Climate Reality: Pittsburgh & SWPA 🌎
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Climate Reality: Pittsburgh & SWPA is a volunteer-powered regional network for climate action & education. Freedom from #FossilFuelTyranny !
Pennsylvania, USA
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How fast is polar ice moving into the sea? 🛰️ 10 years of @CopernicusEU Sentinel-1 data provide the answer – crucial for understanding future sea-level rise 👉 https://t.co/eL9XBFP6fR
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Shutting down wind farms that are nearly complete makes absolutely no sense. This irrational hostility toward solar, wind, and battery storage is increasing already high electricity rates. We need more energy fueled by the cheapest sources to keep utility bills affordable.
politico.com
The move is yet another escalation from President Donald Trump, who has vowed to throttle wind projects despite his party's worries about electricity affordability.
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On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise." I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
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Newly discovered docs dating back to the 1970's reveal that Shell has known about the harm caused by oil & gas for decades.These files aid the massive climate lawsuits targeting Shell: https://t.co/FzoAJw2N3f Hold the companies causing this crisis responsible. #ActOnClimate
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"Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth" Astronauts orbited the Moon for the first time in history on Christmas Eve, 1968. On their fourth orbit, they captured the sight of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon, a photo dubbed "Earthrise."
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Warm wishes to you and your family this holiday season. 🌲❄️
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Solar cuts costs, reduces emissions, and creates jobs – but projects across the US are stuck in limbo. Tell Congress to push Interior to unblock solar and get clean energy built now. https://t.co/FrSpixXWlq
climaterealityproject.org
Tell Congress to press Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to cut the red tape blocking new solar projects nationwide.
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Comment: A single data center can consume up to 5 million gallons of drinking water per day – sufficient to supply thousands of households or farms.
climatechangenews.com
AI-driven climate monitoring systems should operate according to defined carbon budgets and become more efficient in their use of energy and water
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Despite the PA DEP's attempt to track toxic gas waste, some landfills in the southwestern part of the state report receiving far more oil and gas waste than Pennsylvania operators say was sent.
insideclimatenews.org
More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records.
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Data center growth is pushing the US economy toward a fate that has afflicted Appalachia since the natural gas boom - economic growth without increased prosperity. Happens when growth is dominated by capital-intensive, non-labor-intensive industries.
ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org
AI-driven economic growth is exposing investment and GDP growth as misleading measures of prosperity and misguided goals for local economies.
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BREAKING! Kudos to our partner and former East Palestine resident Jess Conard for an excellent oped today calling for safer railway practices and the Rail Safety Act of 2023. Please read and ACT!
thehill.com
Over 80 million Americans are just like me; they live near a Class I railroad track.
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Justice for East Palestine derailment survivors & key provisions of the Rail Safety Act must be codified into any merger by the Class 1 Railroads - Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern. No petro trains on infrastructure degraded by neglect & climate change https://t.co/fyricF6WU2
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We’re suing! Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and Sierra Club have filed a Notice of Appeal with the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board challenging errors in the #HomerCity #DataCenter power plant plan approval. Read more here: https://t.co/FjASc8qMEB
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Shell just racked up two new air quality violations, including excess VOCs, HAPs, and #benzene. Is this sudden wave of “community outreach” just PR to distract from what’s really happening? Read the Notices of Violation here: https://t.co/Wuxc4eoAeh
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After an historic vote last week by Allegheny County Council to fully fund our Air Quality Program — which enforces the Clean Air Act — Trump seeks to ensure that Mon Valley & Clairton get coal [soot in their lungs] for Christmas. What a Grinch move. https://t.co/6xAGXFkkS7
thehill.com
President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years. Trump on Friday issued a proclamation exempting facilities known as coke oven…
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@PittsburghPG We appreciate the hell out of everyone who made — and kept! — their strike solidarity pledges of un-subscribing and boycotting the PG these last 37+ months. It's important that our bosses know who we do it for.
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With our strike ending today, we are welcoming folks to speak to the @pittsburghPG in addition to sharing PG articles as they like. We are NOT asking folks to re-subscribe *just* yet as we would like to do that as a big wave of supporters. We will be loud about that, and soon.
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"Beyond Bill Gates’s “Soft Denial” Ahead of the #COP30: Why Technological Fixes Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis" by Rakibul Hasan Khan for @CounterCurrents:
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#COP30 opens today! From 10 to 21 November 2025 IPCC will be streaming events from the joint #IPCC, @WMO #MeriFoundation #Science4ClimateAction Pavilion in Belém, Brazil. Check out the full programme here ➡️ https://t.co/3OAnUCHQnS 📺Follow live https://t.co/feynzRkPMt
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