The full story of #Georgia’s #power structures prioritizing a prized industry over #PublicHealth is only now emerging through dozens of interviews & thousands of pages of court records from lawsuits against the industry & its #chemical suppliers. Those records, including testimony from key executives, emails & other internal documents, detail how #carpet companies benefited from chemistry & #regulatory #inaction to keep using #ForeverChemicals.

All the while, the mills still hummed.

#law #PFAs

The full story of #Georgia’s #power structures prioritizing a prized industry over #PublicHealth is only now emerging through dozens of interviews & thousands of pages of court records from lawsuits against the industry & its #chemical suppliers. Those records, including testimony from key executives, emails & other internal documents, detail how #carpet companies benefited from chemistry & #regulatory #inaction to keep using #ForeverChemicals.

All the while, the mills still hummed.

#law #PFAs

But maintaining ancient #power plants is very expensive. Many #utilities across the country have spent the last several years slowly retiring their oldest & dirtiest #coal facilities, & replacing that energy with a mix of newer, low-cost options including #gas plants & #renewables.

“These are old plants,” said Michael Goggin, executive VP of #energy consulting group #Grid Strategies & the author of the recent report tallying the costs of coal plants. “They are no longer economic.”

#Trump #law

It’s a relatively new use for an #Energy Dept “emergency power” normally deployed to bypass #pollution limits & keep #power plants running more frequently during a hurricane, or the recent winter cold snaps. However, last year, Energy Sec Chris Wright used this emergency power to order those #coal plants & one #oil plant to stay open well past their shut-down date—arguing there wasn’t enough energy being generated to power the #grid if they went dark.

#Trump #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #law

The #Trump admin has so far prevented 5 aging #coal-fired #power plants from shutting down at their planned retirement dates. The admin says this is a cost-saving solution for Americans at a time when rising #energy bills are causing concern around the country. But experts say it’s likely to increase energy prices, instead. In fact, new analysis shows the move could cost #US ratepayers billions over the next 2 years.

#idiocracy #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #law

#Trump is using “emergency powers” to keep aging #coal plants open. It could increase your #electricity bill.

A #Michigan #power plant that has consumed coal in a roaring furnace to generate electricity since the early 1960s was supposed to retire last year. Instead, it’s been kept running for months on the orders of the Trump admin.

And it’s not the only one.

#affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #energy #EnvironmentalLaw #law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/climate/trump-aging-coal-plants-electricity-bills

But maintaining ancient #power plants is very expensive. Many #utilities across the country have spent the last several years slowly retiring their oldest & dirtiest #coal facilities, & replacing that energy with a mix of newer, low-cost options including #gas plants & #renewables.

“These are old plants,” said Michael Goggin, executive VP of #energy consulting group #Grid Strategies & the author of the recent report tallying the costs of coal plants. “They are no longer economic.”

#Trump #law

It’s a relatively new use for an #Energy Dept “emergency power” normally deployed to bypass #pollution limits & keep #power plants running more frequently during a hurricane, or the recent winter cold snaps. However, last year, Energy Sec Chris Wright used this emergency power to order those #coal plants & one #oil plant to stay open well past their shut-down date—arguing there wasn’t enough energy being generated to power the #grid if they went dark.

#Trump #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #law

The #Trump admin has so far prevented 5 aging #coal-fired #power plants from shutting down at their planned retirement dates. The admin says this is a cost-saving solution for Americans at a time when rising #energy bills are causing concern around the country. But experts say it’s likely to increase energy prices, instead. In fact, new analysis shows the move could cost #US ratepayers billions over the next 2 years.

#idiocracy #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #law

#Trump is using “emergency powers” to keep aging #coal plants open. It could increase your #electricity bill.

A #Michigan #power plant that has consumed coal in a roaring furnace to generate electricity since the early 1960s was supposed to retire last year. Instead, it’s been kept running for months on the orders of the Trump admin.

And it’s not the only one.

#affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #energy #EnvironmentalLaw #law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/climate/trump-aging-coal-plants-electricity-bills

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour. "Starmer’s faction is bitterly opposed to redistributing #wealth & #power. Recall when it courted wealthy businesspeople, such as former Tory donor John Caudwell, who approvingly declared that #Starmer had 'taken all the left out of the #Labour party' & replaced it with values 'in complete alignment with my views as a commercial #capitalist'."

Knowledge is Power.

#streetart #art #women #ingenious #power #knowledge

Knowledge is Power.

#streetart #art #women #ingenious #power #knowledge

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/keir-starmer-gorton-denton-byelection-greens-labour. "Starmer’s faction is bitterly opposed to redistributing #wealth & #power. Recall when it courted wealthy businesspeople, such as former Tory donor John Caudwell, who approvingly declared that #Starmer had 'taken all the left out of the #Labour party' & replaced it with values 'in complete alignment with my views as a commercial #capitalist'."

via #AnandGiridharadas: https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/its-so-much-bigger-than-epstein

“If you were an alien landing on Earth and the first thing you saw was the Epstein emails, you could gauge status by spelling, grammar, punctuation. Usage is inversely related to #power in this network. The earnest scientists and scholars type neatly. The wealthy and powerful reply tersely, with misspellings, erratic spacing, stray commas.

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187K US customers without power on 1/31/26 1431PT

Mississippi 64,120
Tennessee 47,645
Louisiana 23,367
Georgia 13,491
Florida 9,884
Alabama 7,788
New York 2,984
North Carolina 2,175

#power #disasters #winterstorm #TNwx #GAwx #LAwx #ALwx