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What Does AI Cost Us Environmentally? Cities Could Demand Answers www.theenergymix.com/what-does-ai...

Canadian article also applies to U.S. AI Data Center energy demands, especially in Texas

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What Does AI Cost Us Environmentally? Cities Could Demand Answers
Climate conscious consumers and governments alike want to embrace artificial intelligence, but its true environmental toll remains largely hidden.
www.theenergymix.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Climate leader has a message for the ‘world capital of hydrocarbons’: It’s solar’s time to shine www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

It's a shame @billmckibben.bsky.social left X because those on X, but not here, also need to hear his messaging

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Climate activist Bill McKibben to Houston: It’s solar’s time to shine
Climate activist Bill McKibben said solar power’s rapid growth is good news, even if it could be bad news for Houston’s petrochemical-reliant economy.
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers insideclimatenews.org/news/2407202...

Bad for environment & consumers

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Trump’s AI Action Plan Waives Federal Environmental Rules in the Development of Data Centers - Inside Climate News
The administration’s “Build, Baby, Build!” approach to AI would also increase reliance on fossil fuels to power the massive server farms Big Tech needs in its race to develop the most powerful forms o...
insideclimatenews.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We cannot wait till 2028 to replace Donald Trump & a servile GOP. Environmental voters need to become more partisan & elect a democratic Congress in 2026

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Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn
US president using ‘invented’ national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts say
theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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‘A self-inflicted tragedy’: Congress approves reversal of US climate policy | grist.org/politics/a-s...

Trumpian performance by GOP compounded by insufficient outrage on bluesky

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‘A self-inflicted tragedy’: Congress approves reversal of US climate policy
Once Trump signs the megabill, the country will no longer have a federal plan to address the climate crisis.
grist.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Trump Froze Nobel Prize Winning Armenian-American Scientist's Grant. Then China Offered Him Funding at Any School. He turned it down.

Of course, the only thing worse than a state turning into an authoritarian dictatorship is one that already is. ⚛️ 🧪 www.ibtimes.com/trump-froze-...
Trump Froze Nobel Prize Winning Lebanese-American Scientist's Grant. Then China Offered Him Funding at Any School
Ardem Patapoutian declined 20 years of research funding at any Chinese university despite the Trump administration freezing his federal grant.
www.ibtimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Trump has summarily fired all 400 contributors to the National Climate Assessment. Their next report, which is mandated by Congress, was due in 2028. Trump had previously canceled funding used to coordinate the project.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says
President Donald Trump's administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts, according to an email sent to them on Monday.
www.reuters.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Climate education will go a long way.
#ClimateTruth
April 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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www.iea.org/reports/glob...
What determines how greenhouse gasses impact the climate?
1. Their ability to absorb energy
2. Length of time they remain in the atmosphere
#BlueEarth
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Understanding methane emissions – Global Methane Tracker 2024 – Analysis - IEA
Global Methane Tracker 2024 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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eladelantado.com/news/banana-...

Bananas are a favored fruit by most Americans so maybe the impact of #climatechage on their future production may convert some climate deniers into activists

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Farewell to the banana as we know it - climate change threatens 80% of global exports
If you have grown up near a farm, and gone to live near a city, you might have noticed a strange phenomenon: most Western individuals have reduced their
eladelantado.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts? insideclimatenews.org/news/2205202...

Environmentalists need to end bipartisan efforts & seek retribution against the GOP

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House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts? - Inside Climate News
The fate of the Inflation Reduction Act is in the hands of a few dozen elected officials who are weighing principles, partisan leanings and their districts’ economic interests.
insideclimatenews.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...

U.S. global climate & aid program cuts by Trump Administration are proving to be disastrous for millions

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How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.
theconversation.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Proposed Cuts to Energy and Environment Programs in Trump’s Budget Worry Advocates and Elected Officials insideclimatenews.org/news/0505202...

Republicans need to have the courage to vote against cuts doing damage to their constituents

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Proposed Cuts to Energy and Environment Programs in Trump’s Budget Worry Advocates and Elected Officials - Inside Climate News
President Trump presented billions of dollars in cuts to programs that, among other things, would fund renewable energy research and cover heating costs for low-income Americans.
insideclimatenews.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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When you pay even a little attention to the environment, big changes happen
#WeHaveSolutions
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.
April 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🚨The multilateral economic system is under assault & every single pillar of the rules-based order, from respect for the law to the self-determination of nations & historic commitments to humanitarian aid. A simultaneous breakdown in economic & geopolitical orders.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is pushing the world towards recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent it | Gordon Brown
In the first of a two-part series, the former prime minister outlines a global response to Donald Trump’s tariffs
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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45/7 issued an order blocking states from enforcing laws to combat and mitigate climate change. Governors Kathy Hochul of New York and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico basically said he can go piss up a rope.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump issues order to block state climate change policies
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change.
www.reuters.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

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84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Trump Plans Earth Day Assault on U.S. Climate Non-Profits’ Tax Status www.theenergymix.com/trump-plans-...

Trump's constitutional & financial crises dominate the news, but America must push back on his environmental attacks
#EarthDay2025

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U.S. Climate Non-Profits’ Tax Status Threatened by Trump
The tax-exempt status of U.S. climate non-profits could soon be focus of a Donald Trump executive order.
www.theenergymix.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Ninety percent of Christian leaders believe humans are causing climate change and that taking action on climate change aligns with their moral values. However, only 50% have mentioned it to their congregants at least once.

thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#semantics #longtermlogic cutting Spending not same as cutting Costs. Cutting environmental protection now will increase health costs later
April 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM