The 10,500 backup diesel generators tied to #Virginia data centers could harm public health — even if they run just minutes a week — according to a Washington Post analysis. Read more: washingtonpost.com/business/…

Twenty years ago today, An Inconvenient Truth made its debut in movie theaters across the U.S. I’ll be honest: I was skeptical that my slideshow about the climate crisis could become a successful movie. But thanks to our immensely talented director, Davis Guggenheim, Jeff Skoll, who made the ultimate decision to make the movie, and the incredible team behind the film — Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott, Ricky Strauss, Diane Weyermann, and so many others, the film was a huge success, and opened the eyes of millions around the world to the threat posed by the climate crisis. While I wasn’t sure that there’d be widespread public interest in a science-based slideshow, I have never doubted humanity’s ability to solve this crisis. We know we must act, and Mother Nature is making that clearer and clearer every day. We’re already feeling the rapidly worsening impacts of a warming planet. Those impacts are evidence that our cause is even more urgent than it was 20 years ago. And as a result, the global movement for climate action has grown into the largest morally-based movement in the history of the world. We also know now that we can act. Indeed, in the past 20 years, we’ve made tremendous progress: The world came together in 2015 to forge the historic Paris Agreement, which despite the recent U.S. withdrawal, continues to drive global action and ambition. Incredibly, last year, renewables made up 86% of all the new electric power installed around the world. In the U.S., renewables were 92% of all new power capacity! Electric vehicles are now 25% of all new car sales worldwide and the sales of gasoline-powered vehicles have been declining since they peaked in 2017. Unfortunately, however, the crisis is still getting worse faster than we are deploying the solutions — solutions that are now way cheaper than the dirty and dangerous fossil fuels still spewing heat-trapping pollution into the sky as if it is an open sewer. So, while this is a natural occasion to reflect on the 20 years since the movie came out, I’m focused much more intensely on what we need to do now in order to shape what our world will look like in the next 20 years. I’m still presenting my updated slideshow all over the world, training grassroots climate leaders and working with partners in 194 countries and territories who are creating change in their communities, in their workplaces and schools, and in their nation’s policies. From what I’m seeing and hearing, I have no doubt that we will win this struggle. But it is still not clear that we will win it in time to avoid catastrophic damage and the dangerous negative tipping points that the climate scientists have long been warning us we must prevent. Will we muster the moral courage and political will to solve this crisis? Well, if you ever doubt our ability to do so, just remember that political will is itself a renewable resource. It’s up to all of us to renew it. Photos: Still from An Inconvenient Truth, 2006. Climate Reality Project training in Nashville, TN, 2026.

I wonder how the teachers would have spent 1.8 billon dollars? I wonder how the CDC would have spent 1.8 billon dollars? Your tax dollars are not building libraries or infrastructure. Your tax dollars are being handed to Trumps brownshirts who attacked cops and the capitol.

@RightWingWatch @RSBNetwork @NewsNation @MAGANEWS_X @NEWSMAX @OANN @cnnbrk @foxandfriends @TheFive @seanhannity @JesseBWatters

The Trump EPA is rolling back PFAS drinking water protections — putting New Yorkers’ health at risk. Assemblymember Lee and I are calling for NYS to enact S3207B/A8634B to keep toxins out of our drinking water.

Why does the Trump Administration SO hate the great outdoors and all its wild inhabitants? Such villainy towards our majestic country.

“TVA is handing out propaganda that coal ash is as benign as dirt,” says Stephen Smith of @cleanenergyorg. “Coal ash is not benign. It is hazardous.” @Caroline_Eggers @WPLN wpln.org/post/tennessees-big…

RT @MichaelEMann: #ScienceUnderSiege

WHY is the Trump administration so adamantly set on destroying citizens lives? @WhiteHouse @FoxNews @EPA @TheFive @DailyMAGAnews @TrumpNewsComm @RightWingWatch @BreitbartNews @foxandfriends @Rightanglenews @SenateGOP @WSJ @USATODAY @RandPaul

New Yorkers, if you read one article today, read this: time.com/article/2026/05/14/…

New estimates suggest Trump’s little excursion into Iran will cost $33 billion. Enjoy your skyrocketing cost of gasoline.

FYI: 🇺🇸 A massive data center campus in Fayetteville, Georgia, secretly drained nearly 30 million gallons of water before residents noticed a drop in their own water pressure. The "unaccounted-for" consumption has sparked a local firestorm: Illegal Hookups: Utility investigators discovered two industrial water connections feeding the QTS campus that were either installed without permission or not linked to a billing account. Massive Waste: The facility used enough water to fill 44 Olympic-size swimming pools, totaling $147,474 in retroactive charges that went unbilled for months. Citizen Outrage: Residents in the Annelise Park subdivision were told to stop watering their lawns to conserve water while the data center, the county's #1 water consumer, was draining the system for free. "Partnership" Over Penalties: Despite the breach, the county utility declined to fine the developer, calling the company a "partner" and citing a lack of staff to monitor the site. Total Ban: In response to the scandal and ongoing drought conditions, the Fayetteville City Council voted last month to ban new data centers in every zoning district across the city. The developer, owned by Blackstone, claims the high usage was for temporary construction, but local advocates argue the facility is "above the law" while the state faces severe wildfire risks.

Michigan: We're retiring an old coal plant because it's losing money Trump administration: Nope, you have to keep it open until we say so Michigan: But it's costing us like $600,000 a day and giving people asthma and heart attacks and we don't need it anymore Trump administration: COAL IS BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN open.substack.com/pub/thewor…

Trump in 2016: “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to play golf.” Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has spent 106 of his 473 days golfing, costing taxpayers nearly $150 million.

Scotland just delivered one of the most powerful clean-energy statements in modern history. On multiple occasions, the country’s wind turbines generated around 200% of national electricity demand, producing far more power than Scotland itself needed. It can be done!!! No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #renewables

Solar is the fastest energy source to scale up, as well as the cheapest to build. Why wait 7-10 years for natural gas startups or 15-20 years for nuclear startups when we can save NYers $1B a year with the ASAP Act? Let’s stop all the nonsense and get this done.

WTF is wrong with Trump?! nytimes.com/2026/05/04/clima…

Doubling down on fossil fuels that are driving up our utility bills AND repealing the CLCPA makes no sense. We need clean, affordable energy now!

BESS 101: Battery storage is a safe and effective way of improving grid reliability—creating a more resilient and affordable energy network. Thank you @nylcv and Councilwoman @catearogers for organizing the webinar and inviting ACE NY's Kyle Rabin as a presenter. @NYBatteryEnergy

NEW: Absent a biblical rainfall event this summer, Corpus Christi will be the first American city in modern history to run out of water. 💦 Schools & hospitals hope to drill wells. Lawns are dry. How will petrochemical plants handle it? We don’t know. kut.org/energy-environment/2…