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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 Tell IDEM: Protect the Kankakee - Don't Rubber-Stamp NIPSCO's Wastewater Permit! 📋 Sign & share our quick petition: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/.... 🗓️ And RSVP today for the 10/7 public hearing: www.jtnwi.org/protect-the-....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🦅 Join JTNWI and Dunes-Calumet Audubon for a bird walk with local Girl Scout Troop 35787! 🌳 This year, we’ll explore Big Maple Lake at Deep River County Park, an important local watershed & wildlife habitat near the incoming Hobart Amazon Tech Park. 🔗 RSVP at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
❌ Failed disaster response ❌ More rate hikes ❌ Overcharging customers for decades ❌ Doubling down on coal while we foot the bill Our NWI communities keep taking hit after hit, and NIPSCO keeps choosing profits over people.. Help us amplify this video to demand #PeopleOverProfit! 📢
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thanks to all who joined us for our Measuring Legacy Pollution’s Burden on NWI Communities event with Dr. Nick Muller of Carnegie Mellon University. ☺️ Take action today: Explore: www.jtnwi.org/industrial-b... Sign + share: www.jtnwi.org/clean-steel Sign + share: www.jtnwi.org/protections-...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨JASPER COUNTY NEEDS OUR HELP! 🚨Residents are raising $10k to fight back against the massive Amazon AI data center in Wheatfield, and they are calling on all of us to show up and support! 💌 Every dollar matters. Please pitch in whatever you can here: www.gofundme.com/f/protect-ja.... Thank you! 💚
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🚨On Monday, join us in showing up and making your voice heard at the public hearing on the plat map for the Amazon Project Rise AI data center. 📢 Help us tell the Jasper County Plan Commission: We won’t let Amazon and NIPSCO drain our future for AI! 🔗 RSVP at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
HAVE YOU HEARD? - PART 6: Munster 🚨Saxon Partners is proposing to build the “Kenmara Project,” a 59-acre data project coming to one of the last natural spaces in Munster. ✊ Take action: savemunster.org. 🗓️ RSVP for the 7/14 Munster Plan Commission public hearing: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Welcome, Cavin McNulty! 🥳 Cavin is joining our amazing team of organizing interns, supporting our Community Over Big Tech Campaign and other programs. As a proud Midwesterner, artist, and cat-lover, he can’t wait to add “environmental justice advocate” to the list. 😽
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This month! 📢 Join JTNWI and Dr. Nicholas Muller as we debut groundbreaking research about the cumulative impacts of industrial pollution on our NWI communities, workforce, and regional economy, and learn what you can do to take action. 🔗 RSVP at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📋Please sign + share our petition to ask IDEM to extend the comment period and hold an in-person public hearing on the wetlands permit that will impact the Hobart Deep River watershed ecosystem connected to the site of the Amazon Hobart Tech Park data center. 🔗 www.jtnwi.org/hobart-comme...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚨⏳We have just a few days left to take action against the dismantlement of life-saving coal ash protections! We refuse to let our health be sacrificed for corporate greed! 📢 Join us in taking action by using Earthjustice’s petition and Sierra Club’s toolkit: linktr.ee/JustTransiti....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 Calling all Jasper County and region residents, take action TONIGHT! Help us show up and be heard at the Plan Commission Special Meeting. 🗓️ Wednesday, June 24 ⏰ 6:00 PM CT 📍 910 S. Sparling Ave., Rensselaer (or via Zoom) ✅ Please use our guide to prepare: linktr.ee/JustTransiti....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Breaking 🗞️! The EPA wants to roll back life-saving standards, exempting hundreds of leaking coal ash dumps from all regulations and delaying the closure and cleanup of hundreds more, which could spell out disaster for our Lake Michigan communities. 🌊 🔗 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/13/c... ➡️🧵
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📣Yesterday, we sent Governor Braun a powerful, collective message: We want a statewide moratorium on AI data centers NOW! Thanks to all who joined us yesterday to demand people over profit, communities over Big Tech! 💚 Take action at www.jtnwi.org/data-centers.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🚨TOMORROW, speak out and make your voice heard against the Big Tech data center takeover in Jasper County! ⏰ 7:15 PM CT 📍 910 S. Sparling Ave., Rensselaer ❤️ Wear red in unity 💻 Or tune in live (linked in the community guide below) 🔗 Use our guide to prep your remarks: linktr.ee/JustTransiti....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Last week, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) held a public hearing on the air permit for NIPSCO’s new massive gas plant to power AI data centers. 📣 Sign & share our petition to submit a public comment TODAY to ask IDEM to deny the permit: www.jtnwi.org/deny-permit.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📢 JTNWI has been organizing with communities to fight back against the data center invasion. 🎨 On June 6th, join us for a fun and transformative evening to come together in the name of art and defend creative expression and integrity in the face of the AI boom. 🔗 www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
💙 We are proud of USW Local 7-1 for standing up for workers everywhere and are here to show our solidarity! 💛 ✊ Join us in supporting USW workers and their families during this time by donating to our collaborative Solidarity Resource Drive with Hammond Community Garden: bit.ly/usw-resource....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📢 IDEM is holding a virtual public hearing on an air permit for NIPSCO’s massive new gas plant to exclusively power AI data centers in the region. 📋 Please join us today in asking them to schedule an in-person hearing (instead of or in addition to an online hearing): www.jtnwi.org/idem-comment....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Please join us in giving a warm welcome to our new organizing intern, Brittany Sanders! 🥳 Throughout the summer, she will be supporting the JTNWI team with our clean steel campaign. 🔗 Meet Brittany at our May 28th Clean Steel Town Hall at the Gary Public Library: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
📢 For generations, steel has defined Northwest Indiana. The future of our jobs, our local economy, and the air we breathe depends on how commitments are fulfilled today. Take action & join us at our community town hall: 🗓️ May 28 | 5–8 PM 📍Gary Public Library RSVP: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚨 Microsoft plans to triple the size of its data center in LaPorte, bringing the total to at least 4 data center projects projected for the area. 🗓️ HAPPENING TONIGHT! Attend and speak out at the Plan Commission meeting on the proposed data center ordinance: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🌎 This #EarthDay, we honor the importance of clean air, water, and land for all. 💧Data center expansions are putting our planet and people at risk and stealing our future: www.jtnwi.org/data-centers. 💚 Help us fight back, community by community, by becoming a member today: www.jtnwi.org/member.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
📣 Join us in speaking out against NIPSCO's rezoning proposal to build a dirty, expensive, and water-intensive gas plant next to its Schahfer coal plant to power reckless AI data center buildout in NWI. 1️⃣ RSVP: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/.... 2️⃣ Sign our petition: www.jtnwi.org/no-nipsco-re....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
⏳ Just a few days left! There’s still time to join us in speaking out against the Google Project Maize data center permit to pollute! 📢 Take action with us today! Sign & share our petition to ask the EPA to object to IDEM’s dirty diesel permit: www.jtnwi.org/object-proje....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨Sentinel Data Centers is proposing to build a massive data center in Eagle Creek Township, putting communities and ecosystems at risk in the Kankakee River watershed.💧🐟⚠️ 🗓️ Attend the data center developer town hall this Thursday @ 6 PM at Lowell High School: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
📢 We’re excited to announce the Community Over Big Tech Regional Convening, bringing together communities across NWI and beyond to unite and push back against the AI data center boom that threatens our health, livelihoods, farmland, and environment. 🔗 Register at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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Kathryn McGrath @kathrynmcgr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So Earthjustice sued again, on behalf of orgs like NAACP Indiana, @hoosierenvcouncil.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social and others. And we won. Now, just as the coal power industry was about to reveal the full scale of its contamination of groundwater, the Trump Administration said 'nah.'
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚨Last month, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved Google’s air permit to operate diesel emergency generators with zero pollution controls at its Project Maize AI data center in Michigan City. 😷💨 Check out our short film & take urgent action at www.jtnwi.org/object-proje....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
🎥 Join us for a screening of @moreperfectunion.bsky.social’s documentary, “I Live Next to Amazon’s Largest Data Center. They’re Stealing Our Water.” 🗓️ Monday, April 20 ⏰ 5:00-6:30 PM 📍 Purdue University Northwest, Hammond 🔗 Register today at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It’s officially Earth Month! 🌎🌱 Join us all month long to celebrate, and stop by our booth and check out items from our exciting brand-new Protect Mother Earth collection, available for purchase while supplies last: www.jtnwi.org/merch. 🌻 RSVP for these events at www.jtnwi.org/events.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨 NIPSCO is building a $5.7 BILLION expansion at the Schahfer Generating Station: new gas plants and an Amazon data center. 🌾💧⚠️ Check out our website for the latest, and watch for the next part of our series spotlighting fights across Northwest Indiana: www.jtnwi.org/data-centers.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🌎 EARTH MONTH MERCH DROP 🌳 We’re excited to debut our new Protect Mother Earth merch line exclusively for Earth Month in collaboration with JTNWI partner artist Kaitlyn Stancy. All month long, this merch will be available on our online store. 🌞 Grab your merch today: www.jtnwi.org/merch.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨 Since its inception, the Michigan City Google Project Maize AI data center under development by Phoenix Construction has been plagued by ongoing issues. 📢 Join us in calling for an immediate halt to the construction at the data center. 📋 Sign our urgent petition: www.jtnwi.org/stop-work-pr....
