Rick Trotter

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Some of the largest networks of pollinator habitat in the United States runs beneath power lines.

Power-line rights-of-way are long strips of land that utilities maintain to keep trees from interfering with electrical infrastructure. While tall trees can't grow there, native grasses, wildflowers, milkweed, and low-growing shrubs often can.

In many regions, these corridors stretch for hundreds or thousands of connected miles across farms, forests, suburbs, and cities. Because they are protected from development and kept open over the long term, they can provide valuable habitat for pollinators, grassland birds, and other wildlife.

Some utilities have recognized the opportunity. Programs across North America use integrated vegetation management to encourage low-growing native plant communities instead of repeatedly clearing everything.

If a power-line corridor runs through or near your property, ask your utility about its vegetation-management practices.

Some utilities allow compatible native plantings beneath transmission lines, while others offer habitat programs, technical guidance, or partnerships with landowners.

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@NCGOP @RoyCooperNC GOP controls the legislature. Pass non-partisan redistricting.

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@TomMoyerUT People want: a) datacenters should pay for their grid demand, not residential ratepayers b) datacenters should address concerns of the community, like water use and noise. Either the business model works if you do the job right or it doesn’t work and you go home.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

You are not seeing a lot of news you should be seeing.

Israel is targeting hospitals in Lebanon. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@somanysigns444 @watson1787 @JeffJacksonNC The Cherokee datacenter requires about 100MW and sits on 70 acres. The Currituck solar farm generates about that, and uses about 1K acres. General land use est seems to be around 7ac/MW. Solar only is possible and maybe economically practical but maybe politically impractical

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@ByAdamWagner @ForwardCarolina Please keep us updated on the progress of the "bill".

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@LukeFarleyNC Median income is $38.6K. The median household can no longer afford the median-priced home. You need to advocate for labor, not shareholders. One thing: raise the min wage.
https://t.co/HkbY7lK9I3

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@watson1787 @JeffJacksonNC Co-located SMRs is a promising strategy, but is still emerging tech. It can't meet the demand that's growing soon enough, yet. Co-located solar is more practical, now. At the same time, a datacenter rate class is a reasonable protection for residential users.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I hate days when decades of science are dismissed with → I did my own research.

It’s the worst.

Science is hard. It takes proof, testing, and reproducibility.

Pseudoscience? Easy. Just make it up, add fear, and watch it spread.

Am I the only one? ♻️ Pass it on.

[Fred Krupp @FredKrupp]

EPA’s decision to abandon its decades-long, bipartisan practice of evaluating the health impacts of pollution puts American lives at risk, while ignoring the vast body of science underpinning the benefits of clean air standards.
https://t.co/L5TcZr0paj

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

This is not politics as usual.

We’ve never had an openly authoritarian leader in office. Nor have we had a party totally subservient to their leader.

We must resist as such during these not normal times.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

By rejecting vaccines, you put others in danger.

You reject decades of immunology, epidemiology, clinical trials, and real-world evidence involving billions of doses.

You promote the idea that every hospital, university, regulator, and doctor on Earth is part of one giant conspiracy — while viruses, measles, polio, and whooping cough quietly come back.

Vaccines are not perfect.
But pretending infectious diseases disappeared on their own is historically illiterate.

Modern medicine dramatically increased human life expectancy.

The real danger is turning public health into a conspiracy theory.

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@BillKristol Yep

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

They didn't want to award the Capitol Police a medal or a plaque but want to reward the people who orchestrated and took part in the violence that injured me and ended my career. In the name of national reconciliation, they pardoned the same rioters who attacked us and now being rewarded for the violence they inflicted on us the officers.

They are trying to make the lives of the rioters whole or better than before they assaulted us. Yet to the officers, no apology, no compensation, no acknowledgment of the bravery and sacrifice we made to protect “each of your representatives” regardless of what party they belong.

Why did we risk our lives for then?
What a betrayal this is to us and to the rule of law days after “police week”.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

There was a secret pipeline of information designed to raise prices on almost all the chicken, pork, and turkey you bought - for years.

We just shut it down:

[KP Asks Why @KPASKSWHY]

NC’s Opportunity Scholarships were sold as “school choice for poor kids.” But many low-income families can’t use them.

Why?

- No transportation
- Tuition often exceeds voucher
- Uniforms/fees/meals
- Schools limit admissions
- No local options

#nced #ncpol #SchoolChoice

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution.

And so today I’m a Democrat.

[American Conservation Coalition @ACC_National]

Alabama should build the future of energy here at home. 🇺🇸

In this new op-ed, ACC’s Ellen Connell says solar means American manufacturing, Alabama jobs, private investment, and land stewardship.

We can grow energy production while supporting agriculture and conservation.

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@simonmaechling Hi Simon. Like “make people smarter, not angrier”

[Rick Trotter @rtrotter15]

@TheRealBeliveau @donaldbryson The movement includes nimbys who are concerned about noise, and utility ratepayers who are concerned about having to subsidize data center electricity demand. How about placing the onus on datacenters to address these concerns.