Section 80151 (from the Natural Resources Committee) is a pay to pollute provision for every project that requires a NEPA review. By paying a fee you get an expedited EIS and insulated from judicial review
Please, no more photos of the orange menace. We all know what it looks like and any more reminders just create additional unnecessary nausea. Thank you.
Considering remote villages in Alaska of 100 or so homes, what does our Representative Nick Begich (R ~ Oil) propose? Continued import of dirty diesel fuel, or more likely some vast stand alone 15 year energy project with hopes that electricity can be transmitted a vast distances through the air. Small to medium wind generators, are a mature technology and are the most appropriate energy supply to install In these small villages. Alaska ordering a few hundred might have economies of scale. Coupled with the maturing long storage battery technology they are the right size and it can all be installed from a barge transporting the crane, concrete mixer where pile driving is not best plus all the towers, nacelles and blades. Most villages are coastal either sea or river bank. Alaska’s Marine Highway would be useful transport along the Bering Sea & Arctic Ocean. Constructed ice roads might help access some more interior towns for winter work. Jobs, lots of jobs!
In Europe we also see a lot of communities coming together to build their own wind and solar power, so that could be an opportunity too in Alaska. Still need an industry to actually build the things but local buy in can create a much stronger project overall
As pointed out, it hurts red states the most. All to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy. It is just a complete travesty which is why it will pass.
Also love the headline too. Similar headlines really should be in other articles describing this bill because that is all it is. Along with cuts to Medicaid.
I already knew this legislation was bad as a gift to the highest income bracket. Not surprising in the least that it's terrible from a climate perspective, too.
It's become more and more obvious. Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. He's using the office of the president to funnel as much money, mostly illegally, as possible before he is finished in 2028. He knows he isn't going to be around too much longer and could care less about the planet and it's ecosystems. For him. it's all about this revenge tour and steal as much money as he can, while he can. He is openly daring anyone to stop him and by the time he is done, there will be little left of the original democratic republic we have known. With the GOP House of Representatives kissing his butt to the point of no daylight anymore, the fight is on and it doesn't look good for the good guys.
As we stand on the precipice of another summer, Trump has systematically erased the climate crisis from federal discourse—eliminating monitoring systems, gutting green energy laws, and unleashing the fossil fuel industry. The warning I published at the start of last summer now echoes with frightening urgency.
Since Trump assumed office, the disasters have proven more extreme than predicted—Canadian wildfires, dust clouds from the Sahara, extreme flash flooding—yet with the exception of the horrific firestorm in LA, they receive less attention than ever. The press, taking its cues from what is and isn't on Trump's radar, has largely followed suit in downplaying the climate emergency even as the crash-out spirals.
Last summer's post mapped how photographers document our climate denial—capturing the moments when reality breaks through our collective delusion. With Trump's deliberate blackout of climate science, visual journalism becomes even more crucial in bearing witness to what we're told doesn't exist.
I quoted your excellent article in my substack newsletter yesterday. I've recommended Heated to my readers. Would you recommend my newsletter to your readers? I think they would really like it! See "Latest News from Sue Inches--For people who care about the planet."
Another excellent article. I quoted it in my Substack yesterday. I have recommended Heated to my readers. Would you recommend my newsletter "Latest News from Sue Inches--For people who care about the planet" to your readers?
Section 80151 (from the Natural Resources Committee) is a pay to pollute provision for every project that requires a NEPA review. By paying a fee you get an expedited EIS and insulated from judicial review
Thanks for keeping up the work and bringing this to the world. It's a crock of garbage no matter how you slice it.
As usual excellent reporting, analysis and writing.
I love Peanut at the bar.
Same
Please, no more photos of the orange menace. We all know what it looks like and any more reminders just create additional unnecessary nausea. Thank you.
Thanks for this, hadn’t heard these yet. And that headline…. Nice!
Considering remote villages in Alaska of 100 or so homes, what does our Representative Nick Begich (R ~ Oil) propose? Continued import of dirty diesel fuel, or more likely some vast stand alone 15 year energy project with hopes that electricity can be transmitted a vast distances through the air. Small to medium wind generators, are a mature technology and are the most appropriate energy supply to install In these small villages. Alaska ordering a few hundred might have economies of scale. Coupled with the maturing long storage battery technology they are the right size and it can all be installed from a barge transporting the crane, concrete mixer where pile driving is not best plus all the towers, nacelles and blades. Most villages are coastal either sea or river bank. Alaska’s Marine Highway would be useful transport along the Bering Sea & Arctic Ocean. Constructed ice roads might help access some more interior towns for winter work. Jobs, lots of jobs!
In Europe we also see a lot of communities coming together to build their own wind and solar power, so that could be an opportunity too in Alaska. Still need an industry to actually build the things but local buy in can create a much stronger project overall
As pointed out, it hurts red states the most. All to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy. It is just a complete travesty which is why it will pass.
Also love the headline too. Similar headlines really should be in other articles describing this bill because that is all it is. Along with cuts to Medicaid.
I already knew this legislation was bad as a gift to the highest income bracket. Not surprising in the least that it's terrible from a climate perspective, too.
It's become more and more obvious. Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. He's using the office of the president to funnel as much money, mostly illegally, as possible before he is finished in 2028. He knows he isn't going to be around too much longer and could care less about the planet and it's ecosystems. For him. it's all about this revenge tour and steal as much money as he can, while he can. He is openly daring anyone to stop him and by the time he is done, there will be little left of the original democratic republic we have known. With the GOP House of Representatives kissing his butt to the point of no daylight anymore, the fight is on and it doesn't look good for the good guys.
As we stand on the precipice of another summer, Trump has systematically erased the climate crisis from federal discourse—eliminating monitoring systems, gutting green energy laws, and unleashing the fossil fuel industry. The warning I published at the start of last summer now echoes with frightening urgency.
Since Trump assumed office, the disasters have proven more extreme than predicted—Canadian wildfires, dust clouds from the Sahara, extreme flash flooding—yet with the exception of the horrific firestorm in LA, they receive less attention than ever. The press, taking its cues from what is and isn't on Trump's radar, has largely followed suit in downplaying the climate emergency even as the crash-out spirals.
Last summer's post mapped how photographers document our climate denial—capturing the moments when reality breaks through our collective delusion. With Trump's deliberate blackout of climate science, visual journalism becomes even more crucial in bearing witness to what we're told doesn't exist.
Worth a reread as we brace for what's coming:
https://readingthepictures.media/p/if-this-summer-is-anything-like-the-last
I quoted your excellent article in my substack newsletter yesterday. I've recommended Heated to my readers. Would you recommend my newsletter to your readers? I think they would really like it! See "Latest News from Sue Inches--For people who care about the planet."
Another excellent article. I quoted it in my Substack yesterday. I have recommended Heated to my readers. Would you recommend my newsletter "Latest News from Sue Inches--For people who care about the planet" to your readers?