Lisa Linowes

This month @USATODAY and @eweise seem focused on rehabilitating big wind/solar — while sidelining their own past reporting on harms to host communities. Readers deserve consistency, not selective amnesia. stories.usatodaynetwork.com/windfarms/home/ @windaction

6/6 Lastly, @USATODAY says its reporting was supported by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust @pulliamtrust. When coverage makes strong “myth” claims in an area that regulators say urgently needs more study, readers — and funders — should expect more careful vetting!

5/6 Science on solar–avian interactions is unsettled and highly context-dependent. Major known limitations include: • low searcher efficiency • many fatalities classified as “unknown cause” • incomplete nocturnal monitoring @USATODAY calling this a settled “myth” is wrong.

⚠️ Readers should approach @USATODAY's latest “fact check” on solar and birds with caution. After years tracking avian impacts at utility-scale solar, I can say plainly: @eweise has again materially misrepresented where the evidence stands. 🧵usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Amazing speech by the PM of Belgium last week in Antwerp ending with this warning: "the decarbonization of Europe will become synonymous with its de-industrialization and eventually with its poverty and its irrelevance. " youtube.com/watch?v=fL1FAk… @windaction

Cold weather is pushing New England prices up. The Canada-to-New England hydro line should moderate prices, but a ME–NH bottleneck traps power in Maine—collapsing prices there and leading wind to pay to inject power to secure its contracted revenues. @windaction @pwrhungry

Congratulations to our friends in Delaware County OK! Leases for the Rocky Hollow Wind project sponsored by @Vestas have been terminated! Wrong project in the wrong place! Happy new year! @windaction @pwrhungry @shellenberger

(6/6) @BOEM can fix this fast and it needs to! By emergency rulemaking, BOEM can restore the safety valve and immediately pause projects already under construction that pose threat of serious harm. Congress can also direct BOEM to exercise its § 8(p) suspension authority.

(5/6) Key point: @BOEM still HAS the authority Congress gave it — but the agency is bound by its own narrowed rule until it changes it.

(1/6)🧵mportant! Under OCSLA @BOEM may suspend offshore wind activities when there's a threat of serious, irreparable, or immediate harm to: people, wildlife, property, marine & coastal environment etc. That’s a precautionary safety valve — pause study, proceed. @SecretaryBurgum

The record is clear. Nearly ALL of the hundreds of turbines in question were approved *without* FAA Part 77 evaluations. That’s a real legal, safety, and national security gap — not a technicality. This must be fixed!

Today @SecretaryBurgum suspended offshore wind leases. Claims this contradicts “years of rigorous interagency review” are false. Clearing DoD/DoW is NOT the same as complying with FAA obstruction-hazard law. nytimes.com/2025/12/22/cli… @SecDuffy_12 @SecWar

.@LCraney @LinowesLisa in today’s @BostonGlobe. “Blame rising energy costs on state policies, not the utilities” bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/opi… #mapoli

5/5 When NRCM warns that someone else’s policies will “raise prices,” remember: – Lost NED: $3B/yr in missed savings – BTM solar: $231M in 2025 – Anti-gas push drives costs higher On energy affordability, @NRCMenvironment's track record speaks for itself — and it isn’t good.

4/5 Now @NRCMenvironment wants Maine to phase out natural gas infrastructure, even though gas remains the region’s marginal fuel and a core element of ISO-NE’s winter reliability strategy.

This BDN op-ed blames federal policy for Maine’s rising electricity costs. But it’s written by @NRCMenvironment whose affordability claims need a hard look. @windaction 🧵(1/5) bangordailynews.com/2025/12/05/opi…