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Hyperscale data centers are forcing a step change in how the grid is planned and operated, and MI’s utility regulators are right to be concerned about cost shifting. But the same concern must be applied to ensure that data centers support a clean, reliable, and affordable grid for all Michiganders.
Michigan’s Data Center Boom Demands a Clean Energy Strategy—Not Delay
Hyperscale data centers are forcing a step-change in how the grid is planned and operated, and Michigan’s utility regulators are right to be concerned about cost shifting. But the same care and concern must also be applied to clean energy requirements and interconnection reform to ensure that data c
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November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hyperscale data centers are forcing a step change in how the grid is planned and operated, and MI’s utility regulators are right to be concerned about cost shifting. But the same concern must be applied to ensure that data centers support a clean, reliable, and affordable grid for all Michiganders.
“This is the third acting FEMA administrator within a year,” said @ucsshana.bsky.social. “What the Trump administration is doing is side-stepping the Senate confirmation process for a FEMA administrator, someone we just desperately need in place, given how turbulent it’s been over the past year.”
FEMA's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
Internal turmoil and delayed aid expose FEMA's fragility under Trump.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“This is the third acting FEMA administrator within a year,” said @ucsshana.bsky.social. “What the Trump administration is doing is side-stepping the Senate confirmation process for a FEMA administrator, someone we just desperately need in place, given how turbulent it’s been over the past year.”
When science is sidelined, people get hurt. As Louisiana's surgeon general, Ralph Abraham put the lives of children at risk. Now RFK has installed him — and his dangerous anti-science views — as deputy director of CDC.
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-ralph-lee-abraham-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code…
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When science is sidelined, people get hurt. As Louisiana's surgeon general, Ralph Abraham put the lives of children at risk. Now RFK has installed him — and his dangerous anti-science views — as deputy director of CDC.
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"I walked out moved, unsettled, and profoundly grateful for the scientists and diplomats who refused to be intimidated into silence three decades ago." Read Dr Delta Merner's blog on "Kyoto", a play about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Lincoln Center.
Kyoto and the Stories We Still Need to Tell About Fossil Fuel Obstruction
This past weekend, I walked into Kyoto, the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Lincoln Center in New York, curious to see how they would turn the long, tedious Intergovernmental Panel on Clim...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"I walked out moved, unsettled, and profoundly grateful for the scientists and diplomats who refused to be intimidated into silence three decades ago." Read Dr Delta Merner's blog on "Kyoto", a play about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Lincoln Center.
🌎The Union of Concerned Scientists is a US-based nonprofit organization founded 50+ years ago. Our team of scientists & everyday people work together to make change on the biggest issues of our time, including climate change, nuclear weapons, transportation, food, and democracy.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🌎The Union of Concerned Scientists is a US-based nonprofit organization founded 50+ years ago. Our team of scientists & everyday people work together to make change on the biggest issues of our time, including climate change, nuclear weapons, transportation, food, and democracy.
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🎁 While mega e-commerce warehouses are delivering more packages, they’re wrapping our neighborhoods with clouds of pollution. Let’s make sure that clean air is on everyone’s wishlist and hold big corporations accountable! #CleanDeliveries
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November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🎁 While mega e-commerce warehouses are delivering more packages, they’re wrapping our neighborhoods with clouds of pollution. Let’s make sure that clean air is on everyone’s wishlist and hold big corporations accountable! #CleanDeliveries
Click here: electrifyny.org/warehouses
Click here: electrifyny.org/warehouses
"Gratitude is powerful. It’s both something we offer up and, when we mean it, it’s a gift we give ourselves that can help us to hold grief, move anger, and bring us into right relation with what is." UCS's Erika Spanger shares a few reasons to feel grateful, even in this challenging climate moment.
Giving Thanks in This Climate Moment
It's a time to be defiant, but also compassionate.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Gratitude is powerful. It’s both something we offer up and, when we mean it, it’s a gift we give ourselves that can help us to hold grief, move anger, and bring us into right relation with what is." UCS's Erika Spanger shares a few reasons to feel grateful, even in this challenging climate moment.
Every person in the US was hit by at least one extreme weather alert between May and October 2025. Juan Declet Barreto’s latest blog reviews #DangerSeason 2025 and how the Trump administration's attacks on science are worsening these impacts.
Blog: act.ucsusa.org/4rjUGII
Blog: act.ucsusa.org/4rjUGII
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Every person in the US was hit by at least one extreme weather alert between May and October 2025. Juan Declet Barreto’s latest blog reviews #DangerSeason 2025 and how the Trump administration's attacks on science are worsening these impacts.
