Cathy Cowan Becker

This is such an important story. Many of us have long suspected that big property insurance companies are taking a short-term view of profits and not factoring in the systemic risk of the worsening climate crisis. Now industry insiders are confirming that our worst fears about this are real.

Why accept Meta’s polluting 500 MV NEO gas plant at Prometheus data center without a fight? @saveohioparks.bsky.social offers Commenting and Testimony webinar Sept. 29: Register: bit.ly/3TBQOGZ @ccbecker271.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.socia

@amyactonoh.bsky.social takes aim at oil and gas in longtime GOP Appalachia region. She pledges to help on injection wells threatening Washington County drinking water, education funding in Gallia County. Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4dQAAR3 @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday to learn how to push back on two large polluting gas plants proposed to power data centers in Central Ohio.

My op-ed on Meta's FOUR gas plants to power its data center in New Albany, Ohio. Meta is building so many gas plants that it left the RE100, a corporate renewable energy pact.

It's a good start. Do the right thing, JBIC!

Hey Canada Pension Plan ... this will STILL turn Ohio's state parks and wildlife areas into a fracking sacrifice zone. Where do you think the gas is coming from for these gas plants? Here's an idea: Invest in something that actually helps people, not harms them.

When a community fights back, sometimes they win.

If Oklahoma can do it, why aren't more states cracking down on Big Insurance? By challenging Allstate and State Farm's allegedly unfair claims handling practices, AG Gentner Drummond is opening the door to a broader crackdown. His counterparts elsewhere have no excuse to sit on the sidelines. 🧵⬇️

Forgive me mom for the blasphemy, but this is a goddamn murder-for-hire machine. At scale.

I'm very happy to get an opinion piece into a national publication like The Hill, but I wish it was under better circumstances for Ohio.

This should be common sense. Solar, wind, and batteries are by far the most affordable and cleanest forms of energy. But these projects lock in dirty fossil fuels for decades that are more expensive every year. The oil and gas industry gets rich at the expense of our health, wallets, and the planet.

@reuters.com's @valerievolcovici.bsky.social interviews Bowling Green residents livid at politicians, Meta over gargantuan data center. NDAs, pollution, property values are cited, while Ohio GOP does nothing to help. Video: reut.rs/4yw6NG5 @ccbecker271.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

This is classic Ohio ... corruption that squashes renewable energy

@ehpinfo.bsky.social, @saveohioparks.bsky.social are monitoring air quality near fracking well pads at Salt Fork State Park. Learn what we know so far about emissions at July 30 virtual event. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Thou shalt not blame Canada for wildfires caused by climate change you’ve spent your whole life denying and intensifying through your own greed and stupidity.

The SEC is proposing huge changes to corporate reporting, in a condensed time period, that would collectively dramatically reduce public company disclosures. Some comment letters are not so much comments as preludes to litigation. This is a good example: www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...

More of this please

It’s tragic that CO₂ doesn’t look and smell like wildfire smoke.

If you don't live in an oil and gas region, you may not know how difficult it is to get this toxic pollution shut down. But these folks did it with persistence and grassroots organizing.

@saveohioparks.bsky.social co-founder Jenny Morgan talks about her work documenting just 101 of nearly 2,000 gas and oil industry over 8 years. Begins Min. 18: @joedemare.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vNp4Nq @ccbecker271.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social

Solar arrays take up much less farmland than golf courses and urban sprawl. @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4wnSvWg Just a bit of oil and gas industry disinformation debunked. @amyactonoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

Thank you @foescot.bsky.social in Japan

Ohio GOP's nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is clear he supports fossil fuels, data center expansion in Ohio. Ohio governor appoints heads of many regulating agencies, including those fracking Ohio public lands for gas to power centers. Bonnie Lucas @tiffinohio.net: bit.ly/44Q4UGx @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Thanks @dc2tom.bsky.social

Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social's Rachel Kutzley and panelists in Cincinnati July 15 at live-audience episode of Cincinnati Edition. Noon. Listen in: @wvxu.org 91.7 FM. Data Centers and Communities. RSVP: bit.ly/4vAOFIJ @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

Since the state of Ohio is fracking its own state parks, it's not a surprise that some cities want a piece of the action. But Steubenville wants to frack 99 acres of a historic park dating back to the Revolutionary War. Sure, money talks, but how can people be so stupid??

