Cathy Cowan Becker
@ccbecker271.bsky.social
I just want to use whatever time I've got left on Earth to help save this beautiful planet from those who want to do it harm.
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
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OH Supreme Court to decide on upholding approval of 6,000-acre Oak Run solar-- a @billgates.bsky.social investor project. @dispatch.com: bit.ly/3JrzsHT
We need solar over parking lots, on Ohio flat roofs over schools, warehouses and data centers, too.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social
We need solar over parking lots, on Ohio flat roofs over schools, warehouses and data centers, too.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social
MSN
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November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OH Supreme Court to decide on upholding approval of 6,000-acre Oak Run solar-- a @billgates.bsky.social investor project. @dispatch.com: bit.ly/3JrzsHT
We need solar over parking lots, on Ohio flat roofs over schools, warehouses and data centers, too.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social
We need solar over parking lots, on Ohio flat roofs over schools, warehouses and data centers, too.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social
Interview starts about 8 minutes in. The guys at the Hilliard Beacon did a great job! HB 15 has forced a 73 MW gas fuel cell to power a data center on an unsuspecting community with no public hearing - just as I said it would. This will emit 1.45 million lbs of CO2 per day. More here.
.@saveohioparks.bsky.social ' Cathy Cowan Becker on Ohio energy law benefitting oil and gas by squeezing community ability to respond to data centers powered by polluting natural gas. Hilliard Beacon: bit.ly/3LO4xpG
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HBAC 136: Save Ohio Parks' - Cathy Cowan Becker
Advocate and organizer joins to unpack the legislation behind the Amazon Fuel Cell project. (image courtesy of Paul Becker for Save Ohio Parks)
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November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Interview starts about 8 minutes in. The guys at the Hilliard Beacon did a great job! HB 15 has forced a 73 MW gas fuel cell to power a data center on an unsuspecting community with no public hearing - just as I said it would. This will emit 1.45 million lbs of CO2 per day. More here.
Much of what is in Sub SB 219 was already vetoed once when they tried to put it into the budget bill this spring. This is a series of favors for the oil and gas industry at the expense of fracking public lands. If they pass it again, Gov. Mike DeWine needs to veto it again.
Thank you, @ccbecker271.bsky.social of @saveohioparks.bsky.social, @kentksmith.bsky.social, Sen. Bill DeMora, who questioned Sub SB 219 hearing wording on gas & oil industry cleanup liability. Begin min. 18:16: bit.ly/4oR9AUy
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Ohio Senate Energy Committee | The Ohio Channel
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Much of what is in Sub SB 219 was already vetoed once when they tried to put it into the budget bill this spring. This is a series of favors for the oil and gas industry at the expense of fracking public lands. If they pass it again, Gov. Mike DeWine needs to veto it again.
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Enough is enough. 🚨 T-Mobile can’t claim to be a “force for good” while cozying up to Elon and supporting authoritarianism.
Join in and hang up on T-Mobile 📞☎️ #BoycottTMobile: actionnetwork.org/forms/hang-u...
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Join in and hang up on T-Mobile 📞☎️ #BoycottTMobile: actionnetwork.org/forms/hang-u...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Enough is enough. 🚨 T-Mobile can’t claim to be a “force for good” while cozying up to Elon and supporting authoritarianism.
Join in and hang up on T-Mobile 📞☎️ #BoycottTMobile: actionnetwork.org/forms/hang-u...
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
Join in and hang up on T-Mobile 📞☎️ #BoycottTMobile: actionnetwork.org/forms/hang-u...
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
This is a great resource for @saveohioparks.bsky.social and anyone else fighting methane extraction in their communities. When they frack Ohio's state parks and public lands, this is where much of the gas will go. Look at the insanity on the Gulf Coast! stand.earth/lng-false-cl...
🗺️ 🏭 🧟 🥊 Tankers, flare stacks, and fossil fuels—oh my!
Check out this new map tool to get an overview of polluting LNG projects across North America. stand.earth/lng-false-cl...
Check out this new map tool to get an overview of polluting LNG projects across North America. stand.earth/lng-false-cl...
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is a great resource for @saveohioparks.bsky.social and anyone else fighting methane extraction in their communities. When they frack Ohio's state parks and public lands, this is where much of the gas will go. Look at the insanity on the Gulf Coast! stand.earth/lng-false-cl...
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100 years of changing November sea ice...
Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i....
Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i....
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
100 years of changing November sea ice...
Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i....
Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i....
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Scary, comprehensive story on the data center boom by Stephen Witt @newyorker.com: bit.ly/3JIwCOF
It doesn't look good for Ohioans' health, farms or planet.
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @greglandsman.bsky.social @bryndippoldjn.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
It doesn't look good for Ohioans' health, farms or planet.
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @greglandsman.bsky.social @bryndippoldjn.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
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November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Scary, comprehensive story on the data center boom by Stephen Witt @newyorker.com: bit.ly/3JIwCOF
It doesn't look good for Ohioans' health, farms or planet.
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @greglandsman.bsky.social @bryndippoldjn.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
It doesn't look good for Ohioans' health, farms or planet.
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @greglandsman.bsky.social @bryndippoldjn.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
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Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
The United States could be doing this, but no. Instead we are handing the future to China.
In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The United States could be doing this, but no. Instead we are handing the future to China.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Welcome to November! Here's a look at how temperatures have changed around our planet over the last four decades...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Welcome to November! Here's a look at how temperatures have changed around our planet over the last four decades...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
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BREAKING: A judge says that Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voter registration form, siding with Democrats and civil rights groups.
Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced. U.S.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
BREAKING: A judge says that Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voter registration form, siding with Democrats and civil rights groups.
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Help spread the word about @saveohioparks.bsky.social. We work to ban fracking under state parks and Lake Erie.
Sustainable gifts, with profits going to our education efforts. bit.ly/3WGOXOZ
@healthylakes.org @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
Sustainable gifts, with profits going to our education efforts. bit.ly/3WGOXOZ
@healthylakes.org @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
Save Ohio Parks | End Fracking of Public Lands | Bonfire
A grassroots movement trying to stop fracking of Ohio public lands
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November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Help spread the word about @saveohioparks.bsky.social. We work to ban fracking under state parks and Lake Erie.
Sustainable gifts, with profits going to our education efforts. bit.ly/3WGOXOZ
@healthylakes.org @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
Sustainable gifts, with profits going to our education efforts. bit.ly/3WGOXOZ
@healthylakes.org @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @butlercountydemsoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 11 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
Hey @awscloud.bsky.social Take note
On AI: Batteries can shift solar generation to compete with gas plants in the evening, when energy demand rises.
If data centers pull less power during high demand. Julian Spector @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/3WVzhHF
@aepnews.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social
If data centers pull less power during high demand. Julian Spector @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/3WVzhHF
@aepnews.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social
In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey @awscloud.bsky.social Take note
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Hilliard resident started citizen petition against world's second-largest fuel cell-powered data center.
Amazon, @aepnews.bsky.social and Ohio GOP want 73MW center powered by fracked natural gas: @nbc4i.com: bit.ly/4oppAgI
Speak out, Ohio!
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social
Amazon, @aepnews.bsky.social and Ohio GOP want 73MW center powered by fracked natural gas: @nbc4i.com: bit.ly/4oppAgI
Speak out, Ohio!
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hilliard resident started citizen petition against world's second-largest fuel cell-powered data center.
Amazon, @aepnews.bsky.social and Ohio GOP want 73MW center powered by fracked natural gas: @nbc4i.com: bit.ly/4oppAgI
Speak out, Ohio!
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social
Amazon, @aepnews.bsky.social and Ohio GOP want 73MW center powered by fracked natural gas: @nbc4i.com: bit.ly/4oppAgI
Speak out, Ohio!
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social
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Marietta seeks seismologist to help study drinking water contamination from migrating oil and gas waste from injection wells. News and Sentinel: bit.ly/4qzcmj7
That citizens have to do this speaks volumes about Ohio's "safe" regulation of oil and gas.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @dispatch.com
That citizens have to do this speaks volumes about Ohio's "safe" regulation of oil and gas.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @dispatch.com
Marietta City Council committees meet
Marietta City Council’s Streets and Transportation; Water, Sewer and Sanitation; and Public Lands and Buildings committees met Tuesday to discuss a variety of topics. The agenda for the Water, Sewer a...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Marietta seeks seismologist to help study drinking water contamination from migrating oil and gas waste from injection wells. News and Sentinel: bit.ly/4qzcmj7
That citizens have to do this speaks volumes about Ohio's "safe" regulation of oil and gas.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @dispatch.com
That citizens have to do this speaks volumes about Ohio's "safe" regulation of oil and gas.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @dispatch.com
One thing communities should not have to expect is the world's second largest fracked gas fuel cell next to homes and schools. Yet that's what the people of Hilliard Ohio are getting, thanks to a state legislature pushing gas industry profits over the health of our people.
Midwest data centers: Tech companies want access to our land. Our infrastructure, energy and water.
Don't give it up for nothing, or in a way that hurts our communities. @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4qvDPlK
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @maxfilby.dispatch.com @journalnews.bsky.social
Don't give it up for nothing, or in a way that hurts our communities. @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4qvDPlK
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @maxfilby.dispatch.com @journalnews.bsky.social
As the Data Center Boom Ramps Up in the Rural Midwest, What Should Communities Expect? - Inside Climate News
The rapid development will change the Corn Belt in significant, unforeseen ways. Residents are just beginning to grapple with what that means.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
One thing communities should not have to expect is the world's second largest fracked gas fuel cell next to homes and schools. Yet that's what the people of Hilliard Ohio are getting, thanks to a state legislature pushing gas industry profits over the health of our people.
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Let's see this happen with pension funds in the United States! They also invest a lot of money in fossil fuels.
💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan.
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
Legal Challenge to Protect CPP from Climate Risk — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
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October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let's see this happen with pension funds in the United States! They also invest a lot of money in fossil fuels.
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Ohio lawmakers should NOT permit fracked gas power plants to power Amazon, AEP data centers.
Ohio needs a sane energy plan-- including renewables.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4qpHnpP
@nickieantonio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social
Ohio needs a sane energy plan-- including renewables.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4qpHnpP
@nickieantonio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social
The good, the bad, and the ugly on Ohio’s long overdue energy legislation • Ohio Capital Journal
Rolling back coal subsidies under a new proposed Ohio energy bill would be great news, but would come at a high cost. Instead of bailing out nuclear plants, Ohioans could find themselves living next t...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ohio lawmakers should NOT permit fracked gas power plants to power Amazon, AEP data centers.
Ohio needs a sane energy plan-- including renewables.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4qpHnpP
@nickieantonio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social
Ohio needs a sane energy plan-- including renewables.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4qpHnpP
@nickieantonio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social