Seth Nelson

Seth Nelson

@sethtnelson.bsky.social

comms director at @evergreenaction.bsky.social, i.e., trying to explain why raising your energy bill on purpose is bad politics | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

568 Followers 852 Following 86 Posts Joined May 2023
1 week ago
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The Oilman Who Pushed Trump to Go All In on Fossil Fuels

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

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1 week ago

I guess buying Trump so he would:

➡️ put your cronies at DOE & DOI
➡️ have them issue the drilling permits you always wanted
➡️ relentlessly attack your clean energy competition
➡️ give you a bunch of new tax giveaways
➡️ kill standards you don't like

...isn't enough for Big Oil execs anymore 🤷‍♂️

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1 month ago

a coal industry group invented a phony award for Trump

in return he's forcing the military to subsidize them, while throwing wads of cash at a bunch of dying plants to keep them on life support

I guess abusing power to pay off the corporations who bankrolled your campaign is just a wednesday now

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2 months ago
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Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

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2 months ago
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Trump literally told a room of Big Oil CEOs last Friday that his “goal is to not let any windmill be built.” He’s trying to kill wind projects that would provide enough cheap, clean energy to power 2.5 million homes.

His promise to cut energy prices in half was a lie from day one.

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4 months ago

We have to start treating high energy bills as the emergency families know they are, which is what this is all about.

Check out our colleagues and partners talking about the actions state leaders can take to cut bills at an event at the New Jersey Statehouse today👇 www.youtube.com/live/SxlfSND...

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4 months ago

nooo, don't do it nooo [fades into the distance] 😀

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4 months ago

But sure, tell us again how it’s “unrealistic” to expect Republicans to care whether their constituents live or die after being forced to choose between paying the electric bill or their health-insurance premium.

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4 months ago
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New Report: Climate Harms to Health Are Widespread & Costly The climate crisis is burdening people across the U.S. with huge healthcare bills.

Heatwaves, wildfires, floods, hurricanes—every one made worse by the same party that denies the problem exists. The cost of health care will only keep rising because of climate-fueled natural disasters they refused to prevent.

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4 months ago
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Heat Deaths Have Doubled in the U.S. in Recent Decades, Study Finds (Published 2024)

And while they refuse to even negotiate in good faith, the climate crisis they’ve supercharged keeps driving up health costs, threatening hospital infrastructure, and sending hundreds of thousands of people to emergency rooms every year.

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4 months ago
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It wasn’t “unrealistic” when the GOP passed another multi-trillion tax cut $$$ for billionaires—triggering the largest spike in utility bills in history & ripping away health care from millions.

Dems are basically offering them an opportunity on a silver platter to clean up the crisis THEY created.

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5 months ago
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Trump’s Energy Price Hike: An Oil-Soaked Crusade of Political Retribution For Trump, punishing his opponents always comes first, no matter the price working families pay.

📈 @evergreenaction.bsky.social is tracking every move he makes that’s sending your energy bills through the roof in our Trump’s Energy Price Hike series.

Read my full breakdown of his latest sabotage spree here 👇 www.evergreenaction.com/press/trumps...

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5 months ago

Trump could be using his power to deliver affordable, reliable, American-made clean energy.

Instead, he’s waging an oil-soaked crusade of political retribution that’s as dirty as the fuels he’s propping up: corrupt, costly, and paid for by the American people.

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5 months ago

🧾 It all adds up.

Every tariff, every canceled projects, every fake investigation, every stop-work order adds up to the same result: higher bills, fewer jobs, and a dirtier, less reliable energy system.

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5 months ago

The relentless pace at which Trump is dismantling clean energy is all part of his oil-soaked crusade: a campaign of political retribution & payback for his Big Oil donors.

He’s propping up dirty, expensive fossil fuels to protect industry profits while working families pay more.

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5 months ago
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Trump admin blocks funds for farmers who want solar For two decades, thousands of farmers have installed money-saving solar panels with help from the federal REAP program. Trump’s USDA is choking off that…

Trump even ended a wildly-successful (and popular) program to help farmers install solar panels on their properties.

