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Bruce Nilles

@brucenilles.bsky.social
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Trying to do my part. First coal, now gas/oil. Rewilding in my spare time.

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Phil McKenna @mckennapr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exclusive: More than half of global sulfur hexafluoride emissions, a climate pollutant 24,300 times worse than CO2, come from China. An inexpensive recycling program could help slash emissions, an @insideclimatenews.org analysis concludes. My latest, w/ Rudy Lu and @peteraldhous.com. Article ⬇️
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So exciting! "Point Reyes Is 'Reimagining' Its Trails, and Wants Your Input" baynature.org/2026/05/27/e...
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Point Reyes Is 'Reimagining' Its Trails, and Wants Your Input
It's the most ambitious trail-planning effort the park has ever undertaken, and it's wide open right now.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The natural gas industry has a problem - they have never diversified and any effort to cut carbon emissions means burning less natural gas. So any state action to reduce the use of pollution from natural gas is met with lawsuits and other delay tactics. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Oregon’s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction program faces a fresh legal challenge
Fossil fuel companies, farms, unions and business groups are taking the state Department of Environmental Quality to court over a program they call “economically infeasible.”
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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Loss of green smelter highlights Kentucky’s need for clean electricity
Century Aluminum chose Oklahoma, not Kentucky, for a new smelter. Some say it’s a "wake-up call" for the Bluegrass State to modernize – and decarbonize –…
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Britain quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better? lailluminator.com/2026/02/09/d...
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Britain quit coal. But is burning Louisiana's trees any better? • Louisiana Illuminator
The U.K. government is giving Drax the equivalent of $2.7 million a day in subsidies to keep burning wood pellets, which the company touts as “environmentally and socially sustainable.” But a growing ...
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
UK doubles down on offshore wind, 40% cheaper than fracked gas. While Trump holds Northeast hostage to gas by clicking their wind projects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction
Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Such an outdated argument - no gas service means we can't build new housing. We installed more heatpumps than gas furnaces last year. "As development takes off, Lakes Region asks for pipeline expansion" newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/01/12/a...
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As development takes off, Lakes Region asks for pipeline expansion • New Hampshire Bulletin
When New Hampshire called for more housing, the Lakes Region answered, and development in several central cities and towns took off fast. Then, the gas ran out.
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 08/01/2026
NEW // Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters Op-ed by Emily Moore via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/08/o...
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Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters » The Urbanist
# Seattle renters are largely locked out of the cost-saving and comfort-improving clean energy appliances, like heat pumps, induction stoves, and solar panels. Newly inaugurated Seattle Mayor Katie Wi...
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Great piece. "What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide?" theconversation.com/what-are-gas...
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What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels
The gas industry is opposed to labels that warn consumers of the potential harms of gas stoves.
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SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility, SFBayPSR.org @sfbaypsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Good news! The country’s largest all-electric hospital is about to open in Orange County, CA! May other hospitals follow this example. The future is healthier, more efficient, electrical buildings! Join us in these efforts. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The country's largest all-electric hospital is about to open in Orange County
More buildings are going all-electric, especially in states trying to address climate change. UCI Health–Irvine, the largest all-electric hospital in the country, is opening Wednesday.
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SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility, SFBayPSR.org @sfbaypsr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Did you know that baking a pumpkin pie in a gas stove for an hour can raise the air pollution in your kitchen to a dangerous red alert level, if your kitchen is not ventilated? Protect your family's health—open your windows while cooking over the holidays. FACTS: www.sfbaypsr.org/wp-content/u...
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The one kind of burning we can all embrace... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/c...
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South Dakota Ranchers Are Burning the Prairie to Save It
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
MAHA activists are urging President Trump to fire EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over his decisions to loosen restrictions on harmful chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
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MAHA Activists Urge Trump to Fire His E.P.A. Administrator
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
And, this remarkable news: H2 bubble over & gas industry out of a plausible future. "Most energy companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are planning to reduce investments in their gas grids." Decline of natural gas is here, start planning its end. www.cleanenergywire.org/news/utiliti...
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Utilities give up hope on using hydrogen in their gas grids – report
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This week we made history. Last major coal plant powering California turned off. And, world's 4th lrgst economy is humming along. Did not happen by accident-it happened because of tenacious people power, incl. Sierra Club & Michael Bloomberg. Back when was announced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cO...
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This is a really big deal! Los Angeles To Go Coal Free!
YouTube video by SierraClub
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2025
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Put a fork in it. Closing coal plants in CA and WY. “The cost of our [WY] coal units has had a huge impact on the price that customers pay,” Eskelsen said. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-reso...
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Naughton power plant will stop burning coal, despite Trump announcement
The Trump administration is tossing money to prolong coal power, but a Wyoming electricity provider says it’s sticking with plans to fully convert a coal plant to natural gas.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The same week Trump Administration announces efforts to revive the coal industry, the last coal plant in New England closes. They are so incompetent. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/09/29/c...
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Coal power is gone: Merrimack Station in Bow has shut for good - Concord Monitor
Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station...
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Easdale -- this is a most beautiful island with amazing wild swimming in old stone quarries. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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A Bucolic Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland Is Infiltrated by Cheaters
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Most of Western England and Scotland - was and should be a temperate rainforest. Wild gardens are a good step, restoring trees, lichens, ferns, is better. "The Era of the American Lawn Is Over" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | The Era of the American Lawn Is Over
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Heating our homes with natural gas comes with explosion risk, something that happens way too often. abc7chicago.com/post/natural...
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Natural gas explosions are on the rise | How to protect yourself
People in Illinois could be more at risk than many other states because more residents there, about 80%, rely on natural gas for heat, hot water and cooking.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Good. Worst example of terrible biomass policy. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Great retort to the "more, more" crowd and folks who should know better than peddle dreams like CCS on every smokestack. Thank you.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Own goal Wyoming. Less money for schools, transition, everything. "Forecasters: Big Beautiful Bill will cost Wyoming $50M in coal royalties - WyoFile" wyofile.com/forecasters-...
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Forecasters: Big Beautiful Bill will cost Wyoming $50M in coal royalties - WyoFile
Higher severance and ad valorem payments are not expected to offset federal mineral royalty reductions, according to state financial forecasters.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Good news: the largest state in the country, which is all on its own the 4th largest economy in the world (having recently overtaken Japan), now gets the largest amount of its electricity from solar, and that trend is set to continue.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Wait, i thought it was NEPA and enviros that were blocking energy projects... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/c...
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A Power Line for Clean Energy Was in the Works. Now, an Investigation Looms.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Electric hydrofoil ferries -- pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/b...
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Could the Electric Hydrofoil Ferry Change the Way We Commute?
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 03/07/2025
Good news from Poland!! “Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time” on.ft.com/3GxsNKu
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Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time
Latest data indicates progress for EU country most dependent on the fossil fuel
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Ireland 🇮🇪 is kicking off a summer of European #coal plant closures and has officially eliminated coal from its electricity mix with the closure of its Moneypoint plant! Wind energy now powers more than a third of its electricity and is central to Ireland’s coal phase-out.
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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This and also the 100% carbon free electricity by 2040, one of the most ambitious clean energy standards in the country #MelissaHortman
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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 09/06/2025
In six years solar power has gone from 3.3% of global late Spring power generation to 10.7%. Data @ember-energy.org
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/06/2025
Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Restarting Cholla coal plant as Trump proposes will cost $2B,says Republican chair of AZ commission. hoodline.com/2025/06/acc-...
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ACC Chair Thompson Warns of $2 Billion Cost to Reopen Cholla Coal Plant in Arizona
Arizona Corp Commission Chair Thompson warns of nearly $2 billion cost to ratepayers for reopening the Cholla coal plant.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just ordered mine!
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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Official thoughts on the stupidity of the administration’s gutting of manufacturing investments:
DOE Cancellation of Clean Energy Projects is Job-Killing Action that Hurts Consumers, CAP’s Mike Williams Says
 
