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Russell Chisholm

@baristanomics.blog

Coffee + climate cogitator. Holler to holler. Home in Appalachia. https://linktr.ee/baristanomics

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J. Mijin Cha@jmijin.bsky.social · yesterday

I really like this because when you identify emissions as the cause, the solution is clear- end the emissions. When you say the cause is climate change, while true, it takes a minute to get to the solution and you lose people. End fossil fuel emissions, it's clear.

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d ago

The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

Russell Chisholm@baristanomics.blog · 3w ago

I understand the loathing that drives AI and data center opposition. I will never understand why the general public does not despise fossil fuel corporations with the same zeal. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.

State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

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Russell Chisholm@baristanomics.blog · 3w ago

RVA: People are organizing against the Dominion/NextEra merger. It would be the largest electric utility merger in American history, and it would hand NextEra control over which data centers get connected to the grid, and how fast. NextEra also owns a big chunk of Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Rally & Press Conference: Virginians Say No to the Utility Merger

Virginia families are about to get stuck with the bill for an out-of-state corporate takeover. NextEra wants regulators to approve its acquisition of Dominion Energy, and ratepayers like you will be...

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Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is not what we want to hear about anything relating to climate—and we're going to be hearing it more and more. Fight for this world with all you have.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3w ago

One important caveat: the models have never been verified in this territory. They have real, demonstrated skill at this lead time for ordinary events, but no ensemble has ever forecast a 3.5C El Niño because one has never happened. We are both figuratively and literally in uncharted waters.

Daniel Bachman@danielbachman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just put a stream of my new one up at Patreon, and will share the masters there when I get them as well. This project will hopefully be coming out around Halloween, and a full length documentary film on the material will be available for stream then too. Thanks for all the help everyone! Link below.

Me holding a Zoom recorder up to my guitar while it washes in the surf along Hughlett Point Natural Area in Virginia's Northern Neck/Chesapeake Bay. You can see the dead pine tree stumps in the water. This area is losing land 2nd only to Louisiana in the US.
Russell Chisholm@baristanomics.blog · last mo.

"I'll tell you what I'm celebrating. I'm celebrating all the people. The human beings of my country, particularly those who have been bold enough to believe a different story, and to try their hand at telling it, to put their hands to the work of making it happen..."

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote about living in a country that is hard to celebrate, and of an alternate vision we are invited to join and inherit, in order to make a country that would be worth a sense of pride. www.the-reframe.com/patriots-of-...

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last mo.

Justin Hendrix spoke to the Southern Environmental Law Center's Amanda Garcia about how the group and its partners gathered evidence on xAI's gas turbines in Memphis and Southaven and pushed for accountability. With DOJ now siding with xAI, the case is a harbinger of a broader struggle.

Inside SELC's Clean Air Case Against xAI in Memphis

A conversation with Amanda Garcia, senior attorney and data center project leader in the Tennessee office of the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · last mo.

This is an excellent time to be fighting for better. So many places where you can ACT and be constructive. Let the side that you choose to fight against feel "the stubborn ounces of [your] weight." Onwards!

Mountain State Spotlight@mtnstspotlight.bsky.social · last mo.

In the 1990s, West Virginia passed a law requiring local approval for large landfills, giving communities a voice in their future. Now, residents facing data center developments are looking to that same history for a template on how to regain local control.

West Virginia communities won landfill control decades ago. Locals want control over data centers, too.

40 years ago, communities fought against out-of-state garbage being dumped in West Virginia. Now, they’re fighting against data centers.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

West Virginia Watch@westvirginiawatch.com · last mo.

Chemours would pay $11.25M to WV under proposed settlement in federal case over PFAS discharges westvirginiawatch.com/2026/06/25/c...

Chemours would pay $11.25M to WV under proposed settlement in federal case over PFAS discharges • West Virginia Watch

West Virginia could receive more than $11 million under a proposed settlement that, if approved by a federal court, would require the Chemours Chemical Company to pay $22.5 million in civil penalties…

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