Interestingly even the repowering advocates seem pretty bullish on BESS systems co-located with themselves and any other gen. For the same reasons that renewables advocates like them.

Should probably have the above with #energysky

Early takeaways from the IPPNY Spring Conference here in Albany. The industry is bullish on "repowering" old fossil fuel plants. Much of the morning focused on the case for repowering (efficiency, lower emissions, thinning reliability margins). Afternoon looks to be more of this as well.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

New NY State law on "AI Companions"

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www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

reposting now that I’ve found @leahegose.bsky.social!!

Gutting.

48 hours of homelessness in CT: The faces and stories of a growing crisis With affordable housing hard to find in Connecticut, the number of people who are homeless — young and old, in cities and towns — is rising fast.

Highly, highly recommend this project from a team of us at @ctinsider.bsky.social, led by the incomparable @jrabethomas.bsky.social.

Over two days, reporters fanned across CT to tell the story of homelessness here.

I promise you will learn something.
www.ctinsider.com/projects/new...

Always very cool for United Health-managed Medicaid to provide inaccurate information as to what's in network and not.

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.

In the Trump era, how did Virginia pull off building America's largest offshore wind farm without a hiccup?

Republicans, the military, data centers, a mind-blowing bargain, and a "starter" wind farm made it happen...🧵

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

⚡ News: New York WILL require new buildings to be all-electric starting next year.

- A federal court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to the All-Electric Buildings Act

- Today the state Building Code Council voted to finalize a new code incorporating the policy

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart. A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

So many cool collaborative conservation programs just dying on the vine right now.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.

But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.

Denial makes things worse

The pace of undermining the statutory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to serve as the cornerstone of nuclear safety in the United States and across the world is accelerating.
#energysky 🔌💡

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Writer: Stakeholder

Report: Disabled, POC don't feel welcome at Massachusetts beaches The Metropolitan Beaches Commission released its report on Massachusetts beaches which included feedback and suggestions for the DCR.

A recent report found that many disabled people and people of color don't feel welcome at Massachusetts beaches. This needs to change.

www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Sorry, to clarify, the order does not name a specific transmission line but blocks funding for *future* OSW transmission needed to meet climate law targets. There were 28 proposals from four developers in the running.

If I understand correctly, the Propel NY project is still moving ahead

New from me: www.rtoinsider.com/109789-earth...

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

ok

Is this something parents want?

We are about to witness levels of media illiteracy that the human mind cannot even fathom.

I have just learned that in the 20 years from 2004-2023 West Haven and East Haven have each permitted less than 500 homes... that is less than 25 permits per year!

Meanwhile New Haven permitted 5,700 homes. Talk about an imbalance of epic proportions

Excited to see when you start hiring. I'm too young to have worked in a newsroom that had any of this. Always a skeleton crew of reporters.

The Secret Origins of the Tea Party How Big Oil and Big Tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP

I think people really forget that the Tea Party started as an astroturf campaign

Seen at a Penn Station gift shop @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Yeah. It's really not in the vast majority of vaccines at all.

Looks like climate.gov is officially dead, for now. 💔

Perfect encapsulation of the Democratic Party

Beast mode S.I. Rosenbaum on conscience, animals, and the right to be; we invite you to vote in Hydranym No. 2

It's official: I'm a Flaming Hydra. Here's my first piece, about kids who identify as cats and why they're awesome, and what Texas is really targeting with its anti-therian bill
flaminghydra.com/r/e08d4fd3?m...

This is really interesting.