Need a little inspiration? Here are five things I learned from touring a house in California that generates more energy than it uses. @npr.org audio is up now too!
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Need a little inspiration? Here are five things I learned from touring a house in California that generates more energy than it uses. @npr.org audio is up now too!
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has laid off more than 100 employees at the nation's primary mental health agency.
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After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
11.10.2025 17:02 β π 515 π 128 π¬ 6 π 2The Forest Service says staff that organize timber sales are essential, so logging national forests continues through the shutdown, even as hundreds of thousands of other workers are furloughed. www.opb.org/article/2025...
11.10.2025 17:03 β π 42 π 32 π¬ 0 π 0Can we talk? Reach me via encrypted message at jeffbradynews.31 on Signal or jbrady@npr.org.
10.10.2025 20:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are looking for confirmations, documents, tips -- reach me via encrypted message at jeffbradynews.31 on Signal.
10.10.2025 20:18 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0"Nebraska is the only state with exclusively publicly owned utilities providing power."
10.10.2025 17:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.
Was that really it? Turns out: No.
@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.
Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today.
The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.
Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.
08.10.2025 11:38 β π 744 π 163 π¬ 43 π 13The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
07.10.2025 12:07 β π 636 π 368 π¬ 50 π 31The last coal-fired power plant in New England, Merrimack Station, has stopped running.
With the closure of that facility, the region is poised to become the first in the United States without a coal plant on its grid.
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It's been four years since I took the gas stove controversy into an environmental epidemiologist's home to measure NO2 pollution from preparing a meal. The @npr.org story still holds up: www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1...
07.10.2025 11:06 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0"Reacting to this would require me to waste my time watching it, and like the millions of Americans who have tuned out from SNL, I have more entertaining things to do - like watch paint dry," White House Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told me.
05.10.2025 21:23 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1The Trump administration announced Wednesday night that it is revoking $7.6 billion in funding for clean-energy projects in 16 Democratic-leaning states, including a $1 billion cut to the Pacific Northwestβs multi-state hydrogen hub.
03.10.2025 03:06 β π 35 π 32 π¬ 6 π 2President Trump is meeting with his budget director, Russ Vought, about what additional cuts to make during the shutdown, and the president says his targets are partisan.
02.10.2025 23:05 β π 306 π 113 π¬ 69 π 31An update on whatβs known about cancelled Energy Department projects in Colorado from @ishan-thakore.bsky.social @cprnews.bsky.social. Untangling this has been a group effort among pub radio climate reporters. www.cpr.org/2025/10/02/e...
02.10.2025 22:34 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"This isn't a functioning democracy any longer when β in the middle of a high stakes funding fight β the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition," said Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut
02.10.2025 18:23 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0βThe so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.β www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
02.10.2025 05:29 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1"A top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on 'how they look.'β
29.09.2025 15:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From @jpradio.bsky.social @romanbattaglia.com β another example of why we need reporters everywhere.
26.09.2025 22:38 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"A judge is considering Duke Energy's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by the town of Carrboro... claiming the utility giant engaged in a public deception campaign for decades to dismiss concerns around climate change" - @celllyg.bsky.social @wunc.org www.wunc.org/environment/...
26.09.2025 19:48 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Don't sleep on the good news. This quarter, China will sell more electric cars than the US will sell all cars of any kind (EVs or gas-guzzling pick-up trucks).
The rise of EVs in developing countries from Nepal to Costa Rica is an extraordinary story. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thank you for the gift link!
23.09.2025 14:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The world is producing too much coal, oil and natural gas to meet the targets set 10 years ago under the Paris Agreement, according to a new report led by the Stockholm Environment Institute. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...
22.09.2025 10:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In southern California, one such house has existed for more than a decade. NPR's Jeff Brady visited the "Green Idea House" in Hermosa Beach, California.
22.09.2025 01:15 β π 441 π 81 π¬ 4 π 4The dog park is empty when the Eagles are playing (the football team, not the band).
21.09.2025 19:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In southern California, one such house has existed for more than a decade. NPR's Jeff Brady visited the "Green Idea House" in Hermosa Beach, California. From @jeffbradynews.bsky.social
20.09.2025 18:47 β π 314 π 70 π¬ 5 π 4Cruz's spokesperson "provided NPR with a response from ChatGPT that reads, in part: 'What's not publicly demonstrated (so far) is a direct, documented grant-to-lawsuit pipeline.'" - @michaelcopley1.bsky.social @npr.org
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Would you mind sharing your quotes with me? Panels are a lot cheaper now than when these were installed but there are many scams. Weβve seen financed systems marked up significantly. My email is jbrady@npr.org
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