Laurie Caruvana Martin

The DOE has an incredible history &decades of work marked by integrity & innovation, now rapidly dismantled under Trump. The "climate assessment" follows the "Resource Adequacy Report" that asserted (for fossil fuels) that without “radical change” power outages would increase a hundredfold by 2030.

Reuters recent brilliant reporting on wind & solar only topped by the simplicity of, well, see for yourself...
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Landmark air-pollution lab under threat from Trump cuts — can it be saved? The US government is shutting down a state-of-the-art facility that has provided data to inform health and environment regulations for decades.

"The decision has sparked alarm in the research community that relies on the lab for its work, which scientists say cannot be replicated anywhere else in the United States."
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"The measure, according to a group of Princeton University researchers called the REPEAT Project, would drain more than $1 trillion from the U.S. economy in less than a decade....The average annual household electricity bill would be pushed up more than $270 after 10 years, the group found.

Clean energy cash gushing into red states puts GOP senators in a bind Hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on red-state projects are jeopardized by Trump’s sweeping tax bill, which will face intense lobbying in the Senate.

IRA Job creation: "Forty-seven new facilities in the state...could create about 20,000 new jobs, the data shows. Now, analysts...say, such projects could collapse or relocate abroad. The cuts also threaten the stability of the power grid, which is heavily reliant on solar and wind power."

Trying to understand the Net Zero Banking Alliance's (NBZA) shift to less stringent standards for reducing the financed emissions from high-carbon sectors. Moving from requirements to recommendations does little to help keep us from warming above 1.5C or reaching net zero by 2050.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare.

👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

The International Energy Agency projects power demand from data centers to double by 2030, driven by growth in AI-focused data centers.

The largest planned AI & crypto data centers are expected to consume the same power as 5M homes. Under Trump, coal will power this increased power demand. S. 1475, introduced in Congress last week, would require a fee if the center exceed a new federal emission standards. Call your legislators!