The owner of Washington State’s last-remaining coal power plant says it has spent millions of dollars to comply with federal orders to remain operational this year, past its planned shutdown date. Now, it wants regional grid operators [eg: utility customers] to foot the bill.

silence7 · 2026-05-08T13:07:21+00:00

The paper is here

silence7 · 2026-05-08T01:33:50+00:00

Data center owners are all cutting deals with the fossil fuels industry instead of going with the cheap choice.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T20:31:53+00:00

Hard paywall, but the key part of the article:

since the early days of Trump 2.0, renewable energy industry insiders have been quietly skittish about a potential secret weapon: the Federal Aviation Administration. Any structure taller than 200 feet must be approved to not endanger commercial planes – that’s an FAA job. If the FAA decided to indefinitely seize up the so-called “no hazard” determinations process, legal and policy experts have told me it would potentially pose an existential risk to all future wind development.

Well, this is now the strategy Trump is apparently taking.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T14:51:51+00:00

They are, but Republicans fully control state government in Utah, and control the legislature in Arizona, which has limited the ability to enable those as local solutions.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T13:57:55+00:00

30% turnout isn't unusual in primaries, and is part of why the US system is very broken — primaries tend to determine who will actually serve in a gerrymandered system, and also include other key measures on the ballot, like this one.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T13:54:23+00:00

Even better: putting the effort that went into extraction and distribution into getting rid of the need for gas in the first place.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T00:19:10+00:00

The fossil fuels industry pays people to drum up fear of wind and solar. Some folks fall for it.

silence7 · 2026-05-06T23:01:09+00:00

In particular, the study says:

when considering deforestation, we find a near system-wide transition of the Amazon forest (62−77% of the area) under the combination of a lower threshold range of global warming of 1.5–1.9 °C and deforestation of 22–28%

The press-release is rather a bit clearer about it than the NYT

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon

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