DES MOINES, Iowa — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-burning power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead—from coal ash waste landfills into U.S. waterways. The discharge of coal ash wastewater has been an issue at Iowa coal plants, including in Sioux City on ... [continued]
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club and Earthjustice presented oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the legal challenge against the Department of Energy’s (DOE) illegal application of Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act. “The Sierra Club will not stand by and let the administration illegally ... [continued]
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Sales of electric cars in Nordic countries are strong, with Norway and Denmark leading and Sweden and Finland following.
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Following Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) approval and deployment in the Netherlands, the driver-assist software is now permitted to use in Belgium, sort of. For now, one Tesla car is allowed to test the technology in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium. Of course, if all goes well, Full Self ... [continued]
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The Trump administration on Friday defended its legal authority to order coal plants to stay open, arguing before a panel of federal judges that it alone has the power to decide whether an energy emergency exists.
The Trump administration’s Jones Act waiver is a small policy exception with a much larger lesson. The same administration that says it wants to restore American maritime dominance, rebuild domestic shipbuilding, counter China’s industrial scale, and make U.S. logistics more secure also waived parts of the law usually treated as ... [continued]
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Like in other countries, and like other companies in China, Tesla has seen its sales drop in the largest EV market in the world this year. Tesla’s sales were down 10% year over year there in April, and they were down 15% across the first 4 months of the year. ... [continued]
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Canada’s federal government has finally put electricity where it belongs: at the centre of the national economy. That is the most important thing about Mark Carney’s newly announced National Electricity Strategy. This is not just a climate file. It is an industrial strategy, an affordability strategy, a trade strategy, a ... [continued]
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Though all other Index metrics continued to see growth in the first quarter of 2026, new donors for radio declined by almost 6% from the same period last year.
The post April CDP Index: Radio experiences first decline in new donors since rescission appeared first on Current.
Elon Musk departed the White House last year in disgrace, but all is forgotten and forgiven now that he’s part of the Trump Beijing entourage. Speaking on behalf of US business in China, the mercurial CEO is playing games on both sides of the aisle. He’s keenly aware how Trump ... [continued]
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I just wrote an article yesterday about Chinese EV companies probably taking over the global auto market. And then what news do I see this morning? News that BYD is in talks with Stellantis and other European automakers about potentially taking over their underused factories in Europe. “We are talking ... [continued]
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Brendan Kinney is leaving Vermont Public to lead the nonprofit that publishes VTDigger.
The post Comings and goings: COOs at Vermont Public, KUOW announce departures appeared first on Current.
The first version of this post became Snucked and sucked, but never mind that. I'm also packing to fly tomorrow, so I'm just sharing a link pile for the rest of what's left of today.
If you want stories that aren't from the amen corners of the left and the right, Reason is useful. Examples:
A U.S. Citizen Is Suing ICE for Arresting Him Twice. He Just Got Arrested a Third Time.
The War Comes for Your Wallet: Inflation Hits 3.8%, Highest Level in 3 Years.
Even Dictatorships Don't Fight Wars This Way.
Pete Hegseth Can't Explain Why America Needs a $1.5 Trillion Military Budget.
More at Latest.
There are online trolls, haters, and complainers who will try to dismiss Kentucky’s electric vehicle progress by claiming it’s only ten charging stations. However, Kentucky is hanging in there and developing its public charging infrastructure — just slowly. The red states are typically the EV laggards, and there are many ... [continued]
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By Mike Tidwell, founder and director of CCAN Action Fund Tired of high prices at the gas pump? Want to drive a brand-new electric car instead? Now is your chance. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund (CCAN Action Fund) just launched its 8th annual electric car raffle to raise ... [continued]
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When you read a gruesome story on a polite service, and it sources a story on another polite service that still doesn’t give you the information you want—the gory stuff—you continue digging. The story in question here is a FlightAware one titled Frontier plane kills fence-jumping pedestrian during Denver takeoff. Its source is a story on AOL titled Frontier plane kills fence-jumping pedestrian during Denver takeoff. That one opens with pointage to a @DENAirport post on X that says,
Emergency crews responded to the scene and bussed passengers to the terminal. 231 souls were on board. Emergency response and investigation are ongoing. The NTSB has been notified. Runway 17L will remain closed while the investigation is conducted. 2/2.
