Wow! Ethiopia is jumping to EVs & will ban importing ICE. Why? It can't afford to spend annually $5 billion on oil imports!

EVs are already ~10% of Ethiopia's auto FLEET!

Ethiopia Shows Us Just How Fast The Transition To Electric Mobility Can Happen In Africa - CleanTechnica

NM new climate investment center (aka Green Bank) hopes to disburse loan funds this year. abqjournal-nm.newsmemory.com/?publink=09e17…

Grid Enhancing Technologies-GETs reviewed at PRC as a fast way to open up grid capacity for new renewables.
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NASA/ESA Huygens probe descending on the surface of the Titan, a moon of Saturn 😲

It went offline shortly after touching down

35 seconds! That’s how long Trump froze when his teleprompter stopped scrolling at yesterday’s NRA convention. He can't think or speak without a teleprompter. All he could do was shake his head in frustration & grimace in embarrassment until it restarted.

This is not an easy statement for a meteorologist to make, as there is a lot of pressure to not wade into these climate waters. Big kudos to Steve for being bold and honest.

Mark your calendars for 6:30pm May 28. Abq city councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn will explain how Abq can re-use stormwater runoff in our water table and for irrigation. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/846573…
Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Conservation Voters New Mexico NM-El Paso IPL

Very cool story on how Oakland is using its 74 electric school buses to send power back to the grid at key times -- saving money for the school district and also making life easier for PG&E as it works to keep the lights on and reduce costs for customers: wired.com/story/these-el…

Dr. Will Athas, a former NM Dept. of Health employee and prof at UNM says: We should learn from our past environmental mistakes & not repeat them. Proponents have cherry-picked studies. He notes: What are the FUTURE 'trade secret' fracking chemicals?

Here's our comment guide. We need people to dial in and speak on why produced water has no place outside the oilfield and is too dangerous to toy with: westernlaw.org/wp-content/upl…

Great news! The Clean Car Tax Credit is now in effect! NM residents can receive up to $3k in tax credits for buying or leasing an EV, or charging infrastructure! #GoGreen #NMpol #NMleg sfreporter.com/news/morningwo…

JUST IN: Apocalyptic scenes out of Houston, Texas as severe thunderstorms sweep through the city, demolishing buildings in the downtown area.

80 mph winds blew out windows in downtown Houston and knocked out power for 1 million residents.

Four people have reportedly been

I still sometimes hear the statistic that 97% of scientists agree on the causes of curent climate change - but that research was published in 2013!

A more recent analysis showed the consensus within the peer-reviewed literature to be over 99%, and perhaps as high as 99.9%

⚡🚘Not sure if you realised but electric cars have bagged nearly half the new car market in China🇨🇳

'New-energy vehicles', including EVs and PHEVs, reached a record-high 44% of sales in April, up from 34% a year earlier and just 4% in 2020

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CNM ready to roll out new EV certification program krqe.com/news/albuquerq…

.Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Conservation Voters New Mexico Joseph F. Hernandez NM-El Paso IPL ProgressNow New Mexico

WATCH: NM Attorney Ann McCartney with NM-El Paso IPL calls on Secretary Pete Buttigieg PHMSA to #CutMethane NOW with final Advanced Leak Detection standards that will protect her family & community from the health consequences of dangerous air pollution. bit.ly/3WEbUU6

Stop whatever you’re doing and take a few minutes to listen to this breathtaking speech by Lauren MacDonald🌻 #StopRosebank telling oil chiefs that, since they have no humanity to appeal to, we will instead fight to stop them destroying our living planet for profit.

Oakland, California's school district is now the first in the nation to have a 100% electric bus fleet — and they're all 'vehicle to grid' capable, able to discharge up to 2.7 megawatts and 2.1 gigawatt-hours back into the PG&E grid.
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