One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

#BigBend in West #Texas needs your help. The Dept. of Homeland Security is rapidly moving forward with plans to wall off virtually every river access point to the #NationalPark. ✨ You can help: Use the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 to urge your Congressional reps to protect Big Bend.

UPDATE: A court just dismissed a lawsuit pushing for old-growth logging in the #Tongass National Forest 🐻🌲🎉 “This ruling is a big victory. I’m relieved the court squarely rejected the #logging industry's rash attempt to force large-scale logging,” said Marlee Goska, our #Alaska attorney.

Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

Telling powerful human stories about the benefits of renewable energy matters. But nowhere near as much as $4 billion matters.

"My biggest concerns are the things that you can't put a price on, which is all of our health," said nearby resident Nancy Looney. "I'm asthmatic, I know how it is not to be able to breathe. With this plant, you just never know long-term what it (air quality) could be."

"Blackstone has more more money than the state of New Mexico!" youtu.be/K9PH7LVkEbU?...

This is a big uh-oh for Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm, which is trying to buy a utility company in New Mexico. It bought the shares before getting approval for the acquisition. That could derail the whole thing—if regulators follow the law. prospect.org/2026/02/19/b...

Trump just nominated a corporate stooge with no conservation experience to run the National Park Service. It's another huge step in this admin's plan to hand America’s most cherished public lands over to extractive industries, real estate developers & corporate interests. We're fighting back.

New from @mlive.com: Few utility customers realize part of their bill goes toward helping pay lawyers and consultants to advocate on behalf of those utilities for *higher* rates. This is the case with DTE Energy... currently in the middle of a rate case. www.mlive.com/news/2026/01...

Now Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, enters the scene with rank dishonesty & theatrical indignation to dispute the NY Times' correct, accurate reporting. But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/

Trump to Congress, Climate, U.N., Rule of Law, World: DROP DEAD - Today's #BradCast Guest: @ajeansu.bsky.social, Sr. Attorney at Center for @biologicaldiversity.org; Also: Halligan ordered to explain herself; Fifth U.S. Attorney ruled unlawfully serving... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15602

BREAKING: the Trump admin is green-lighting Utah's attempt to assert control over 8 million acres of public land without a vote, notice or public input. After failing to seize public lands outright, Utah is chipping away at at public land ownership at large. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Moves to Restart California Coastal Oil Pipeline ->Center for Biological Diversity | #coastal #ocean #no decency #pipeline #trump fascism | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass. By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it. Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal

The Center today released video of detonations underway in the Huachuca Mountains -- in critical habitat for endangered jaguar and Mexican spotted owl -- for a double border wall that will block wildlife (but not people) moving between the U.S. and Mexico. Link to PR, video tinyurl.com/y752jz55

Meet Shirleen, a 900-pound #leatherback turtle and an epic traveler. Thanks to satellite tracking by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center, we now know more about where she goes. Leatherbacks are endangered – they need our help but, meanwhile, #GoShirleen! Learn more ➡️ marinelife.mapotic.com

Our take: More gas guzzlers. "Dan Becker, @biologicaldiversity.org said weakening the standards would extend the manufacturing of gas-powered vehicles and prevent the US from countering China’s dominance of the global electric car market." @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Yo DC peoples: Did you love the City Paper? Did you subscribe to DCist? Wanna get more of that in your life? Subscribe to @51st.news! 5 stars. Do recommend. Link: 51st.news/membership/?...

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration had “exceeded the bounds of [its] authority" in deploying the D.C. National Guard, and lacked the authority to call up out-of-state Guardsmen to patrol in D.C. What does this mean? Don't miss @maustermuhle.bsky.social's reporting:

The #ESA is the world's most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump admin. just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperiled plants and animals closer to extinction. We have fewer than 30 days to voice our opposition loud and clear ➡️ bit.ly/3LZAGe6

AI & data centers are getting tons of hype, but less discussed (but deeply important) are the AI boom’s dangers to our environment, health, & wallets: op-ed by Jean Su & Dr. John Fleming of @biologicaldiversity.org

Jean Su warns that the booming AI industry’s high resource consumption threatens the world’s climate goals, despite rosy prognoses of AI’s projected benefits.

