My “pro-secrecy” argument is to simply bring some sanity to Oregon’s absurdist approach: where texts are both meetings and documents, where lobbyists can talk to a quorum of officials but officials can’t even ask colleagues to cosponsor legislation,
Lengthy discussion at City Council today about the Future Vision plan for the next 50 years. Not discussed is the 37% probability of a Cascadia quake.
Girl just worry about the transportation package, city councilors can’t even ask their colleagues to sponsor a bill without breaking quorum because of this extremely bad policy 😭
PORTLAND CITY COUNCIL: PASS THE TAO INTACT! EUND SOCIAL HOUSING RENT BUY DOWNS RENT ASSISTANCE!
Big vote tonight at city council.
Last week, the council advanced a millions toward rent assistance, rental buy downs, & social housing.
Councilors are facing pressure to make last minute carveouts for unvetted developments.
Tell your councilors you want this generational investment!
We need a formal rate setting hearing process, with a regular cadence, that mirrors what we see in other regulated utilities. We are now in a space where the magnitude of costs requires far more scrutiny of what costs we accept and how we design rates to recover them.
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
Sydney's summers are becoming hotter and have increased in length by nearly 50 days since 1990, according to a new global climate study. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
5 large data centers are being proposed in Seattle.
They would use 369 megawatts, which is 1/3 of the electricity Seattle currently uses
Seattle City Light declines to identify the four companies.
They should hold a public input meeting before making any final decisions.
Don't let anyone spin this as a climate win. How much will it actually cost for Tucson to meet its climate goals? Here's a hint: it's way more than the $56 million over 25 years TEP just paid to prevent public ownership in this chapter of the fight.
really wild to see this on the same day as also seeing this!!!!!!!!!!
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The Albanese Government banned Iranians with valid Australian visas from entering the country, to stop them claiming asylum because of the war their Government supports.
Up to 7,200 people with visas had the door slammed shut when they most needed our help. It's a dog act.
Very much agree, but I appreciated his a strong rebuke of a persistent talking-point from PCEF opponents. Much to critique about his actions elsewhere, but hard for me to complain about him signaling as Council's swing vote that he's not about to let the Blazers raid PCEF
yep – file that under "gripes"
Have my gripes with Novick but this is a top-shelf answer:
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Good thread here. 49,000 customers in the area are staring down a utility-wide shutoff because a private corporation wants to sell electricity to data centers instead of whole communities.
As Josh points out, it's a crisis that will likely fall to the state to solve as a literal last resort.
Could some big green group please break off like 1/1000th of its budget to help fund the pressure work needed RIGHT NOW to stop Hochul from gutting NY’s climate law?
That would suck for NY and instantly generate a national narrative that Dems are going backward. 🤪
What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office?
—60,000 new social housing units
—15 express bus routes
—Completion of city's full bike network
—Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks
Quelle belle victoire !
Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie.
Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens.
Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.
kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit
If Oregon policymakers are serious about addressing cost-of-living concerns and ensuring Oregon is an affordable place for all to live, we simply must invest a transportation system that provides alternatives to car dependency. #orleg https://loom.ly/NEcn57E
"These changes have helped Paris double its modal share for bikes, which has risen from 5% of all journeys in 2020 to over 11% in 2025... the shift is highly noticeable in central Paris, where 3.5 million bikes were recorded as passing along one main avenue, the Boulevard de Sebastopol, in 2025."
Decades of Increased Emissions from Forest-Fueled BECCS Timothy Searchinger 1 ORCID Email Liqing Peng? Email Daniella Russi Charles Canham 4 ORCID へ 1 Princeton University, 2 Hong Kong University, 3 World Resources Institute, 4 Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. V https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9038129/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Abstract Should climate policies encourage bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) using wood from existing forests? Although mitigation pathways in integrated assessment models often rely on BECCS fueled by energy crops, European governments are moving to financially support BECCS sourced instead from existing forests. To estimate its emissions and financial costs, we develop a model that transparently tracks carbon flows from forest to end use and allows policymakers to easily alter assumptions. Modeling multiple wood- sourcing scenarios, we find that BECCS is unlikely to generate negative emissions within 150 years, is likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture and is likely to increase electricity costs by ~ 3.5-fold. Only limited improvements occur even if half of the wood comes from residues and half from fast-growing plantations. These results reflect that most emissions occur before the power plant and therefore cannot be captured, and that wood has twice the carbon intensity of natural gas and generates electricity less efficiently. These results counsel against emerging BECCS policies, and our easy-to-use model allows policymakers to evaluate results and different scenarios themselves.
In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture."
This is a Big Deal because the IPCC...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
Warm Springs reservation is within Oregon
World rugby: Okay. So you can win this entire tournament
Ireland: Okay, great!
World rugby: as long as England win their game.
Ireland:...
World Rugby: So obviously you would want England to-
Ireland: -Shush I'm thinking.
This appalling war that Labor supports is unravelling into chaos as Trump now calls for a Coalition of the Unwilling to send warships. Australia must refuse and instead join with other nations, not to fight this illegal war, but to help end it.
In light of the Mercury article I guess I’ll just name this was Laurie Wimmer.
Standing up for Palestine early on had consequences, and I don’t regret it. I have to face myself in the mirror each day, despite politics and consequences.
I believe if we do that, the people will rally behind us.
New public records give insight into a Portland city councilor’s idea to sue the city, let the mayor break a tie, and decide the council’s president in January. A longtime labor leader told the Mercury she was “an observer,” but public records starkly contrast her laissez-faire, big tent narrative.
