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POLITICO Pro: Solar group tallies 500-plus projects at potential risk from Trump attacks The projects represent a total 116 gigawatts of capacity.

"The Trump administration's continued attack against renewable energy puts 510 solar and storage projects across the country at risk," according to new analysis from the Solar Energy Industries Association shared with Kelsey Tamborrino: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... 🔌💡

what’s funny is that billions in investments are being rejected every week by communities who don’t want this “economic growth”

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

'Our government is about to sign a "license to kill" wildlife and no one is talking about it' Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere?

Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere? 

I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill ⬇️
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Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year.

Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.

✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.

Starmer’s tariff pact with Trump back in May was lauded by MPs and the media. But now we get into the detail.
 
Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.
 
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

🚨🚨 #Starmer government has just made one more step in throwing away any climate credentials it had - it has just awarded #Drax a further four years subsidies as the UK's biggest carbon emitter

@dalevince.com
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social

Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.

And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠

The UK’s biggest carbon emitter & world’s biggest tree burner will be able to continue harming forests, the climate, wildlife & communities, with subsidies paid via our electricity bills.
It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests

- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!

My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.

The world took his theory as gospel.

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The cover of the November 2025 issue of British Birds, with a Little Ringed Plover sheltering its chicks

The latest report from the RBBP, Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2023, is out now in British Birds. It reports on the 104 species and races of rare breeding birds recording breeding, or showing signs of breeding, in 2023. Read the summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #ornithology #ukbirds 🧵[1/15]

The fall of the CBS News climate team David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

The fall of the CBS News climate team

- David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social

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Almost a full house for this afternoon's talk from @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social so reserve your seat now, or join us online: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

Indiana Jones, Han Solo, and Dr. Richard Kimble call Donald Trump the greatest criminal in history for his attacks on science and climate policy.

Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...

Saying a single year exceeding 1.5°C warming doesn't mean the Paris Agreement has failed provides as much reassurance as the captain of the Titanic telling passengers that there is an important difference between 'sinking' and 'sunk'.

www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

A photo of Adelita Grijalva with text that reads, "Breaking news: Adelita Grijalva now holds longest wait to be sworn in of any House special election winner in decades."

37 days after she won her race, Republicans are STILL refusing to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

Will FSC act on the billion-dollar fraud at its heart? Crucial vote at key conference next week will determine future of world’s largest green label

🚨FSC is facing its “last call” to tackle a billion-dollar fraud crisis

Our new analysis suggests that $10-$30bn of fraudulently certified goods are being sold each year

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📢📢Bottom line: until GGR policy is decoupled from fossil and aviation interests, we’re not solving the problem — we’re subsidising it.

#CCS #BECCS #GGR #ClimateCrisis #NetZero #Drax #Aviation

YouTube video by Women Leading on Climate Christiana Figueres on keeping 1.5°C Alive | Women Leading on Climate

New podcast: Women Leading on Climate, hosted by @cathmckenna.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSud...

Ban the Butt: Why it’s time to stub out cigarette filters for good Cigarettes make up around two-thirds of all litter, despite only 12% of people smoking. What steps need to be taken to protect the planet?

I explain why we should ban cigarette filters, which are pure "healthwashing", rather "greenwashing" option of banning plastic ones in favour of "biodegradable" ones, which are still hugely polluting.

Let's not let #BigTobacco get away with this!
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Divers in Orkney have told me their seabed is being destroyed. Scallop dredging is turning vibrant marine habitats into lifeless deserts.

I have called for an urgent ban on scallop dredging in Orkney waters.

It was a pleasure to host a @OpenSeas event at Parliament

#ScotlandSeas #ScottishGreens

🎉Historic Court win🎉

The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by
@amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4

#GoodNews - government amendment defeated. And they shouldn't be able to restore in Commons because brought in so late in process
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1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...