“My community has been gutted. The trail crew, wilderness crew, timber crew. We truly care for this resource we’ve been protecting. You have to be standing there to understand the beauty of it & how delicate it is.” newyorker.com/news/the-lede/… On Trump's felling of the US Forest

How Switzerland cleaned their rivers.

The 2025 edition of BloombergNEF's New Energy Outlook presents a new, updated base-case scenario and a deep dive into key trends affecting the energy transition in the next 10 years. 💡 Get the executive summary 👉 about.bnef.com/new-energy-out… #NewEnergyOutlook #EnergyTransition

President Xi said on Wednesday that China will announce its 2035 nationally determined contributions (NDCs) covering all economic sectors and all greenhouse gases before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil xhtxs.cn/24G

The secret sewage ‘illegally’ dumped into rivers and seas channel4.com/news/the-secre…

Water companies are polluting the environment, wasting billpayer money and failing to protect water supplies theguardian.com/business/2025/…

FT: UK to announce final go-ahead for flagship carbon capture project ft.com/content/ad9bda… #CCS #CCUS Malcolm Moore

Fearing no planning lessons have been learned from poultry pollution on the River Wye, residents & conservation groups are urging West Berkshire Council council to reject plans for a new 32,000 poultry unit on the River Kennet floodplain – a highly sensitive SSSI. anglingtrust.net/2025/04/01/pou…

Brilliant news that the Court upheld the ban on sandeel fishing in UK waters - a great victory for the seabirds and fish who depend on sandeels to survive 👏👏👏

2 million litres of water PER DAY is what an average 100-megawatt data center in the US uses, according to the International Energy Agency.

NYTimes: U.S. Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather, making it harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms. nytimes.com/2025/05/08/cli… @NYTimes

Guardian: Exceptionally low river flows forecast across UK as drought threat grows. Profiteering water companies letting down customers, and continuing to poison struggling the UK’s water courses with sewage ⁦Rachel Salvidge⁩ ⁦RiverActionUK⁩ ⁦ theguardian.com/environment/20…

FT: Droughts are major threat to Eurozone economy, warns ⁦European Central Bank⁩ - Droughts could wipe out nearly 15 per cent of economic output in the Eurozone, the European Central Bank has warned. on.ft.com/4k9x5Gw

FT: US hands victory to China in gutting Biden-era green energy tax breaks. Inflation Reduction Act architect Podesta says it hurts key Republican states, drives up consumer prices, hits US jobs and “hand[s] a victory” to China ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩ on.ft.com/3H6ZcaS

Burning Roads, Invading Octopus Signal a Hot Summer Ahead bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Nvidia's new power play via Tyler Norris

I wonder does the Secretary of State for the Environment understand yet what his staff have just done to his credibility?

Revealed: river pollution twice as bad inside national parks as outside them theguardian.com/environment/20…

Axios: GE Vernova + Deep Sky, a Canadian carbon removal developer, unveiled plans to deploy GE's direct air capture system at a hub in Alberta. It's GEV’s first commercial #DAC deployment deal + aims for 1,500 tons of removal capacity at Deep Sky's Alpha site by late 2026 #CWNYC

FT: Permian Power Crunch - There isn’t enough electricity to go around in the U.S.’s biggest oilfield with data centres threatening to suck up every last electron - “Data centres are sucking the oxygen out of the room and creating a roadblock for midstream projects.” Kristina Shevory