Dustin Bleizeffer

Reporter @WyoFile covering energy & climate. Alum: @mit_esi and @JSKstanford fellowships, @Report4America. he/him #punk🤘🏻[email protected]

[Dustin Bleizeffer @DBleizeffer]

These are the dudes to call when your boat’s outboard motor needs fixin’

[Barney Hurley @barneyhurley1]

Walter Becker, Jeff ''Skunk'' Baxter, Denny Dias, Donald Fagen and Jim Hodder of Steely Dan, Los Angeles, California, 1973

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

National Park Service lands in Wyoming face a combined $1.6 billion maintenance backlog for roads, trails, sewerage and more, as critics say locally generated fees are being spent on President Donald Trump’s “vanity” projects in Washington. https://t.co/19W9RM7rXS

[Inside Climate News @insideclimate]

A proposed logging project near Yellowstone National Park has sparked debate over wildlife, wildfire and the future of public lands. Residents are asking whether the benefits outweigh the risks to one of America's most iconic landscapes.
https://t.co/7KHC9HjHnb

[Ian James @ByIanJames]

NPR lays off its chief climate editor

There's no conspiracy — just another newsroom making a poor decision @Sammy_Roth https://t.co/lc5fq7bH7y

[Governor Cox @GovCox]

Today I signed an Executive Order establishing a higher bar for data center development in Utah.

Utahns deserve confidence that water resources, air quality, utility rates, wildlife, and quality of life will be protected. This framework helps ensure that data center development aligns with Utah’s long-term interests and reflects Utah values.

In Utah, environmental stewardship and economic opportunity go hand in hand.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Most data centers have semitruck-sized diesel backup generators, making sporadic smoke plumes a fact of life for many in Virginia.

An analysis of the emissions found that pollution from the generators could cause respiratory symptoms and premature death. https://t.co/1oYI8ZTFg1

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

Microsoft wants thousands of acres southeast of Cheyenne that are owned by Sen. Cynthia Lummis, her family and associated companies for its data center expansion, Laramie County property records show. The Senate's ‘crypto queen’ strongly backs new tech. https://t.co/rvTb68J6oo

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

Critics cast doubt on claims that a pumped-water energy storage project at Seminoe Reservoir won't adversely impact wildlife and recreation. Particularly concerned about bighorn sheep and the Miracle Mile fishery, lawmakers agreed to exert their influence. https://t.co/JHJegpMgAm

[Dustin Bleizeffer @DBleizeffer]

Comments from national park 'snitch signs' have been released. They're wild. https://t.co/IyTHpXpafs via @SFGate

[John Orr @CoyoteGulch]

"I Am Not Optimistic": Western Slope Leaders Gather as #ColoradoRiver Crisis Deepens -- KVNF #COriver #aridification https://t.co/J1PyVyKE9w

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

As utilities ponder how to satisfy AI data centers' calls for massive amounts of new electricity, some of their legacy industrial customers — like the trona and soda ash industry — say their power expansion needs have gone unmet for years. https://t.co/IJNpwOAAhk

[John Orr @CoyoteGulch]

Do "40 million people" actually depend on water from the Colorado River? https://t.co/HLcQNU00AG

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

Microsoft and Prometheus Hyperscale officials recently assured lawmakers that geothermal and new closed-loop cooling systems require a fraction of the water that older data centers use. Yet water remains a concern for many in our arid state. https://t.co/uFpF6gGKez

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

Back when Congress designated the Yellowstone Timber Reserve, which became the Teton Forest Reserve, then the Teton National Forest and finally the Bridger-Teton National Forest, a single man ran the show. https://t.co/OMIFtByBBT

[Ian James @ByIanJames]

The dire ‘math problem’ of the Colorado River

I asked Anne Castle how far western states’ leaders are from really addressing the crisis.

Her answer: Nowhere near.
https://t.co/bjcgf8dkxl

[Robert D. Bullard @DrBobBullard]

EPA plan would let work start on data centers, power plants before air permits - E&E News by POLITICO https://t.co/3TvY4OPd8C

[Ian James @ByIanJames]

The crisis on the Colorado River is so bad, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes. "To think that these things would ever refill requires some kind of leap of faith that I, for one, don’t have." @bradudall https://t.co/pzOf91OFWb @ronlin @seangreene89

[NWS Phoenix @NWSPhoenix]

Year-to-date temperatures across almost the entire Southwest rank as the warmest on record (since 1895) while precipitation is mostly ranked in the 25 driest. This juxtaposition is very detrimental for water resources and replenishment of regional reservoirs. #azwx #cawx

[WyoFile @WyoFile]

The city of Mills invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs to prepare for a solar project that’s been repeatedly delayed. The agency tasked with fast-tracking industrial impact payments is failing to meet its mission, critics say. https://t.co/POzlnARZay

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

[Jonathan Overpeck @GreatLakesPeck]

Steadily increasing global temperatures has led to Japan creating a new term for "cruelly hot" or "kokusho-bi". The warming climate has also led to wider use of the term aridification and megadrought (the US is in the 27th year of a SW megadrought).
https://t.co/B2dDPd1AkE