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Hoosiers Rise @hoosiersrise.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEVER MISS A PROTEST AGAIN Screenshot & hold down on the QR codes. Try the tools. Find what’s happening near you. Website www.hoosiersrise.org Database www.data.hoosiersrise.org Sheet www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet Linktree linktr.ee/HoosiersRise #HoosiersRise #Indiana #Protests #Events #HoosierSky
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In 1 week, join us for a Happy Hour Mixer! 🍀 As part of their Project Heart initiative, Leeds Public House created a drink to benefit JTNWI, & on March 19th, 50% of the proceeds will go directly to furthering our mission toward environmental justice! 💚 RSVP today: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🚨Amazon is launching its next invasion of Indiana in the form of the “Hobart Tech Park,” a massive proposed AI data center campus in Hobart. Check out our website for the latest, and watch for the next part of our series spotlighting fights across Northwest Indiana: www.jtnwi.org/data-centers...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Breaking 🗞️! Jasper County communities are pushing back against the buildout at the NIPSCO Schahfer Generating Station for artificial intelligence (AI), which threatens their health, safety, and generational farmland. ➡️🧵
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨 URGENT: Contact your State Rep & ask them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 277 (scheduled for first reading today), which dismantles life-saving environmental protections that Hoosier communities rely on. 📧  Sign this petition: jtnwi.org/vote-no-sb-277. 📞 Call them the switchboard at (317) 232-9600.
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨 TODAY: Contact your State Senator to OPPOSE House Bill 1333, which threatens Hoosiers’ health and well-being and unjustly preempts local governmental decisions around data centers and other harmful developments. 📧 Sign & share (it takes less than a minute): www.jtnwi.org/vote-no-hb-1....
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
📢 Take action & ask the Jasper County Commissioners to deny the rezone! 1️⃣ Attend the meeting: Monday, Feb. 2nd, at 8:30 AM - Jasper County Fairgrounds, 2671 W. Clark Street, Rensselaer 💻 Or via Zoom 🔗 www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/... 2️⃣ Sign & share our petition: www.jtnwi.org/urge-jasper-...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BREAKING! 🚨Outrage is spreading in the Region over sky-high energy bills, and residents are calling out our utility company, NIPSCO! 💸 Join the fight against corporate greed at the upcoming community-led protests! #DontMessWithHoosiers 🔗 www.jtnwi.org/events
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
🗞️ 🚨 On behalf of JTNWI and other orgs, Earthjustice, Sierra Club, and the Environmental Law and Policy Center filed rehearing requests to challenge the administration’s 202(c) emergency orders to unlawfully keep aging, costly, polluting coal plants online in IN. 🔗 earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Please join us in welcoming our new intern, Leo Winders! 🎉 This semester, Leo joins us from the Master of Social Work program at Purdue Northwest. Check out this short video Leo made to introduce himself to all of you and share why he’s so passionate about advocating for frontline communities! 💚
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
📣 Next week, help us speak out and make our voices heard at EPA’s online public hearing by saying NO MORE DELAYS! Coal ash cleanup cannot wait. 🗓️ Tuesday, January 6 ⏰ 8 AM CST/9 AM EST 🔗 RSVP at www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Last Monday, the people of Jasper County rose up and sent a resounding message to the Plan Commission: NO REZONE for AI data center buildout. 👏👏👏 The decision now sits with the Jasper County Commissioners. 📣 Take urgent action! jtnwi.org/urge-jasper-county-commissioners
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🏭 NIPSCO is seeking approval from the Jasper County Plan Commission to rezone land at its coal plant in Wheatfield, allowing for a potential data center and massive new gas plant to be built at the site. 📣 Join us & speak out against this rezone this Monday! www.jtnwi.org/data-centers
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📣 TAKE ACTION TODAY! Join us in telling the Indiana Department of Environmental Management our health is NOT negotiable and to DENY the dirty diesel pollution permit! 1️⃣ RSVP for the Tuesday public meeting: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/... 2️⃣ SUBMIT a quick comment: jtnwi.org/deny-project...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📣 Come ready to speak out & let your voice be heard. Help us say NO to this dirty diesel permit for the Project Maize AI Data Center at the IDEM public meeting! 1️⃣ RSVP for the public meeting: www.mobilize.us/jtnwi/event/... 2️⃣ Send a quick comment: jtnwi.org/deny-project...
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justtransitionnwi.bsky.social @justtransitionnwi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This Giving Tuesday, your gift isn’t just a donation; it’s an act of solidarity! Every dollar you give sustains grassroots organizing, youth leadership, and our collective fight for a just transition to a better region and world. 🌱 Help fund our future at www.jtnwi.org/donate.
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