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‘EVs first-half export value surged 75.1% to $52.1 billion, June shipments >1 million units for the first time…Lithium battery exports rose 42.7% to $48.7 billion…solar cells returned to positive growth in June, pushing their first-half total up 24% to $16.5 billion.’
China’s Green Tech Exports Surge
Shipments of EVs, lithium batteries and solar cells surged 51.6% to $118 billion in the first half of 2026
caixinglobal.com
With 57% of its electricity now coming from renewables, including 22% from solar & 21% from wind, Spain built one of Europe's most impressive electricity systems. Solar is now the country's fastest-growing source of power & has helped drive some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe.
Not once has the Wall Street Journal published an editorial on #climatechange that acknowledged the definitive science that humans are changing the #climate, while publishing countless editorials rejecting, ignoring, or misrepresenting that science. This is just one more of those.
Calling the National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine “a trial lawyer operation” is the talking point that fossil-fuel interests are currently repeating in lockstep to try to reduce the credibility of climate-change attribution science. The WSJ Editorial Board got its marching orders!
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2w agoWSJ op-ed page doesn’t like the answers science found, so it attacks National Academies, and also looks like incorrectly wrote C02 not CO2 in their subheadline. The National Academies are a national treasure and the staff are brilliant professionals. Leave them alone.
“This proposed merger breaks the law,” says California Attorney General Rob Bonta. “It’s anti-competitive. It will raise prices. It will lower quality.”
California AG Rob Bonta, 12 Other States Sue to Stop Paramount-Warner Merger
Twelve Democratic-led states led by California sued this week to block Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount is run by David Ellison, whose father, Larry Ellison, is the billionaire founder of Oracle and a pr...
democracynow.org
The comment period for the proposed OMB rule that would shift U.S. science from scientists to politicians is now closed. Now what? We break down what to expect ⬇️ www.planetary.org/articles/omb...
What happens now that comments have been submitted on the devastating…
Nearly 500,000 comments were submitted in response to a rule change proposed by the White House Office of Management and Budget that would fundamentally…
planetary.org
Here at UCS, we love our public lands and the wildlife that call them home. That's why we condemn the Trump administration's latest anti-science effort to strip nest and habitat protections for threatened and endangered species.
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
nytimes.com
Renewable power generation recorded it's fastest-ever growth in 2024. ☀️Renewables were 31.7% of global electricity in 2024 📈New renewable generation grew by 9.8% (non-renewables grew by 1.4%) www.irena.org/Publications...
On European methane rules and US natural gas markets. Among other things. euobserver.com/227285/inter...
[Interview] The US Democrat trying to convince Brussels to stand up to Trump on methane
US congressman Sean Casten, a longtime champion of methane rules in Washington, recently wrote a letter urging EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen not to cave to US pressure to weaken the reg...
euobserver.com
Finally! If your home needs a furnace replaced, don’t be a fossil fool!
Joseph D. Ortiz@earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 3w agoExcellent news! Heat pump sales up by 32% over gas furnaces in 2026! Heat pumps are much more efficient than fossil fuels. That translates into long-term savings. #EnergySky 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋
Don't let them lie to you; Social Security is a problem of income distribution, not demographics cepr.net/publications...
Social Security is a Problem of Income Distribution, Not Demographics
Social Security's financing problem stems more from wage inequality and income distribution than demographics, making policy, not aging, the real issue.
cepr.net
Spaceballs: The New One: The Teaser Poster. In theaters April 2027.
⚠️ The US is threatening the International Criminal Court.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead by immigration agents while on his way to work. DHS claims he was using his vehicle as a weapon.
ICE keeps using the same justification for killing drivers
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead by immigration agents while on his way to work. DHS claims he was using his vehicle as a weapon.
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"Today is the first day without him for all of us, and it is heartbreaking to know that my mom did not make lunch for my dad before going to work—the first time in their 30+ year marriage" - son of the man ICE killed
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
lnk.thebulwark.com
"Clean energy and clean vehicle manufacturing and electricity generation projects abandoned since January 2025 will cost the U.S. economy nearly 468,000 jobs, including more than 343,000 permanent jobs...." e2.org/reports/canc...
One Year Since the One Big Beautiful Bill | An Economic Impact Analysis Of America’s Clean Economy | E2
If completed the projects announced in the first two years of the IRA will create 621,000 direct and indirect new jobs – including 154,000 permanent jobs— throughout the economy over the next five yea...
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So Trump changed the inspection requirement for ICE facilities from twice a year to every other year. Five have no inspection on record at all. We won't know the true depth of the horrors they're covering up for many years.
They found a case of voter fraud!
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4w agoNEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
The snark is strong with this one.
🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸@peter.fairley.ca · last mo.Why Canada is building oil and gas pipelines:
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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… and it’s only going to get worse.
Jess Craven ❌👑@jesscraven101.bsky.social · 4w agoWow. A new @theguardian.com poll says OVER HALF OF AMERICA now can’t afford their lives! This is the USA under Donald Trump and Republicans. It’s a disaster. But don’t worry—Trump is installing a new helipad on the South lawn and it’s going to be “beautiful.” 🤮
Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot #Climate
Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production
theguardian.com
It is one sentence: rights shall not be denied based on sex. For 103 years, 12 Republican led legislatures have refused to ratify it. Not complicated. Not costly. They just will not say women are equal. Ask them why. #EqualRightsAmendment #WomensRights
If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.
Reminder: Trump and Republicans’ Big Billionaire Bill took away your health care to give tax cuts to their billionaire donors.
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.
Human-caused climate change is increasing the risk of hotter temperatures, including these dangerous heat waves. Watch the entire distribution shift to the right. I'm afraid these headlines about record heat are only going to become more common. 🌡️ Visualization by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
Pathetic.
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · last mo.Well, this is where the "affordability vs. climate" dichotomy has gotten us...Rhode Island's governor vetoed a bill that would simply require commercial and multifamily buildings to report how much energy they use, citing "housing affordability challenges." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/mcke...