Here at #COP30, attendees are lauding AI as an antidote to the climate crisis. While AI can deliver benefits, countries must address AI’s grave costs to our climate, water, & planet. Happy to unpack this w/ @democracynow.org @amygoodman.bsky.social www.democracynow.org/2025/11/19/j...

The #COP30 heat is on again on fossil fuels. In 2023, countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels,” but with no follow-up. Now all eyes are on creating a roadmap to operationalize those otherwise hollow words. In 1 week, 60+ countries have supported the idea of making a game plan.

The UN recently created two new bodies to address AI but from an arms race and global access standpoints. It’s imperative that the UN climate body not just acknowledge the potential benefits that AI can bring (eg grid balancing), but also the vast climate, water, and economic costs.

The incomparable @ajeansu.bsky.social breaking down why data centers are the devastating love child of big tech and the fossil fuel industry and why COP30 must tackle the climate impacts of AI. Check out our latest report: biologicaldiversity.org/programs/cli...

AI is an elephant in the #COP30 room. While govts have touted AI as a climate solution, they have ignored its grave costs to our climate & planet. The global climate space must address how AI data centers are the new lifeline of the fossil fuel industry. See presser👇 unfccc.int/event/center...

"The influx of CCS lobbyists at COP30 shows how the AI industry is using the false promise of carbon capture as a lifeline for fossil fuels. AI is the love child of Big Tech and the fossil fuel industry." @ajeansu.bsky.social for @biologicaldiversity.org

We've published two articles at @therevelator.org looking back at the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang. First came an essay by the real-world inspiration for one of the novel's characters, Bonnie Abbzug: therevelator.org/happy-50th-b...

Trump’s lawyer got one thing right: if Trump can do his Tariffs, the next President can declare a Climate Emergency: heatmap.news/climate/supr...

“This report shows how the U.S. is about to set off an explosion of dirty data center emissions, entrenching more fossil fuels when we need their rapid phaseout.” nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A utility fee is making it twice as hard for this Ohio couple to pay for their rooftop solar-plus-storage system with power cost savings. So they’re suing their municipal utility, and it may be a preview of a statewide — and nationwide — fight to come.

"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness. The end is much less flashy: [it] will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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Out with the old, in with the new - we got rid of our stinky range and love our new Copper Induction - highly recommend!

SIGNED! 🥳🥳🥳💪💪💪 A massive victory for holding monopoly utilities accountable to their customers, and for lowering Californian utility bills. Thank you to @governor.ca.gov, @asmmarcberman.bsky.social, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @earthjustice.org, The Utility Reform Network for all your leadership!

“The Republican Party has long denied the severe risks that climate change presents. Under Mr. Trump, Republicans have gone even further. They have become the party that stands in the way of lower energy prices for American households.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Gov. Newsom should sign AB 1167 to keep costs down for utility ratepayers by ensuring they are not forced to subsidize utilities’ political lobbying and PR, our @denisegrab.bsky.social writes at @legal-planet.org. legal-planet.org/2025/10/08/s...

💯. @governor.ca.gov - be the Governor that stood up to for-profit utilities and sign #AB1167 to make California the 7th state to protect customers from footing the bill for their lobbying and promotional campaigns!

A bill is sitting on @GavinNewsom’s desk that would lower Californians’ utility bills – all he has to do is sign it. But rumors are swirling that he plans to do the opposite - a move that could prove disastrous for California and for Newsom. A 🧵:

Garden bounty! Proving Capitol Hill can be productive in October (and abundant).

It’s back!

Join us next Friday at the Supreme Court! 5:30.

Border wall slicing through Arizona wildlife corridor begins construction: ‘A show of force for nothing’

TAKE ACTION and tell @governor.ca.gov to sign these commonsense bills into law earthjustice.org/action/tell-...

We got ours last Monday! Love it.