If the European welfare state looks like a pyramid scheme, its pharaohs are the “baby boomers”. We explain how the cohort has pulled off an intergenerational heist

How the boomers screwed Europe

The huge rock ’n’ roll generation is sticking its few kids with the bill

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🧵 Starlink Jabs at US Telecoms—Credit Spreads Move on a Slower Clock

Sheriff Paul Burch says the 54-year-old sanitation driver is now identified as Clifton DuBose. https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/prichard-sanitation-employee-shot-while-on-the-job/ 

The primary is over and our next step is electing Democrats up and down the ticket in November. Join us for our monthly meeting tonight at Charles R. Drew Elementary to learn about what we have planned for Election 2026. RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/arlingtondems/event/994121/

🔋 World’s first sodium-ion electric mining truck delivered in China with 676 kWh battery capacity. The truck supports 0% to 100% fast charging in 20 to 25 minutes. The battery maintains a cycle life of over 8,000 times. #battchat #batteries #greensky #energysky

This "environmental fee" will act as a carbon tax to help drive more people to decarbonize their lives.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 51m ago

Nice oil tanker you got there. Sure would be a shame if it hit a mine, or if someone's drone just happened to fire a missile into it. Maybe you could pay this very reasonable "environmental fee" and we could see if that might make you feel safer. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The strategy will lay out the government’s actions to scale up carbon removal technologies with planned targets for technical carbon sinks for 2035, 2040 and 2045. .🔌💡

Clean Energy Wire | CLEW@cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 2h ago

Q&A: Germany prepares long-term strategy for carbon removals Factsheet explains what carbon removals are, why Germany needs them, and what stakeholders expect from the upcoming plan www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/q... #CDR #climateaction

Q&A: Germany prepares long-term strategy for carbon removals Factsheet explains what carbon removals are, why Germany needs them, and what stakeholders expect from the upcoming plan www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/q... #CDR #climateaction

The partisan divide on climate has long existed, but it deepened after Donald Trump was first elected to the presidency in 2016. About 35% of Americans hold contradictory views on climate, rather than pure skepticism or concern. 🔌💡 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/a-ma...

A majority of Americans don't actually fit either climate camp

An analysis of 20 years of polling data shows how age, education and income—in addition to political affiliation—shape views on climate policy

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The case for rewilding could not be more clear, on every conceivable level. Now it's time to put it into *action*.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 21h ago

Done properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.

South Sudan: How climate change can turn toxic www.dw.com/en/south-sud...

South Sudan: How climate change can turn toxic

Years of flooding have resulted in disastrous water pollution in South Sudan's main oil region. As communities, scientists and health workers scramble for solutions, the long-term impacts of the crisi...

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Fukushima Shows Why Nuclear Disaster Costs Do Not Stay On One Ledger briefing.tfie.io/p/fukushima-...

Fukushima Shows Why Nuclear Disaster Costs Do Not Stay On One Ledger

The reactor-site cleanup is only the first cost layer; evacuation, exclusion zones, replacement fuel, export impacts, public finance and decades of governance make nuclear tail risk hard to bound.

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Russia's £500m Fertiliser Windfall from Iran War - Unearthed unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/08/04/r...

Russia's £500m Fertiliser Windfall from Iran War

Russia earned an estimated £500m fertiliser windfall — over £5m a day — as the Iran war choked global urea supplies, an Unearthed analysis has found.

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absolutely love this piece by Quinn and @leahstokes.bsky.social in Clim Chg on the IRA's passage. Assigned it in my US Energy Policy class this spring term once it came out, already citing it in everything I write. Great for so many contexts - interest group activity, policy process, advocacy, etc.

The politics of American clean energy and climate policy: Why the Inflation Reduction Act passed - Climatic Change

When President Biden won the 2020 election and Democrats gained control of Congress, a climate policy window opened. Many voters, activists, and lawmakers wondered: after 10 years of inaction, would t...

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Budderfly will invest approximately $4.4 million in this project of adding solar and EV charging as well as energy efficiency improvements, enabling infrastructure upgrades with no upfront cost or capital burden for Cadillac. pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/08/05/n...

