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Werner Murez

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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems
21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just signed a petition to stop polluters and their political allies from dismantling Europe's environmental laws. Our water, air, and health are literally on the line. It takes 1 min to sign - would mean a lot if you did too 🌍 #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...
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Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife
Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Trump administration’s endangered species habitat rule repeal takes effect, facing bipartisan pushback in Congress | CNN
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is pushing back on a seismic shift in US environmental regulation that experts say exposes previously protected endangered species’ habitats to destruct...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Netherlands publishes roadmap away from fossil fuels
The Netherlands has presented a national roadmap for reducing its dependence on fossil fuels, becoming the second country after France to take such a step. But the plan stops short of setting a bindin...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof www.nytimes.com/article/clim...
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The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"For generations as a nation we’ve drained wetlands, straightened rivers and moved water off the land as quickly as possible. Here, we’ve reversed that approach and the results are remarkable" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is REALLY important. “Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll.” They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not. #ClimateCrisis
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Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same
That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll....
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases (Gift Article)
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
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ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have been saying for a while that we are going backwards Here is the latest grim evidence app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/c374dd...
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⚠️ The Fossil Lobby Is Winning: 45 Climate Policy Reversals in One Year
Last week I wrote on LinkedIn: I have been following climate politics for a long time. I do not think I have ever felt this upset. As the climate crisis accelerates, our leaders are not accelerating c...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 29/07/2026
The Royal Bengal tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies, yet only about 2,500 remain in the world today. On #TigerDay, learn why this species is vanishing: vanishingtreasures.org/portfolio/be...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A Summer of Extremes Set the Conditions for Europe’s Wildfires www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/w...
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A Summer of Extremes Set the Conditions for Europe’s Wildfires (Gift Article)
The wildfires are scorching parts of France and Spain that had already faced unusually hot and dry summers.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Michael Mann on BBC News Discussing Climate Change-Fueled Europe Wildfires (7/25/26)
YouTube video by Michael Mann
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Article)
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
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Wildfires in France and Spain Drive Tens of Thousands From Their Homes (Gift Article)
French officials ordered the evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a popular holiday destination. Fires in the Madrid area were closing in on populated areas.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 24/07/2026
Europe stands in full solidarity with Latvia and Ukraine. Russia is losing the war it started, and is increasingly targeting civilians in a desperate attempt to crush Ukraine’s spirit. But Ukraine’s spirit is unbreakable. And so is Europe’s resolve to support Ukraine’s defence.
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Heiko Stubner @hstubner.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NDR: Ökonomin Kemfert zu Klimaschutz - "Kosten für Nichthandeln sind enorm". Bis 2050 könnten bis zu 900 Milliarden Euro Folgekosten entstehen. "Wir müssen endlich über den Nutzen sprechen", sagt @ckemfert.bsky.social zu den Klimaschutz-Investitionen. @diw.de
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Ökonomin Kemfert zu Klimaschutz: "Kosten für Nichthandeln sind enorm"
Immer wieder wird darüber diskutiert, ob Klimaschutzmaßnahmen zu teuer sind und die deutsche Wirtschaft ausbremsen. Ökonomin Claudia Kemfert erklärt im Interview auf NDR Info, warum das Nichtstun für ...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency Just as Prices Are Rising www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency Just as Prices Are Rising (Gift Article)
The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Check out this quick petition to defend Europe's environmental laws against pressure from polluters. 1 minute to sign. Would really help if you shared it too! #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/ha...
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#HandsOffNature
#HandsOffNature
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Wow! Solar surpasses 3 TW nameplate worldwide. Wind is >1.3 TW. Together, they make up 4.3 TW. For comparison, US average demand is 0.47 TW, so W+S can now meet a peak of 9x US power demand or, over a year, 2x US electric energy demand. www.energiaestrategica.com/en/notes/esp...
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Global solar capacity exceeds 3000 GW in May, doubling wind power capacity.
Installed photovoltaic capacity reached 3,025 GW in April 2026, compared to 1,331 GW of wind power, according to Ember. A month later it advanced to 3,056 GW, while Brazil, Chile, and the European Uni...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The false promise of nuclear power. Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The false promise of nuclear power
By focusing narrowly on reactor operations, portraying reactor hazards as “extremely small”, and ignoring nuclear energy's other dangers, Talha Burki's World Report1 supports the mendacious narrative ...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal" | My op-ed (w/ Susan Joy Hassol) in the @the-independent.com: www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai... (from two years ago)
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Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal | Michael E. Mann
The current wildfires are a preview of far worse things to come, write climate experts, Susan Joy Hassol and Professor Michael E. Mann
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Getting Murdoched: climategate
This edited extract of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson examines Murdoch's destructive anti-climate change campaign.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development, reversing 50 years of environmental law | CNN
The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, farmi...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas home to most critically endangered species — including ocelots, northern aplomado falcons, Kemp's ridley sea turtles, and piping plovers All now on death row if Space X takes their land act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...
