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Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.

I've written a lot about the abandoned well crisis in this country. It's an environmental and climate disaster but also a financial disaster. This new article notes the financial reality about why nothing is done.

“They can’t, because it bankrupts the industry as we know it.”

Commercial real estate deal volume drops for the first time in nearly two years Commercial real estate has had a rough year after gaining momentum coming out of the pandemic.

Commercial real estate deal volume drops for the first time in nearly two years www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/c...

Sign the Petition Bad for Bills, Bad for Health, Bad for Our Climate — Reject Georgia Power’s Plan

The current PSC is rushing a vote next week on Georgia Power’s massive fossil fuel expansion for speculative data centers, that would lock in higher bills and emissions for decades.
Please sign the well-articulated petition opposing this folly.
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Well, well, well… Look at that 😏

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I 💯 agree in current policy environment. But does not have to be that way. We have the tools to prevent it!!

On Sunday, immigration agents appeared at the family home of a recently deported college student in Austin, Texas, according to the family and their lawyer. The agents arrived in three unmarked vehicles, and one agent in a green vest marked E.R.O. — Enforcement and Removal Operations — rushed toward the student’s father, Francis López, as he washed his car, Mr. López said. He ran into his backyard and closed a latched gate. The agent forced open the gate and proceeded to enter the backyard. Mr. López entered his house and locked the back door, he said. After about two hours, the agents left, without ever trying to communicate with the family or knocking on the door.

U.S. govt now terrorizing the family of the college student they deported at Thanksgiving
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A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis—and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media Today’s journalism crisis wasn’t inevitable, but it’s time to free journalism from the straitjacket of turning a democratic obligation into a profit-maximizing business model.

When journalism is trapped inside a commercial straitjacket, it can’t fight back.

Our new piece on how hyper commercialism, oligarchy, and state coercion have converged to threaten the press — based on our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report.

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Glad to hear this.

Clean energy jobs here in GA keep growing!

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Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, Challenger says The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million.

Layoff announcements top 1.1 million in 2025, the highest since 2020 www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...

"Hepatitis B is a virus that affects the liver and is the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide. People living with chronic hepatitis B have a higher risk of developing liver cancer."

And the Hep B vaccine has been KEY to virtually eliminating cases of this incurable disease in newborns.

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A new report diagrams how Flexible Interconnection and Bring-Your-Own-Capacity (BYOC) can connect data centers to the grid faster while avoiding shifting costs to other electricity consumers.

How do we connect data centers to the grid quickly and avoid driving up costs for other electricity consumers?

The solution: a 2-part combo of flexible interconnection agreements & bring-your-own-capacity (BYOC) arrangements, according to a new report out today from Camus, my ZERO Lab, and encoord.

This is an older post but saw it again this am and thought worth resharing.

💯 wild. This is huge that Fed chair said something this impactful and not a big news event!! He is right and this is going to be a major impact on our economy.

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Lots of clear signs the economy is weaker than last year (but the stock market is not one of them: wonder when that floor is going to drop to catch up with all the data). Believe data, not Trump and his cronies.

Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.

This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...

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Not the case in my city. Owning the car is the real barrier, not parking.

Or biking or walking! Lots of people that cannot physically drive can bike (especially with e-bikes) or roll in wheel chairs in bike and pedestrian infrastructure!

Yes! Policy choices and road design alone could prevent so many traffic fatalities!!! Such an obvious area to protect your residents and visitors

If they can afford a car. Or are physically able to drive. A very large portion of the population cannot drive.

How long will we have to wait?? :)

It's 2025 and people are calling for a National Climate Service

It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service

It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service

It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service

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This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco

(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)

2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...