🇨🇴 SANTA MARTA CONFERENCE: The Weaving Alternatives and Community Solutions Fair is all about amplifying real, community-led solutions. Communities aren't waiting for governments to lead the just energy transition: they're already building it themselves.

Whaaaaat?! That campaign in an Ohio county to ban wind & solar development ... turns out to be backed ... by a bunch of fossil fuel groups!

“We’re giving Duke Energy money to build something and then we’re paying Duke Energy higher utility rates,“ said Rania Masri, co-director of the NC Environmental Justice Network. It is absolutely absurd.“

While U.S. communities pay increasingly catastrophic climate disasters, fossil fuel corporations are lobbying Congress for sweeping legal immunity to escape accountability for their climate lies. Join us in saying 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣 actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Word on the street is NO fossil fuel lobbyists at the Santa Marta, Colombia 'Transition Away' conference. But it does have some of the best climate scientists in the world for an advisory panel.

THEY PROFIT, WE PAY. FIX IT NOW. This war is their business and our pain. Our governments must end the war, tax the profits and invest in people and the planet. 350.org/they-profit-...

Gov Hochul is demolishing NY's climate law and raising our energy bills. Read EarthJustice's receipts below. Call Hochul to tell her that you are angry: (518) 474-8390. readme.readmedia.com/HERE-S-EVERY...

We’ve joined 130+ organizations in an open letter with 4 clear demands: end the war, tax profiteers, cancel debt and secure food and energy for all. They profit, we pay. It’s time to change that. 350.org/they-profit-...

The fossil fuel industry costs every person on Earth $1,400 a year — and pays almost nothing back. 350.org's new #OutOfPocket report breaks it down. Santa Marta is the first conference ever called to end fossil fuels, and this report is the receipt. Read the full report: 350.org/out-of-pocke...

Solar Fest taking place tomorrow, April 25 in Durham at Lyons Farm Elementary School! @ncclimatejustice.bsky.social

Will the First Conference on Transitioning from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta be a success? It already is. A quick thread as we kick off the conference in Santa Marta 🧵👇

1/ The era of empty promises is over. 🇨🇴 We’re in Santa Marta for the first-ever global talks on a just, managed, funded exit from dangerous fossil fuels. This is history in motion. @350.org @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @canclimateaction.bsky.social

“I would like to see a rule that has teeth, that has consequences for the industries that discharge these chemicals into our water. “My neighbors and I do not have safe drinking water. No one has told us officially, because we are on a private utility.” ~Lindsay Addison www.wral.com/news/state/p...

We're taking the Bureau of Land Management and USFWS to court for habitually allowing unlawful cattle grazing to damage 70 miles of river designated as critical habitat for endangered birds, fish and other species in southeastern Arizona. More info: biodiv.us/49a8z4C

Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation to put Big Oil above the law. The bills would dismiss existing climate accountability lawsuits and prohibit new legal action against the fossil fuel industry, forcing all of the costs of climate change onto everyday Americans.

It’s salt. Saltwater is intruding into groundwater both because oceans are rising and because decreasing rainfall is disabling the capacity of coastal aquifers to hold the encroaching seawater at bay —> salinity of drinking water increases. insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

"Rivers have the right to flow and thrive. Our communities and all species have the right to a healthy environment. We continue to raise our voices against SSEP, and the dangerous policies that put corporate profit over community wellbeing.” @7directionsof.bsky.social @mosnukhenomp.bsky.social

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the heart of the Everglades known as #AlligatorAlcatraz can keep operating even though it hasn’t gone through any environmental review. More info➡️ biodiv.us/4tBITGc

While U.S. communities pay increasingly catastrophic climate disasters, fossil fuel corporations are lobbying Congress for sweeping legal immunity to escape accountability for their climate lies. Join us in opposing this effort! #MakePollutersPay actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Civil rights group sues xAI for illegal #pollution from #datacenter power plant. We all deserve clean air. www.selc.org/press-releas...

Waking up to discover that evidence has been released proving something we all knew. The Supreme Court's efforts to stop the Obama clean power plant rules were rooted in explicit, corrupt efforts to protect the fossil fuel industry.

Researchers found that the system is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century and could pass a significant tipping point by mid-century, at which point its decline would become irreversible. www.commondreams.org/news/amoc-co...

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

Data center “We have stood at people’s doorsteps as they realize nitrate may have caused their miscarriages or cancers. People can’t sell or refinance their homes. They are stuck and sick; they are tired of polluters getting away with theft of their health and wealth.” www.opb.org/article/2026...

LIVE: Senators will soon consider the Joint Resolution that threatens the Boundary Waters. We expect several hours of debate, followed by a final vote tonight or in the morning. If you want to follow along live update tonight, we’re posting updates here: www.savetheboundarywaters.org/live-updates...

