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🚨Bombshell EE News/Politico story exposes Trump White House interference at the NRC 👀

And even industry proponents think it's going too far... 
www.eenews.net/articles/how...
February 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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A new Energy Institute at Haas working paper models how solar and batteries can use the existing grid to meet the needs of data centers. Research by Duncan Callaway, Emilia Chojkiewicz and Amol Phadke.

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/a...
A Solution for the Fast Data Center Connection Challenge
Lean in on America’s fastest growing source of electricity supply. This week’s blog is co-authored with Emilia Chojkiewicz and Amol Phadke. Taking projections of all utilities in the U.S. tog…
energyathaas.wordpress.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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🚨New NuclearCosts guest blog today from NEIS's David Kraft:

“First get your facts straight; then you can distort them as much as you want" 👇

nuclearcosts.org/regarding-nu...
January 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Roughly 75 percent of the drop in rainfall can be directly linked to deforestation
And a drier Amazon is burning like never before
They have killed the Amazon - one of the lungs of the Earth
www.conservation.org/news/news-sp...
News spotlight: Deforestation linked to dramatic decline in Amazon rainfall | Conservation International
The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.
www.conservation.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Are we filling our House with Dynamite?

Newly declassified documents highlight the dire threat of nuclear terrorism posed by Trump's plan to Make Nuclear Great Again.

Nuclear expert Ed Lyman in @BulletinAtomic 👇
thebulletin.org/2025/11/decl...
Declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel
The declassified document reveals an urgent need for an international review of the proliferation risks of HALEU.
thebulletin.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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www.solarpowerworldonline.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🟥 Blindspot for the Right:
Words that Trump’s Department of Energy is reportedly telling staff not to say, per Politico:
October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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⚠️Portland’s CEI Hub supplies 90% of Oregon’s liquid fuel and sits on earthquake-vulnerable soil. The City’s Oct 1 (tonight!) info session (5:30–7 PM) discusses alternatives—but only Alt 4 begins to address the risk.

4️⃣ is the floor.
October 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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You aren't remembering right.

Germany now burns less coal than at any time when they had nuclear power.

Germany, despite being a smaller country and further from the equator, gets a higher % of electricity from renewables than Australia does!
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
Public Electricity Generation 2024: Renewable Energies cover more than 60 Percent of German Electricity Consumption for the First Time - Fraunhofer ISE
In Germany, net public electricity generation from renewable energy sources reached a record share of 62.7 percent in 2024. Carbon dioxide emissions in the German electricity mix were lower than ever ...
www.ise.fraunhofer.de
March 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Multiple datasets will show that 2024 was about 1.6°C above the pre-industrial baseline!

And >0.1°C above 2023.

We're in uncharted territory!
December 24, 2024 at 2:10 PM