The story continues with this:
The Airbus A321 had begun accelerating down the runway for takeoff when the pilots reported to air traffic controllers that they’d hit someone, officials said. The pilots aborted takeoff as smoke began filling the cabin, and passengers evacuated the plane via slides, Frontier Airlines said in a statement to USA TODAY. The identity of the pedestrian was not immediately released.
The hanging question then is “How?”
Well, below the @DENAirport post is a comment by @SteveMRush pointing to a story on PYOK headlined, Horrific Accident at Denver Airport As Person is Sucked into Engine of Frontier Airlines Plane as its Speeding Down Runway For Takeoff. The author of that one is Mateusz Maszczynski. And therein lies another story: about the author.
PYOK stands for Paddle Your Own Kangaroo, and is at paddleyourownkanoo.com. Its About page is, like everything else at the domain, by Mateusz Masczcynski. (Took a few tries to write that correctly from memory. Need to keep stretching those neurons.) There is only one of him, but he occasionally writes in the plural:
It all started back in 2017 when I managed to achieve my dream yet again. The same dream as yours; to become a flight attendant.
We devote huge amounts of time, effort and money to achieve this dream. The world of cabin crew recruitment is tough and ultra-competitive. Getting through this ruthless process can sometimes seem like an impossible task.
That’s certainly what I felt when I was knocked back time after time by airline recruiters. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong but I was determined to learn from my mistakes.
paddleyourownkanoo.com was borne out the information and knowledge I gained in achieving my dream. This works – I’ve been invited to numerous cabin crew Assessment Days and I’ve been offered jobs from a number of major international airlines.
Today, I continue to send applications and attend Assessment Day’s. My mission – to help you through the process. There’s no secret, checklist formula or 100% guaranteed promise. But I hope that what you read here will prepare you for your journey.
Cabin crew recruitment is never going to be easy but I hope the PYOK website helps you on your journey!
And that’s not his only thing. There’s also Crew Insider (“the airline industry explained”), Cabin Crew Forum (“Demystifying the ultra competitive world of cabin crew recruitment”), Points and Miles, Offers, accounts on Facebook and Xitter, and a newsletter. I just followed and subscribed to all of them.
The only bummer, at least for me, is that even PYOK’s privacy page comes with a lot of tracking. Of course, that’s typical of most websites, and the focus of my most persistent Quixoticism.
Anyway, if you love flying as much as I do, check PYOK out.
Sometimes facts and data are not well understood and there is a personal preference for first-person stories based on personal experiences. While anecdotes do not qualify as scientific evidence, many of us humans may not have much appreciation for the scientific method because we did not study it thoroughly or ... [continued]
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Climate and transport organisations warn ministers not to ‘sleepwalk into crisis’ amid Iran war oil and gas shortages
Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations.
The group – including Greenpeace and Transport and Environment – are calling on ministers not to “sleepwalk into a crisis” that could lead to severe shortages of jet fuel and spiralling petrol prices at the pump in the coming months.
Continue reading...Climate crisis has tripled the likelihood of extreme heat occurring, study finds
Back in 2019, I read an article on this very site regarding the Osborne effect and the upcoming risks it represented for the auto industry. It remains one of my favorite articles of all time, and it had this very interesting chart that put into perspective what had been the ... [continued]
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Consumer Reports has revealed the five (5) least reliable midsize SUVs in the United States. Interestingly, shockingly … well, completely unsurprisingly actually, there are no electric vehicles on the list. The five most unreliable midsize SUVs are the following: Jeep Grand Cherokee (29/100 reliability rating) Mazda CX-70 (32/100 reliability rating) ... [continued]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — If a proposal by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) is implemented, the Council will erode its authority to protect the financial system from large nonbank financial companies like insurance companies, nonbank mortgage lenders, and private equity and credit firms, according to documents submitted today by Public Citizen, ... [continued]
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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-fired power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead—from coal ash waste landfills into U.S. waterways. In September 2025, Donald Trump’s EPA gave coal plant companies a pass by delaying enforcement of long-overdue wastewater protections from coal ... [continued]
The post EPA to Allow More Coal Plants Off the Hook for Toxic Waste Dumped in U.S. Waterways appeared first on CleanTechnica.
