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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 11d

Here's a great map (if you love maps) of how the charging network has grown. The job is not yet done, but never forget that our country is capable of doing great things.

See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy

There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

www.nytimes.com

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: President Trump and RFK Jr. promised to “Make America Healthy Again” but the administration’s assault on environmental safeguards will expose kids and families to more cancer-causing pollution as RFK Jr. cuts cancer research and treatment: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution

The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...

www.americanprogress.org

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Aug 28

Molly O'Toole:
"On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Aug 27

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school.

On their third day of classes.

Masked armed men watch a mother and her children go to school.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing.

This is wildly illegal.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEWS: President Trump is federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department, which means he will control it for up to 30 days. He is also deploying the D.C. National Guard, all to fight what he says is an increase in crime.

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Jessica Ordóñez-Lancet @ordonezlancet.bsky.social · Jul 31

140M+ Americans are under heat alerts this week. Our new report breaks down how climate change is supercharging this deadly heat, driving up bills, straining hospitals and power grids, and hitting working-class, Black, and brown communities hardest. www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...

Climate Change Is Subjecting More Americans to Unbearable Extreme Heat

Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, driving up utility bills, straining ecosystems, and deepening inequality.

www.americanprogress.org

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jul 29

New from @lucerowx.bsky.social and the team at @americanprogress.bsky.social: a timeline for implementation of the "one big beautiful bill" that will bring so much unnecessary harm to America.

See details and filter by topic area here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to fund tax cuts for the ultrawealthy. The law’s provisions have dozens of staggered beginning and ending dates over the next decade. Below is a timeline that details the enactment dates of cuts to health care and food assistance, the cancellation of policies to make American-made energy more affordable, the implementation of tax changes, and the enactment of policies that will raise the costs of higher education.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · Jul 23

Is this abundance?

This project was approved under FAST-41, meaning it had expedited permit approvals. It also had labor, domestic supply chain, power offtake agreements for communities attached to it... meaning a whole lot of high quality American jobs and affordable energy just went up in flames.

Senate Energy Dems @energydems.senate.gov · Jul 23

The Grain Belt Express Transmission Line would increase grid reliability and reduce electricity prices for American families. It’s EXACTLY the kind of project experts say we need to meet increasing demand.

Hawley, Trump, and Chris Wright just killed it, with zero justification.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jul 10

"If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up."

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · Jul 10

Time to wake up — and fight.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Trump signed that "One Big Beautiful Bill" over the weekend, and my colleagues ‪‪@lucerowx.bsky.social‬ and @jasia.bsky.social spell out the ugly consequences for your wallet, health, and safety.

What Trump's Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety

In addition to cutting health care and food assistance programs, the act’s energy and environmental provisions would raise energy costs, increase pollution affecting Americans’ health, and increase sa...

www.americanprogress.org

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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · Jul 7

Energy communities - left with toxic, abandoned sites and lost employment - were slated to receive new jobs, energy, and revenues fueled by IRA. The ‘Big, Beautiful’ bill pulls the plug on this future by ending tax credits early #OBBB 🔌💡 www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act Endangers the Transformation of Contaminated Sites for Clean Energy Production

The congressional Republican spending bill, which President Donald Trump recently signed into law, kills tax credits that help communities turn idle toxic sites such as brownfields and abandoned mines...

www.americanprogress.org

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Republicans are voting now for massive layoffs and bankruptcies throughout the clean energy economy – a trillion dollar investment in a better future, abandoned.

The world we would have built is so different from the one we will now have to live in.

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Jun 30

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

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Lucero Marquez @lucerowx.bsky.social · Jun 30

@vanhollen.senate.gov summarizing what gutting the clean energy incentives means --> less electricity capacity additions to the grid and higher prices for Americans

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 28

– New taxes on clean energy investment.

– Termination of the Fuel Economy Standards for new cars and trucks.

– A new tax subsidy for coal.

It's a collection of the worst, most harmful ideas you can imagine. And the Republican Senate is voting for them now.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 16

But if you're one of the tens of Americans who makes their living mixing dyes into fuel, has the Senate got some good news for you!

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 16

Senate Finance has released its proposed repeals, and I sure hope none of you were hoping to afford a better future for your family, or anything.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · Jun 16

Who exactly is winning under the Trump administration? Not people like Cody who just returned home from military leave to a price spike in his electric bill.

➡️ Share this video and let us know if you also got a notice that your electric bill is going up.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 13

"We're going to have 100 percent carbon-free power in Minnesota, and that's just 10 years away." @governorwalz.mn.gov

www.americanprogress.org/events/liste...

Listening To Lead: A Conversation With Gov. Tim Walz

Join us for a conversation with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as part of CAP’s “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward” series.

www.americanprogress.org

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

As much as 72 percent of all clean energy capacity that would have been built over the next decade would disappear if clean energy investments are terminated.

That would wipe out more than half of all new electricity capacity additions to the grid. Whoa.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Is Crushing America’s Electricity System

More than half of all new capacity added to the grid over the next 10 years will be lost if federal clean energy investment is terminated, threatening a failure to meet U.S. energy demands, to raise e...

www.americanprogress.org

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

I used to staff a senator from California. There is no way that anything like what just happened to Senator Padilla would ever have been thought possible before this regime's powergrab. If the Senate does not assert itself, it is lost.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

While announcing her intent to liberate Los Angeles from its elected officials, the Secretary of Homeland Security oversaw the use of force against a sitting U.S. Senator who dared to question her.

Things were already bad, and this is a major escalation.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks to @lucerowx.bsky.social and @jasia.bsky.social, my coauthors. And thanks to @energyinnovation.org and @rhg.com for their consistently excellent energy systems modeling.

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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · Jun 12

We could have built a grid that would supply up to 88 percent of its electricity without any fossil fuel costs by 2035. Repealing federal clean energy investment will cost us so much.

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