Allyn West

After 9 months, the Trump administration has failed to deliver on repeated campaign promises to cut electricity prices in half. Instead, bills this year have increased in 47 states, a new congressional report finds, leading 76% of Americans to say they’ve become a source of stress in their lives. This week, the country voted like it. In Georgia, where a Republican-dominated utility commission raised rates 6 times in 2 years, two Democratic newcomers pledging “aggressive action” to bring prices back down and give consumers more choices routed incumbents. In Virginia, the surge of data centers has burdened customers with $2 billion more in surprise costs; in New Jersey, where the Trump administration has gotten in the way of more than a few long-planned offshore wind energy and transmission projects and threatened to permanently block any others, prices have soared almost 4 times higher than the rest of the country. Both states elected new governors who made sure voters knew they’d take on a problem the Trump administration has only made worse. “Something has to be done,” one longtime New Jersey resident said ahead of Election Day. His electricity bill has climbed to nearly $400 a month. “The cheapest energy today is also the cleanest and fastest to deploy,” EDF’s Joanna Slaney said, “and that’s what America needs.”

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These are some of his strongest actions

FEMA 'our biggest obstacle' as Helene recovery drags on, NC disaster leaders tell lawmakers The roughly 9% of Helene damage costs covered by the federal government so far for North Carolina pales in comparison to other large storms including Hurricanes Katrina, Maria and Sandy, when the fede...

A year after Helene, North Carolina has still received barely 9% of the federal support it requested to help with not even half the $60 billion in damages.

“Has everyone been fed?’’ North Carolina, one year after Hurricane Helene Hurricane Helene ravaged proudly independent mountain towns in North Carolina in September 2024. While local heroes work to exhaustion to make their families and communities whole, aid promised by Pre...

In January 2024, President Trump visited Asheville to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. He said, "I’ll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support you need to quickly recover and rebuild.” But his actions have kept all but a fraction of the support they need from arriving.

I don't post here very much but that doesn't mean I don't want to

Please send me a DM if you'd like to chat on the record about this? I was in Asheville, Canton and Black Mountain last week and have lots of questios about the recovery.

Houston’s gone through hell. Why is Trump’s EPA denying climate change danger? The Trump administration’s proposal to revoke EPA’s endangerment finding is going to make everyday life along the Gulf Coast more expensive, more dangerous

You know it’s bad when they let you cuss in the headline

The Trump administration can try to hide the science and move to rescind the EPA's foundational Endangerment Finding, but @envdefensefund.bsky.social's new map shows them exactly where the danger from climate change can be found: everywhere.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Interesting public health strategy for this administration to stop putting fake dyes in candy and then let more toxic chemicals into the air

First it was 68 coal plants. Now President Trump wants to exempt even more toxic polluters, from more coal plants to petrochemical facilities. This will result in more cancer-causing pollution. More communities at risk. EDF will vigorously oppose this damaging action. www.edf.org/media/presid...

The insurance industry knows risk — and climate change is changing it, @whitehouse.senate.gov says.

Happy Pride Month!

Even after the budget and program cuts, layoffs, and misinformation, it was reassuring to see FEMA at the farmers market this morning offering to coordinate help for anyone who’d suffered damages from the latest swarm of tornadoes

I don’t know the name of the neighborhood, but it’s in Indianapolis

This is a good bike lane

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Tonight we're having asbestos and a puddle of rainwater

There's plenty of rolls of old Astroturf you could use for seating for dinner parties

Who better to make a quiet life in a condemned relic most people believe should be demolished and turned into parking

Saving the Astrodome: The Journey Continues - AIA Houston Photo Credit: Astrodome Conservancy Want to know more about what is happening to the Astrodome? Join us for a presentation by Beth Wiedower Jackson  Executive Director of the Astrodome Conservancy. […...

The Astrodome has been sitting and waiting so long that my credit score is finally good enough that I might just buy it and live there

I stopped falling asleep so easily after maybe 175 pages in

It’s been like this for so many years I’m convinced now it *is* the fix, it’s not waiting to be fixed

Help! I Learned the Wrong Lesson After My Post About Wanting to Die Got Almost 300 Likes

Congestion Pricing: 💯

Lazy Journalists: “But not everyone was happy.”

NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue - NASA Three new sonifications — each with a connection to black holes — have been released using data from NASA’s Chandra, Webb, IXPE, and other telescopes.

Someone at work compliments others by calling them "rising stars" but I like to think of myself as a black hole that has been taught how to sing

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

What are the odds the Mavs trade Cooper Flagg in 2032 for the exclusive rights to try to persuade Anthony Davis to come out of retirement

Whenever I try wearing capris I feel like the queer giraffe Mark Twain knew America wasn’t ready for and ended up writing out of the final draft of “Huck Finn”

Help! My 9-Year-Old’s Unboxing Videos Aren’t Turning Out Nearly As Funny As She Knows I Expect