Well said Matt!

Extreme weather is driving up the cost of food, electricity, and home insurance. Tech barons and fossil fuel execs are exploiting communities. @cplusc.bsky.social new strategic framework/agenda charts a path forward to rebalance power for the working class and address the climate crisis at scale.

Energy prices are up and heat waves are coming soon.

We need a new strategy to bring down costs, rebuild the state, and redistribute power, all while taking the climate crisis seriously as an economic disrupter.

@cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new framework for how to get there! ✊🛠️🌎

Today @cplusc.bsky.social launches a working class strategy for tackling the affordability & climate crises. The climate‑cost nexus is already costing billions every year, and it will get worse the longer we don’t act on climate; we also must address working peoples’ immediate economic problems

It is time for a working class climate strategy. A better world is possible—and necessary!

We need policies that make our lives more affordable today and prevent our homes from flooding tomorrow. CCI's framework is how we do both. So proud of my teammates for putting this together!

Extreme weather is driving up the cost of food, electricity, and home insurance. Tech barons & fossil fuel execs are exploiting communities.

@cplusc.bsky.social’s new strategic framework & agenda charts a path forward to rebalance power for the working class and address the climate crisis at scale.

Well, @cplusc.bsky.social is once again doing the coolest shit on climate that you've ever seen!

LFG

If you read one thing this week about the climate and energy crisis – and what we can and must do about both – then I highly recommend this from @cplusc.bsky.social. I'm on my way to New York to support the launch tonight!

Mijin please respond to my email 😢

excited for us to launch this new strategy - check it out!!

I really do think even polls are understating the level of distaste people have towards data centers and AI

People are really pissed not just at big tech, but at (oft corrupt) local governments who enable them - if we’re gonna somehow turn anti institutional rancor to build better institutions they have to be populist and allow people to fight big tech at scale to have any chance of succeeding

climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/data-cente...

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money.

Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas.

EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers.

That's it. That's all you really need to know.

We can and need to fight Big Tech and expand public control of our grid simultaneously. Integrating movement demands is how we get the 5-8x grid expansion needed for more socially useful electrification of home, industry and transportation.

I hope this is useful and generates useful feedback!

LA residents protest new battery storage facility, fearing fire risk and a link to AI data centers The City of Industry has invited commercial and industrial development for decades. But locals said there’s a lack of transparency around the impacts of environmental pollution.

We’re now seeing how data centers are harming political fortunes for RE even in LA. lapublicpress.org/2026/01/la-b...

Franky, we’ve seen this with the hydrogen fights amongst the Biden admin, EJ, climate, fossil capital and developers - building out green hydrogen for greening steel production in the Rust Belt had very different reception than trying to bring GH2 for petroleum refineries that should be phased down.

But they’re missing that data centers and the AI rollout are increasingly unpopular for very legitimate reasons: Big Tech’s alliance with the right, and its unplanned rollout as an assault on not just affordability but on the dignity of people’s labor.

I wrote a piece arguing it matters who we electrify and to what end! With the loss of the IRA and absent active policy signals, it's understandable why clean energy advocates and developers would see Big Tech’s power hunger + capital as a place to eek out a cleaner data center buildout.

wdym here?

I am slowly working on a thesis for why the US is dogshit at scaling up cleantech and, frankly, I think it's going to make nobody happy??

For this reason, the folks at @cplusc.bsky.social were entirely correct to say that we should use public programs for high speed rail and dense new housing to backstop a market for green steel

One of the best people i know, @gruberte.bsky.social came on this podcast to talk about the work she is doing with two of the other best people i know, @jmijin.bsky.social and @jlappen1.bsky.social.

One big takeaway for me is this...

The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition" I talk with Emily Grubert about the hidden dangers of letting the free market manage the decline of our legacy energy infrastructure.

Today on Volts: for the next few decades, we'll be in the "mid-transition," with clean energy systems growing as FF systems decline. Those FF systems will not decline smoothly -- there will be thresholds, "cliffs," where they suddenly crumble -- so maybe we should, I dunno, plan for it?

Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.

Great article from Benjy Sachs on the fight for public power and the strategy from below in Hudson Valley with @sarahana.bsky.social representing @mhvdsa.bsky.social and her community in the legislature!

Features @lucyhoch.bsky.social of @publicgrids.org & Winston Yau of @cplusc.bsky.social!

End Point or Setback? A Retrospective of the Maine Public Power Ballot Initiative CCI polling revealed that even following the vote, twice as many Mainers prefer public ownership of energy resources than private ownership.

Of course - read our report here: climateandcommunity.org/research/end...

Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.

But it also gives working people the ability to pose the question: who are we building and owning the grid for?

Anyway: read the article here heatmap.news/energy/hudso...

With data center demand, along with home, industry and transportation electrification coming - the question of who should pay for it is certainly top of mind for folks, and public power offers an immediate lower cost alternative to it.