Blog: act.ucsusa.org/4rjUGII
Blog: act.ucsusa.org/4rjUGII
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Political appointees should not be dictating the scientific conclusions of federal science agencies. This is wildly inappropriate of Secretary Kennedy and devastatingly dangerous for public trust in the CDC as a scientific authority.
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Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Political appointees should not be dictating the scientific conclusions of federal science agencies. This is wildly inappropriate of Secretary Kennedy and devastatingly dangerous for public trust in the CDC as a scientific authority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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"Data center facilities are being constructed in pursuit of AI products, and just one of these data centers can consume multiple cities’ worth of power, leading to rocketing demand for new energy sources that can increase electricity bills for everyday ratepayers in often opaque ways."
What’s Next After Louisiana’s Gas Plant Approval for Meta Data Center
Just one of these data centers can consume multiple cities’ worth of power, leading to rocketing demand for new energy sources that can increase electricity bills for everyday ratepayers in often opaque ways.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Data center facilities are being constructed in pursuit of AI products, and just one of these data centers can consume multiple cities’ worth of power, leading to rocketing demand for new energy sources that can increase electricity bills for everyday ratepayers in often opaque ways."
“COP30 was supposed to be the COP of truth and implementation. Unless nations reckon with the ugly truths revealed here, there will be major repercussions for multilateral climate agreements and more importantly, for the lives of communities who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
#COP30
#COP30
COP30 Barely Delivers, Rich Nations Continue to Force Inequitable Climate Outcomes
COP30 barely delivers on adaptation, climate finance, fossil fuel phaseout, but important just transition progress made
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November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“COP30 was supposed to be the COP of truth and implementation. Unless nations reckon with the ugly truths revealed here, there will be major repercussions for multilateral climate agreements and more importantly, for the lives of communities who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
#COP30
#COP30
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Our mission is simple: we provide free legal advice and assistance to researchers being targeted by bad actors trying to censor, misinterpret, or otherwise silence them. If you or someone you know needs help: csldf.org/contact
Contact - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🛢️ Big Oil ramped up Google Ads in Brazil by 2,900% in just one month ahead of #COP30, according to new research from @caadcoalition.bsky.social @climainfo.org.br & @c3ds.bsky.social.The surge reflects the industry’s push to protect its social license to pollute.
Climate Action Against Disinformation | A 2,900% Increase in Greenwash: Big Oil Targeted Brazil With Google Ads To Undermine COP30
In the 10 months leading up to COP30, in Belém, Brazil, Big Oil increased its use of Google Ads targeting the country, with the number of adverts spiking by 2,900% between September and October…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🛢️ Big Oil ramped up Google Ads in Brazil by 2,900% in just one month ahead of #COP30, according to new research from @caadcoalition.bsky.social @climainfo.org.br & @c3ds.bsky.social.The surge reflects the industry’s push to protect its social license to pollute.
Today, the COP Presidency released new negotiation text, including an updated Mutirão package, which is much weaker than the earlier version, dropping mention of a roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels, "a glaring omission of an urgent call championed here by more than 80 countries.”
Adaptation Finance Low-Balled, Glaring Omission of Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in New COP30 Text
Glaring omission of fossil fuel phaseout, just transition, adaptation finance in new COP30 draft negotiating text, Mutirao
www.ucs.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today, the COP Presidency released new negotiation text, including an updated Mutirão package, which is much weaker than the earlier version, dropping mention of a roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels, "a glaring omission of an urgent call championed here by more than 80 countries.”
Threats of political violence are a hallmark of authoritarian regimes and a direct attack on US democracy, the Constitution, and the rights and freedoms of people across the country. They put lives at risk, and they are unacceptable.
Trump accuses Democrats of 'seditious behavior, punishable by death,' for urging military to ignore illegal orders
Trump called for the Democratic lawmakers to be "arrested and placed on trial" in social media posts.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Threats of political violence are a hallmark of authoritarian regimes and a direct attack on US democracy, the Constitution, and the rights and freedoms of people across the country. They put lives at risk, and they are unacceptable.
When you think about pollution sources, you might not picture the green fields of a farm. But fertilizer overuse in agriculture takes a major toll on the environment and is accelerating the climate crisis. UCS’s Omanjana Goswami explains more in her new blog.
Half Wasted: Fertilizer Overuse, Pollution, and the Global Nitrogen Cycle
Fertilizer overuse is accelerating the climate crisis. Farmers often shoulder the financial and environmental burden of trying to manage risks in a system that incentivizes overapplication.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When you think about pollution sources, you might not picture the green fields of a farm. But fertilizer overuse in agriculture takes a major toll on the environment and is accelerating the climate crisis. UCS’s Omanjana Goswami explains more in her new blog.
