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California To Launch Window Heat Pump and 120 Volt Induction Pilot Programs California Market Transformation Administrator to launch two programs helping more homes electrify appliances

GOOD NEWS ALERT: The California Public Utilities Commission just approved two programs to help get window heat pumps and 120 volt induction stoves onto store shelves across the state 🎉
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The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:

Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them POLITICO’s E&E News examined satellite imagery of more than 100 homes owned by Republican lawmakers to see if they have solar panels. Seven had rooftop

"at least seven Republican lawmakers had rooftop panels. Three of them acknowledged using the federal tax credit to help pay for the arrays....Another had leased a solar system that was indirectly subsidized via a separate tax credit for installers...."
www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

Promises of lower energy bills win big on election day Democrats who campaigned on energy affordability swept key races in New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia.

Democrats won in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia after running campaigns tying Republicans to high electricity rates — and naming renewable energy as a solution: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

A for life.

Morales: I don’t care if you’re the most individualistic person on the planet—because you “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” and think government should stay out of your business and “don’t tread on me.” Climate change is already treading on you, and you should care about this issue.

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis.

Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

Unexpectedly high concentrations of forever chemicals found in dead sea otters A paper published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, finds high quantities of toxic "forever" chemicals in sea otters recovered off the Pacific Ocean. The paper is titled "Concentrations of Pe...

🚨 A new study has found alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in dead sea otters along the Pacific Coast, with concentrations more than 3 x higher near urban and shipping hubs.

phys.org/news/2025-11...

#seaotters #seaotter #otter #marinescience #marinebiology #marinemammals

The under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia  | Fortune As the AI land rush accelerates, local fights over water, power, and land may shape who wins and loses in American politics.

"The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia offers an early glimpse of what could be a sleeper issue in the 2026 midterm elections: the politics of AI infrastructure."

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Covering half of parking lots with solar canopies in the USA would generate ~1.4 terawatts. ☀️🇺🇸 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

This is big. And long overdue!

Climate Disasters Are Destroying Black Retirements and the American Dream Workers facing disasters and failed insurance are draining their retirement savings, leaving many on their own in old age.

“In Altadena, a series of public and private failures left Black households most likely to face the complete loss of a home — a racial line seen nationwide, regardless of the type of disaster, due to housing policies that have left people of color in disaster zones." capitalbnews.org/black-retire...

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation The pop star put her money where her mouth is while calling on billionaires to do the same during the WSJ. Innovator Awards on Wednesday night.

"If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties"
consequence.net/2025/10/bill...

When Kids Go Hungry, Politics Doesn’t Matter

🍎 This Isn’t Politics—It’s Public Health

This brain-dead discourse is *everywhere* and it drives me insane.

Are EV Batteries Destroying Indigenous Lands? Thea Riofrancos is asking all the hard questions — and pointing to some encouraging answers.

I really enjoyed speaking with @triofrancos.bsky.social about EVs, minerals, the birds of the Atacama salt flats, the surprising biodiversity of microbes, and her great new book, Extraction.

windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/on-evs-min...

Screenshot that says "Melissa has passed over waters made 1.4°C warmer, on average, by climate change." and "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely." along with a map of Hurricane Melissa's path.

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

SNAP benefit freeze will leave millions nationwide struggling to pay for food – including 472,711 people in Philadelphia Starting Nov. 1, 2025, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will stop being distributed in Pennsylvania due to the federal government shutdown, which began Oct. 1.

The USDA has more than $5 billion in emergency funds available to cover SNAP benefits but is refusing to spend them during the government shutdown. It's the first time in the history of the program that the federal government has refused to spend those funds

TIL the National Environmental Policy Act is the only thing preventing Donald Trump from dropping nuclear weapons all over the American West.

Something is really broken if this is our society’s response to hunger.

I’m not Christian, but if ever there was a real-life WWJD moment, surely this is it.

Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa’s Deadly Water Crisis All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. And the politicians aren’t doing a thing about it.

Important deep-dive piece from @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while regulators were furloughed As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when the inspections resumed, the levels dropped back to normal.

When the cat's away, the mice will play: Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while regulators were furloughed.

But we should trust fossil fuel companies to do the right thing, right? They tell us we should.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social

California students hold walk outs in support of Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act Sacramento — Students in California and around the nation and world are extremely concerned with what the future holds for them, considering the increasing toll that Big Oil-induced climate disasters ...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Santa Barbara High School Students Walk Out to Make Polluters Pay Teenage activists in Santa Barbara joined others statewide in a push for legislation to force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill for environmental damage caused by climate change.

“We often feel so sad and depressed and worried, but this right here, this is hope, this is the future.”

www.independent.com/2025/10/24/s...

fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...

Oakland students walk out of class to support climate bill Students at ALMOST 50 California high schools held walkouts on Friday in support of the “Make Polluters Pay Superfund Act.”

Thousands of California high school students staged walk outs this week to support the Make Polluters Pay bill, which would require oil and gas companies to cover the escalating costs of wildfires and other climate disasters.
Some coverage from around the state: 🧵

www.kalw.org/bay-area-new...

Opinion | In 40 Years of Forecasting, I’ve Never Seen a Hurricane Like Melissa

"The connection between global warming and increased sea surface temperatures is already well-established. We also know that more frequent and impactful weather-related disasters are occurring because more human beings are in harm’s way."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

🦉🌎🧪 The new San Francisco Bay State of the Birds website is live! See how #bird populations are changing across the Bay and what it means for habitat health. This data will inform important restoration and land management decisions. sfbaystateofthebirds.org

The number of forecasts issued by @nws.noaa.gov Sacramento office, which watches for winter storms across the Northern Sierra, has plummeted. The forecasts contain critical information that doesn’t exist elsewhere, @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu tells @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social