Just a friendly reminder that murder is wrong. @GottaLaff had some people post some disturbing comments on one of her toots. I despise the Koch brothers but would never condone the surviving brother's murder. I am anti-capital punishment and anti-assassination. Murder is wrong.
Lots of ❤️ for you @GottaLaff and many thanks for all your posts.
These are Biden's carbon replacers, sucking up some of the best wind on earth.
Build it all, build the replacement now. The EU says the goal of their efforts, arrangements, negotiations . . . is the elimination of carbon fuels, at speed.
"EU to push for COP28 deal on phasing out fossil fuels"
Good news. The Goal is stated. The time is set. The path is before us.
Today in Labor History October 12, 1984: The Provisional Irish Republican Army failed to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet at the Brighton Hotel. Thatcher narrowly escaped, and her popularity soared in the aftermath. The bomb did kill five Conservative Party members, including a sitting MP, and wounded 31 others. The Miners’ Strike was currently underway in Britain. Morrissey, from the Smiths, said: "The only sorrow of the Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed." The tabloids were full of similar jokes. The Angelic Upstarts celebrated the bombing with their single "Brighton Bomb." The bomber, Patrick McGee, got 8 life sentences (just to make sure he was thoroughly remorseful). Magee was released in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, after serving 14 years. The bombing was depicted in the novels “High Dive” (2015) by Jonathan Lee, and “In the Morning I'll Be Gone” by Adrian McKinty.
Studying home #HVAC -replacement options and #IRA incentive$ in #California. Does anyone truly current (swidt) on #CAenergy initiatives think #HOMES and #HEEHRA rebates on #energyefficiency residential upgrades won't be available in 2024? (I am aware of – thx Mastodonians – the up to $2,000 federal tax credits already available for qualified heat pumps.) Boosts appreciated.
Today in Labor History October 3, 1981: A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at Maze Prison in Belfast, over deplorable conditions, was called off after seven months and ten deaths. Striking prisoner Bobby Sands, who was elected to parliament from his jail cell during the hunger strike, eventually died from his protest.
Always mention that this is the poison pill Joe #Manchin put into the #IRA:
"The #InflationReductionAct required the Interior Department to propose a certain number of #oil and #gas leases in federal waters in exchange for the ability to propose clean #OffshoreWind energy projects. Three was the lowest number that would allow it to move forward with offshore wind lease sales around the country, the department said, given the requirements of the law."
" Don’t get fooled by a common myth. The reality: The landmark #IRA includes provisions to incentivize domestic #CleanEnergy#manufacturing and reduce U.S. dependence on China.
But though China does play an outsized role in the manufacturing of clean energy technologies, the #InflationReductionAct’s authors included provisions specifically seeking to remedy the situation by onshoring more of that supply chain within U.S. borders."
"The #StockMarket strongly reacted to the [#IRA]:green firms benefited, and brown firms did not.
While the financial market response to the IRA was economically significant, it did not lead to instability or financial stress, suggesting that #TransitionRisks posed by #climate policies as ambitious as the IRA may be manageable."
#Biden ‘s #IRA is turbocharging a huge investment in new manufacturing plants and jobs in the U.S. to help reduce fossil fuel carbon emissions causing our climate crisis.
It will soon be funding billions of dollars in home improvement projects to allow low and middle-income homeowners to electrify, solarize, upgrade and simply increase energy efficiency to save money. Except in states like FL, KY, IA, and SD, which have failed to join the federal program
Interested in learning more about what assistance you can get from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act climate legislation to help you decarbonize so that you're no longer warming our globe? Webinar on September 7th.
Would you be here if you didn’t have good #internet access? High-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity.” Pres #Biden has pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables made in the U.S.
“These investments will help all Americans,” he said. “We’re not going to leave anyone behind.”
The #MSM focuses on negative news cuz it gets the clicks. It gets its head stuck in the sand and then is surprised at the great economy we’re experiencing.
I’m not surprised. #Biden told us over and over that the #IRA and #CHIPS would create a #BidenBoom. No surprise
On the 31 July 1972 Operation Motorman began. The British Army invaded No-Go areas sending 21,000 soldiers, with tanks and bulldozers, into working-class nationalist areas across the north including Free Derry. The IRA, aware that they weren’t ready for a pitched battle with such a force, had left the No Go areas, so no real resistance was offered. 1/2
On 10 July 1921 Bloody Sunday broke out in Belfast. The violence erupted one day before a truce began in the Irish War of Independence, which ended the war in most of Ireland. With the truce nearing, police launched a raid against republicans, but were ambushed by the IRA and a British officer was killed. 1/2
With the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the US has chosen industrial policy as the way forward to fight climate change. Economists don’t like industrial policy in general. It’s very hard for governments to get it right. They often end up subsidizing the wrong businesses for political reasons. (E.g. representatives fight to get money for their own states, certain states are more important for presidential elections, etc.)
President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is lowering health care costs for Ohioans.
Proud to join U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra, Mayor Justin M. Bibb & local senior advocates at Broadway Pharmacy in #CLE to discuss how the #IRA is delivering for #OH11: including a $35/month cap on Medicare-covered insulin costs.
This is a very interesting (and highly-interactive!) piece about #ElectricVehicles... and, yet, if we are going to discuss "underbellies" of #EVs then I think the following are almost always neglected:
How heavier vehicles negatively impact roadway safety and increase non-exhaust emissions (dust and PM 2.5); and
How heavier vehicles (and the proliferation of cars, in general) will drive a growth in negative concrete externalities - which are significant.