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05/22/2026

"You have to grasp at straws until your fingers bleed to find positives in the US government these days, but at least the Trump administration has clearly delineated the battle lines on the future of the planet.

"On one side are the vast majority of the world’s people, all of nature, 99.9% of climate scientists and the fastest-growing, greatest-job-creating chunk of the global economy: the clean energy sector.

"On the other is Trump and the primary producers and users of fossil fuels, who need enormous taxpayer subsidies to stay profitable and ever greater violence to quell public unease and global opposition. The latter controls the US state – including the military and ICE – and is allied with much of the money of Silicon Valley’s power-thirsty datacentre companies."

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing results, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

05/06/2026

Residents of New Orleans have no doubts about the real world threat of climate change, nor should anyone - especially elected decision-makers.

A football-sized area of the city is now lost every 100 minutes, 99% of the population is at high risk for severe flooding, and New Orlean's 360,000 residents are being urged to start relocating now.

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say

04/29/2026

“The industrial sector is the highest-emitting sector statewide, accounting for more than 30 percent of Pennsylvania’s total annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Projects may reduce emissions through electrification, efficiency improvements, low-carbon fuel switching, on-site renewable energy, carbon capture and storage technologies, and reducing fugitive emissions from natural gas, oil, and coal systems…”

On April 28, Josh Shapiro and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Jessica Shirley visited Gautier Steel Holdings with local off...

04/22/2026

The schedule of events for the 2026 Williamsport Earth Day Celebration is up on our site! Music, presentations, food, and community. Join us this Saturday 4/25) 🙂🌎🌳

The home of Climate Activism for Central Pennsylvania.

04/21/2026

Saudi Arabia just activated the largest single solar installation ever built — 300 square kilometers of Neom desert covered with 9 million panels generating clean electricity for 5 million homes from nothing but desert sunshine.

The Neom Solar Mega-Complex Phase 2 covers a continuous 300-square-kilometer expanse of flat Tabuk Province desert with single-axis tracking bifacial panels that follow the sun from dawn to dusk, capturing direct overhead radiation on their upper face and reflected desert ground radiation on their lower face simultaneously. Located at 1,400 meters elevation where the atmosphere is thinner and solar radiation intensity 12 percent higher than sea level, the installation generates 4,200 megawatts at peak capacity — more than four nuclear reactors combined from a single desert site. Saudi Arabia's interior desert receives 3,200 hours of annual sunshine with virtually zero cloud cover, giving the installation a capacity factor of 32 percent — exceptionally high for any solar installation anywhere on Earth.

The project required 28,000 workers over three years and 47 million tons of structural steel, with panels imported from Saudi Arabia's own new solar manufacturing plants rather than from overseas suppliers for the first time. Transmission infrastructure carries generated electricity 380 kilometers to Riyadh and Jeddah through a dedicated 500-kilovolt direct current line losing only 2.8 percent of energy over that distance.

Saudi Arabia plans three additional mega-complexes of comparable scale by 2030, targeting 50 percent renewable electricity nationally from desert solar alone.
Source: ACWA Power Saudi Arabia, Saudi Vision 2030 Renewable Energy Program, Saudi Electricity Company, 2025

04/06/2026

Join us! ☺️🌎🌳

Residents and visitors to Lycoming County are invited to what organizers hope will be the first of many Williamsport Earth Day Celebrations at Brandon Park.

04/03/2026

‘The proposal would pause new projects of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027 while the state studies the effects on the environment and the electric grid…U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center analysis, more than 4% of total U.S. electricity use. That demand is projected to more than double to 426 terawatt-hours by 2030…”

Maine is set to halt data center projects exceeding 20 megawatts until November 2027 to study environmental and grid impacts.

03/31/2026

Too little, too late. A 6 minute walk from the PA DEP NorthCentral Region Office

DEP cites leaks, failure to make repairs at two Eureka Resources facilities.

03/31/2026