It’s hard to keep track of what’s going on in the US electric vehicle market. Several automakers have stopped producing EVs or pulled EV models off the market, while others are in a kind of limbo state. The Volkswagen ID. Buzz is one of those models that has been in ... [continued]
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I’ve been invited by a friend to join Intelligence.com, which “helps you reach the right people, through those who know you best. It’s simple, thoughtful, and built on trust, just like the best introductions.” The inveterate among us will recall that this is what LinkedIn tried to do in the first place, before it turned into 1.2 billion business cards and 19 corporate acquisitions in a blender.
So far, it has made no news. At all. Though it did show up in r/scams on Reddit. So who are they?
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you will find in small print, Company, above three links:
The first two say nothing about who they are. The third goes to collectivei.com, where the heading (across most of the visible page) says “AI that studies how the world does business.” Click on the Company link in the menu on the left (in the computer screen view), and (below several pages of downward scrolls) you’ll find the Leadership Team’s six heavy-hitting members above a star chamber of advisors.
Below that is a crawl of Webby Awards, and this:
Build what’s next, with the team that’s already ahead.
Whether you’re a sales leader looking for better outcomes, a partner wanting to deliver transformation, or a developer interested in embedded intelligence, there’s a place for you in the Collective[i] ecosystem.
So clearly, Intelligence.com is less for you and me than for our large corporate employers. IMHO. Feel free to convince me otherwise. I’m open.
Now contrast that with the First Person Network. Says the index page,
The First Person Network is not another Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter/X. **It is not a social network; it is not centralized; and it does not belong to any company.
**In the same way the Internet allows any device to connect with any other device, the First Person Network lets any member connect with any other member. Directly. Privately. Personally. With no intermediaries. No platform. No surveillance. No advertising.
The First Person Network is about trust. It is a trust network that exists only in the individual digital wallets of all the members—the way many of us keep our own address books on our own smartphones today.
Building this trust network as a global digital utility is the goal of the First Person Project. We’ll have much more to share as the initiative grows.
If you want to know more, they have a white paper. It mentions MyTerms four times, and not just because I’ve been close to the First Person Project (which begat the Network) since before the start. In fact, the name comes from Why we need first person technologies on the Net, which I wrote on the ProjectVRM blog in 2014. The post starts,
We need first person technologies for the same reason we need first person voices: because there are some things only a person can say and do.
Such as having a network of personal contacts.
ATLANTA — Today, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy submitted their post-hearing brief in Georgia Power’s 2026 Fuel Cost Recovery docket, detailing how the company seeks to escape any responsibility for rising energy costs and avoid making any adaptations to relieve the ... [continued]
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Washington, DC — Today, Rep. Rosa DeLauro introduced the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution, a bill that would ensure U.S. trade policy boosts domestic manufacturing, protects safe, family-supporting jobs, and reduces pollution at home and abroad. The resolution calls for robust environmental standards in trade agreements, strong enforcement mechanisms, ... [continued]
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Transaera is using Nobel prize winning technology to manufacture commercial rooftop heating and cooling equipment that dehumidifies.
The post The Rise In Demand For Cooling Sparks Interest In More Energy Efficient Air Conditioners appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Failing to extend the station’s expiration date means it will have to begin closing July 1. It will have a year to wind down operations.
The post Veto override to save OETA fails in Oklahoma Senate appeared first on Current.
The latest example of burgeoning opposition to rapid data-center development in Pennsylvania came at a town hall meeting overflowing with frustration about how the state is managing the surge.
Yes, after I publish this, we’re going to get people jumping into the comments and complaining about us praising or promoting Chinese automakers and the Chinese government. But this is just about reality. The world is changing, fast, and in the auto world, things look set for some massive transitions. ... [continued]
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T&E’s reaction to the EU Passenger Package. From 2027, rail travellers missing a connection due to a delay will automatically be able to jump on the next train, according to new EU rules proposed today. They will also have food and accommodation paid for if they miss the last train. ... [continued]
The post EU Plans to Boost Rail Passenger Rights but Proposals Will Not Deliver a Huge Increase in International Train Travel appeared first on CleanTechnica.
As the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet in Beijing this week, a new analysis underscores a growing divergence between China and the United States in shaping the global energy system.
Civil society and industry are calling for a bold binding framework that delivers a fossil fuel exit. Dear President von der Leyen, Dear President Costa, Dear President Metsola, Europe faces an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape. Russia’s war against Ukraine and rising tensions in the Middle East have exposed the risks ... [continued]
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