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of $3.7 billion in awards for emerging energy technologies issued during the previous administration. Many of these projects involved investments in industrial and manufacturing facilities to limit carbon emissions contributing to pollution and climate change. In response, Mike Williams, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, issued the following comments:
 
"How can the administration claim to care about domestic manufacturing when it is gutting investments in the future of domestic manufacturing? These projects are not just reducing pollution, they are keeping the U.S. on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. Canceling these important projects will raise energy prices for consumers and sacrifice thousands of high-quality union jobs, all because the president wants to curry favor with Big Oil.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Fascinating. "End new gas hob installations within ten years, say NGOs – AirQualityNews" airqualitynews.com/health/end-n...
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End new gas hob installations within ten years, say NGOs
Global Action Plan and energy efficiency group CLASP are urging local authorities and housing providers to retrofit their properties with induction hobs, replacing gas cookers which are responsible fo...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
While you were sleeping, House Republicans rammed through a bill that kills rooftop solar, clean manufacturing, heat pumps for everyday Americans, clean energy projects, and funding to cut pollution. Now it's up to the Senate to stop this bill from jacking up energy bills and torching the economy.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thank you! Showtime.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The oil and gas industry is trying to block our access to clean vehicles, much like coal industry tried to block our access to clean energy by killing Waxman Markey - the coal industry ultimately lost, oil and gas will too.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
58 years, bedrock of modern envtl policy, strengthened by President Bush 1, now repealed at behest of oil/gas industry.
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Solar and Storage Industry @solarindustry.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
BREAKING: The House's reconciliation bill would dismantle the most successful industrial onshoring effort in U.S. history, SEIA analysis find. ❌287 factories ❌292,000 jobs ❌145 TWh of generation Read SEIA's new analysis: underthreat.seia.org/threat/
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The steel industry, backbone of the US industry, is collapsing. Trump tariffs not working. gmk.center/en/news/clev...
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Cleveland-Cliffs shuts down three plants in the US
The shutdown threatens to lose about 950 jobs
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 07/05/2025
“Our goal is solar-plus-storage baseload power that costs less than fossil fuels." Inlyte has secured its first major utility contract, a crucial step in proving the viability of it's iron-salt long-duration battery:
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Could this 1980s battery design unlock long-term clean energy storage?
Utility Southern Co. will install Inlyte's iron-salt long-duration battery, tech the startup has updated for the era of renewables and data center demand.
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New study on cancer dangers of gas stoves: "High gas stove usage without proper ventilation greatly increases cancer risks, often surpassing WHO limits." And, "[d]ouble the risk for kids." The gas industry has known this for decades...and never disclosed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My first sighting of this gem, thanks to Merlin identifying its call -- in Briones regional park this afternoon. merlinbirds.org/species/lazbun
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Check out this bird - Lazuli Bunting
Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I’ve been thinking a lot about various nudges, policies, and technologies that could get us to eat less meat, and I must admit I didn’t think of making meat super-dangerous.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the hardest things to make people realize is what didn't happen. "Implemented policies to date are likely to have reduced global emissions by several billion tons of CO2eq per year...."
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Bruce Nilles @brucenilles.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Careful -- China had previously said they would do this....far more impt is what the heck the reduction goal is and whether it is anywhere close to aligning w zero in 3 decades. I.e. they need 30+% reduction by 2035. That wld be significant.
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