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> Republicans expanded their majority on the utility commission to 4-1 in 2022 and have taken steps since then to reverse clean energy mandates.

This infuriates me. They're being oppositional simply for the sake of being oppositional.

Fuckers.

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Feelings on this topic are warranted, climate change and all that jazz (parts of India are hitting 52C/126F today). With that said, success is inevitable based on current trajectories, but very unpleasant there will be substantial unnecessary effort to get there. Humans gonna human, keep on grinding.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61242

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2024.01.16/chart2.s...

https://www.wri.org/insights/clean-energy-progress-united-st...

https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/responding-to-growing-...

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/22/huge-1-2-million-pan...

Additional citation: https://apnews.com/article/record-heat-deadly-climate-change... ("AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat")

Exactly. It's one thing to have objections to some climate policy, it's another to explicitly try to block future projects. God forbid we actually learn something and change our behavior in the future.

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