NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
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CALL TO ACTION: Join us Thurs, Nov 13 at 12:30 PM for a critical hearing at the MA State House to support priority legislation H.3547/S.2290—protecting EJ communities from gas expansion. RSVP: vist.ly/4dcxh

Bonus action: submit testimony using the toolkit at vist.ly/4dcxm

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Mothers Out Front showed up strong at the State House today for the TUE committee hearing on two key bills: the Tactical Transition Bill (fights unnecessary new gas pipes) and the Municipal Empowerment Bill (helps cities & towns electrify). Thanks to our volunteers and their powerful testimony!

👎 Thumbs down to candidate Frank Baker’s campaign for plastering his signs over today’s Labor Day Workers Over Billionaires parade route, even sending loudspeaker truck to follow last section of marchers.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Can I just say, being interviewed by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is an awful lot of fun. He understands the moment we’re in, bad and good

Canceled wind project puts thousands of jobs at risk | CNN Business The future of thousands of jobs are in jeopardy after Ørsted, a Danish clean energy company with a large portfolio of offshore wind projects, received an order from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Manageme...

Trump just halted a nearly completed wind project that was set to power 350K homes at a stable rate for 20 years.

Over 1,000 jobs—gone.

Electric bills—up.

All to protect Big Oil.

This isn’t "national security." It’s political sabotage.

They'd rather destroy our future than build a better one.

Renderings of the proposed four-story apartment building

Jamaica Plain landlord wins approval to replace long abandoned Centre Street gas station with apartments
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#Boston #zoning #housing

Michelle holds Mira at the Bunker Hill 250th celebration in Charlestown (📸: @jessfoto)

Fighting for our future ❤️

What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came?

Boring. Low energy. Sad!

June 14 No kings Over 11 million people protested!

11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥

Are we nearing the magic 3.5%??

Never forget….WE hold the power.

#nokings

Carbon Capture More Expensive Than Switching to Renewables, Stanford Study Reveals Researchers have determined that the large-scale adoption of technologies designed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and the atmosphere would be significantly more costly and environ...

Carbon Capture More Expensive Than Switching to Renewables

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On Facebook, my page has been shadowbanned since Aug 2018

On Threads, my account was frozen and then started to decline after the algorithm changes made in Nov 2024

On X, trolling increased by a factor of 15 and my follower count first froze, then started to drop after algorithm changes.

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HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu The department cited Moderna’s use of the messenger RNA technology, which it said “remains under-tested,” for the cancellation of the funding.

What a great idea. Let's pretend bird flu doesn't exist and see what happens...

CBS News article: The IRS has lost almost one third of its tax auditors after 2 months of DOGE cuts

By firing IRS auditors who went after wealthy tax cheats, Elon Musk's DOGE could cost up to $323 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years.

It was never about being efficient or effective. www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-dog...

Thousands Evacuate in Canada as Multiple Wildfires Rage

Massive fires in Manitoba displacing thousands and sending thick clouds of smoke to the east.

Eastern Canadians and Americans underestimate how severe fire risk is becoming beyond the usual western wildfire areas — and how ubiquitous smoke impacts are becoming.

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It’s interesting to me that massive climate catastrophes barely make the news anymore.

There are massive fires across 7 Canadian provinces. Massive floods destroyed at least 5 lives and thousands of buildings in Australia. A Swiss town just got obliterated by a melting glacier.

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.

Imagine hearing about a plan to decrease traffic, shorten vehicle commutes, lower noise & emissions pollution for residents, speed up public transit, increase foot traffic for area businesses, increase transit revenue & lower car crash injuries...

...and opposing it.
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And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?

Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.

“…beyond intentional attacks, drivers in cars, SUVs and trucks threaten the safety of our public spaces everyday but we treat the damage they do like the weather: something inevitable that just happens.”

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

"Freedom!"

BYD’s 5-Minute EV Charging: Why Doesn’t America Have It Yet? We explain the barriers to ultra-fast EV charging in the U.S., from batteries to charging plugs and beyond.

Chinese automaker BYD debuts an EV that charges up to 250 miles of range in *5 minutes*, nearly eliminating the time difference in filling up a gas vehicle.

You can't get it in the US, though. We keep Chinese cars out so that our dinosaur automakers can keep selling bloated combustion trucks.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion. Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity.

John Ketchum, the chief executive of NextEra Energy, one of the country’s largest power producers, said in an interview. “If you take renewables & storage off the table, we’re going to force electricity prices to the moon.”
@bradplumer.bsky.social reports #energysky
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