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Alia Hidayat

@ahidayat.bsky.social
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Conservation and clean energy policy @americanprogress.bsky.social. Previously scientist in oceans and human health. Lover of plants, fungi, and weird critters. In general, a big nerd. All views my own.

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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New report! 🔌💡 www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hi... While Chris Wright and the Trump admin have attacked renewables subsidies, their story hides how taxpayers have paid fossil industries to extract & pollute for 100+ years (!!) Some of the most egregious things we found in our research: (1/4)
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5 Hidden Ways the Government Rigs the Market in Favor of Fossil Fuels
While renewables have received scrutiny from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans over subsidies, the administration’s narrative hides how fossil fuel industries reap the benefits of...
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing
"Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained.
According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.
"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Super excited to kick-off our new series on strategies for states to lead on a pro-nature energy buildout! This starter piece is a broad overview/rebuttal of the clean energy vs. conservation argument, but we have future policy deep dives in the work so keep an eye out!
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Trump admin has spread misinformation overstating the harms of renewables to wildlife to justify stifling affordable, rapid-to-deploy, clean energy. But renewables don’t have to come at the cost of nature. Here’s how states can achieve both: www.americanprogress.org/article/stat... 🔌💡
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States Can Lead the Way on an Abundant, Pro-Nature Clean Energy Future
The Trump administration has falsely framed wind and solar power as harmful to wildlife in order to justify stifling affordable, rapid-to-deploy, clean energy. Here’s how state leadership can advance ...
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Onshore and offshore wind projects are slated to create tens of thousands of jobs - if they survive Trump and Congressional Republicans' policies. New analysis from me and @americanprogress.bsky.social colleagues here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-... 🔌💡
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The Trump Administration and Congress’ Attacks on Wind Power Are Killing Thousands of Jobs and Risk Thousands More
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are attacking the entire wind power industry and throwing into question more than 17,000 offshore jobs and likely thousands more onshore.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🚨 The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are attacking the entire wind power industry and throwing into question more than 17,000 offshore jobs and likely thousands more onshore. Learn more: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Illustration of three people working on wind turbines. Red text, "Attacks on wind power from the Trump administration and Congress are killing thousands of jobs. 17K+ offshore jobs are already canceled, on hold, or at risk. Thousands more onshore jobs could be at risk."
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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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.
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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-...
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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...
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
❌ 🌬️ 🔋Local opposition to renewable energy facilities finds that organized efforts to block wind, solar, battery storage, and transmission grew substantially in 2024, with nearly 500 contested projects in 49 states. Read more here: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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Local Laws and Lawsuits Targeting Renewables Becoming More Prevalent in the US - Climate Law Blog
While federal policy can have a significant impact on renewable energy development, local policy—and local sentiment—can be just as consequential. Between 2018-2023, at least 30% of utility-scale wind...
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
THREAD 🧵Here’s what you need to know about the current state of Senate Republicans’ plan to sell off millions of acres of America’s public lands (1/6)
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
THE SENATE GOP’S SEISMIC OVERHAUL OF CLEAN ENERGY TAX CREDITS, EXPLAINED We summarize the GOP reconciliation bill’s biggest changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s landmark climate policies. It’s horrendous for wind, solar, and EVs. by @emilypont.bsky.social and me heatmap.news/politics/sen...
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The Senate GOP’s Seismic Overhaul of Clean Energy Tax Credits, Explained
