Frederick Hewett
@fhcamb.bsky.social
ThirdAct, 350MA, WBUR, Charles River Watershed Association, Charles River Conservancy, CommonWealth Beacon, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, Community Rowing, School of HONK. Retired software guy.
Yeah, but you know wind turbines kill birds 🤨 americanpress.com/2026/02/05/u...
UPDATE: Community thankful pipeline explosion wasn’t worse - American Press
The Office of Emergency Preparedness in Cameron Parish said Tuesday’s pipeline explosion could have been a lot worse. The Cameron Parish Sheriff’s Office received the call reporting the explosion shor...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Yeah, but you know wind turbines kill birds 🤨 americanpress.com/2026/02/05/u...
Massachusetts has 3000 dams, many of which are unsafe and ecologically damaging. But many also connect us to the state's industrial beginnings. Here's some perspective on navigating that tension.
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Proposals to remove dams unleash debate over which history to honor
Across Massachusetts, communities are confronting a centuries-old legacy that is now doing more harm than good. The preservation of an obsolete dam implicitly privileges colonial and industrial histor...
commonwealthbeacon.org
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Massachusetts has 3000 dams, many of which are unsafe and ecologically damaging. But many also connect us to the state's industrial beginnings. Here's some perspective on navigating that tension.
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/prop...
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/prop...
Reposted by Frederick Hewett
Great piece by @fhcamb.bsky.social: Are climate policies the reason your utility bills are high? Yes and no. But scaling them back, he argues, isn't going to save you money either.
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Why your energy bills are higher than ever
"As things stand now, ratepayers bear the cost of the transition to clean energy on top of the cost to prop up the aging gas system," writes Frederick Hewett. "The choice policymakers face is to inves...
www.wbur.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Great piece by @fhcamb.bsky.social: Are climate policies the reason your utility bills are high? Yes and no. But scaling them back, he argues, isn't going to save you money either.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Reposted by Frederick Hewett
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
Renée Good. Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Renée Good. Alex Pretti.
"Bringing in relatively cheap hydroelectric power from Canada can displace the need for more expensive fossil fuel energy and help suppress the wholesale cost of electricity for everyone in the region." Thanks, Miriam. Thanks, Maine. Thanks, Canada. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...
A decade in the making, clean energy power line for Mass. is up and running
A major new transmission line that can bring renewable electricity from Quebec to Massachusetts is finally, after a whole lot of controversy and delay, starting to deliver power.
www.wbur.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"Bringing in relatively cheap hydroelectric power from Canada can displace the need for more expensive fossil fuel energy and help suppress the wholesale cost of electricity for everyone in the region." Thanks, Miriam. Thanks, Maine. Thanks, Canada. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...
Bees gain rights in Brazil. #RightsOfNature www.earthlawcenter.org/elc-in-the-n...
Satipo Approves Historic Ordinance: In World First, An Insect Is Granted Legal Rights — Earth Law Center
In an unprecedented legal development, the Provincial Municipality of Satipo, Peru has approved Municipal Ordinance No. 33-2025-CM/MPS, which grants legal rights to native stingless bees within the Av...
www.earthlawcenter.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Bees gain rights in Brazil. #RightsOfNature www.earthlawcenter.org/elc-in-the-n...
Incredible.
In less than a year, Trump has nominated at least 216 political appointees who own crypto investments worth between $175 million and $340 million, a ProPublica review found.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and @shaw.al
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and @shaw.al
Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Incredible.
Both Venezuela and Nigeria being petrostates is just a coincidence.
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Both Venezuela and Nigeria being petrostates is just a coincidence.
Cocaine? No. This tanker is carrying the *real* drug that the US is addicted to. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump says US is pursuing third oil tanker linked to Venezuela
The move comes days after the US president said that he was ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Cocaine? No. This tanker is carrying the *real* drug that the US is addicted to. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Senate Dems: Don't pass the SPEED Act until the offshore wind pause is lifted. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Senate Dems: Don't pass the SPEED Act until the offshore wind pause is lifted. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump to America: “GET OFF MY LAWN!”
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump to America: “GET OFF MY LAWN!”
Trofim Lysenko was a 20th c. Soviet agronomist who aligned his scientific views with Stalinism, contrary to overwhelming evidence he was flat-out wrong. The result: massive crop losses, exodus of scientists, Soviet biology set back decades. www.bostonherald.com/2025/12/09/c...
EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming’s causes. Scientists call it misleading
EPA altered some but not all of its climate change webpages.
www.bostonherald.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Trofim Lysenko was a 20th c. Soviet agronomist who aligned his scientific views with Stalinism, contrary to overwhelming evidence he was flat-out wrong. The result: massive crop losses, exodus of scientists, Soviet biology set back decades. www.bostonherald.com/2025/12/09/c...
"ENERGY DOMINANCE!!! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! "
Uh, but not if it means drilling in my backyard . . .
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Uh, but not if it means drilling in my backyard . . .
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Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition - Inside Climate News
It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"ENERGY DOMINANCE!!! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! "
Uh, but not if it means drilling in my backyard . . .
insideclimatenews.org/news/2111202...
Uh, but not if it means drilling in my backyard . . .
insideclimatenews.org/news/2111202...
Trump Media (Truth Social) stock trending downward as Trump’s approval rating slides. Stock is at its all-time low.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trump Media (Truth Social) stock trending downward as Trump’s approval rating slides. Stock is at its all-time low.
Rep. Mark Cusack: this is not a good look. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/energ...
Energy industry pads key lawmaker’s campaign coffers as major bill advances - CommonWealth Beacon
Cusack's legislation would lower the amount of renewable energy the utilities would be required to purchase and cut the state’s energy efficiency initiative, which is funded through the utilities’ rat...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Rep. Mark Cusack: this is not a good look. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/energ...
Reposted by Frederick Hewett
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
Check it out—a US government climate website that Trump hasn't dismantled. Shocking. www.climatehubs.usda.gov
Welcome to the USDA Climate Hubs | USDA Climate Hubs
www.climatehubs.usda.gov
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Check it out—a US government climate website that Trump hasn't dismantled. Shocking. www.climatehubs.usda.gov
Reposted by Frederick Hewett
China is building dozens of Kendall Squares while MAGA tries to cut medical research funding in half.
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Jake Auchincloss on MAGA's threat to U.S. medical innovation
YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss
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September 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
China is building dozens of Kendall Squares while MAGA tries to cut medical research funding in half.
youtube.com/shorts/WVgm3...
youtube.com/shorts/WVgm3...
My conversation with @betsyrosenberg.bsky.social on her Code Green channel. youtu.be/hPdjS6VEkMQ?...
Fighting Trump's Climate Rollbacks & Building Bridges | CODE GREEN Interview with Fred Hewett
YouTube video by Betsy Rosenberg | Meet The Solutionaries
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September 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My conversation with @betsyrosenberg.bsky.social on her Code Green channel. youtu.be/hPdjS6VEkMQ?...