Dr Mary Finley-Brook 🕷🕸 🌍 @geoyapti.bsky.social

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Event on 4/13 Unregulated AI Use - Alexandria Library alexlibraryva.org/event/15739528

Big Tech data centers are driving up energy demand, sticking Virginians with the bill. SB619 requires data centers to prove they will not raise costs, threaten reliability, or undermine clean energy. Email your reps in support of these bills: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…

The story of this #valeg will be how many legislators said they want to do something about data center growth & impacts while passing no meaningful reforms on data center growth & impacts.

What's that smell? 7,700 gallons of jet fuel spill into the James River. pilotonline.com/2026/02/15/jet…

I just wrote a @appvoices letter: Urge Virginia lawmakers to put commonsense safeguards on data center growth. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-v…

#ICYMI The US doesn't need to generate as much new electricity as you think grist.org/energy/the-u-s…

"If holding people in warehouses for indeterminate periods seems excessively cruel and inhumane, that seems to be the point. The public rejects this in growing numbers..." pilotonline.com/2026/01/31/edi…

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 2, 2026 ~ The day after tomorrow. "Meteorologists are raising alarms about an unusually early Arctic breakdown forming in February, driven by atmospheric signals that experts say have not been seen in decades." vocal.media/earth/meteorol…

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🔥How to increase taxes on fossil fuel profits policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/how-…

It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders youtu.be/f40SFNcTOXo?si… via @YouTube

Loudoun residents take fight against high-voltage power lines for Data Center Alley to VA SCC virginiamercury.com/2025/12/16/lou…

Victims of a brutal fire, highschoolers begin organizing. Make the Polluters Pay. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/pacific…

Investigation finds tech companies like Google are building Data Centers hidden behind deceptively named LLCs to hide what they’re doing Across the US, the locations of 1,240 data centers being built have been discovered They are even redacted records to hide what they’re doing, “It's been really tricky to kind of get these records because the companies don't want to disclose all of that information. By tricky we mean redacted records and requests denied on the grounds of trade secrets.”

"Once again, Dominion Energy, the largest corporate donor in Virginia politics and the de facto owner of several elected officials, is immune from all the talk of “affordability” and cost of living issues that were spoken of during the 2025 campaign..." blackvirginianews.substack.com/p/killing-peop…

Shame on @VAStateCorpComm. This demonstrates such shortsightedness and a lack of concern for (1) Virginia ratepayers and (2) the future of our planet. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/25/scc…

Activist groups and United Nations security clashed in chaotic scenes late Tuesday after protesters appeared to force their way into the COP30 climate conference venue, in the most serious act of unrest seen in years inside one of the annual gatherings. politico.com/news/2025/11/1…

BlackRock started buying American public utility companies They buy them with debt, when the purchase goes through the debt goes to the power company, not to BlackRock This means entire states power bills will instantly rise to pay off the debt. It’s a racket and it’s started “What if I told you that your electricity bill isn't just paying for the power you use? It might also be paying off Wall Street's debt.” “Here's how private capital works. Firms like asset management giant BlackRock don't usually buy companies with their own money. Instead, they raise giant funds from pension systems, governments, and wealthy investors. When they go shopping, whether it's for a factory, a toll road, even your power company, they use part equity from those investors and part debt borrowed from banks and bond markets. Here's the catch: that debt doesn't sit on BlackRock's books. It sits on the company they just bought, and it's the company, not the asset manager, that has to pay it back. Now, when the company is a utility, like water, gas, or electricity, it's not just any business. Utilities are monopolies. You can't just shop around for a new power company. So, where does the money to pay back that debt come from? It comes from you, the ratepayers. In leveraged acquisitions of utilities, the bills you pay every month are the revenue stream that services Wall Street's loans. Let's take a real case. Last month, state regulators approved a $6.2 billion buyout of ALLETE, the parent company of Minnesota Power, the state's main power utility. The buyers, Global Infrastructure Partners, which is owned by BlackRock, together with Canada's Pension Fund. A public utility that hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans rely on is shifting into the hands of private capital. Critics, like one administrative law judge who advised the acquisition be stopped because it's not in the public interest, warn that buyers are paying a big premium over the utility's actual worth here, potentially hundreds of millions above market value. And when investors pay more, they expect to earn more back. Where's that money gonna come from? Well, the fear is from higher rates or cuts to services, bigger bills for you while your utilities get worse, while BlackRock collects steady fees for managing the investment”

THE U.S IS PRODUCING THE MOST OIL, THE FASTEST-BY FAR A stunning 4% a year rate of increase. No other country comes anywhere close. America is leading the destruction our planet. ourworldindata.org/data-insights/… #climatechange #globalwarming

Two people have died as flash floods inundated streets and basements across New York City following intense rainfall. (Oct 30) 📍Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NYC, U.S.