Upside down day… New York, Philly and DC were all hotter than Florida today!! The Big NE cities were in the low 90s, while most of #Florida was chilling in the 80s. There were dozens of daily high temp records set today in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England.

The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped. Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.

Join @7directionsof.bsky.social tomorrow 6-8pm for the Greensboro stop in their "Communities over Pipelines: Toxic Tour!" to learn about ongoing efforts to monitor the Southeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (SSEP) as part of our larger goal for NO SSEP! Register at 7DirectionsofService.com/events

Defend our public lands. The Trump admin plans to open 58.5M acres of national forest backcountry to logging, oil, and gas extraction. Urge Congress to pass the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025. dogwoodalliance.org/actions/defe...

Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now peaking at Category 5 strength and is likely to make landfall on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in about 36 hours. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a US territory. They're going to need all the help they can get after this storm.

At the end of an exhausting, emotionally abusive day, here’s news from Michigan re: the power of saying NOT SO FAST, MFers: “A future dominated by AI is only inevitable if we let it be, and right now, we have a chance to put our foot down and build something better.” www.wkar.org/michigans-da...

From our own Mitch Jones: The AI data center industry has given us zero evidence that it is able or willing to protect people from pollution and exploitation, to say nothing of spiking utility bills. It's time for a national moratorium on AI data centers!

🚀 t-minus 2 weeks until the world starts to converge on Santa Marta for the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels 💪 Read the whole article at 🔗https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/iran-war-oil-phase-out-fossil-fuels! #JustTransitionNow

We teamed up with Texas Civil Rights Project today and sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection for withholding public records on plans to build border walls through the #BigBend region of Texas. More info: biodiv.us/4dzdxv4

#MountainValleyPipeline's Southgate extension would carry methane gas further south from #Virginia into #NorthCarolina. As legal challenges mount and communities push back against MVP Southgate, the fight over the pipeline is far from over. #NoMVPSouthgate https://loom.ly/F9eZhgc

📄This new brief provides an analysis of how three key international initiatives (the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, the COP30 Presidency Roadmap, and the proposed Fossil Fuel Treaty) complement each other and together can advance a just transition away from oil, gas, and coal.

“FERC should have taken a harder look at the risk this project creates by snaking high-pressure gas under and around two other pipelines, Transco’s Southeast Supply Enhancement Project and the PSNC/Enbridge T15—all under construction at the same time and in the same confined spaces.”

Happy Farmworker Day, California. Wrote about the shift from celebrating an individual to a collective.

“For Indigenous communities, this is not just a pipeline—it is a continuation of decisions made without our consent, threatening the rivers, burial sites, and cultural landscapes that carry our history.” @7directionsof.bsky.social's @mosnukhenomp.bsky.social www.selc.org/press-releas...

"While the median utility company kept 13.5% of an energy bill for profit in 2024, Duke Energy [Carolinas] kept 21.7% – meaning that when a North Carolina customer pays a $100 utility bill, $21.70 is pure profit for Duke."

This year focuses on food waste, a major driver of environmental harm. Food waste represent a major climate threat. It accounts for up to 10% of global greenhouse gas. Food waste is among the most cost-effective climate solutions. We all must embrace zero waste in our lives to overcome pollution.

End the era of fossil fuels! 🚨 Join the Women’s Momentum Assembly for a Just Fossil Fuel Phaseout to hear from frontline leaders & global advocates as we build a Just Transition! Free & open to all today tinyurl.com/woma-2026  #WECAN

A $1,000 electric bill is totally unacceptable! The NC Utility Commission must REJECT Duke Energy's latest huge rate hike increase!

Many Duke customers on limited or fixed incomes said a rate hike would hurt them -- grad students, young workers not long out of school, a farmer, caregivers, numerous retirees, and a grandparent on disability trying to support a family in a doublewide trailer where the electric bill has hit $1,000.

Duke Energy Progress rate hike hearings began tonight in Raleigh in packed room before all 5 NC utilities commissioners. Only three of 26 speakers spoke in favor of Duke, representing the Morrisville, Wake, & Zebulon Chambers; DEP is a member of all three groups, but none of them disclosed that.

The climate justice group NC Warn is soliciting the public’s help in pressing Gov. Josh Stein to take the lead against Duke Energy.

According to the new data, one-third of all U.S. households struggle with energy affordability and access, a sharp increase from previous survey years. Every region in the country saw an increase in energy insecurity between 2020 and 2024, with the highest rates found in the South.

Duke Energy has been blaming recent bill spikes in the Carolinas on cold weather. But an Energy and Policy Institute analysis shows that rate increases and other charges are also to blame.