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Ameren shareholders reject anti-greenwashing proposal The rejected measure would've required Ameren to independently verify whether its climate targets align with the Paris Agreement.

Ameren shareholders denied a proposal that would have required them to independently verify if their climate targets align w/ the Paris Agreement. Evidence suggests Ameren's targets are inconsistent w/ the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. energyandpolicy.org/ameren-share...

Evergy leans into fossil fuels as it backtracks on climate commitments Evergy plans to delay the retirement of its coal plants, increase methane gas generation, and reduce new renewable energy generation.

This month, Evergy signaled plans to delay the retirement of its coal plants, increase planned methane gas generation & reduce and delay new renewable energy generation. These plans call Evergy's pledge to meet net-zero emissions by 2045 into doubt. energyandpolicy.org/evergy-leans...

I fully embrace a Chicagoan pope and look forward to a communion of malort and deep-dish pizza

We’re hiring a lawyer to help defend our public records work. Deets: energyandpolicy.org/public-recor...

Utilities Quietly Walk Back Commitments to Diverse Hiring, Social Justice After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across t...

Our investigation of utilities' DEI rollbacks continues in this deep dive from our team, spotlighting how some of the nation's largest utilities are dropping their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color: energyandpolicy.org/utilities-ro...

Utilities quietly walk back commitments to diverse hiring, social justice After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across t...

After Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, the utilities that serve the city -- Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy -- publicly championed lofty pledges to support racial justice.

Five years on, they're not sticking by what they said. They're deleting it. energyandpolicy.org/utilities-ro...

Tristan Thompson points in the NBA playoffs in 2025

2025 had the second warmest first quarter (Jan-Mar) on record, just a hair behind last year (2024). This is remarkable since 2024 was boosted by a strong El Nino event, while 2025 started off in weak La Nina conditions: www.carbonbrief.org/...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

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This rules

Not sure how these people sleep at night

W-W says Meta let advertisers know when 13-17 y-os were feeling depressed saying, this is a good time to try to serve them an ad. "If a 13-year-old girl would delete a selfie that was considered a good time to try to sell her a beauty product. This was taken as a signal and shared with advertisers."

With Southern Utilities Quietly Dismantling DEI Programs, Black Households Pay the Price Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that "Black lives mattered, briefly, as a marketing strategy."

Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that “Black lives mattered, briefly, as a marketing strategy.”

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With Southern Utilities Quietly Dismantling DEI Programs, Black Households Pay the Price Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that "Black lives mattered, briefly, as a marketing strategy."

Utilities like Southern Company are quietly rolling back their commitments on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Today @capitalb.bsky.social released an important exposé documenting how utilities are caving to political whims over their employees and communities.

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With Southern Utilities Quietly Dismantling DEI Programs, Black Households Pay the Price Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that "Black lives mattered, briefly, as a marketing strategy."

NEW from @capitalb.bsky.social: In recent weeks, utilities across the country have quietly rolled back DEI commitments despite public statements affirming their support for social justice issues after the murder of George Floyd sparked mass protests in 2020.
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I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

When genuinely and openly lawless outrages are happening, if you are still fixating on Facebook boxwine-quality conspiracy theories, that's on you.

This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:

I know I keep asking this, but how long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part: "Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen. On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses. As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship. The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours. All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated. The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk. After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.

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They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts.

The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

Congrats to Hundreds Of Beavers for winning Best Picture!! #Oscars #BestPicture #HundredsOfBeavers

No Chicago :'(

Missouri almost got crucial info on utility shutoffs. Then a regulator secretly halted it Why did a Missouri regulator tip the scales against a measure requiring companies like Spire and Evergy to report where they perform utility shutoffs?

Some ✨personal news:✨ today my final story with the @thekansascitystar.bsky.social is up online. It's a deep dive into one Missouri regulator's back-channel efforts to keep utility companies from having to report their shutoffs by ZIP code. Wonky, but important:
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I don't either, but sense doesn't seem to be the Roberts Court's primary concern these days

The games kinda whip tho

The Dirty Details of Rate Cases with EPI's Jonathan Kim Join Renew Gurus as we talk to EPI's Jonathan Kim about some of the more outrageous items Ameren tries to get ratepayer to cover. The conversation also dives into Ameren's disconnection rate and growi

EPI's Jonathan Kim had the opportunity to join Renew MO to discuss what Missouri utilities try to sneak into ratepayer bills and growing concerns over the affordability of energy. Listen to the conversation here or wherever you get your podcasts: soundcloud.com/renewmissour...