Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms

By now, nothing should surprise me. Still, this seems like a desperate new low for Trump's anti-wind zealots. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews Another ten-cent increase today here in DC

Trump is throwing your taxpayer dollars at an illegal war abroad, while you spend more for gasoline here at home.

I guess if you spend $1 trillion on the military every year, you feel like you gotta blow some shit up now and then.

THIS.

UPDATE: Community thankful pipeline explosion wasn’t worse - American Press The Office of Emergency Preparedness in Cameron Parish said Tuesday’s pipeline explosion could have been a lot worse. The Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office received the call reporting the explosion shor...

Yeah, but you know wind turbines kill birds 🤨 americanpress.com/2026/02/05/u...

Whose History Are We Protecting? The Dam Removal Debate in Massachusetts

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Proposals to remove dams unleash debate over which history to honor Across Massachusetts, communities are confronting a centuries-old legacy that is now doing more harm than good. The preservation of an obsolete dam implicitly privileges colonial and industrial histor...

Massachusetts has 3000 dams, many of which are unsafe and ecologically damaging. But many also connect us to the state's industrial beginnings. Here's some perspective on navigating that tension.
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Electric car sales edge above petrol in EU for first time Sales of fully ​electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December, data from ‌the auto industry group ACEA showed on Tuesday, even as hybrids h...

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Why your energy bills are higher than ever "As things stand now, ratepayers bear the cost of the transition to clean energy on top of the cost to prop up the aging gas system," writes Frederick Hewett. "The choice policymakers face is to inves...

Great piece by @fhcamb.bsky.social: Are climate policies the reason your utility bills are high? Yes and no. But scaling them back, he argues, isn't going to save you money either.

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That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.

Renée Good. Alex Pretti.

A decade in the making, clean energy power line for Mass. is up and running A major new transmission line that can bring renewable electricity from Quebec to Massachusetts is finally, after a whole lot of controversy and delay, starting to deliver power.

"Bringing in relatively cheap hydroelectric power from Canada can displace the need for more expensive fossil fuel energy and help suppress the wholesale cost of electricity for everyone in the region." Thanks, Miriam. Thanks, Maine. Thanks, Canada. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

Satipo Approves Historic Ordinance: In World First, An Insect Is Granted Legal Rights — Earth Law Center In an unprecedented legal development, the Provincial Municipality of Satipo, Peru has approved Municipal Ordinance No. 33-2025-CM/MPS, which grants legal rights to native stingless bees within the Av...

Bees gain rights in Brazil. #RightsOfNature www.earthlawcenter.org/elc-in-the-n...

Dave Barry is making notes.

Incredible.

Both Venezuela and Nigeria being petrostates is just a coincidence.

Trump says US is pursuing third oil tanker linked to Venezuela The move comes days after the US president said that he was ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

Cocaine? No. This tanker is carrying the *real* drug that the US is addicted to. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast

Senate Dems: Don't pass the SPEED Act until the offshore wind pause is lifted. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Trump to America: “GET OFF MY LAWN!”

EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming’s causes. Scientists call it misleading EPA altered some but not all of its climate change webpages.

Trofim Lysenko was a 20th c. Soviet agronomist who aligned his scientific views with Stalinism, contrary to overwhelming evidence he was flat-out wrong. The result: massive crop losses, exodus of scientists, Soviet biology set back decades. www.bostonherald.com/2025/12/09/c...

On Ecological Belonging in a Changing Climate Changing ecosystems challenge our ability to feel grounded in a place

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Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition - Inside Climate News It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both...

"ENERGY DOMINANCE!!! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! "

Uh, but not if it means drilling in my backyard . . .
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Trump Media (Truth Social) stock trending downward as Trump’s approval rating slides. Stock is at its all-time low.

Energy industry pads key lawmaker’s campaign coffers as major bill advances  - CommonWealth Beacon Cusack's legislation would lower the amount of renewable energy the utilities would be required to purchase and cut the state’s energy efficiency initiative, which is funded through the utilities’ rat...

Rep. Mark Cusack: this is not a good look. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/energ...

MWRA board tables vote on Charles River sewage proposal - The Boston Globe Officials have worked for decades to stem the periodic release of street runoff and sewage overflows into the Charles.

UPDATE: The MWRA has tabled the vote to reclassify the Charles (permanently, I hope). Kudos to @crwa.bsky.social for getting out in front of the issue. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...

The Charles River is clean. The Charles River is filthy. Two things can be true.

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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Check it out—a US government climate website that Trump hasn't dismantled. Shocking. www.climatehubs.usda.gov

Jake Auchincloss on MAGA's threat to U.S. medical innovation YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss

China is building dozens of Kendall Squares while MAGA tries to cut medical research funding in half.

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Trump Just Suffered His First Loss on Offshore Wind A judge has lifted the administration’s stop-work order against Revolution Wind.

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