Trevor Higgins

Residents of 49 States and Washington, D.C., Face Increasing Electric and Natural Gas Bills This updated utility rate tracker shows rate increases or proposals set to go into effect over the next two years that, coupled with Trump administration actions, could mean that households and busine...

NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social and @nrdc.org --> 65% of all U.S. electric and 59% of all U.S. natural gas utility costumers face increased or proposals for increased utility rates by 2027. Find out some reasons why in our new report: www.americanprogress.org/article/resi...

The Trump Administration Is Erasing American History Told by Public Lands and Waters Through a series of executive orders targeting place names, signage on, and access to public lands and waters, the Trump administration is erasing important chapters of American history.

By changing the names of public places, censoring historical exhibits, and reducing access to public areas, the Trump administration is erasing the multicultural and multiracial stories of the people who shaped this country. https://ampr.gs/48ILAhV

See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

Here's a great map (if you love maps) of how the charging network has grown. The job is not yet done, but never forget that our country is capable of doing great things.

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...

NEW: President Trump and RFK Jr. promised to “Make America Healthy Again” but the administration’s assault on environmental safeguards will expose kids and families to more cancer-causing pollution as RFK Jr. cuts cancer research and treatment: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Molly O'Toole:
"On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"

Masked officers in camo

Masked armed men watch a mother and her children go to school.

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school.

On their third day of classes.

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing.

This is wildly illegal.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

NEWS: President Trump is federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department, which means he will control it for up to 30 days. He is also deploying the D.C. National Guard, all to fight what he says is an increase in crime.

Climate Change Is Subjecting More Americans to Unbearable Extreme Heat Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, driving up utility bills, straining ecosystems, and deepening inequality.

140M+ Americans are under heat alerts this week. Our new report breaks down how climate change is supercharging this deadly heat, driving up bills, straining hospitals and power grids, and hitting working-class, Black, and brown communities hardest. www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.

New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America.

See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Is this abundance?

This project was approved under FAST-41, meaning it had expedited permit approvals. It also had labor, domestic supply chain, power offtake agreements for communities attached to it... meaning a whole lot of high quality American jobs and affordable energy just went up in flames.

"If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up."

What Trump's Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety In addition to cutting health care and food assistance programs, the act’s energy and environmental provisions would raise energy costs, increase pollution affecting Americans’ health, and increase sa...

Trump signed that "One Big Beautiful Bill" over the weekend, and my colleagues ‪‪@lucerowx.bsky.social‬ and @jasia.bsky.social spell out the ugly consequences for your wallet, health, and safety.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act Endangers the Transformation of Contaminated Sites for Clean Energy Production The congressional Republican spending bill, which President Donald Trump recently signed into law, kills tax credits that help communities turn idle toxic sites such as brownfields and abandoned mines...

Energy communities - left with toxic, abandoned sites and lost employment - were slated to receive new jobs, energy, and revenues fueled by IRA. The ‘Big, Beautiful’ bill pulls the plug on this future by ending tax credits early #OBBB 🔌💡 www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Republicans are voting now for massive layoffs and bankruptcies throughout the clean energy economy – a trillion dollar investment in a better future, abandoned.

The world we would have built is so different from the one we will now have to live in.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

@vanhollen.senate.gov summarizing what gutting the clean energy incentives means --> less electricity capacity additions to the grid and higher prices for Americans

– New taxes on clean energy investment.

– Termination of the Fuel Economy Standards for new cars and trucks.

– A new tax subsidy for coal.

It's a collection of the worst, most harmful ideas you can imagine. And the Republican Senate is voting for them now.

But if you're one of the tens of Americans who makes their living mixing dyes into fuel, has the Senate got some good news for you!

Senate Finance has released its proposed repeals, and I sure hope none of you were hoping to afford a better future for your family, or anything.

Who exactly is winning under the Trump administration? Not people like Cody who just returned home from military leave to a price spike in his electric bill.

➡️ Share this video and let us know if you also got a notice that your electric bill is going up.

Listening To Lead: A Conversation With Gov. Tim Walz Join us for a conversation with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as part of CAP’s “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward” series.

"We're going to have 100 percent carbon-free power in Minnesota, and that's just 10 years away." @governorwalz.mn.gov

www.americanprogress.org/events/liste...

Related: bsky.app/profile/thig...

I used to staff a senator from California. There is no way that anything like what just happened to Senator Padilla would ever have been thought possible before this regime's powergrab. If the Senate does not assert itself, it is lost.

While announcing her intent to liberate Los Angeles from its elected officials, the Secretary of Homeland Security oversaw the use of force against a sitting U.S. Senator who dared to question her.

Things were already bad, and this is a major escalation.

Thanks to @lucerowx.bsky.social and @jasia.bsky.social, my coauthors. And thanks to @energyinnovation.org and @rhg.com for their consistently excellent energy systems modeling.

We could have built a grid that would supply up to 88 percent of its electricity without any fossil fuel costs by 2035. Repealing federal clean energy investment will cost us so much.

That means wasting money on expensive and polluting fuel that didn't need to be burned. It means higher costs for households and manufacturers. It makes it harder for data centers and new factories to be placed on the grid. It means hundreds of thousands of lost construction jobs.

Some new baseload gas plants might come online instead (no more than 10 GW/yr), but in place of the new clean affordable electricity that would have been built, power plants would be called on to generate more power, unnecessarily consuming expensive and polluting fuel.