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Forget the fog and the nose-so-bright. Santa’s going to need a grounded lightning rod! Thanks to global warming the arctic is experiencing thunderstorms. Lightning is striking within 32 miles of the North Pole. e360.yale.edu/features/arc...
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Forget the fog and the nose-so-bright. Santa’s going to need a grounded lightning rod! Thanks to global warming the arctic is experiencing thunderstorms. Lightning is striking within 32 miles of the North Pole. e360.yale.edu/features/arc...
As my 10 year old grandson would say, “we’re cooked!”. We have exceeded the limit of 1.5 degrees on average daily temperature since the pre-industrial age for 12 months. That means most climate models predict irreversible changes which will have dangerous health and financial impacts for humanity.
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As my 10 year old grandson would say, “we’re cooked!”. We have exceeded the limit of 1.5 degrees on average daily temperature since the pre-industrial age for 12 months. That means most climate models predict irreversible changes which will have dangerous health and financial impacts for humanity.
US emissions from coal are expected to edge up in 2025. But, Trump’s push to revive another dead part of history is not the cause. Economists say the record US exports of LNG is driving up the cost of gas here at home making coal, the most expensive form of energy, look better by comparison.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
US emissions from coal are expected to edge up in 2025. But, Trump’s push to revive another dead part of history is not the cause. Economists say the record US exports of LNG is driving up the cost of gas here at home making coal, the most expensive form of energy, look better by comparison.
Grrrr…..
As we have built out renewable energy, generation costs have been going down.
What is driving electricity prices has been increasing costs of upkeep and rebuilding our decrepit 80 year old transmission system - to harden against increasing climate extremes.
What is driving electricity prices has been increasing costs of upkeep and rebuilding our decrepit 80 year old transmission system - to harden against increasing climate extremes.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Grrrr…..
Pipeline safety violation enforcement actions are down 50% since Trump took office. Civil penalties are down 98%. (Pipeline Safety Trust) Are you worried about what a leak from Line 5 could do to the Great Lakes? Learn more on 11/18. Register at www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
Big Oil vs. Big Water Webinar
Discover the risks associated with the threats posed by Line 5 and the proposed tunnel project.
www.oilandwaterdontmix.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Pipeline safety violation enforcement actions are down 50% since Trump took office. Civil penalties are down 98%. (Pipeline Safety Trust) Are you worried about what a leak from Line 5 could do to the Great Lakes? Learn more on 11/18. Register at www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
At the Thanksgiving dinner table, your uncle is going to say we shouldn’t control our CO2 emissions because China isn’t controlling theirs. Well…they are, for 18 months now. And BTW Uncle, do you leave 🐕 💩 in your lawn cause your neighbor does?
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
At the Thanksgiving dinner table, your uncle is going to say we shouldn’t control our CO2 emissions because China isn’t controlling theirs. Well…they are, for 18 months now. And BTW Uncle, do you leave 🐕 💩 in your lawn cause your neighbor does?
Can we name names? It’s Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn who want $$ cause their employer looked at their phone records. Such privilege! Such hubris!!
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Can we name names? It’s Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn who want $$ cause their employer looked at their phone records. Such privilege! Such hubris!!
I’m a volunteer with the Sierra Club. We’re trying to figure out how to stop climate change AND environmental racism because they are the same thing. The New York Times thinks I’m “woke”, that I’ve lost my way. Whatever! I’m going to have fun trying! #sierraclub #sierraclubmi
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’m a volunteer with the Sierra Club. We’re trying to figure out how to stop climate change AND environmental racism because they are the same thing. The New York Times thinks I’m “woke”, that I’ve lost my way. Whatever! I’m going to have fun trying! #sierraclub #sierraclubmi
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This a really good place to start. The biggest failure of that NY times piece is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Environmental Justice IS now the environmental movement and that requires changes in the internal labor and social structure of environmental organizations.
There was an NYT piece last week about the Sierra Club, and (by extension) the current state of the climate movement.
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
I think they got three big things wrong.
davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
davekarpf.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This a really good place to start. The biggest failure of that NY times piece is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Environmental Justice IS now the environmental movement and that requires changes in the internal labor and social structure of environmental organizations.
Here’s an idea from Wisconsin. If data centers are such a boon for the state’s economy, the state can figure out how to protect its residents for increases in electric bills caused by those data centers. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/12/w...
Wisconsin Democrats unveil bill to cap energy costs • Wisconsin Examiner
A proposal from Wisconsin Democrats would cap utility bills at 2% of a household's monthly income to reduce residents' energy burden.
wisconsinexaminer.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Here’s an idea from Wisconsin. If data centers are such a boon for the state’s economy, the state can figure out how to protect its residents for increases in electric bills caused by those data centers. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/12/w...
Do you think utilities should be involved in our politics? In Michigan, DTE spends 100s of thousands against Governor Whitmer when she doesn’t do what they want and gives her millions when she follows their wishes. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/c...