Wind and solar are out. Clean, firm power is in.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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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...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Just another way Trump is jacking up energy bills for everyday Americans: he's keeping expensive, dirty coal plants open that no one wants or needs. Not even the utilities who own the plants! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
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Coal and Gas Plants Were Closing. Then Trump Ordered Them to Keep Running.
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Trevor Higgins @thiggins.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
House Republicans tonight proposed blanket rescissions of funding that is still available from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act for cleaning up ports, trucking, schools, and manufacturing, for investments in new businesses, air monitoring, and environmental justice communities.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
the republican plan would kick more than 8 million people off their insurance. how many is 8 million? it's more than the combined population of: Montana Rhode Island Delaware South Dakota North Dakota Alaska Washington, DC Vermont Wyoming
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𝔻𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕖 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Against Cynicism: part infinity
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Right now, the House Natural Resources committee is debating a tax bill that sells off our public lands, rescinds funding for coastal resilience, and provides massive giveaways to the oil and gas industry: www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...
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Congress’ Tax Bill Is Selling Out America’s Public Lands and Waters
The tax bill would now include the largest sellout of public lands by Congress in modern U.S. history.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hi all! Super excited to announce that the report that @taotaotasi.bsky.social and I (along with a whole bunch of other collaborators!) wrote is now out! www.americanprogress.org/article/exec... It's a meaty report, so here's a quick summary: (1/5)
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Executive Summary: Nearshore Ocean Progress
Increasing focus on nearshore ocean conservation will benefit people and communities and provide more effective protections for wildlife.
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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
State and local leadership can drive real change to protect kelp forests, coastal wetlands, oyster reefs, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and beaches. www.americanprogress.org/article/exec...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump’s economic legacy will be convincing people not to invest in America. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
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Trump’s Empire Wind freeze threatens South Brooklyn jobs and economy
An offshore wind hub could revive a working-class neighborhood — but only if the project withstands Trump’s attacks. The community is pushing back.
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shannonbb-8.bsky.social @shannonbb-8.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of the MANY needless harms from this reckless action: gutting LIHEAP staff--which cuts off $400m of life-saving relief for households facing utility shut-offs or dangerous extreme heat or cold. NEADA director Mark Wolfe says "The program could well grind to a halt.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
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‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies | CNN
A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building w...
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📣 New event series: Join us next Monday, March 24th for the first in a series of virtual events highlighting the impact that DOGE’s cuts are having on the lives of everyday Americans. RSVP:
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Forecasting Disaster: How DOGE's Cuts to NOAA Will Affect Weather Awareness and Well-Being
Please join the Center for American Progress for the first in a series of virtual events highlighting the impact that DOGE’s cuts are having on the lives of everyday Americans; this event will focus...
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Awful. "Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies... CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts"
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Something that's been clear to me for some time is that a lot of progressive advocacy and politics has overindexed on finding just the right combination of words to say while ignoring the fact that no media ecosystem exists where people might actually hear you say them. New from @mmfa.bsky.social
Media Matters compiled a list of 418 popular online shows — podcasts, streams, and other long-form audio and video content regularly posted online — that were active during 2024, assessed ideological alignment, and found 320 online shows with an ideological bent (191 right-leaning and 129 left-leaning) that covered news and politics and/or hosted related guests.

