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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change.
Expanding oil and gas production.
Costly homeowners insurance.

This perfect storm of inextricably linked factors is devastating residents of coastal Louisiana. The trend has only accelerated. Story by @marcusbaram.bsky.social

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On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects

Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 5d

The article also includes a map I made of all data centers and natural gas power plants in California, including emissions from those plants.

Some gas power companies that see profit in the AI boom say they can capture their carbon emissions, and deserve clean electricity credits from the state.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 4d

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E&E News: EPA released a climate rollback hours before the shutdown

The agency is working to extend by six years a deadline to phase out hydrofluorocarbons.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 4d

The largest oil well owner in California has ambitious carbon capture plans—for a natural gas plant it owns.

It’s telling investors that AI data centers are providing its carbon capture plans with “multiple new opportunities.”

California Resources Corporation, which operates thousands of oil wells in addition to the 550 megawatt Elk Hills gas plant in Kern County, described gas plants such as those affixed with amine tanks as an “ideal” renewable energy resource, even better than wind or solar. The company said it could also reduce pollutants like nitrogen oxides; the plant released 88.5 tons of them in 2023 as well as volatile organic compounds, atmosphere-heating methane and other pollutants.

In a call with investors in May, CEO Francisco Leon said his company was “pursuing multiple new opportunities with AI data center companies.” Its subsidiary Carbon TerraVault received federal permits in 2024 to construct four carbon injection wells in which it plans to bury 1.5 million metric tons of carbon annually through 2050.

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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 4d

“I thought we got nuked or something,” one person playing soccer nearby the Chevron refinery told the LA Times. Good notes from @jklyou.bsky.social about air quality below. ⬇️ www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Steve Marble @stevemarble.bsky.social · 5d

The latest from @aaroncantu.bsky.social

Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 6d

California has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT.

But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid.

Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social

capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 5d

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 5d

The article also includes a map I made of all data centers and natural gas power plants in California, including emissions from those plants.

Some gas power companies that see profit in the AI boom say they can capture their carbon emissions, and deserve clean electricity credits from the state.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 6d

California has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT.

But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid.

Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social

capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 7d

More California homes have been lost to wildfire in the last eight years than in any other period in the state’s history. Here’s what fire survivors face

➡ https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2025-09-30/rebuilding-california-after-major-wildfires?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

22,500 homes lost. Over five years later, only 38% rebuilt: What California fire survivors face

Just 38% of the 22,500 homes burned down in California's five most destructive wildfires from 2017 to 2020 have been rebuilt, The Times found.

www.latimes.com

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

Back in 2020 I reported on federal charging for protesting and rioting, working hard to find smoking gun evidence of top-down political directives. Now it’s all out in the open. theintercept.com/2020/10/30/f...

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a bit of a tortured analogy but hard not to think of the ideological war on science and renewables

Passage from Chip War describing Mao’s war on scientific expertise

Passage describing Mao thinking electronics were reactionary and that only steel and iron were Good

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Climate chaos is already making us poorer. We're just pretending it's not.

Playing make-believe is not a plan. It's time for real-world strategies.

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier this year the president proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 24 percent, the clearest indication of his priorities going into a possible shutdown. Funding for Earth science programs specifically would be cut by MORE THAN HALF.

These are some of the satellite & space instrument missions at risk

NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration

The Trump administration has proposed cancelling more than 40 NASA missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

Wyoming coal could be shipped to Asia via Oakland by 2028. h/t @jfern.bsky.social cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/18/c...

California Supreme Court Clears Path For Wyoming Coal Exports Through Oakland Port

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively ended a decade-long legal battle over shipping coal out of the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal.…

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 8d

Utterly delusional www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It was time, Clinton said, to make “a new pitch for globalization,” one that could overcome a rising tide of nationalism. “You got two choices. You can pretend there’s going to be no change. If you do, we’ll lose more jobs than we gain. Or you can make change your friend,” he said. “But if you want to have a free enterprise system, there’s going to be some losers when investment patterns change. The obligation of the government is to minimize loss and find people something else to do so we can keep growing.” That’s sensible enough, as far as it goes. But that “new pitch” is precisely the argument that Clinton made, and other politicians echoed, 30 years ago. And it didn’t work.

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Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social · 8d

Trump's EPA has abruptly frozen or removed billions of dollars that the Biden administration awarded states for solar projects in 2024.

That includes funds for solar projects meant to benefit Pennsylvania's low-income residents exposed to pollution.

capitalandmain.com/is-the-sun-s...

Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future?

Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 9d

My convo with @jasonaw.bsky.social for @theunpopulist.net is excellent and you should read it/listen to it.

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson

The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right

www.theunpopulist.net

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 10d

Visited the empire of the dead

A man and a woman in front of a pile of femurs and skulls

Femurs and skulls surrounding a Virgil quote: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum
Subjecit pedibus, strepitum que acherontis avari!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21d

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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