Record wind output helps shield the UK from worst of Iran war fallout Record output from wind farms has helped boost total clean power supplies in the United Kingdom to new highs so far in 2026, and allowed power firms to pare use of fossil fuels to multi-year lows.

Too bad the US federal government is doing everything in its power to derail wind. There is cheaper energy--you just can't have it, thanks to the Trump admin.
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Banks, oil companies, and other corporations shouldn't be allowed to profit from the carnage in Iran!

Thanks to Trump's Iran War, Big Oil Raking in $30 Million Per Hour in Windfall Profits | Common Dreams President Trump's unprovoked war in Iran has been a goldmine for Big Oil, raking in $30 million per hour in windfall profits. Climate advocates call for a windfall profits tax to invest in renewable e...

I have an idea to recoup costs from the disastrous Iran War. Let's tax oil companies over their obscene profits.
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Good riddance to Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales. Sexual predators don't belong in Congress, regardless of party.

That Trump sees himself as a Jesus-like figure is perhaps the biggest delusion his addled brain has come up with.

Korea’s President is Treating the Energy Transition as the Real Emergency It Is If there’s one thing that’s defined global efforts to limit climate change over the last few decades, it’s the seeming inability of world…

"That's too slow," Korea's president is reported to have said of a plan to sell all electric cars by 2035. Here's why it matters:
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Most People View Protests in Completely the Wrong Way. Here’s Why. Just over a week ago, we witnessed what many people are calling the largest single-day protest in US history. At least eight million people…

The way we've been taught to view, and judge protests is wrong. Here's why:
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Why “De-Industrialization” Won’t Save the Climate I generally think of myself as a pretty technologically incompetent person.

I sympathize with the de-industrialization movement--but we have very little time to avert climate catastrophe, and we can't afford to be distracted. And right now, de-industrialization is a dangerous distraction.
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This Book Made Me Sort of Hopeful About Climate Change (Really) It’s a tough time to be paying attention to the science and policy of climate change. With the Trump administration doing everything in its…

If you care about the global climate, you should read Bill McKibben's latest book, which might just be remembered as the most important thing he's written. No, you don't already know what it says. Just read it--really.
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WA State doesn't have many free-flowing major rivers left. Now, a plans are in the works for a dam on one of them. Here, I talk to folks leading the charge against the Chehalis River "flow-through" dam project: columbiainsight.org/a-new-dam-co...

Someone should tell Trump that you don't traditionally help finance the very military powers you're fighting against.

Losing the fight against climate change is a choice.

Trump’s threats to Nato reveal glaring absence of any strategy on Iran White House seems to have failed to anticipate that Tehran would fight back by trying to impose costs on the west

I wish US legacy media headlines were this blunt about what's going on.
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We can expect that similar to other logging projects on National Forest lands, the Forest Service will hold timber sales which logging companies will bid in. The winning company will pay the Forest Service for the right to cut the timber, then sell the wood at a profit.

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie is one of the largest and most-visited National Forests in the US. Now, the Forest Service is proposing a massive logging project there. For this piece, I talked to folks at the heart of the fight:
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The Bigger Reason Gas is So Damn Expensive Donald Trump’s war in Iran has sparked a global energy crisis. Iran, whose geography gives it immense power over the worldwide oil trade…

By starting a global energy crisis while keeping us hooked on oil, Trump and Republicans in Congress have consumers trapped:
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I Thought My Generation Would Stop Climate Change. We Didn’t. My senior year of college, I traveled to Washington, DC with three other students from the small liberal arts university in Oregon where I…

Pinning responsibility for stopping the climate crisis on one generation of people was always problematic. In my first-ever Medium post, I reflect on why:
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Rainbow Falls State Park, an island of protected old growth in the western WA lowlands. We're lucky to have it this way!

The Trump admin has yet to provide any coherent justification or path forward for the war with Iran. We need these questions answered.

This shouldn't need to be said, but "peace" presidents don't start needless wars with countries that pose no imminent threat to us.