"Our federal government discarded public health in favor of corporations...it decided breathing was negotiable. I want our leaders...to decide 250 years of liberty must include the liberty to fill your lungs without costing your life." - @ogfiki.bsky.social www.pilotonline.com/2026/07/28/c...

Column: America’s masses are again yearning to breathe free

I want our leaders to decide that 250 years of liberty must include filling your lungs without it costing your life, Energy Innovation’s Dan O’Brien writes in a guest column.

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Trillion-dollar tech companies can afford to power AI without creating an epidemic of air pollution. Our new Data Center Air Pollution Tracker shows which companies are choosing cleaner energy—and which companies are doubling down on fossil fuels. datacenterairpollution.com

What a shitty unexpected climate change impact www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

What the Cyclospora Outbreak Reveals

Warming is expected to fuel the spread of food-borne pathogens. We might not be prepared.

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Half a trillion dollars ($650 billion) in new consumer costs. That's what the climate-denying, pro-fossil fuel policies adopted by the Trump admin and Congress will cost Americans. Burn our planet, burn our wallets. It's all connected, and they don't care. energyinnovation.org/report/econo...

Economic, Consumer Cost, and Pollution Impacts of Federal Energy Policy Changes

Federal energy policy changes will spike energy prices, slow GDP and job growth, add pollution and harm health, and harm grid reliability.

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Americans are facing an energy affordability crisis. If we meet electricity demand growth from data centers with fossil fuels, families will have to pay $30 billion more per year.

Energy Innovation@energyinnovation.org · last mo.

🔌💡 Meeting expected demand growth with a fossil fuel-heavy approach (consistent with current federal policy priorities) will add $30 billion annually to customer bills by 2030. Our @silviomarcacci.bsky.social explains 👇 www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

Emily always gets it. There is no policy window unless we open the window.

Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s bizarre being a policy-oriented researcher in an environment where evidence and public opinion are basically irrelevant to what happens. We’re not informing policy any more, friends; we have to make politics.

Promoting fossil fuels and cutting off clean energy has cost Americans >$1,500 since January 2025 (@leahstokes.bsky.social did the math) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

The war in Iran has already cost consumers $32 billion in direct costs - $17 billion in higher gasoline prices, $15 billion in higher diesel prices iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Coal kills Americans. A lot of us. www.sierraclub.org/coal/mapping...

"Electrifying industrial heat in India is now cheaper than producing heat from natural gas and oil across all temperatures, and cheaper than coal in three of five temperature bands, representing 55 percent of the country’s industrial heat needs."

Electrifying Industrial Heat in India

Cheap solar prices mean electrifying industrial heat in India is cheaper than producing heat from most fossil fuels, cutting costs and air pollution.

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This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"

Americans are feeling massive pain at the pump from the Iran war. But Big Oil is making $30 million *an hour* while people across the US struggle to fill up their gas cars. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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"Wealth extraction is not necessary for utilities to provide safe and reliable service. For all the talk from policymakers about how to lower customers’ bills, these inflated profits seem like a great place to start." - @davidpomerantz.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Power Bills Are Soaring. So Are Utility Profits. Americans Pay The Price.

Investor-owned utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit off ratepayer bills between 2021-2024

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Our analysis and methodology available here: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/iran-war-p...

Two weeks of war in Iran unleashed more carbon pollution than Iceland does in a year

US and Israeli bombardment is inflicting climate costs for decades to come

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A billion-dollar bribe using taxpayer money to benefit oil and gas companies, who are already raking in record profits from the Iran war.

Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Trump is buying back Total's offshore wind leases dollar-for-dollar under an agreement that Total will reinvest the money in oil and gas. www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

"For most Americans, when they pay their electric bill every month, a big chunk of that bill – probably bigger than they think – is going to their utility’s corporate profits," @davidpomerantz.bsky.social told @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/power-bill... 🔌💡

Power Bills Are Soaring. So Are Utility Profits. Americans Pay The Price.

Investor-owned utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit off ratepayer bills between 2021-2024

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The Iran war has sent oil prices - and Americans' pain at the pump - soaring. But this isn't a new story. Oil dependence is America’s Achilles' heel. Every war exposes this risk. The truth is only electric vehicles protect us from price spikes set half a world away. www.forbes.com/sites/margoo...

The Iran War: A Reminder Why Electric Vehicles Protect Consumers

The Iran conflict highlights America’s risky oil dependence. Electric vehicles offer a solution, shielding drivers from price spikes and securing US energy independence.

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Tale of two petrostates. Data from @robbieandrew.bsky.social: robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

How much profit is your utility making off you? Electricity costs are soaring - this tool from @energyandpolicy.org shows how much extra your utility charges per month. Nationally, electric utilities took ~15% of your bill for profit last year. energyandpolicy.org/utilityprofi...

The Iran war has sent oil and gas prices soaring and will ripple across our economy. America’s industrial sector burns 28% of our oil and 32% of our gas. We’re uniquely vulnerable to global fossil fuel price and this risk will ripple across our economy. thepowerline.substack.com/p/iran-war-e...

Iran War Energy Price Spikes Threaten America’s Industry

Oil and gas price surge shows fossil fuel price volatility

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It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

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Insurers warn the climate crisis could wreck housing markets: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable

In this week’s newsletter: The climate crisis is making insurance unaffordable for many – and it should worry all of us, even if we think we’re safe from floods, wildfires and hurricanes

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America is about to find out what it means to build domestic policy around an extremely volatile set of energy sources. Meanwhile our biggest geopolitical rival shows the benefits of insulating an energy system from price shocks and exporting clean technologies. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Fixed it for you @washingtonpost.com The Constitution gives election power to states. Federal control over elections is illegal. A fake emergency to steal control of voting is an attack on American freedom.

Areas near new data centers saw an increase in electricity costs of as much as 267%, according to a recent @bloomberg.com analysis

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Burgum: "Nobody's electric bill has gone up because of a data center"

Electricity prices are up 13% in a year but don’t worry, DOE has firewood prices locked down

All power to the people ✊

Cool, solar added 25.4 GW, 18 GW of batteries, and 5.5 GW of wind. Is that more or less than 4.2 GW?

Is America's solution to soaring energy demand hiding in plain view at retired coal plants or expensive gas plants that only run a couple hours a year? Surplus interconnection could plug renewables into the grid without needing to build new transmission lines youtu.be/CCzHZvjGfxc?...

Surplus Interconnection: A fast, cost-effective strategy for bringing more renewable energy online

YouTube video by Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology

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