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What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics. buff.ly/4f6vQFx

“What’s the result of all this fossil fuel industry money in commission elections?” said Daniel Tait of Energy and Policy Institute, a utility watchdog. “Very little renewable energy, and in some cases, like Alabama and Mississippi, overt hostility” to renewables. ow.ly/wJ9g50TYRhc

What really got our attention here: There are private high schools with billion-dollar endowments? Holy Plutocracy, Batman! Guardian Environment theguardian.com/environment/20…

Trump's victory won't stop global climate progress, but it could certainly put a wrench in things. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

This is nuts: "The researchers found that passengers in larger private jets caused more CO2 emissions in an hour than the average person did in a year." Also, some 900,000 of the trips studied were <50 km (31 miles). Story via Damian Carrington The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

At an event late last week in Arizona, anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. said he’d fire and replace 600 people from the National Institutes of Health on “day one” of a second Trump term. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Not great. theguardian.com/environment/20…

"We all live with drought, extreme heat, and fire now — and our relationship to water is connected to just how bad things could get," writes Vox Climate Editor Paige Vega. vox.com/climate/384323…

"What God has given us is a spirit of power, which is a bit of an old-fashioned way to say that we should be empowered, because research shows that when people are overwhelmed with fear it will paralyze us, and that’s the last thing we need right now." insideclimatenews.org/news/12112024/…

Donald Trump wants do Drill, Baby, Drill, but the thing is, the world is already doing that, and it really needs to stop. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Drain the swamp? Yeah, right. Donald Trump just assigned another fox to guard the henhouse—a fox that happens to be the top pick of one of Trump's oil billionaire donors, Harold Hamm. Wrote it up for Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Our friends at Vox have a great explainer about the brutal, brutal air pollution now plaguing India and Pakistan. Super toxic, and per one official, "a national disaster." vox.com/climate/387135…