Lisa Sorg

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump - Inside Climate News As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.

Chances are your electricity bills are way up. Here’s a look at how a typical bill has changed in each state during Trump’s first full year in office.

Cheniere Energy Received $370 Million IRS Windfall for Using LNG as ‘Alternative’ Fuel - Inside Climate News The country’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas benefited from what critics say is a questionable IRS interpretation of tax credits.

The IRS gave the largest U.S. LNG producer and exporter a $370 million refund for ‘alternative fuel’ tax credits that critics say it never should have received.

I know I shouldn’t engage w these texts but I always respond, “F**k off”

The panic attacks I’ve been intermittently experiencing over the past 24 hours? I’d say they are a normal response to the state of the world

My neighbor and friend died of cervical cancer. I was her main caregiver bc she didn’t have family around. It’s a horrible way to die.

When will Barron Trump enlist in the Marines and lay down his life for his country?
I'll wait.

Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame - Inside Climate News After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales’ future.

“Their future is now in doubt.” Decades of commercial whaling once drove whales to the point of near-extinction in the 19th and 20th century—now, climate change is threatening the future of the population.

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor - Inside Climate News U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to explain how it would mitigate environmental harms, including PFAS contamination.

After 3.5 yrs of opposition, the plan to dredge the Lower Cape Fear is d-e-a-d, at least for quite a while. Tons of PFAS-contaminated sand would have been excavated, placed on public beaches & bird islands, plus wetlands loss, shoreline erosion, the list goes on insideclimatenews.org/news/2502202...

cosplaying as a homeless person, geez-us

I consider myself a pacifist, but some people need punched in the face

I spent the afternoon interviewing a woman who fostered 60 children over the years, is now an enviro advocate, names all her chickens and a snapping turtle who lives by the pond, has a chick cemetery w flowers and a small angel statuary.
There are still kind people in the world.

Loosely Regulated Commercial Space Travel Poses An Environmental Threat A new study underscores growing unease about pollution from mostly unregulated commercial space activities.

A Falcon rocket crashing through the atmosphere left a massive metal pollution plume detected from Earth. Researchers say such contamination is rising rapidly as launch activity surges, and they warn that the atmosphere and climate could be harmed.

Climate Change Could Make This Horrific New Jersey Wildlife Disease Worse - Inside Climate News The Garden State is home to ranavirus, a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse. Scientists still aren’t sure what’s causing outbreaks and what the long-term effects might be, and rising temp...

15 years after a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse was first found in New Jersey, scientists are still unable to determine the cause of the ranavirus outbreaks and what the long-term consequences may be. But rising temperatures could be exacerbating the problem.

a satirical onion headline w a photo of rfk jr

The Kurse of Kudzu

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution - Inside Climate News Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from transportation fuels. The operations’ permits already have civil rights compl...

To offset transportation emissions, California is paying hog farms in North Carolina to turn manure into renewable gas. Although six NC farms are selling carbon credits to the other side of the country, the operations’ permits already have civil rights complaints against them.

Inject this straight into my veins. Great article, @dennispillion.bsky.social

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater - Inside Climate News The chemical, used in solvents, degreasers and some consumer products, is a likely carcinogen that can harm the liver and kidneys.

“Compliance with regulations and a desire to maintain or improve public health cannot be said to be a bad faith decision."
Wake judge rules vs Asheboro, says NCDEQ can limit amount of 1,4-dioxane-a likely carcinogen-- city discharges into drinking water supply.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

Chatham County just passed a temporary moratorium --up to a year-- on data centers/crypto mining

Yes, my dad also took one and well, let’s just say he would do better with a digital clock

Beloved C1 driver Luis Juaréz returns to Duke after court ruling Known for his mood-boosting rides and blasting music, Juaréz plans to return to work at Duke as a bus driver on Feb. 9 after a court ruling reinstated his legal status and work permit.

A Duke bus driver who was a Honduran with TPS was forced to leave his job last year after 19 years of service. Under a new judicial ruling, he is allowed to come back, but Duke initially attempted to pay him as though he was a new employee www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Sadly, my mom is in this camp. Beef tallow capsules and methylene blue and shoes whose soles “ground you to the earth”
Also no Tylenol or seed oils. And she threw a fit when the nurse asked her to draw a clock.

I’m not hopeless. I’m hope free. It means I no longer carry the burden of expectation or anticipation. Just put as much good into the world as possible for its own sake w/o waiting for a some miraculous turn of fortune

In the presence of "others"
The enablers themselves or the victims?

Expressing despair is a very "normal" reaction in this times

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations - Inside Climate News Equipped with both a biodigester to capture methane from hog waste and a system to spray what’s left of the feces and urine onto nearby farm fields, White Oaks Farm continues to pollute the surroundin...

Remember the hog #CAFO whose biodigester ruptured in 2022 and released millions of gallons of waste, liquified dead hogs and castoff deli meats, some of which reached a wetland?
It has a new owner, and the company already has 7 violations
insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...

EV Charging Program Faces the Axe in Budget Bill - Inside Climate News Legislation that could end the partial government shutdown would slash funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.

Lost in the discussion of the federal budget: The country’s largest EV charging program would be gutted.

As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues - Inside Climate News When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the proposal was rushed through without adequate protections. Last week, an oil...

As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues
A rig fell over onto the tundra as it was on its way to drill in ConocoPhillips’ winter exploration program.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2801202...

Imagine being the only remaining Little Debbie cake on the shelf at Food Lion right before a winter storm.
It would feel like being picked last for kickball.

YouTube video by ShuggieOtisVEVO Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23 (Audio)

Shuggie Otis wrote the original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbhI...