Today's average gas price in the U.S. is $4.15 per gallon.
Charging an EV at home is much cheaper - as of today it's a 62% savings.
Not to mention, it's far less polluting. Win win!
There is such an obvious opportunity for politicians to make huge inroads on a platform of a just transition and community based incentives. You can address ALL of these day to day affordability issues, environmental justice, and climate change in ways that HELPS people and win big.
Artemis is "an echo of what America could still be, but is not today, because of the attacks on science," Rep. Whitesides told me. The mission has captured imaginations worldwide—but also casts Trump's deep proposed cuts to federal research into sharp relief. My story:
www.eenews.net/articles/art...
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
Since the start of the 21st century the share of energy consumption from renewables has doubled globally, tripled in the United States, and more than tripled in China, which overtook the U.S. as the country with the largest annual carbon dioxide emissions back in 2006.
1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter:
I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules.
His name isn't in the document itself, but…
Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "
I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.
Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA
My resignation letter
Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?
I should add: Burgum was specifically applauding Trump’s deal to pay an offshore wind developer $1 billion to abandon its project and invest in oil and gas instead.
Ans the refinery explosion hours later sent gas prices soaring and forced nearby residents to shelter in place.
From finding community to helping lead the next generation of climate leaders making a difference — this is what it’s all about.
Join us with @haleycrim.bsky.social in Nashville May 1–2 for our 20th anniversary training: clim.cc/nashvilleli
Wild figures in two decades of EIA retrospective data.
Solar getting it wrong gets all the airplay. But the consistent underestimation of natural gas exports and the speed of coal's collapse are just as striking, even at 3-5 year horizons.
A poster for the Nashville Climate Reality Training on May 1-2 with a picture of Haley Crim
Join me and a star studded lineup of speakers at the 20th anniversary @climaterealityproject.org US training in Nashville on May 1-2! More info and apply here: www.climaterealityproject.org/training/nas...
The US is now a command and control economy, but purely to the benefit of fossil fuel industries.
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.
Now? 🤷🏾♂️
The entire annual budget for NASA is $24.4 B.
Annual budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF): $10.2 B.
NOAA: $6.9 B.
US Geological Survey: $1.45 B.
"US oil companies stand to receive a windfall of more than $60bn this year if crude prices maintain the levels they have hit since the start of the Iran war"
www.ft.com/content/37d4...
How much profit is your utility making off you?
Electricity costs are soaring - this tool from @energyandpolicy.org shows how much extra your utility charges per month.
Nationally, electric utilities took ~15% of your bill for profit last year.
energyandpolicy.org/utilityprofi...
Imagine how different everything would be had the U.S. enthusiastically embraced renewable energy back when Carter put solar panels on the White House or when James Hansen first testified about climate change before Congress in 1988. For one thing, over 150
Iranian schoolgirls would still be alive.
Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries.
I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
QuitGPT? More like QuitGenAI
Just in: NOAA satellites helped rescue 300 people in 2025
See how: noaa.gov/news-release...
NOAA.gov via NOAA Satellites
#SARSAT
People expect 'greens' to be talking about climate - 'of course they'd say that, they're an environmentalist'
But when people who aren't the usual suspects talk about it, it turns it from a niche concern to a mainstream concern
'Everyday influencers' are vital for reaching social tipping points