Nine of the 10 online shows from our study with the largest total following across platforms were right-leaning, accounting for at least 197 million total followers and subscribers. These are the online shows of:

Joe Rogan: 39.9 million
Ben Shapiro: 25 million
Jordan Peterson: 23 million
Russell Brand: 22.5 million
Theo Von: 22.3 million
Charlie Kirk: 18.6 million
Nelk Boys’ Full Send Podcast: 16.7 million
Candace Owens: 15 million
Dr. Phil: 14.2 millionAcross streaming platforms including YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, and Spotify, the left-leaning online shows had at least 55.9 million total followers and subscribers — a figure which is dwarfed by the right-leaning online shows with at least 255.5 million.

This content is further amplified on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — social media platforms where the programs or hosts post full streams, clips, and show links. Left-leaning online shows had at least 48 million followers across these platforms, while the right-leaning online shows had more than 225 million followers.

Of a cumulative 584.6 million followers and subscribers across all eight platforms, Media Matters found that right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82%, or 480.6 million — almost five times more than left-leaning shows’ nearly 104 million.
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Please, if you have Senators, call them. Please also vote against Congress’ attempt to strip DC of spending its own locally raised money on its balanced budget.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner. She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too. The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you want info on how the tariffs will make your energy bills worse, we at @heatmap.news have you very much covered
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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Reports of ICE raids, & at least one detention, in Northern Virginia. Don't open the door if ICE knocks, check for a warrant signed by a judge, & don't answer questions without a lawyer are among your rights, regardless of citizenship. If you're a bystander, you can remind people. More tips here:
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Elon Musk’s purge of the federal workforce is already hitting America’s parks and public lands, while our remaining government resources are being funneled to prioritize oil and gas industry profits. Great new piece from my teammates at CAP tracking this: www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...
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America’s Park and Forest Rangers Are Being Fired, and Oil and Gas Bosses Are Now in Charge
Early impacts of Elon Musk and his team’s purge of the federal workforce are already hitting America’s parks and public lands, while oil and gas industry loyalists shift remaining government resources...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 27/02/2025
The Trump administration is firing thousands of workers at the National Weather Service and NOAA. The National Weather Service — which provides life-saving forecasts — costs taxpayers just $4/year per person and generates $100B in economic value. This is chaos and destruction for the sake of it.
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"We should not accept these rollbacks as permanent defeat, but as an opportunity to make our efforts sharper and more effective. The loss of 30×30 should be seen not as a rejection of conservation values, but as a call to reimagine a conservation strategy that works for more people in more places."
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@taotaotasi.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed about the loss of 30x30, how we rebuild stronger, and charting a future course for ocean conservation: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/the-...
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The U.S. terminated its 30×30 conservation plan but this also presents an opportunity (commentary)
In his first week in office back in 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a historic commitment to conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030. Two years later, the world agreed to a similar co...
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is also a VERY useful stat sheet for calls tomorrow reminding your members of Congress how many voters they just voted to fuck over in favor of billionaires.
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Alia Hidayat @ahidayat.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
the "far-left climate agenda" is farmers trying to keep the lights on, now out tens of thousands of dollars from their own pockets because our government won't fulfill the contracts they signed
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025
When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...
Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day.

As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025
He's talking about people like Gregg:
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 18/02/2025
Almost a third of Project 2025’s suggestions have already been implemented or are in progress, 25 days into Trump's second term. @jeva.bsky.social talks to @keeptrack.bsky.social on keeping tabs on Project 2025 ⬇️
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About a Third of Project 2025 Has Already Been Implemented
A conversation with Adrienne Cobb, who is tracking objectives agency by agency.
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
DC PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE OCEANS & CLIMATE Tomorrow @vanhollen.senate.gov & the #Chesapeake Climate Action Network are holding a press conference/rally in defense of #NOAA, outside the Department of Commerce. Tuesday, Feb 11, 2pm. 350 14th St NW. 🧪🌊🦑 Deets: www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...
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Protect NOAA Staff and Vital Early Warning Systems · Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Action Fund
On Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 2:00PM ET, US Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD), climate and environmental advocates, scientists, and members of Congress will hold a press conference outside the Departme...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/02/2025
corporate DEI was always ~90% wokewashing, though the government versions of it had more teeth. but even it it was a smokescreen, the anti-DEI movement is *also* a smokescreen for bringing back explicit white supremacy
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 03/02/2025
Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency—it’s about undermining America’s global leadership. USAID counters extremism, fights diseases, and creates more markets for U.S. exports. This is reckless and dangerous.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 31/01/2025
Community benefits agreements offer a promising solution to address local concerns and build trust for renewable energy projects, but their success depends on fair negotiations and transparent collaboration.
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How to solve local opposition to green development - High Country News
Bespoke community benefits agreements can offer residents tangible gains in return for the disturbance of development.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/01/2025
This an ugly way to begin the four-year process whereby Americans relearn that the US government a) does all kinds of things they need but don't even know about, b) well, despite c) being chronically understaffed.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual. We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/01/2025
Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science (Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
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