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Loss of green smelter highlights Kentucky’s need for clean electricity Century Aluminum chose Oklahoma, not Kentucky, for a new smelter. Some say it’s a "wake-up call" for the Bluegrass State to modernize – and decarbonize –…

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Britain quit coal. But is burning Louisiana's trees any better? • Louisiana Illuminator The U.K. government is giving Drax the equivalent of $2.7 million a day in subsidies to keep burning wood pellets, which the company touts as “environmentally and socially sustainable.” But a growing ...

Britain quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better? lailluminator.com/2026/02/09/d...

#progress!

Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030

UK doubles down on offshore wind, 40% cheaper than fracked gas. While Trump holds Northeast hostage to gas by clicking their wind projects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As development takes off, Lakes Region asks for pipeline expansion • New Hampshire Bulletin When New Hampshire called for more housing, the Lakes Region answered, and development in several central cities and towns took off fast. Then, the gas ran out.

Such an outdated argument - no gas service means we can't build new housing. We installed more heatpumps than gas furnaces last year. "As development takes off, Lakes Region asks for pipeline expansion" newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/01/12/a...

Don’t believe the hype: Victorian government deserves credit for not buckling to aggressive pro-gas campaign Australia’s most gas-reliant state takes a significant step to move households and businesses away from fossil fuels and cut energy bills

Great piece Katie! In Victoria (Australia)-the state govt has adopted renter first building electrification policy. Landlords must replace gas water heaters and furnaces with heatpumps when they break, along w modest efficiency measures to reduce energy bills. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters » The Urbanist # Seattle renters are largely locked out of the cost-saving and comfort-improving clean energy appliances, like heat pumps, induction stoves, and solar panels. Newly inaugurated Seattle Mayor Katie Wi...

NEW // Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters

Op-ed by Emily Moore via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/08/o...

What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels The gas industry is opposed to labels that warn consumers of the potential harms of gas stoves.

Great piece. "What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide?" theconversation.com/what-are-gas...

The country's largest all-electric hospital is about to open in Orange County More buildings are going all-electric, especially in states trying to address climate change. UCI Health–Irvine, the largest all-electric hospital in the country, is opening Wednesday.

Good news! The country’s largest all-electric hospital is about to open in Orange County, CA! May other hospitals follow this example. The future is healthier, more efficient, electrical buildings! Join us in these efforts. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Did you know that baking a pumpkin pie in a gas stove for an hour can raise the air pollution in your kitchen to a dangerous red alert level, if your kitchen is not ventilated? Protect your family's health—open your windows while cooking over the holidays. FACTS: www.sfbaypsr.org/wp-content/u...

South Dakota Ranchers Are Burning the Prairie to Save It

The one kind of burning we can all embrace... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/c...

MAHA Activists Urge Trump to Fire His E.P.A. Administrator

MAHA activists are urging President Trump to fire EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over his decisions to loosen restrictions on harmful chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Utilities give up hope on using hydrogen in their gas grids – report

And, this remarkable news: H2 bubble over & gas industry out of a plausible future. "Most energy companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are planning to reduce investments in their gas grids." Decline of natural gas is here, start planning its end.
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This is a really big deal! Los Angeles To Go Coal Free! YouTube video by SierraClub

This week we made history. Last major coal plant powering California turned off. And, world's 4th lrgst economy is humming along. Did not happen by accident-it happened because of tenacious people power, incl. Sierra Club & Michael Bloomberg. Back when was announced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cO...

This is a really big deal! Los Angeles To Go Coal Free! YouTube video by SierraClub

But here is the press conference announcing that Los Angeles will be coal free by 2025. Yes. We. Did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cO...

200 Dirty Coal-Fired Power Plants Closed YouTube video by SierraClub

This was a fun one - that took a lot of great work and organizing by incredible team in California. Here is one video celebrating the folks that made all this happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIV...

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.”

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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...