New $4.4 million municipal project tests zero upfront cost energy model for cities - pv magazine USA

A $4.4 million municipal project in Cadillac, Michigan highlights the growing momentum of Schneider Electric’s Accelerating Resilient Infrastructure Initiative, which now exceeds 40 ecosystem partners...

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Building a better energy system will involve a lot of moving parts. Our households have to be one of them. Our latest blog post explores our vision of grid investment, new electricity generation, and home energy upgrades working in tandem to build this new system.

Homes belong in the data center power equation

Data center developers need power, have money, and should help pay for home upgrades.

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This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear

The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country

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An editorial is meant to take a position. That's the whole point. This one's position appears to be "it sure does suck that there's smoke all the time because of. Anyway, that's just what happens now."

Struggling to even understand what the point of this editorial is. It feels like there's a giant hole in the middle of it where a call to action should be.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2h ago

This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

1.76 GJ/tCO2 is roughly 490 kWh, a real cut from 2.77 GJ but still lab-scale on tiny electrodes. Watch cycle life of the K-MnO2 cathode and cost per cycle before comparing to solid sorbent DAC. Energy is one axis; durability decides economics.

Just Kevin@kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 1h ago

This system changes the acidity of a liquid to absorb and release CO₂ with electricity, using potassium-stabilized manganese dioxide electrodes reducing energy use from about 2.77 to 1.76 gigajoules per ton of CO₂. www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-bat...

The 2026 North American Biochar Conference on November 16–18, 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana. biocharconference.com

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World Written for entrepreneurs, project developers, policymakers, farmers, and sustainability leaders, this book bridges peer-reviewed science with real-world industry experience. Ninety cents a page seems high. www.routledge.com/Biochar-Fuel...

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World

Biochar: Fueling a New Economy in the Developing World reveals how biochar is emerging as a powerful tool for climate change mitigation, economic resilience, and sustainable development. Written for e...

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We probably won't have an accurate gauge on how things are actually going with the R2 until the end of September, but by all appearances, Rivian's production ramp seems to be going very well. 🔌💡🚗 insideevs.com/news/803837/...

Rivian Is Adding A Second Shift To The R2 Assembly Line. Here’s Why It Matters

The American EV startup started delivering customer-spec R2s in June. It’s now gearing up to do double shifts in Illinois.

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⚡ A recent blog from ACEEE discusses the need for updated #energyefficiency standards in new manufactured homes. These households can face very high energy burdens, as well as unsafe living conditions in extreme weather. ➡️ Read more: https://ow.ly/cA3Y50ZuG4n #TXenergy #OKenergy #energysky

More Manufactured Homes Are Coming. Will They Face High Energy Bills?

A new federal hosing law includes measures to spur production of manufactured homes; efficiency can make them better

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PJM's new plan to curb rising costs from data centers being built in its 13-state territory? Basically, to force states and utilities to set up regimes for data centers to either secure their own power supplies, or get cut off during grid emergencies: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

PJM’s big new data center plan: Make the states figure it out

Grid operator PJM wants states and utilities to hold data centers responsible for buying their own power — or risk being cut off from grid service.

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Government ‘continues to ignore warnings’ as wildfire rages near Sizewell B #energysky

Government ‘continues to ignore warnings’ as wildfire rages near Sizewell B

Blaze 'highlights the vulnerabilities of nuclear infrastructure to the impacts of climate change', a campaign group has claimed.

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The current EN 15804 rule for Environmental Product Declarations fails to recognize that, when embedded into robust concrete matrices, biochar poses no risk of re-emitting CO₂ at end-of-life. www.biochareurope.eu/resources/en...

Biochar Europe

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OPINION: (The Conversation) — Pope Leo is one of many popes to respond to technological change by drawing on a Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity.’

The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI

(The Conversation) — Pope Leo is one of many popes to respond to technological change by drawing on a Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity.’

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Carrying a firearm was linked to 3.72 times higher odds of a suicide attempt among high school students. The association held across grade, race, ethnicity, and sex.

Firearm carrying accelerates suicide risk among high school students, study shows

Self-reports from more than 23,000 high school students in 15 states for a school-based survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal a strong association between firearm carrying and the risk of suicide by any method, according to a new study by Michael A.

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🌱 "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." —John Muir