Say No to CMP's Proposed $228 Rate Hike! Heads up! CMP is seeking two new rate hikes: one on July 1, 2026, and another in May of next year. If the PUC approved these hikes, the average CMP customer will pay $228 more each year. Last fall, ...

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When CMP asked for a big rate hike last summer, we organized. We submitted comments. We testified. And the PUC listened. For the first time ever, they rejected a CMP rate hike completely. Let's do it again!

Sign our Fight the Hike petition today! 2/3

A cool hand painted sign by ARRT! Artists Rapid Response Team of Maine. It shows a stop sign against a green background with a CMP profit line going up and up into a flock of dollar signs $$$

Central Maine Power wants to raise our rates yet again – this time by another $216 a year.
Maine people and small businesses can't take it.
CMP needs to start investing in the grid from their own profits – not from our pockets!
Together we can defeat this. 1/3

The Catholic bishops have just made crystal clear the reason that the pope is right and JD Vance is wrong: A just war can't be a war of choice, which this one clearly is. This is a crucial theological, political, and moral argument, and the clarity here is needed and powerful

We're in for some heavy weather This spring, this year, and this eon

see my newsletter yesterday for details
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Every vote will count in the midterms. We'll be working on voter registration soon -- stay tuned for events and volunteer opportunities in your area!

Sarah Stillman reports on the families and children being held in ICE detention, often facing medical neglect. Egregious conditions have been reported at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WPOGLM

Congress: Sponsor the AI Data Center Moratorium Act! Energy-hungry data centers and the use of unregulated AI are spiking electricity costs, guzzling water unsustainably, driving more fossil fuel pollution, and worsening the climate crisis. We need to ...

Energy-hungry data centers and the use of unregulated AI are spiking electricity costs, guzzling water unsustainably, driving more fossil fuel pollution, and worsening the climate crisis.

Tell your members of Congress: No New Data Centers! Pass the AI Data Center Moratorium Act.

Hill staffers expect more fallout from the recent misconduct allegations.

More in What A Day: https://bit.ly/4vNvuwD

Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

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The fossil fuel illusion, and New York’s chance to move beyond it It’s absurd that in 2026 our nation’s ability to power itself can be upended by conflict thousands of miles away.

Op-ed by NY State Senator @ebottcher.bsky.social:

"New York’s climate law is not just environmental policy. It is an economic policy. It is a strategy to modernize our infrastructure, create jobs, and reduce our dependence on fuels whose price and supply are dictated by forces beyond our borders."

Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War An energy-hungry world is being pushed away by America and into China’s arms

Who leads the Electrotech world is secondary, given the #ClimateCrisis, "Yet it’s sad to watch this country sabotage itself and cede the most important industry of the future to China. ... In the end, we aren’t just burning fossil fuels; we’re also burning our future."

Here comes the sun: New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows The Sunny Act could remove barriers and allow all New Yorkers to hang their own solar panels.

Support the SUNNY Act!

"The Sunny Act, a bill that the state Legislature could vote on this spring, would allow apartment dwellers, whether renters or homeowners, to use easy-to-install and affordable solar power like the type Phillips is trying out."

The Trump administration will cure us of our woke obsession with…dry land.

Thanks to the Third Actors who represented our working group at the Earth Day / EV celebration in Whittier on April 11, which defied the weather reports by being a gorgeous day, and was attended by over 1,500 people!

Come to one of our other events:
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We're in for some heavy weather This spring, this year, and this eon

It's very hot, El Niño will make it hotter, and the latest science shows more danger of Atlantic currents collapsing.
Other than that, it's going great!
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Arch Insanity: Protest and Press Conference Speak Out Against Arch Insanity! Join us at the National Building Museum at Thursday, 4/16, at 10:00 AM to protest desecration of landscape of our national capital with a monsterous vanity arch. O...

actionnetwork.org/events/arch-... In or near DC on Thursday? Join Actions Lab and friends for this pop-up rally and protest against the Trump arch.

Will delaying New York's climate law save you $4,000, or cost you $9,000? New York lawmakers and environmental advocates rallied at the State Capitol to defend the state’s climate law, arguing that delaying emissions deadlines and cap-and-invest rules will cost New…

At Tuesday's press conference led by @senatorharckham.bsky.social, the @nyrenews.bsky.social coalition noted costs of the delay:

-over $8,500 per household in energy bills over 5 years

-150,000 lost jobs

-up to $60 billion in lost local revenue without green infrastructure projects

“Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

The bills seeking to shield oil companies from lawsuits send the message that “you can pollute with impunity,” said Carly Phillips of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It’s really a thumb in the eye of places that are affected by climate change.”

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.

Not healthcare, not education, not poverty, not houselessness, not science, not research.

Asia Races Ahead on Clean Growth While the West Idles: Polman As many western countries take the slow road through the energy transition, Asia is aggressively “rewiring the global economy,” says business leader and sustainable development advocate Paul Polman.

As many western countries take the slow road through the #EnergyTransition, #Asia is aggressively “rewiring the global economy,” says @paulpolman.bsky.social. He sees a seismic difference between how the West is managing its transition off fossil fuels and the path pursued by many Asian countries.

Nevertheless, we continue to engineer their extinction. Kind of like what's happening in Gaza and Lebanon.

A flyer, dark blue with a smoke stack with billowing smoke filling the sky above it. Over it the text in yellow and white says NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL BIG OIL IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW TELL CONGRESS: NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL

Big Oil is asking Congress for a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card. We can’t let that happen. Join us in calling on members of Congress to take a stand and say NO immunity for Big Oil.

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A flyer, dark blue with a smoke stack with billowing smoke filling the sky above it. Over it the text in yellow and white says NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL BIG OIL IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW TELL CONGRESS: NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL

Big Oil is asking Congress for a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card. We can’t let that happen. Join us in calling on members of Congress to take a stand and say NO immunity for Big Oil.

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News stories like this are why we at Third Act are kicking off the STOP THE MADNESS: Data Center Moratorium campaign, along with Public Citizen and Food & Water Watch.

Join the call April 20, 4pm PDT: thirdact.org/events/stop-...

The Trump administration’s justification for scrapping environmental protections always comes back to money.

But their estimates avoid or downplay the stunning costs of letting climate change continue unchecked -- even as extreme weather brings the risk into focus...