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The last New York City mayoral candidate to secure over 1 million votes was John Lindsay in 1969. He will be the seventh New York City mayor ever to receive more than 1 million votes.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

There is truly nothing quite like carbon capture and storage (CCS) when it comes to prolonging the use of fossil fuels. For decades it has served as the high-emitting industry’s unkillable fantasy, theoretically capturing CO2 emissions and storing them underground to avoid damage to the atmosphere. There is one single tune playing on repeat throughout the entire history of every flavour of this technology: massive promise, then total failure, followed by more massive promise, on repeat. The latest update from the Global CCS Institute (GCCSi) puts that capture capacity at about 64 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MTCO2-e) in 2024, which is about 0.17% of the world’s total emissions in the same year. But CCS is valuable for the fossil fuel supply and demand it enables, not the climate damage it avoids.

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Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece: on how Google's shallow CCS gamble marks a moment where the ancient rituals of fossil industry greenwashing are passed down to big tech and its obscene expansionist energy greed!!

A lil thread for ya

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...

Text is a screenshot of a social media post from DoorDash that says: @DoorDash • 7h The federal government shutdown threatens SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans this week. We're launching an Emergency Food Response to help: delivering 1 million free meals through 300+ food banks, and waiving delivery and service fees for 300k grocery orders for SNAP recipients. It's a stopgap, not a solution. But help is needed now. Read more: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/sna...

This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝

Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.

The Climate Center Action Fund The Climate Center Action Fund works to empower and elect champions for a climate-safe future in California.

If you haven't yet, and you live in #California, Vote #YesonProp50! #Democracy

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✨On October 30, join us for a webinar featuring California legislators, environmental justice leaders, and clean energy experts. We’ll discuss the future of refineries, CA’s Cap and Invest program, nature-based solutions, and clean energy. Register now: https://loom.ly/rJW_vRk

Corporate utilities are making California’s electricity more expensive Last week, Governor Newsom vetoed three common-sense bills to advance affordable, clean energy. That included AB 740 (Harabedian), a low-cost, non-controversial bill co-sponsored by The Climate Center that passed the state legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support. AB 740 and two other bills that were vetoed (AB 44 and SB 541) aimed to expand the state’s ... Read more

🚨 From @elliecohen.bsky.social: Corporate utilities in California are killing local, affordable, clean energy solutions to protect their profits at our expense. Learn more: https://loom.ly/1qK2Hr4

As of October 17, the daily global surface temperatures anomaly was 1.62°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.

According to the recent GFS forecast, it looks like 1.9°C may be possible by the end of the month. Stay tuned!

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DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo.
Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

#NoKingsOct18
#SanFrancisco
50,000+ strong!!

#NoKingsOct18

#NoKingsOct18 #SanFrancisco
50,000+ strong!!

Majority of Carbon Credits From Tarnished Project Deemed Bogus After a two-year probe, findings by the world's largest offset certifier raise pressing questions for the struggling carbon markets.

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg:

Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits.

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⚡️🌎#California -- #YesOnProp50!!

Corporate utilities are making California’s electricity more expensive Last week, Governor Newsom vetoed three common-sense bills to advance affordable, clean energy. That included AB 740 (Harabedian), a low-cost, non-controversial bill co-sponsored by The Climate Center...

Why did @gavinnewsom.bsky.social veto 3 bills last week that would advance affordable, #cleanenergy -- #AB740 (cosponsored by @theclimatecenter.bsky.social), #AB44 & #SB541? The bills goals: cut electricity bills & expand #California's use of local clean energy.

theclimatecenter.org/community-en...

Still awaiting signature - commonsense legislation supported by over 90% of CA voters that will make sure utilities don't pass the costs of their lobbying and image polishing into energy bills.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: let’s save people money and sign #AB1167!

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✈️ NATO again scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian planes over the Baltics — three times in a week, - LRT

Su-30, Su-35, MiG-31 fighter jets, as well as An-12 and An-72 aircraft, were spotted in the skies over the Baltic Sea, heading from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Ford and GM will keep the $7,500 EV tax credit alive beyond the deadline Chevy, Cadillac, GMC, and Ford’s electric vehicles will still be eligible for the credit after the September 30 deadline. The...

Great news-- Ford and GM will keep the $7500 tax credit for new #EVs through leasing for another few months!

Take advantage of it while you can. Once you own a clean #EV you'll never want to go back to a polluting and expensive-to-maintain gas car.

electrek.co/2025/09/30/f...

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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Okay this might be a crazy idea but… what what if when the gov shuts down on Oct 1 students walk out of school, and everyone who can calls out of work.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

California’s 2025 legislative session closes with some climate progress The California Legislature ended its 2025 session on Saturday. All in all, despite some setbacks, we made more progress than I thought possible.  I am very proud of the collaborative leadership role The Climate Center played, especially in light of the federal administration’s efforts to dismantle climate and clean energy policies and slash funding. The ... Read more

➡️ Read @elliecohen.bsky.social on climate progress in the #CALeg, including cap and trade reform, the passage of #SB279 for expanded composting, and #AB740 for accelerating the use of virtual power plants.

More 👉 https://loom.ly/4bcxHGM

One of the most dangerous issues we have to deal with as a nation is that Trump and his regime lie about every single thing

Studies confirm that a small tax definitely helps curb plastic pollution Plastic bags are everywhere, and too many slip into rivers and onto beaches. A new analysis finds that policies that either charge a small fee per bag or prohibit them outright cut the share of bags found during shoreline cleanups...

Studies confirm that a small tax definitely helps curb plastic pollution
->Earth.com | #PlasticPollution | More info from EcoSearch