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Colorado co-ops to Trump: Let us close our aging coal plant Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers.

Two Colorado electric co-ops are the first utilities to challenge the Trump admin's push to force coal plants to stay open, arguing DOE's must-run order for Craig Unit 1 imposes unreasonable costs on their members and could force cheaper solar offline:
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After Trump’s clean-energy clawback, tribes ‘turn and face the storm’ The administration ripped away hundreds of millions of dollars for clean energy projects on tribal lands. Now tribes are fighting to salvage their work.

"Across the country, tribal clean energy groups that have had federal funding taken away by the Trump administration are struggling with similar challenges — and looking for ways to salvage the work they’ve already begun," writes @jeffstjohn.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli... 🔌💡

After Trump’s clean-energy clawback, tribes ‘turn and face the storm’ The administration ripped away hundreds of millions of dollars for clean energy projects on tribal lands. Now tribes are fighting to salvage their work.

The Trump administration has ripped away hundreds of millions of dollars for tribal clean energy projects. But the fight to salvage that work is underway — and tribes say the work can yield dividends for tribes and clean energy investors alike:
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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."
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North Carolina may use batteries to give new life to old solar farms A Duke Energy proposal backed by clean energy groups would let older solar farms renew their expiring contracts on favorable terms — if they build storage.

This is a big deal for North Carolina—and a model other states and regions could follow. Utilities can't build new capacity fast enough to keep up with new load. Adding batteries to existing solar already connected to the grid is a no-brainer... right?
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EV charging keeps expanding despite Trump The U.S. added a record number of public electric-vehicle fast chargers last year, keeping up with demand from growing number of EV owners.

Trump and Republicans have declared war on EVs. But new data shows public fast-charging grew at a record pace last year, and those chargers are more reliable and more frequently used than ever—a sign the country is matching charging supply to demand:
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Trump suffers clean-energy grant, offshore wind losses It started with an order to restore climate funding for blue states, and ended today with yet another judge saying Trump can't halt offshore wind…

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Massachusetts tries a market for distributed energy to tame grid costs National Grid’s new marketplace seeks batteries, EV chargers, and other distributed energy resources to help relieve stressed grid circuits. Here’s how it…

Solar, batteries, EV chargers and other distributed energy resources can defer costly grid upgrades — if utilities can match DERs to grid needs. In Massachusetts, National Grid is using UK startup Piclo's "energy flexibility" marketplace to do it: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
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After Helene, rural North Carolina turns to solar and battery hubs More than a year after the storm’s devastation, clean-energy microgrids are springing up in remote areas thanks to a program that could become a national…

Elizabeth Ouzts has a great story out today on the solar-and-battery powered resilience hubs springing up in the Hurricane Helene-ravaged Blue Ridge Mountains region. Emergency backup power that also saves on monthly electric bills — what's not to like?
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It’s Sundowning in America A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose

It’s Sundowning in America
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The President of the United States Has Lost His Mind Donald Trump is literally hurtling us toward World War III over GREENLAND. Something has broken in his brain, and we have to talk about it.

The President of the United States Has Lost His Mind
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Affordability is scrambling energy politics in Massachusetts Everyone agrees that the state has an energy bill crisis. But there is little consensus on why — or how to fix the increasingly acute problem.

Thanks to Sarah Shemkus for a clear-eyed explanation of Massachusetts' energy cost inflation challenges — and for making clear that scapegoating renewables for high and rising energy costs only distracts from the work required to contain those costs:
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Imagine if you escaped Communism, found a strange new home halfway around the world … and then this BS.

The Wrath of Stephen Miller The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:

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This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries Startup David Energy is giving batteries to its New York City customers to help them reduce hefty demand charges on their monthly utility bills.

Can backup batteries plugged into heavy power-using appliances help curb utility bills and balancing the grid? Check out this DIY project from @davidenergy.bsky.social and Black Seed Bagels in Brooklyn — no wiring or interconnection required.
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Chart: How the US electricity mix changed last year Solar and coal were up, and gas, surprisingly, was down. Here are the numbers behind a wild year for the U.S. power sector.

Even with Trump stooges cooking the books for his big fossil fuel donors, renewables still won — cheaper and cleaner. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter got a Trump pardon. Now he wants one for another notorious San Diego son of Washington. Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography.

Lot to unpack—

"Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter got a Trump pardon....Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography."

Trump’s plan to make data centers pay for power plants has big flaws Mid-Atlantic governors joined the White House to push grid operator PJM to make tech giants pay for new "baseload" power. But experts are skeptical.

The Trump administration wants grid operator PJM to force data centers to pay $15 billion for “baseload” power plants. Experts warn the plan is unworkable, and that clean energy and batteries are what can be added fast enough to curb skyrocketing costs:
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The Trump administration just laundered its bogus energy affordability talking points through Politico’s White House team Despite extensive evidence to the contrary, the White House wants us to think it cares about energy affordability. Based on the Trump administration's actions over the past year, don’t believe the spi...

@justingerdes.bsky.social is right - this is terrible reporting from Politico:
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Disputes over clean energy may doom Wisconsin data center bills Democrats and Republicans want safeguards against rising power costs. But clashing visions for how data centers should use renewables stand in the way.

It's a shame to see Wisconsin's attempt at commonsense policies to contain harms of unchecked data center speculative development undone by a Republican-introduced poison pill that all renewable energy used to power data centers must be built on-site...
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22GW of renewables thwarted or in limbo under Trump ‘blockade’ An Interior Department memo is hampering wind and solar on public lands. It’s one of many federal actions slowing the build-out of cheap, clean energy.

Great story by @mariagallucci.bsky.social on how Trump forcing all Department of Interior reviews of clean energy projects to get personal approval from DOI Secretary Doug Burgum has stifled 22GW of development in the midst of an energy crisis:
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Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins? A federal judge ruled last year that the tech giant had cheated publications out of ad revenue. Now those publications want their money back.

"Big Tech platforms didn’t just out-compete media organizations for the bulk of the advertising-revenue pie. They also cheated them out of much of what was left over, and got away with it," writes @giladedelman.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...