He didn't just strip farmers of a key source of savings & revenue––he’s choking off cheaper, more reliable power for rural communities. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

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5 months ago
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Trump admin blocks funds for farmers who want solar For two decades, thousands of farmers have installed money-saving solar panels with help from the federal REAP program. Trump’s USDA is choking off that…

Trump even ended a wildly-successful (and popular) program to help farmers install solar panels on their properties.

He's didn't just strip farmers of a key source of savings & revenue––he’s choking off cheaper, more reliable power for rural communities. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

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5 months ago

In the last two months, Trump also:

🤑 launched an all-of-government bailout for billionaire coal barons
⚡️ forced fossil fuel plants scheduled to retire to stay open (and costing ratepayers $ millions)
☀️ blocked renewable projects on federal lands

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5 months ago

❌ moved to revoke permits for two more offshore wind farms in development
⛴️ canceled hundreds of millions in port funding to support offshore wind development

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5 months ago

That ethos has defined every move he makes. In just one two week stretch, Trump:

💵 slapped tariffs on wind energy materials
🔐 opened a sham 'national security' investigation to pave the way for more
🛑 halted construction on a nearly-complete offshore wind farm

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5 months ago
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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weath...

Never mind that since he took office, household electric bills have climbed 10%, rising TWICE AS FAST as the cost of living.

For Trump, punishing his opponents always comes first, no matter the price working families pay. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

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5 months ago

The day after Trump and Republicans shut down the government, the White house gleefully launched another act of clean energy sabotage aimed squarely at states that didn't vote for him.

It was a perfect snapshot of Trump’s governing ethos: political retribution at all costs. 🧵

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6 months ago
Four-panel Anakin and Padmé meme. Top left: Anakin says, ‘we’re unleashing American energy dominance.’ Top right: Padmé smiles and asks, ‘so my electricity bills will drop, right?’ Bottom left: The image of Anakin staring silently is replaced by an image of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson staring silently. Bottom right: Padmé looks nervous and repeats, ‘my electricity bills will drop, right?’”

when he says "one big beautiful bill" but he means ur utility bill

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6 months ago
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Trump’s Energy Price Hike: “We’re Going to Get Blamed” (Because It’s Our Fault) And Trump's Energy Secretary is right—because basic math doesn’t lie. When you choke off new, low-cost sources of power while demand is skyrocketing, prices go up.

Trump’s energy agenda is clear:
🔺 Jack up prices 📈
🔺 Protect fossil fuel profits 💰
🔺 Undermine America’s power supply ⚡️

He promised affordability. He’s delivering the exact opposite.

Full breakdown from me @evergreenaction.bsky.social: www.evergreenaction.com/press/trumps...

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6 months ago

Just in the last MONTH Trump has:
❌ Gutted clean energy tax credits
❌ Tried to kill solar for 900,000 low-income homes
❌ Ignited a war on wind power
❌ Attacked private property rights to 🛑 new clean energy development
❌ Taken new regulatory actions that will ⬆️ gas prices

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6 months ago

Utilities have already requested $29B in rate hikes this year—more than DOUBLE this time last year.

All while Trump fast-tracks energy-hungry data centers and strangles the clean power needed to supply them.

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6 months ago
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Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say "This is a scandal" and "an indictment of the system" — but probably legal, one legal watchdog told POLITICO.

Why? Because Trump made another promise—this one to Big Oil.

In exchange for $1 billion in campaign cash, he pledged to gut environmental protections and hand out massive tax breaks. Six months in, that’s the only promise he’s kept. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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6 months ago
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Trump Energy secretary: ‘We’re going to get blamed’ for rising power prices — but they’re Democrats’ fault In an interview with POLITICO, Chris Wright insisted that the Trump administration’s efforts to stifle development of solar and wind power are not causing costs to spike.

Trump promised to cut energy prices in half. Instead, his policies are hiking bills across the country.

The math is simple: block cheap new clean energy while demand skyrockets → prices go up. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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6 months ago

Trump’s own Energy Secretary admitted the truth: “We’re going to get blamed.”

And he’s right. Trump’s war on clean energy is driving electricity bills up for working families—while padding fossil fuel profits. 🧵

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8 months ago

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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