Bruce Nilles

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Naughton power plant will stop burning coal, despite Trump announcement The Trump administration is tossing money to prolong coal power, but a Wyoming electricity provider says it’s sticking with plans to fully convert a coal plant to natural gas.

Put a fork in it. Closing coal plants in CA and WY. “The cost of our [WY] coal units has had a huge impact on the price that customers pay,” Eskelsen said. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-reso...

Coal power is gone: Merrimack Station in Bow has shut for good - Concord Monitor Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station...

The same week Trump Administration announces efforts to revive the coal industry, the last coal plant in New England closes. They are so incompetent. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/09/29/c...

And it is in existing railroad corridor and underground. These shld be 30 day permits.

A Bucolic Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland Is Infiltrated by Cheaters

Easdale -- this is a most beautiful island with amazing wild swimming in old stone quarries. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Opinion | The Era of the American Lawn Is Over

Most of Western England and Scotland - was and should be a temperate rainforest. Wild gardens are a good step, restoring trees, lichens, ferns, is better. "The Era of the American Lawn Is Over" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Natural gas explosions are on the rise | How to protect yourself People in Illinois could be more at risk than many other states because more residents there, about 80%, rely on natural gas for heat, hot water and cooking.

Heating our homes with natural gas comes with explosion risk, something that happens way too often. abc7chicago.com/post/natural...

Good. Worst example of terrible biomass policy. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social

Great retort to the "more, more" crowd and folks who should know better than peddle dreams like CCS on every smokestack. Thank you.

Forecasters: Big Beautiful Bill will cost Wyoming $50M in coal royalties - WyoFile Higher severance and ad valorem payments are not expected to offset federal mineral royalty reductions, according to state financial forecasters.

Own goal Wyoming. Less money for schools, transition, everything. "Forecasters: Big Beautiful Bill will cost Wyoming $50M in coal royalties - WyoFile" wyofile.com/forecasters-...

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Good news: the largest state in the country, which is all on its own the 4th largest economy in the world (having recently overtaken Japan), now gets the largest amount of its electricity from solar, and that trend is set to continue.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

A Power Line for Clean Energy Was in the Works. Now, an Investigation Looms.

Wait, i thought it was NEPA and enviros that were blocking energy projects... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/c...

Could the Electric Hydrofoil Ferry Change the Way We Commute?

Electric hydrofoil ferries -- pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/b...

Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time Latest data indicates progress for EU country most dependent on the fossil fuel

Good news from Poland!!
“Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time” on.ft.com/3GxsNKu

Ireland 🇮🇪 is kicking off a summer of European #coal plant closures and has officially eliminated coal from its electricity mix with the closure of its Moneypoint plant!

Wind energy now powers more than a third of its electricity and is central to Ireland’s coal phase-out.

This and also the 100% carbon free electricity by 2040, one of the most ambitious clean energy standards in the country #MelissaHortman

In six years solar power has gone from 3.3% of global late Spring power generation to 10.7%.

Data @ember-energy.org

Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind

ACC Chair Thompson Warns of $2 Billion Cost to Reopen Cholla Coal Plant in Arizona Arizona Corp Commission Chair Thompson warns of nearly $2 billion cost to ratepayers for reopening the Cholla coal plant.

Restarting Cholla coal plant as Trump proposes will cost $2B,says Republican chair of AZ commission. hoodline.com/2025/06/acc-...

Just ordered mine!

DOE Cancellation of Clean Energy Projects is Job-Killing Action that Hurts Consumers, CAP’s Mike Williams Says Washington, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of $3.7 billion in awards for emerging energy technologies issued during the previous administration. Many of these projects involved investments in industrial and manufacturing facilities to limit carbon emissions contributing to pollution and climate change. In response, Mike Williams, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, issued the following comments: "How can the administration claim to care about domestic manufacturing when it is gutting investments in the future of domestic manufacturing? These projects are not just reducing pollution, they are keeping the U.S. on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. Canceling these important projects will raise energy prices for consumers and sacrifice thousands of high-quality union jobs, all because the president wants to curry favor with Big Oil.

Official thoughts on the stupidity of the administration’s gutting of manufacturing investments:

End new gas hob installations within ten years, say NGOs Global Action Plan and energy efficiency group CLASP are urging local authorities and housing providers to retrofit their properties with induction hobs, replacing gas cookers which are responsible fo...

Fascinating. "End new gas hob installations within ten years, say NGOs – AirQualityNews"

airqualitynews.com/health/end-n...

While you were sleeping, House Republicans rammed through a bill that kills rooftop solar, clean manufacturing, heat pumps for everyday Americans, clean energy projects, and funding to cut pollution. Now it's up to the Senate to stop this bill from jacking up energy bills and torching the economy.

Thank you! Showtime.

The oil and gas industry is trying to block our access to clean vehicles, much like coal industry tried to block our access to clean energy by killing Waxman Markey - the coal industry ultimately lost, oil and gas will too.

58 years, bedrock of modern envtl policy, strengthened by President Bush 1, now repealed at behest of oil/gas industry.

BREAKING: The House's reconciliation bill would dismantle the most successful industrial onshoring effort in U.S. history, SEIA analysis find.

❌287 factories
❌292,000 jobs
❌145 TWh of generation

Read SEIA's new analysis:
underthreat.seia.org/threat/

Cleveland-Cliffs shuts down three plants in the US The shutdown threatens to lose about 950 jobs

The steel industry, backbone of the US industry, is collapsing. Trump tariffs not working. gmk.center/en/news/clev...