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So 65 things about utility scale solar have to be personally approved by the interior secretary, but the oil and gas industry doesn't need to worry about methane emissions that are 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

August 2, Protesting fascism in Kent, Ohio

Who broke property taxes? How state actions shifted the burdens to communities Ohio state government enacted the state income tax after a crisis in property taxes caused a major school district to close. Today, though, reductions to the income tax and other state cutbacks have u...

Who broke property taxes? How state actions shifted burdens to communities
Ohio enacted the state income tax after a crisis in property taxes caused a major school district to close. Today w/reductions to income tax & other state cutbacks history is repeating itself
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/08...

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Private Companies Step up to Gather Weather Data for NOAA as Staffing Cuts Hobble Agency Forecasting - Inside Climate News WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all...

Several startups are launching balloons, drones, buoys and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all the gaps.

The only way through is together. Be good weird, and stand up for each other.

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment - Inside Climate News Environmentalists say the lack of public comment shows the administration’s disregard for maintaining public lands.

The Bureau of Land Management implemented four rules on Friday that create more leeway for oil and gas companies wanting to drill on public lands.

Bipartisan Ohio senators introduce community solar legislation Ohio State Senators Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario) and Kent Smith (D-Euclid) have introduced SB 231, bipartisan legislation that would establish a community

Ohio senators introduce legislation creating community energy programs-- including solar. Solar Power World: bit.ly/4msNA1n

Communities could generate power and revenue from solar, important if Ohio has an energy crisis.

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I was 6 when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967, so my whole conscious life has been enriched by its work.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.

This is so dumb it makes my head hurt

If this is the first administration fully immersed in AI, what does it mean that all its decisions are so terminally stupid?

Summer reading means summer learning. Learning expands hearts and minds-- and can change the world.

Check out our @saveohioparks.bsky.social book list:

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Freedom of speech, press and the ability to regulate fossil fuels and toxins are essential to American life.

Without democracy, we're cooked. Register now for this @commoncauseohio.bsky.social Article V webinar Aug. 7.

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Solar Is Liberation Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.

In a world of endless bad news, one huge possibility:
Solar can be Liberation

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Sun Day Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action.

We’re using this get fired up for Sun Day on September 21, 2025. A day of action, led by ordinary people all across the U.S. and beyond, to demand a clean energy future. Are you ready to join us? Sunday.earth

“The sun is rising on a clean energy age. Just follow the money. $2 trillion went into clean energy last year – that’s $800 billion more than fossil fuels, and up almost 70% in ten years.” 💸

🗣️ Last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a special address that made one thing very clear - clean energy is transforming the world and is unstoppable. 👇 All we need now, is an unstoppable movement to keep powering us into a solar-powered future. 🧵 Here's what he had to say:

Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

U.S. Dept. of Energy Climate Working Group claims climate change not so urgent and seeks public comment for 30 days. Full text here: bit.ly/46t3DaG

Amazing that five appointees can conclude so swiftly on a topic scientists have studied for 30+ years.

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Ohio electric bills likely to keep going up after latest PJM auction • Ohio Capital Journal Ohioans can expect their electric bills to keep going up. Last year's auction to ensure the grid operator serving Ohio could meet demand saw capacity prices shoot up more than 830%. In the most recent...

Ohioans' electric bills could rise 1.5 to 5% next year. @nckevns.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3IRbZPG

Renewable power is waiting to get on the grid. PUCO, OOGA, @govmikedewine.bsky.social and Ohio GOP work in tandem-- but not for us.

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Third Act Creatives is asking folks to help create a list of favorite environmental and democracy movies by filling out this form. Feel free to add as many films that speak to your heart as you can think of:
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Advocates: Energy auction shows data center influence, grid operator's deficits - Maryland Matters The auction by multistate power grid operator PJM will cause most Marylanders’ monthly electric bills to go up $2 to $5 next summer on top of other costs -- a "death by a thousand cuts" that points up...

“Why should residential customers be responsible for costs being driven by some of the biggest and wealthiest corporations in the world?" "PJM policies have restricted supply, with a backlogged queue for energy projects, many of them renewable"

To fight the Trump administration's war on solar, we have to get rid of dumb permitting requirements for putting panels on your roof and balcony. Australia and the EU have done this--time for our mayors and state legislatures to follow
www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

Aussies and Europeans can get rooftop solar on their homes for a third the price of Americans—and one huge reason why is our crazy local permitting system.
(And Congress and the WH can’t keep us from changing this.)
www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Dan at a Third Act protest

“If meditating becomes a personal salvation project and we don’t engage in the world, we’re missing the essential part of becoming wise elders. Wise elders engage.”

The latest In My Third Act piece is with Dan Quinlan, who leads our Hope & Joy series.

Read it here: thirdact.org/blog/in-my-t...

Sun Day Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action.

Want to learn more about the power of clean energy and how you can join the movement to build more of it? Head to sunday.earth

Clean energy reduced fossil fuel power to its lowest level across the E.U. in 40yrs

🙌 The European Green Deal which helped to more than triple solar power and more than half coal power use since it launched, led to the E.U’s fossil fuel power usage dropping to its lowest level in 4 decades!

Raw sewage flows into Lake Erie at local beach A massive pipe at Edgewater Beach allows combined storm and sanitary sewage to flow into Lake Erie during heavy rains.

4.9 million gallons of raw sewage from a storm surge poured into Lake Erie near Cleveland, the equivalent of 7.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools. @cleveland.com : bit.ly/46w0DdB

We can't continue to keep soiling our nest, @govmikedewine.bsky.social.

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Solar and wind created a 61% reduction in coal use across the E.U.

In need of some solar-powered hope? Look no further than the past decade of the E.U’s energy transition 🌈👇 First up - thanks to solar and wind, coal power use reduced by 61% from 2014-2024 📉 (source: @ember-energy.org)