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Save a Vital Refuge From a Trillionaire’s Takeover
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is home to some of the United States' most critically endangered species. But now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to hand over more than 7...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Killing the Bees responsible for one-third of world's food production Common pesticide sulfoxaflor wiping out future bumblebees Researchers discovered that low-dose exposure to sulfoxaflor changed gene activity, especially in tissues involved in reproduction www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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This common pesticide may be quietly wiping out future bumblebees
A next-generation pesticide designed to kill crop pests may also be interfering with the reproductive health of bumblebees. Researchers discovered that low-dose exposure to sulfoxaflor changed gene ac...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/07/2026
This is the person who can’t find any scientific references to validate his opinions, so he used a large language model to hallucinate them. bsky.app/profile/some...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Trump Wants to Fast Track AI - Inside Climate News
In brief remarks to reporters Monday at the White House, President Donald Trump noted that he was shocked to learn how much energy developing artificial intelligence requires and said his administrati...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Why the true cost of new gas plants is much higher than the sticker price
When reviewing gas-fired power plant proposals, regulators often fail to consider pipeline, fuel and storage costs, which can add about 30% to a project’s total cost, GridLab’s Cassady Craighill write...
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 04/07/2026
Now that it's mid-year, time to recap our findings on #Europe's electricity transition 🔄 Ember's #EER2026 showed that the EU set new clean energy records in 2025, with wind and solar overtaking fossil power for the first time driven by a record annual increase in solar 🇪🇺🌞
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science - Carbon Brief
In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science”
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/c...
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See How Europe’s Heat Waves Melted the Alps’ Glaciers
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Plus, for many grids, both batteries and hydrogen fuel cells are useful for addressing a combination of short- and long-duration storage plus peaking. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
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Dutch Innovator Develops Dual Battery and Electrolyzer Machine for Solar and Wind Energy Storage, Raises €30 Million Following 1 MW Pilot
What if a single machine could store the energy of the sun and wind and, when full, start producing hydrogen? That's exactly what the Dutch company Battolyser Systems, led by CEO Mattijs Slee, has ach...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The "Battolyser" - two machines in one - both a battery and electrolyzer When the battery is full, additional electricity is used to split water to produce hydrogen. Useful for avoiding curtailment of excess solar and wind. en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/dutch-innova...
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Dutch Innovator Develops Dual Battery and Electrolyzer Machine for Solar and Wind Energy Storage, Raises €30 Million Following 1 MW Pilot
What if a single machine could store the energy of the sun and wind and, when full, start producing hydrogen? That's exactly what the Dutch company Battolyser Systems, led by CEO Mattijs Slee, has ach...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In 2018, a famous lawyer won a $289M verdict for a man who got cancer after using Monsanto's glyphosate weedkiller for years. Today, that same lawyer works for Trump, who signed an EO expanding glyphosate production and whose DOJ defended Monsanto in court. His name? RFK Jr.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...
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Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Roundup Weedkiller Caused Cancer
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde. This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics. @rarohde.bsky.social
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/c...
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Why Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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What climate hushers get all wrong
"There’s a thing out there called 'climate hushing' -- people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections," writes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "Whatever ...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Elected Democrats Have Embraced ‘Climate Hushing.’ Are They Making a Mistake as the Midterms Loom? - Inside Climate News
An Inside Climate News analysis of congressional press releases shows that Democrats have scaled back mentions of climate change and recently shifted the focus to energy affordability.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Over 1,000 hospitals and other medical providers are now at risk of cuts or closures, thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. All to pay for tax cuts for the super-rich. Never forget who they really govern for.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Analysis: UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief analysis reveals the nation’s EV drivers are saving more than £1,100 a year in fuel costs, compared with running a petrol car.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Despite It All: Watching US Wind and Solar’s Amazing Progress blog.ucs.org/john-rogers/...
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Despite It All: Watching US Wind and Solar’s Amazing Progress
Clean energy’s favorable economics, its environmental and health advantages, the ability to build it quickly, and its awesome momentum keep pushing it to greater heights—despite the forces looking to ...
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Geothermal Startup Bets Modular Plants Can Power AI Boom
Critical Energy plans to manufacture geothermal plants on an assembly line, cutting deployment timelines to weeks.
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Werner Murez @wernermurez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Europe's final fossil fuel crisis: an open letter to EU leaders
In this letter, a coalition of clean energy industry players, civil society groups, and academia argue that Europe's economic security, industrial competitiveness, and resilience to price shocks canno...
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