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Streets are raucous right now

US eergy/climate media folks looking for hopeful stories - I suggest you keep an eye on heat pump install trends in cold, rural states where lots of people heat with propane or heating oil. Will heat pump installs go wild there this summer? They should, and states should help!

The harms catalogued in this thread come not only from oil and gas supply disruption, but from other suppliers selling O&G at the highest possible windfall prices. Prioritizing profit above all is not an inevitability. It's a choice. Governments could require O&G companies to behave differently.

“It’s really a rare empirical demonstration of how much bullshit there can be in the briefs and how empirically the EPA — at least the old EPA — had its finger much more nearly on the real cost of things than the industry that’s fighting the rules,”

Leaked memos show Supreme Court ignored climate dangers in Obama regs fight Conservative justices focused on industry costs when blocking the Clean Power Plan, the first climate rule proposed for the power sector.

Besides the fact that they ignored benefits, amazing how totally wrong the Supreme Court was about the downsides of a regulation in a case they used to permanently limit the ability of experts to implement law in favor of grabbing that power for themselves www.eenews.net/articles/lea...

"Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability."

Always read Don!

Seems doubtful

Just wait you’ll be googling DC fridge/freezers pretty soon to kill those pesky inverter losses

Americans prioritize protecting the environment over economic growth, according to Gallup.

Also "The current 63% of U.S. adults who say the government is doing too little [to protect environment] is the highest level recorded since Gallup’s initial reading in 1992." news.gallup.com/poll/708413/...

The Little-Known Law Congress is Abusing to Sell Out Our Public Lands How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

The Senate just weaponized an arcane law called the Congressional Review Act to strip protections away from Minnesota's Boundary Waters.

The move puts one of the country’s most visited Wilderness Areas in danger of permanent pollution from a proposed sulfide-ore copper-nickel mine.​

I’m actually not that interested in oil price discourse but I do want to see more recognition that as a major oil producer, the US *benefits* from high oil prices. Our choice to let private interests vs the public own the oil — which is globally extremely unusual — means those profits are private.

CONSEQUENCES, BABY.

Another thing climate change making worse/harder

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EU countries will plan fossil fuel retreat at Colombia conference Energy crises could be a thing of the past if reliable, cheap and abundant clean energy is given precedence over fossil fuels.

Donald Trump, the top-secret climate warrior, amassing $30t in GNP and 85 countries to plan the total phase out of fossil fuels. www.euronews.com/2026/04/15/a...

Hortman was a gem

US Dept. Of Energy Announces $14 Million To Support DEP Project For Enhanced Shale Gas Well GeoThermal Demonstration In Pennsylvania On April 14, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO) announced a $14 million project to support fie...

The Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection is going to test existing fracked gas wells for their potential to produce electricity from enhanced geothermal systems. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2026/04/us-d...

The EIA projects a 52% increase in the price of gas from '25 to '32 in their Annual Energy Outlook. We should use gas for less things and/or export less of it.

Love this. You don't need "hot rocks" to do regular space and water heating. Also see this project in St. Paul, MN: 100 acres, 1,000 housing units, 1M square feet of light industrial space theheightssaintpaul.com

Post it here when you do

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Almost immediately after the county’s three commissioners made their decision, dozens of residents formed a group, called the Richland County Citizens for Property Rights and Job Development, to fight what they saw as an unjust restriction on renewable energy. Their initial goal was clear but daunting: Collect thousands of in-person signatures within 30 days in order to put the clean energy ban on the ballot during the 2026 primary election. They succeeded.

Hero Stuff - Ohioans work to overturn wind/solar ban in their county

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

What is this GM vehicle? Is it electric?

"Bridge fuel"

Americans agree that housing isn't affordable but disagree on the biggest reasons why The vast majority of Americans say finding affordable housing in the U.S. is either very difficult (47%) or somewhat difficult (40%)

No, “concern about housing affordability” is not a niche affectation largely limited to Bluesky users in expensive coastal cities:

NEVER FORGET TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF :)

Dear America,

We can dance if we want to.

Conifer leaves anticipate their shaded future Densely packed needles along the shoots of evergreen conifers exhibit shade-acclimated photosynthetic characteristics even under full sunlight

Conifer needles live a long time, unlike deciduous leaves. A new paper finds they anticipate their shaded future, making shade-adapted needles even though they typically start their life in full sunlight. Great summary: www.botany.one/conifer-leav... And full paper: academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

"Public interest capacity matters to the credibility of democratic systems. The ability of government to competently help the public broadly reinforces liberal democratic systems."