Trump admin wants to keep expensive coal plants online to power AI

If you're wondering why electricity bills are going up....
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🌱 Free! Healthy homes = healthy communities
✨ TODAY (9/9) • 6 p.m. • Zoom
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Electrify your curiosity first. ⚡ The rest will follow.
If you're in or around Portland Sept. 27th: Electrify Portland! Home Electrification Fair!
Meet reliable local contractors, check out heat pumps, ebikes, EVs, and electric lawn tools. Free tix.
Visit ElectrifyPortland.org

Thinking about upgrading your heating, cooling, or water heating? There are federal tax credits that can help you save big on projects like these, but they’re expiring soon.

Find out how you can get started with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social's "Save on Better Appliances" resource hub:

“everything is hot, the weather patterns are shifting. Nobody wants that. And we know what the solution is. There’s an overwhelming majority of people that believe in clean energy...”

And as Jon Batiste also highlights, the only way we can change things is through action and our collective power!

Our buildings aren't prepared to protect us from extreme heat brought on by fossil fuels and climate change. Portland Public Schools are sending kids home two hours early (again) due to heat today; a burden on families and harmful for kids and their education. Our state must do more! #orleg

Thrilled to join @tinakotek.bsky.social & Hacienda CDC for a bill signing celebration! The critical legislation—now officially law—lowers burdensome energy costs for Oregonians ✨ OEC and our members worked tirelessly to pass these bills. Victories like this are essential to community resilience. 💚

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina ravaged his home town of New Orleans, Jon Batiste has released a new song imploring people to take action against climate change “by raising your voice, and insisting, and voting the right people into office”. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Want to upgrade your heating, cooling, or water heating? The Big Republican Tax bill makes it more expensive.
There's a limited time to claim tax credits to save big on home upgrades to lower bills and increase comfort.
Check @rewiringamerica.bsky.social’s Save on Better Appliances resource hub:

The most tragic thing about heat deaths is they're almost always preventable. As a society, we fail to protect people because we don't require cooling where everyone lives. As fossil fuel pollution heats up our globe, this will happen more often in Oregon. Our state must do more.

Oregonians made it clear: enough is enough with rising energy bills. Today, we celebrate four major wins for energy affordability with the Governor, including a speech from our friends at Verde!

This is a powerful illustration that cooling equipment is an important safety measure to protect the people we love, especially as we see heat waves surge across Oregon.

Fire crews have built fire lines around the southern edge of the Flat Fire where it was moving toward the town of Sisters, according to Eric Perkins, the operations section chief for Oregon Department of Forestry Section 3.

The market isn’t just warming up to all-electric homes—it’s flipping the switch. 37% of today’s buyers are already sold on the idea. But the real power play? Another 40% are on the fence. That’s your opening. #electrification 

Diane is safer and more comfortable thanks to her new, energy efficient heat pump. Community Energy Project helps people string together the incentives, resources, and labor to do projects like this. Success one home at a time! 🏡
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⚡️ Free online home energy event! ⚡️ Renters & homeowners: learn how to tap Inflation Reduction Act incentives for induction stoves, heat pumps, EVs & more. Hosted by the Green Neighbor Project.

📍Thu Aug 28, 4–5 PM CT & last Thursday of each month.

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BDC’s Kristin George Bagdanov explains in this story that “existing customers are subsidizing these new customers,” regarding who pays for Line Extension Allowances (LEAs). However, MA’s plan to reform LEAs is “part of the larger movement to reevaluate business-as-usual gas system operations.” 🔌💡

Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes.

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

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#Solar #Energy #Indigenous #Tribes

In a time when fossil fuels are driving our bills higher and the climate crisis is raging-- the heat, the wildfires-- the largest fossil fuel corporation in Oregon wants to charge us more to juice its profits. All while burning more methane "natural" gas. Oregonians are fighting back!

Discomfort to Danger... Extreme heat means different things to different people depending on our situation. It's bad for our health, bad for systems we depend on, and it's getting worse as the globe heats up from burning fossil fuels.
#Heatwave #extremeheat #orleg

THIS SATURDAY: Take an eBike for a spin, learn about solar power, and why induction cooking is what gourmets use now instead of dirty gas. Get "plugged in" to a clean and climate healthy lifestyle!

Visit this great even in Hillsboro this August 9th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WE HAVE REAL IMPACT: "Oregon’s largest gas utility is asking to raise customer rates by about 3% or less...That’s less than the rate hike it first proposed, and comes after #EnergyAffordability advocates worked to cut the company’s profit margins by more than half."

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Oregon's homes and buildings are not prepared to protect us from extreme heat. It's especially important for people who work outside, those managing medical conditions, and other vulnerable people. All homes & buildings should have heat pumps for cooling in the summer and heat in the winter. #orleg