Complaint argues DTE-tied group aimed to funnel $100k into Unlock Michigan campaign • Michigan Advance
A Michigan nonprofit with ties to one of the state’s largest energy companies is accused of participating in a dark money scheme to funnel money into an effort to overturn the governor’s COVID-19 emer...
michiganadvance.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Do you think utilities should be involved in our politics? In Michigan, DTE spends 100s of thousands against Governor Whitmer when she doesn’t do what they want and gives her millions when she follows their wishes. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/c...
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They never fail to disappoint.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They never fail to disappoint.
DTE has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to approve, behind closed doors, a massive contract to supply power to a new data center in Saline Township.
Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to slow this process down and allow for more public input: sc.org/MIOpenAI
Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to slow this process down and allow for more public input: sc.org/MIOpenAI
Stop OpenAI and DTE from Fast-Tracking a 1.4GW Data Center Behind Closed Doors!
DTE Electric Company has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to approve, behind closed doors, a massive contract to supply power to a new data center in Saline Township—large enough to...
sc.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
DTE has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to approve, behind closed doors, a massive contract to supply power to a new data center in Saline Township.
Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to slow this process down and allow for more public input: sc.org/MIOpenAI
Tell the Michigan Public Service Commission to slow this process down and allow for more public input: sc.org/MIOpenAI
This is classic strategy for environmental mis/disinformation. Throw out a red herring on a minor, insignificant issue and then say if the greens have one problem, they can’t be trusted on any problem.
Never thought that the NY Times would be part of the organized opposition at the U.S. of Texaco to take down the environmental movement, but here we are.
Gives the fascist regime even more license to take out NGOs that take on environmental justice issues after the evisceration of the EPA.
Gives the fascist regime even more license to take out NGOs that take on environmental justice issues after the evisceration of the EPA.
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is classic strategy for environmental mis/disinformation. Throw out a red herring on a minor, insignificant issue and then say if the greens have one problem, they can’t be trusted on any problem.
It was not the NYT’s best work.
only thing i have to add here is that this article focuses weirdly on like just 2019-2024, but from my experience as a state pac chair the org began re-framing around “environmental justice” a decade earlier and that focus was a primary reason the org found a new generation of supporters.
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It was not the NYT’s best work.
Trump is playing golf, so he can’t do anything the f*#k up the government today
What brings you hope today?
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Trump is playing golf, so he can’t do anything the f*#k up the government today
Shut down this government. It’s not helping!! @democrats.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov
$40 billion to Argentina. No Epstein files. Record-high prices. No SNAP funding. Health premiums to spike. Threats of war against multiple nations.
MAGA!
MAGA!
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shut down this government. It’s not helping!! @democrats.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov
New England is coal free. C’mon @dte_energy_official www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Last New England Coal Plant Closes Three Years Ahead of Retirement Date
BOW, NH. – Merrimack Station, New England’s last coal-burning plant, has closed.
www.sierraclub.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New England is coal free. C’mon @dte_energy_official www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
I thought Tulsi said we were out of the nation building business?!
Trump supporting:
Fossil fuels
Orban's re-election
Putin
War against Ukraine
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fossil fuels
Orban's re-election
Putin
War against Ukraine
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I thought Tulsi said we were out of the nation building business?!
Thanks to global warming, in 10 years Ann Arbor will feel like Columbus with their spiders and snakes and poisonous nuts. www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thanks to global warming, in 10 years Ann Arbor will feel like Columbus with their spiders and snakes and poisonous nuts. www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
“Under my administration we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months” - Donald Trump, August 2024. Average electric prices are up 11% from $15.93/kwh to $17.62/kwh since he took office. We’ve got some work to do. #globalwarming
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“Under my administration we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months” - Donald Trump, August 2024. Average electric prices are up 11% from $15.93/kwh to $17.62/kwh since he took office. We’ve got some work to do. #globalwarming
Your tax dollars at work 🥺😔😞
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Your tax dollars at work 🥺😔😞
When some folks can’t get SNAP or their Head Start program is closed, is is really tone deaf for others to complain about not being able to fly to vacation.
Ohh darn and our poisoning of the environment by plane exhaust will be lower...pout pout?
The reduction in air traffic could affect up to 4,000 flights daily, according to NBC News.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
When some folks can’t get SNAP or their Head Start program is closed, is is really tone deaf for others to complain about not being able to fly to vacation.
Pritzker and Illinois are adding 213 MW of community solar. Whitmer and Michigan are adding zero, zilch, nada, nothing. Why? pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/04/i.... #communitysolar
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pritzker and Illinois are adding 213 MW of community solar. Whitmer and Michigan are adding zero, zilch, nada, nothing. Why? pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/04/i.... #communitysolar
Fossil fuels cause global warming. Global warming causes droughts. Droughts cause dust storms. Dust storms force changes in agriculture, shut down airports and highways, cause the spread of hepatitis and fungus infections and fertilize our surface water causing algae. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Fossil fuels cause global warming. Global warming causes droughts. Droughts cause dust storms. Dust storms force changes in agriculture, shut down airports and highways, cause the spread of hepatitis and fungus infections and fertilize our surface water causing algae. www.bbc.com/future/artic...