@nivenpolitics.bsky.social: Attacking data centers is a political winner, given widespread concern across the political spectrum over their environmental effects: @andrewjtobias.bsky.social @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4pes1Ei @ccbecker271.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

Why is a Japanese bank financing buildout of LNG export terminals in Texas -- next to vulnerable communities that have already endured decades of fossil fuel pollution?

Elon Musk is in deep shite again. His corporations aren't worth nearly what he has said they are. All this shows why we need a Securities and Exchange Commission that’s on the side of average investors and the public — and not bought off by today’s robber barons.

Note Today was BY VERY VERY FAR the hottest day ever recorded in FRANCE as per daily average temperature. It smashes, ridiculizes and humillates any day of the summers 2003,2022,2025 etc... Until tomorrow which can be ever worse.

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Tell Gov. Mike DeWine to veto SB 219-- it allows fracking INSIDE state parks. bit.ly/4uvnkqE Our parks belong to the people of Ohio. Ohio is the only state in the U.S. to frack them for gas. Why? Submit your comment now. @neosierraclub.bsky.social @thirdactoh.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social

This area is already thoroughly contaminated with radiation from the uranium enrichment gaseous diffusion plant. People are sick and dying of cancer at high rates. And now they want to add more nuclear?? @greenamerica.org

Data centers scramble Ohio’s political map, uniting liberal environmental activists with conservative rural voters. @annastaver.bsky.social @cleveland.com: bit.ly/44pwmuA Good. Vote only for pols willing to protect clean air, water & lands, which affect us all. @ccbecker271.bsky.social

I wrote this. And DeWine has until tomorrow to sign or veto this terrible bill. If he does nothing, it becomes law automatically. Call him now: governor.ohio.gov/contact/cont...

It is a badge of honor to be called an "anti-progress leftist" by Vivek Ramaswamy. He is doing a photo op on a frack pad that is fracking Ohio's largest and most iconic state park, claiming it is good for the environment. If he loves fracking so much, let's see him put that well pad in his backyard.

Ohioans - tell the governor to veto Senate Bill 219. It would greatly speed up fracking our state parks even more than is already happening.

Study: Climate change received only .55% of U.S. news media coverage over the past 40 years. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social: bit.ly/43z19ot 58% of Ohioans worry about global warming, compared to national 63% average. @signalohio.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social

"The very leaders who are complicit in this decision are the same ones who consistently remind us about the University’s values and the perpetual importance of adhering to them" @princeton.edu shame on you!

The comments are good too

This is not looking good. 😐

When lawmakers blocked 5.3 GW of wind and solar energy over the last 12 years, Ohio also: Changed laws to favor coal, oil and gas while restricting renewables; increased pollution; raised energy prices for all. Jonas Muthoni Microgrid Media: bit.ly/4fqiGq4 @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Why did a politician order the arrest of a political journalist and commentator weeks after the supposed threat? Looks like a First Amendment violation to me.

Toxic, radioactive gas and oil waste has been injected into the ground for decades. In Oklahoma, that waste is blasting out of unplugged wells, polluting land & contaminating drinking water. @propublica.org: bit.ly/4e1Xcxv A warning for Ohio. @twrader.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social

Fox News, stop threatening us with a good time!

More communities nationwide pass moratoriums on data centers. Study: 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers-- 53% who said they don't want to live near a nuclear power plant. Robbie Sequeria @stateline.org: bit.ly/43G7aQe @jasonsalley.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social @jbalmert.bsky.social

This will have the most predictable outcome in the world ... call that out when it happens.