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79% of Michiganders support Proposal 2, and 65% support it strongly.
The initiative would ban campaign contributions from regulated utilities and large government contractors. Support has stayed strong all year, and opposition has never topped 13%.
ALT 79% support for Michigan Proposal 2 (65% strongly, 14% somewhat); polling: May 80% Jun 72% Sep 80% Oct 79%
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Another year, another rate hike request from Consumers Energy. Michigan families are paying more and more while executives and shareholders reap the benefits. Time to hold utilities accountable and build a cleaner, cheaper power grid.
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Michigan utility interests are contributing big to a campaign to block a ballot initiative that would *checks notes* limit utility political spending... bit.ly/4c7HFvG
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Another clear sign that gas stoves are dangerous to our health: “Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks.”
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Electrification of everything plus using clean, renewable energy and storage for the electricity is the only solution to global warming, air pollution, and energy security, and fortunately now also the cheapest and fastest to deploy. @ProfStrachan @billmckibben @ezraklein @nytimes
Professor @mzjacobson shared this earlier. Just listened and really enjoyed it. Thought-provoking and engaging.
Thank you @billmckibben, @ezraklein and @nytimes.
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
"In April, the energy think tank @Ember found that all of the new electricity demand around the world in 2025 was met with green power. That is wild."
"But here is the bad news: #ClimateChange is accelerating. We’re discovering new ways that the climate system is more fragile, more sensitive to emissions, than we previously had thought."
#RenewableEnergy
nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opini…
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Good morning with good news: Battery costs plunged 27% in 2025, a bigger fall than the 11% forecasted 2025 decline!
Global battery deployment jumps 33% in 2026 to 122.5 GW!
Battery costs fall 25%; solar costs 30%; land wind 23%/offshore 20% by 2035!
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Solar is now the dominant source of new U.S. power capacity and is on track to surpass coal in total installed capacity before the end of 2026.
70 GW of new solar capacity is scheduled to come online in 2026–2027 → a 49% increase in operating solar capacity from the end of 2025.
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Forced to pay $135 million (so far) to prop up coal plants we don't need.
bit.ly/4aUnCQj
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The advancement of battery and EV tech is super impressive, just as costs also continue to plummet with growth of the industry and EV sales. To put it another way, EV's are going to crush fossil-fueled vehicles, just on the basis of economics and performance.
Anyone betting against EVs is betting on a loser...
Lithium Manganese semi solid state battery with 2x the energy density of current Li-ion cells.
share.google/O2exA10Ra3hLCSY…
Battery tech and electric motors are the new prime mover of the 21st century. And they're just getting started. (Don't even get me started on axial flux motors...)
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Operating solar capacity is projected to increase almost 50% in the U.S. over the next two years.
bit.ly/4a4psxc
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There is no reason solar panels can't last for 40+ years.
These panels in Switzerland were installed in 1982, and they're STILL producing at 80% capacity.
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If you are still supporting fossil fuels, bioenergy, nuclear, carbon capture, or all-of-the-above, you are on the wrong side of history.
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EV adoption leads to rapid and significant cuts in air pollution, new data shows thedriven.io/2026/01/29/ev-a…
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“The fact that they’re passing along the costs of arguing to raise our rates as much as possible onto the people that are paying the rates is a problem,” said Nick Dodge, communications director for @MichiganLCV. bit.ly/4rmLYZw
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Do We Need Miracle Technologies to Save the Planet?
No. The solution is to electrify most all energy, use direct heat for the rest, and obtain the electricity+heat from wind, water & solar while using less energy
youtu.be/JTDNXWgrSLI?si=ueKb…
New Book
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That means customers pay not only for electricity or gas, but also investors’ profits. They also pay for things like utility lobbying, consultants and lawyers, executive compensation. It’s all baked into monthly bills.
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At the center of the problem: how utilities make money. Utilities don’t just recover their costs. They earn returns on equity often well above market risk. These rates of return drive profits. They are approved by regulators and passed directly to customers.
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This is what global climate change looks like - more devastating, hotter, drought in many parts of the world.
carnegieendowment.org/emissa…
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A new Michigan ballot initiative aims to keep monopoly utility money out of politics. You'll be shocked to hear who coughed up half the cash so far to fight... Find out here: energyandpolicy.org/consumer…
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For all those who say, "#Renewables make #electricity more expensive!"... sorry but you've been fooled by the #oilandgas industry. #Solar is so abundant these days that it's easier to give it out for free. Until of course they install #lithium #Batteries to store it all up. But that'll take years and meanwhile we ride the boom!
abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/e…
