | Kate Blincoe

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain – podcast

Virtual power plants can shore up the grid and cut power bills. But can utilities count on the customer-owned rooftop solar arrays and battery storage that make them up?

"If countries are seriously willing to greatly increase the use of nuclear energy throughout the 21st century, US policymakers should see devising a new long-term nonproliferation strategy as a worthy investment of their time," write @richardmnephew.bsky.social and Matt Bowen. ⬇️

Dust storms can be deadly, and scientists warn that the Midwest may have to contend with more of them: “There’s no question that climate change is one of the major drivers of dust.”

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Voters in the PJM and MISO grid regions are unsurprisingly concerned about rising power prices — and support grid expansions to combat them.

‘We must change’: how drought and overextraction of water has run Iran dry

Canavan claims Coalition ‘on the cusp’ of abandoning net zero as Ley urged to follow Dutton’s voice referendum tactics

The race to find a way to recycle old turbine blades from windfarms

North Carolina is anticipating a data center boom. Will residents face higher utility bills and more polluting gas plants as a result?

As utility costs rise nationwide, a small town in Iowa is seeing its heating and cooling costs steadily decline after installing one of the nation’s first geothermal networks.

Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has a decision to make: Reinvest in its greenhouse gas-polluting Cleveland plant, or replace its coal-fired blast furnace with a cleaner alternative.

‘We are horrified’: proposed lead mine in NSW wine region has community living in fear for children’s health

Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.

People living near the Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout in L.A.'s upscale Porter Ranch won an emergency declaration from Gov. Jerry Brown to help them relocate until it was thought safe to return. People in Latino and historically Black communities near #ChiquitaCanyonLandfill have not. A thread. /1

Pregnant women who lived closest to the Aliso Canyon disaster near Los Angeles during their final trimester were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies, a risk factor for childhood and adult disease, new research found.

New: Pregnant women who lived closest to the #AlisoCanyon disaster during their final trimester were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies, a risk factor for childhood and adult disease, new research found. #Naturalgas is loaded with toxic chemicals insideclimatenews.org/news/2009202...

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. A harrowing report from our friends at @theguardian.com:

Electric workboats are making for quiet, cleaner oyster farming along Maine’s coastal waters — but can they keep growing? From us and @dailyyonder.bsky.social:

A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it’s feasible is another matter. www.wired.com/story/data-c...