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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually

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Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · Nov 13

When scheduling your next meeting, think:

Could this Zoom have been a phone call?
Could that phone call have been an email?
Could that email have been a text?
Could that text have been a skeet?
Could that skeet have been a thought?
Could that thought have not existed?
Could I simply cease to exist?

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 17h

We're going to get so much ship money, Kelsey

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 6d

New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 18h

"In India, the world’s fourth-largest economy, fossil fuel electricity generation fell in the first half of 2025. Coal fell by 3 percent, and gas fell by 34 percent, the Ember report found. This was due in part to the country’s rapid build-out of wind and solar and in part because of mild weather."

Early Signs of a ‘Turning Point’ as Renewables Edge Out Coal

www.nytimes.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 18h

As @jigarshahdc.bsky.social pointed out last week, demand for electricity is spiking even as capacity utilization rates have fallen from ~60% to ~40%. There's plenty of extra capacity for utilities to tap, but it requires shifting load to off peak periods.
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Is this moment for distributed energy different?

DERs are finally acting like real power plants. But utilities are still treating them like side projects.

www.latitudemedia.com

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 18h

"Between installing heat pumps in homes with inefficient heating and cooling, and installing rooftop solar and storage, we can more than meet the projected load growth from data centers."

New report: Household upgrades could offset all new projected data center energy demand | Rewiring America

Our report, Homegrown Energy, finds household upgrades are the best, fastest solution for increasing energy demand.

www.rewiringamerica.org

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 20h

Here's your guide to fighting utility shutoffs this winter. W/o the gov't open, few to no states will have funds for emergency bill payment program LIHEAP. This doc has scripts, state context, contact info for governors & commissions, everything you need. Please call! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NO UTILITY SHUTOFFS scripts by state

🚨 WE NEED AN EMERGENCY BAN ON UTILITY SHUTOFFS DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN 🚨 TAKE ACTION: ONE E-MAIL OR PHONE CALL! ⚡ Hello! Welcome to our crowdsourced effort to campaign for ending util...

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 21h

EIA says the US electric power sector used 15% more coal during the first half of 2025 due to rising natural gas prices, but coal's secular decline will continue and accelerate in 2026

Short-Term Energy Outlook - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis

www.eia.gov

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 23h

"The study from the federal government says fixed traffic cameras can reduce all crashes by 54% on a road, and injury crashes by 47%."

Could Cleveland bring back traffic cameras? City council is ‘carefully’ looking at the idea

Voters banned traffic cameras in 2014, but City Council is wondering whether cameras could make a comeback.

www.cleveland.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 23h

"And the states moving most aggressively to add green power to their electric grids aren’t taking the brunt of rising utility bills, the POLITICO analysis shows."

Green power is sometimes the cheapest power — despite what Trump says

The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

www.politico.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

Clean energy has overtaken coal globally and is now driving down fossil fuel use

Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

The offer "equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s diminished value even as President Donald Trump pushes to mine and burn more of the heavily polluting fuel.

Federal officials did not immediately say if they would accept the offer. It was the only bid received."

Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

"When the work is complete, Warehouse A will have roughly 2 megawatts’ worth of rooftop solar panels, plus battery storage and numerous charging ports for cargo-handling equipment."

Major Midwest port begins electrifying operations to reduce emissions

The Port of Cleveland is adding charging ports, batteries, and solar to its main warehouse — work funded by a federal program that has so far survived…

www.canarymedia.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1d

Got your ass

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 2d

Say that five times fast

Indonesia Hands Over Six Seized Tin Smelters to State Miner

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 2d

I'm wheezing.

Now, UCLA's interim head coach, Tim Skipper, is tied with Franklin with one career top-10 win against a Big Ten opponent.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

This is quite the ridge over the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada.

It's warmer in Moosonee, Ontario—located on the shores of James Bay—than it is down in New Orleans.

A temperature map across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico on Sunday afternoon. 70s and 80s bathe the eastern half of the continent.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 2d

"New fossil fuel infrastructure is very vulnerable now—it’s just a waste of money. By contrast, it’s very hard to destroy these small power plants and the energy they provide is cheap.”

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 2d

"Ninety-eight per cent of forests in Ohio are privately-owned. Do we really need to be logging in the 2% that belongs to everyone?”

Ohio’s sole national forest could be wiped out as Trump targets land for logging

Over 80% of Wayne national forest classified as suitable for logging, drawing concern from locals

www.theguardian.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

That's where you turn to dipshit

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

Kid from Spokane (MO) who enrolls at Washington University (St. Louis)

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

"Bloomberg analyzed this data in relation to data center locations, from DC Byte, and found that electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity."

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

It should be Siri but also you should be 12 forever and the cool girl should go out with you

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

HBO Max now auto plays other content after your show ends, and they started playing Real Time while I wasn't paying attention. Cancelable offense.

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

73 ppb at District 6. We may also exceed at Eastlake.

Now the question is with the forecast the same for tomorrow, can we make it two in a row?

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 3d

90 in Minneapolis