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🚨 BIG NEWS from #COP30:🇨🇴Colombia and 🇳🇱the Netherlands will co-host the 1st International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia – April 28–29, 2026.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 BIG NEWS from #COP30:🇨🇴Colombia and 🇳🇱the Netherlands will co-host the 1st International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia – April 28–29, 2026.
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🔬 "Both science and democracy share a normative commitment to experimentalism as the best way forward." - Astrid Caldas, Senior Climate Scientist, UCSUSA, informs us on the importance of science in order to build democracy. Wedonthavetime PIK_Climate UNDP UNFCCC
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🔬 "Both science and democracy share a normative commitment to experimentalism as the best way forward." - Astrid Caldas, Senior Climate Scientist, UCSUSA, informs us on the importance of science in order to build democracy. Wedonthavetime PIK_Climate UNDP UNFCCC
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Who’s surprised? #DHS Sec. #KristiNoem changes draft FEMA review council report. Former #FEMA head Cameron Hamilton asks blunt Q. “What degree of confidence do you have that the report that you submit to DHS will be what is submitted to the president?”
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Noem at odds with Trump-appointed panel over future of FEMA
Instead of further shrinking and dismantling FEMA, the FEMA Review Council wants to make it more independent.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Who’s surprised? #DHS Sec. #KristiNoem changes draft FEMA review council report. Former #FEMA head Cameron Hamilton asks blunt Q. “What degree of confidence do you have that the report that you submit to DHS will be what is submitted to the president?”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social finds that the US govt gives the #FossilFuel industry a handout of $34.8 BILLION dollars in subsidies every year — even as everyday people struggle with the cost of living and the climate crisis grows worse & worse.
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A new report from @oilchange.bsky.social finds that the US govt gives the #FossilFuel industry a handout of $34.8 BILLION dollars in subsidies every year — even as everyday people struggle with the cost of living and the climate crisis grows worse & worse.
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
Read more: oilchange.org/publications...
Strong employee experience practices boost satisfaction, prevent burnout and build a motivated, equity-centered workforce. Join @green2-0.bsky.social and leaders including UCS’s president @gretchentg.bsky.social to discuss strengthening our sector.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Strong employee experience practices boost satisfaction, prevent burnout and build a motivated, equity-centered workforce. Join @green2-0.bsky.social and leaders including UCS’s president @gretchentg.bsky.social to discuss strengthening our sector.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
On top of the Trump administration’s blatant weaponization of the recently concluded government shut down, the scientific work of federal agencies decreased immensely during this time period, endangering advancements in research and the health and safety of all those who benefit from it.
The Shutdown Ends, but Threats to Science Go On
As the administration tightens its grip on the federal government, its campaign against federal government science continues.
blog.ucs.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
On top of the Trump administration’s blatant weaponization of the recently concluded government shut down, the scientific work of federal agencies decreased immensely during this time period, endangering advancements in research and the health and safety of all those who benefit from it.
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Today: Join me, @lewan.bsky.social, and @ucs.org colleagues to discuss how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy.
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How Scientists Can Stand Up for Democracy
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a virtual science advocacy training on how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democra...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today: Join me, @lewan.bsky.social, and @ucs.org colleagues to discuss how the scientific community can push back against the growing authoritarian threat and stand up for our democracy.
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When the government fails to provide trusted scientific information, people get hurt. This is why we need independent science outside of government right now. (🧵)
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on debunking vaccines-autism link
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
When the government fails to provide trusted scientific information, people get hurt. This is why we need independent science outside of government right now. (🧵)
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NEW: CSS leaders endorsed the EXPERTS Act, reintroduced today by @jayapal.house.gov and @warren.senate.gov.
The bill would restore and modernize the federal regulatory system, which has been corrupted by Trump, the courts, and corporate lobbyists.
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The bill would restore and modernize the federal regulatory system, which has been corrupted by Trump, the courts, and corporate lobbyists.
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EXPERTS Act Would Restore and Modernize the Federal Regulatory System, Which Has Been Corrupted by Trump, Courts, and Corporate Lobbyists
EXPERTS Act Would Restore and Modernize the Federal Regulatory System, Which Has Been Corrupted by Trump, Courts, and Corporate Lobbyists For Immediate Release: November 19, 2025 Contact: David Rosen,...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
NEW: CSS leaders endorsed the EXPERTS Act, reintroduced today by @jayapal.house.gov and @warren.senate.gov.
The bill would restore and modernize the federal regulatory system, which has been corrupted by Trump, the courts, and corporate lobbyists.
sensiblesafeguards.org/press/expert...
The bill would restore and modernize the federal regulatory system, which has been corrupted by Trump, the courts, and corporate lobbyists.
sensiblesafeguards.org/press/expert...