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From Sammy Roth: Even if California is doing a relatively good job of building large solar farms in the desert, that’s no excuse for blocking small-scale solar installations in cities — on rooftops, parking lots, warehouses, abandoned lots & elsewhere.
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Californian batteries are kicking gas’s ass

US auto industry continues to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

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Renewable sources accounted for 30% of global electricity for the first time in 2023. 'As a result, 2023 will likely go down in history as the peak of emissions in the power sector,' writes Ember's Dave Jones. semafor.com/newsletter/05/…

The murder rate is down 19% in 2024 thus far, per data collected directly from 236 cities across the US.

(Some major cities — like San Francisco, Baltimore, and Philidelphia — have seen much larger decreases.)

Fierce heat in INDIA.
39.0 Bangalore centre new all time high yesterday, today some areas of India had MINIMUMS up to 34C.
Nearly 42C in Northern China where a historic heat wave might send the temperature to 45C next days.
In May and at 43 of latitude!
Never happened worldwide

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this, but it's startling that the Met Gala theme is JG Ballard's story, 'The Garden of Time,' a fantasy about rich, decadent idlers who spend their entire store of magic failing to beat back a mob that engulfs them. lithub.com/read-the-1962-…

Depending on how and where ethanol is made, the biofuel can be just as polluting as — or worse than — the fossil jet fuel it’s meant to replace, studies show bit.ly/3QD6PHV

A historic moment in TX: #solar has outpaced coal generation for a full month, a significant milestone for #cleanenergy . Sunnova is at the forefront, driving innovation and delivering solar + #batterystorage to customers.

More from Canary Media. bit.ly/3wcUqmX

So far, in 2024, wind and solar (38%) are running neck and neck with natural gas (40%) for biggest generation share in Texas. Noteworthy also that natural gas share is down from 45% in 2023.

What's really important is that we condemn property damage at Columbia University.

Total's Patrick Pouyanné says the quiet bit out loud: clean hydrogen is expensive. But expecting new use cases in transport to do the heavy lifting and drive down production costs was always absolutely delusional (or downright cynical - you choose).
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Are we legally allowed to criticize Israel's minister of finance for calling for the 'total annihilation' of the Palestinian city of Rafah and the Deir al-Balah and Nuseirat refugee camps, as he did on Monday?
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

There’s a lot of shit in this world but this guy is a rare bright spot.

In this South Dakota town, it was a tradition: waffle and eggs, a little pheasant hunting, then drag your puppy into a gravel pit and shoot her in the head. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

Archer Daniels Midland's CCS project at an Illinois ethanol plant -- the only operating CCS project with a Class VI permit from the EPA -- has been a climate boondoggle, only capturing 7% of annual emissions and even had CO2 leak from monitoring wells in 2022

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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