Maurice Carter

Fleecing consumers out of $6B/year & forcing them to suffer the ill effects of air, water, and climate pollution from the dirtiest of the dirtiest #fossilfuels. Even a 3rd grader knows this #coal boondoggle is incredibly dumb & brazenly corrupt.

Particulate pollution from coal associated with double the risk of mortality than PM2.5 from other sources | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants is associated with a risk of mortality more than double that of exposure to PM2.5 from other sources, according to a new study ...

Your clue in Final Jeopardy: It's the energy source blamed for over 460,000 US deaths between 1999 and 2020.

Answer: What is coal?

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In Coal-Powered West Virginia, Sky-High Energy Costs Strain Residents

"Over the past 15 years, electricity rates in [West Virginia] have risen almost twice as fast as the national average." Coal ain't cheap. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

What kind of monster looks at data like this and says "You know what, we need more coal." ???

YouTube video by Just Have a Think The INSANE Carbon Capture SCAM continues.

The latest in a very long line of scams from the #fossilfuel industry -- #CCSS (Carbon Capture & Storage Systems). Just another way for #BigOil and #CleanBeautifyCoal to keep polluting the planet and raking in even more subsidies from US taxpayers. #JustHaveaThink

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Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday disparaging renewable energy sources.

With a president who blows hot air as steadily and strongly as this one, we should double or triple US #windmill installations. Not a true word in anything he said. Such an embarrassment on the global stage, and a disaster here at home.

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Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

Pro-life? This administration devalues human life at every turn, on every front. #BigOil over climate-vulnerable people, #polluters over children & the elderly, high-speed, gas-guzzling vehicles over children & adults on streets. It's insane people let this happen.
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Conclusion: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin & Energy Secretary Chris Wright are full of 💩." #climatescience #endangerment #climatechange

"Today, many of EPA’s conclusions are further supported by longer observational records and multiple new lines of evidence. Moreover, research has uncovered additional risks that were not apparent in 2009."

"EPA’s 2009 finding that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases adversely affect human health and welfare was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence."

"The evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute," says the National Academy of Sciences." www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

Scientists Link Major Carbon Emitters to Worsening Heat Waves Emissions from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies play a significant role in extreme weather events, according to a new study.

Scientists can show #climatepollution from a handful of super-emitters causes much of the #extremeheat globally. Temps impossible without human-cased #climatechange. It's why those companies are pressuring the US government to erase data to hold them accountable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is a "long read," but that's because #climatescientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social covers so much ground here. Her quick history of environmental threats & human (sometimes superhuman) efforts to overcome them is perfect for this moment. I highly recommend reading for the lessons we should relearn.

Charlie Kirk Was Murdered. Political Violence Is Surrender. The shooting of Charlie Kirk at a Utah college today is a tragedy that endangers our democracy.

Heartfelt & heartbreaking. @renewdemocracy.bsky.social CEO Uriel Epshtein weaves together the personal tragedy inflicted on the Kirk family with the national horror of our descent into whatever place this is where we find ourselves. www.thenextmove.org/p/charlie-ki...

So long as the US is waging war based on American causes of death, fast-food execs better watch out. "We estimated that excess weight was responsible for more than 1300 excess deaths per day (nearly 500,000 per year)..." Don't tell President Hamburglar.
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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It

With the US embracing #warcrimes as foreign policy, fast-food execs may want to avoid traveling in international waters, given this in The Lancet: "We estimated that excess weight was responsible for more than 1300 excess deaths per day (nearly 500,000 per year)..."
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

Not just #climatescience. It's all #science.

"Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'"

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Because cult members always sacrifice their children to the whims of the cult leader sooner or later. And they crossed that line long ago. Access Hollywood, if not before.

Trump’s Blockage of Offshore Wind Was Years in the Making | Atmos Trump has a longstanding vendetta against offshore wind. It started with his golf course.

You need not dig far into any #Trump executive order to realize it's NEVER about policy, but ALWAYS about retribution for long-festering petty grievances. So it is with #windmills. But, though the grievances are petty, the retribution is often substantially harmful. atmos.earth/trumps-block...

#BigOil trashes the planet to extract every last penny of profit, then points to #CCSS to imply they're solving the #climatecrisis. It's like a domestic abuser who offers his victim a BandAid after a beating. Only you pay for the BandAids & they don't work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why Trump's move to undo climate regulations could put businesses at risk The Trump administration wants to revoke a key part of climate-related regulation to save businesses money. But many businesses worry it could cost them more.

Nice article about the DOE report and how the scientific community is responding

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The fix is in Judy Curry unwittingly spills the beans

You probably didn't (& may still not) think you need to know how to distinguish real science from a sham. But that sham is meant to unshackle the polluters & rob you & your family of the last environmental protections you have. From @andrewdessler.com: The fix is in
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Sadly, the visuals are far too familiar. Great job capturing firsthand perspective, though, for those who will never go there themselves.

This looks like 3/4ths of the new Mount Rushmore for the dark days of Trump. All they need now is a mountainside somewhere with formed with orange rock.

As someone who spent college years watching Ted Koppel report nightly on Americans taken hostage by the Iranian Islamic Revolution, I couldn't imagine a right-wing, regressive #theocracy would take over my own country. But the parallels are impossible to ignore for anyone not under the #MAGA spell.

Trump’s US Fossil Fuel Revival Nudges Global Emissions Higher A rise in greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels — particularly in the US — was a major factor in pushing global emissions higher in the first half, according to a report.

It's us. It's #fossilfuels. Trump didn't just sell out America when he made his election deal with #BigOil, he sold out the world. Fossil fuel operations drove 1H25 #co2emissions increase & the US accounted for more than half w/ +1.4%.

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Cleanview's @michael-thomas.bsky.social has an excellent piece in his #Distilled blog dispelling myths about a US shift from #renewablenenergy to #fossilgas. There's a reason places like Texas are meeting demand primarily with solar, wind, and batteries. Not gas. www.distilled.earth/p/america-is...

In the name of #trafficcalming, the town of Covington, GA, where I live, turned a nice residential thoroughfare into a deathtrap for #bicyclists by installing eight traffic islands that obliterated the meager #bikelanes we used to have. So much for #activetransportation or #completestreets. 😡

And the Trump administration wants to shut it all down. Insane.

But doesn't that cost us more? From Canary: "The U.S. is building power plants at a record pace; nearly all of those new plants will not emit carbon emissions; and, since #renewables and #batteries cost far less to operate than fossil fuel plants, they exert downward pressure on electricity costs."