@seattleccl.bsky.social
Mark your calendar for our April events:
Lunch 'n' Learn - April 5th 1:30-3:30 @ Stoup Brewing (Cap Hill)
Monthy National Call - April 12th 10AM @ cclusa.org/livestream
Seattle Chapter Meeting - April 16th 5:30PM @ Greenwood Library (or on Zoom -- message us for a link)
we're meeting tomorrow (and the wednesday following the CCL national meeting falling on the 2nd saturday of each month) at 5:30PM at the greenwood library! message us directly for a zoom link!
11.03.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The air pollution spike across s. England on 10 March is likely to have been caused by ammonia from animal ag in the Netherlands reacting with NOₓ from ICE & residential boilers. Both our individual diet choices & direction of ag EU subsidies are significant drivers of air pollution events (...)."
11.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 39 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2We are @cclusa.org's Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Action Team!
Our team seeks to create a space for those passionate about addressing the intersection of disability and climate. We welcome both members and allies of the disabled community.
Learn more at our LinkTree (linktr.ee/cclpersonswi...).
Reminder to sign up for the CCL Regional Conference happening February 21-23 in Vancouver, WA! Early-bird registration ends January 31st!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccl-greate...
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/63c3ceb2-5e30-44f4-bd39-cb40edafa4f8 The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril. As many as 80 new gas-fired power plants will be built in the US by 2030, said energy consultancy Enverus, adding 46 gigawatts of capacity — the size of the electricity system in Norway and nearly 20 per cent more than was added in the past five years. The capacity surge is expected to unfold during the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has vowed to keep fossil fuels at the centre of the US economy, and signals a reversal of earlier forecasts for natural gas capacity to fall in the next five years. “Gas is actually growing faster now, and in the medium term, than ever before,” said Corianna Mah, a research analyst at Enverus. The expansion will imperil Biden administration climate targets, which called for greenhouse gas emissions to fall by 50-52 per cent from 2005 levels by the end of the decade and the grid to be 100 per cent carbon-pollution free by 2035. “For natural gas to have a role in a decarbonised energy system, its emissions must be mitigated to the maximum extent possible,” said Armond Cohen, executive director at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental non-profit.
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/63c3ceb2-5e30-44f4-bd39-cb40edafa4f8 US gas power plants emitted more than 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide last year, up nearly 4 per cent in a year and the highest on record, according to data from Ember, an energy think-tank. None of the planned gas plants tracked by Enverus will come equipped with carbon capture systems. While the Biden administration required new facilities to include the technology starting in 2032, Trump is expected to scrap or weaken the rule. Wood Mackenzie and S&P Global Market Intelligence said US capacity growth in total could increase even more quickly, by 35 per cent and 66 per cent, respectively, over five years, compared with the buildout in the previous half decade.
"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril"
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Covering every congressional district. You can find your own: Citizens' Climate Lobby Chapters - Join UP and Join in: It's your climate, too. citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/ch... via @cclusa.org
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