I need 5 co-signatures for my UK petition before it will be reviewed and published:

"Ban private jets"

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

Edit: This petition now has 20 signatures so it won't take any more until they've approved it at review. Stay tuned!

#petition #UK #environment #ClimateChange

It’s windy over most of the country right now. So much so that the #WindEnergy is producing 67% of the power needed for #Electricity. The price of a MWh of electricity is right down to £26.44.

grid.iamkate.com/

#Environment #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #UK

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

^{grid.iamkate.com}

New from Dylan Baddour of Inside Climate News: “If we get to the point where we have to declare a Level 1 #Water Emergency, we need to be ready for that and we have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video.” texasobserver.org/corpus-chris…

#environment #ClimateChange #Texas #GulfCoast #news #politics #USpol #drought

Corpus Christi Cuts Timeline to Disaster as Abbott Issues Emergency Orders

The governor’s office said the city’s two main reservoirs could dry up by May, much sooner than previous timelines. But authorities still offer no plan for curtailment of water use.

^{Dylan Baddour (The Texas Observer)}

Nearly 58% of people worldwide value environmental protection over economic growth when the two goals are at odds.

Political discourse often focuses on economic growth, but study participants often favored ecological and social well-being.

#Environment

uvm.edu/gund/news/global-study…

Daily Beast:
Trump Goes on Wild Rant as Irish PM Struggles Not to Laugh

Trump reignited one of his favorite grievances, and the Irish prime minister could barely stifle his laughter at the absurdity.

Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin could barely keep a straight face as President Donald Trump launched a rant about one of his signature complaints: windmills.
thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-o…

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #Ireland #Environment #ClimateChange

Trump Goes on Wild Rant as Irish PM Struggles Not to Laugh

President Donald Trump reignited one of his favorite grievances, and the Irish prime minister could barely stifle his laughter at the absurdity.

^{Annabella Rosciglione (The Daily Beast)}

Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.

We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
propublica.org/article/oklahom…

#News #Oil #Gas #Environment #Oklahoma #Data #EPA #Regulation

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

^{Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

"And it affected an almost entirely civilian population, that will be paying the price for decades to come. If we’re going to do this we should at least have to look at it."

#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/14

"U.S./Israeli force mounted another series of strikes, these on oil storage sites across the vast city of Tehran. The effect was astonishing—a cloud of truly toxic smoke—and I think it needs more notice than it’s been getting, even amidst all the other horrors of this war. This was in essence chemical warfare, even if the chemicals were the (easily anticipated) result of 'normal' bombs."

~ Bill McKibben

#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/13

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-…

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran

And over a shamed America

^{Bill McKibben (The Crucial Years)}

The utter disregard of the #US government for the #environment and their peoples #health always leaves me speechless.

Dumping 17,000 tons of unspent WW1 chemical weapons in front of your shores, & never recovering it, what could go wrong?

"ocean drift, storms, and offshore industries, sea-disposed CWMs locations are largely unknown"

"While tossing the munitions back into the sea raises the risk that they’ll simply be dredged up again ... appears to be the safest way"

arstechnica.com/health/2026/03…

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

^{Beth Mole (Ars Technica)}

Data centers have a massive environmental impact. Today’s cartoon by Fergus Boylan. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/

#BigTech #DataCenters #environment #climate

Breaker tower #Bahrain on fire after it was struck by an Iranian Shahed #drone.

The senseless destruction of #war.

It will take thousands of people thousands of hours moving thousands of tons of material to #repair, if a repair is even at all possible.

Meanwhile our planet is dying.

#Iran #Israel #USA #America #unitedstates #News #Fire #Military #Photography #Photo #Image #pacifism #peace #skyscraper #construction #us #world #environment #pollution #destruction