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Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live: #NorthCarolina #Grassroots Group Supporting #cleanenergy — #noACP #noMVP

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

Lawn mowers, leaf blowers, per EPA, released more than 68K tons of smog-forming nitrous oxides, roughly equal to the pollution from 30mil cars and spewed 30mil tons of climate-warming CO2, more than the total emissions of the city of Los Angeles. https://t.co/JolQkDmZ5d

[Sunrise Durham Area 🌅 @SunriseDurham]

The spokesperson may be surprised to learn that his company has plans to build up to 11.7 GW of fracked gas by 2050 😱

It's in the Carolinas Carbon Plan (pg. 86, Table E-84)

https://t.co/Czf5PUCvMs

[Sunrise Durham Area 🌅 @SunriseDurham]

Yesterday we protested Duke Energy Carolinas request for a 17.9% hike on residential customers 🌱☀️📢

#NoRateHike #NCUtilitiesCommission #ClimateAction

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

Gas developer cites "market conditions" tho LNG exports are booming. Organized citizen groups relieved. @Public_Citizen lawsuit will continue, citing the need for FERC to oversee these "small," now under-their-radar facilities.
https://t.co/wIX4lNZTL6

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

"Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. ..if we lose the climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to defeatism among the comfortable...while frontline communities continue to fight like hell" https://t.co/TsCulk74xw

[Cornel West @CornelWest]

We must sound the alarm for responding to our climate emergency with a policy that tries to save the planet for future generations!
#SaveThePlanet
@mrfishcartoons
Read Press Release:
https://t.co/LO9xQWEvmA

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

"We are losing Earth on our watch. The Amazon rainforest... Coral reefs..will be gone by mid-century, and possibly much earlier given this surge in sea-surface temperatures.
...as a father, I grieve for my children."
https://t.co/EIBsljVyNU

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

N. Tesla was thinking of Earth & upper atmosphere as battery ends. ..air-derived electricity, hygroelectricity, now capturing researchers & they’re thinking very small.
UMass-Amherst in May generated a small, continuous current from humidity in the air.
https://t.co/pMBKLVwZOS

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

MN PUC unanimously approves iron-air battery facility, which can store electricity for 100 hours; will begin operating in late 2025.
The Minneapolis-based utility Xcel is partnering with Massachusetts-based Form Energy.
https://t.co/KnxqBrCJWV

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

The IEA estimates methane emissions from coal mining in Australia are about 81% higher than the national inventory data. For the oil and gas sector, IEA’s estimates are 92% higher than the national inventory data.
https://t.co/TtnmjH310l

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

.@StateFarm "announced in May it would halt new homeowner policies in California due to the “catastrophic” risk of wildfires worsened by the climate crisis" Yet it "employs lobbyists that also advocate for fossil fuel interests to lawmakers in 18 states." https://t.co/BJd9Vj4kqL

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

..initial fighting broke out June 23, then spread throughout gas complex in Eastern Siberia.
Gazprom under contract to supply China with 38 billion cubic meters/year after 2025.
https://t.co/12chBtVY6R https://t.co/M4X8sPbtcI #oilprice

[We-re-tiredNoCarbon @mapleliketree]

@7Directionsof @BXEAction @Lauren_Steiner @NC_DSA @SunriseDurham @DurhamWorkers @SWA_solidarity @ncAPPPL @HawRiverkeeper @AppVoices @stopthemvp

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

Government to rapidly cease already minimal extraction at joint Shell-Exxon Mobil site. Massive reserves of natural gas to be abandoned: drilling-related tremors caused widespread damage & mental anguish for people living nearby. https://t.co/Uc97KKPGDU

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

A no-brainer for NC. Maybe not for ND.
...materials can pay for themselves in about a year in hot climates... the increased cost is $0-.20/per sq. ft. Cost savings in CA estimated at $.50/per sq. ft. — $500 savings/year for a typical roof. https://t.co/plxOk5q9Xn

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

This month in Paris, the world’s governments agreed to draft a new treaty to control plastics. The UN says it could cut production by a massive 80% by 2040. https://t.co/R6ev5HAbf1

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

Public Utility Commissions: A Force To Be Reckoned With https://t.co/t2OSXaIZmd via @thirdactorg

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

...structures weigh 1.7 trillion lbs...roughly the weight of 140 million elephants.
...many of the largest buildings are placed upon solid bedrock...and there is also a mixture of sands & clays... https://t.co/VQfgqmtczE

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

Groundwater, noise, transport concerns.
Robeson County Commissioners are scheduled to discuss the project again at their June 5 meeting. https://t.co/3i2FmWg0qr via @NCNewsline

[APPPL @ncAPPPL]

What a great idea, NC General Assembly and NC Utilities Commission.