Kevin Mock

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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🚨2025 #RedList Update🚨

We have reassessed 1,360 bird species. Out of the 11,185 species assessed worldwide: 

⚠️11.5% are globally threatened.

📉61% have declining populations.

But restoring habitats will help put these species on a path to recovery.🌱

Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/red-list-upd...

But we were just told that he was working 24/7!

Q: Jeffries says Trump is in the 'presidential witness protection program' since the shutdown has begun. Your reaction?

LEAVITT: The president is literally working around the clock right now. He literally works 24/7

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

As co-founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force, I take no joy in saying "I told you so."

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🚨 A Message to Schumer: Respect the primary. Back the nominee. Support Zohran Mamdani.

We’re ALL IN to elect Zohran Mamdani and the movement is growing.

Add your name to demand Schumer and Democratic leaders stand Mamdani!

act.ourrevolution.com/signup/schum...

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought Is Trump’s Shutdown Hero. His Neighbors Think His Work Is “Abhorrent.” – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Even funnier is when Fetterman ran for Senate in 2016 he was courting the DSA nomination (and was denied)

www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...

Similarly Page Cognetti (current mayor of Scranton) running for PA 8

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Update: Mike Johnson has now extended the House recess through Oct. 13.

If he sticks to his refusal to seat Democrat Adelita Grijalva, that means she'll go at least three weeks between winning her special election and getting sworn in.

Other special election winners this year waited just one day.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

In Europe, where they know how to have protests and strikes to get results for righteous causes…

While this poll is showing the current administration underwater, 90% of Republicans in PA are still supporting them 😞

How many examples of this have we had in the past few years and it’s always from the Right…

Constellation Energy will be required to fund $340 million in environmental programs in order to receive a permit to keep Conowingo dam operational.

Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were 5 years ago Major U.S. utilities earn an ​“F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.

Major U.S. utilities earn an ​“F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.

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#Climate #Utilities #Research #Science #GreenSky #News

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign.

Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The U.S. Is Forfeiting the Clean-Energy Race to China As President Trump doubles down on fossil fuels, the U.S. and China offer competing visions for the future of energy.

The WSJ speaking: "America has given up its effort to challenge China in the renewable-energy industries that increasingly power the global economy."

Schumer Says Dems Will Demand a Halt to White House’s Spending Freezes After All Congressional Democrats are expected to release their own, alternative continuing resolution today,...

Schumer Says Dems Will Demand a Halt to White House’s Spending Freezes After All talkingpointsmemo.com/news/schumer...

National Trust for Historic Preservation honors Lubert-Adler’s Battery project The long-shuttered PECO plant has been transformed into apartments, offices, a hotel and a gym.

The Battery won a major award today from the National Trust for Historic Preservation www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together.

Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.

Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open. The Department of Energy says Trump's "energy emergency" and voracious data centers warrant keeping the plant outside of Philadelphia running.

Trump admin using illegal emergency orders to force PA utility customers to pay more for an uneconomical gas plant that was scheduled to be shut down grist.org/justice/nobo...

trump is very unpopular, in both absolute and comparative terms. it should be easy for any reasonably popular dem figures to use this fact to drag Rs down in 2026/beat Vance in 2028 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

Albatrosses are majestic birds known for soaring thousands of miles over the ocean, but they’re in trouble.

A new paper led by BAS scientists has found that the number of breeding pairs of albatrosses in South Georgia has decreased - one species by 66% in 40 years!

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The state that canceled your bus is wasting $1.6B on a polluting boondoggle | Will Bunch Pa. officials promised a Shell plastics plant was the future, awarding a $1.6B tax break to an economic dud and pollution nightmare.

Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years

Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...

Pa. Senate Republicans are proposing two years of spending for mass transit. But SEPTA says it would make things worse. The move likely means that the state’s seven-week budget impasse continues.

This is the NJ Transit trap and it's a *bad* idea =>

"HARRISBURG — Senate Republicans are considering pulling $592 million over two years from money designated for ongoing or planned transit capital projects to help fund SEPTA operations" -- www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Les températures extrêmes attribuables au changement climatique ont entraîné une réduction moyenne de 25 à 38 % des populations d’oiseaux tropicaux depuis 1950, d’après une étude publiée le 11 août dans la revue Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/D9c

Transformation of North Broad Continues as Two Projects Progress - OCF Realty

Love to see new apartment buildings and cultural institutions go up practically on top of the subway line in North Philadelphia, but can't help but wonder what could've been if the recently passed zoning reforms had been enacted a decade ago 🤔🤔🤔
www.ocfrealty.com/naked-philly...