I am not going to sugarcoat it: A second Trump administration is a threat to our planet and the next four years are going to be difficult. During the Biden administration, rightwing activists were working hard at developing an aggressive agenda for Trump that will take aim at many things we hold dear. This includes […]
Tom Wheeler
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Terra-Gen Electrified the Conversation. What Now?
Terra-Gen’s Humboldt Wind Project was flawed but it would have offered this: a large and sudden pulse of low-carbon energy, enough to fill approximately 56 percent of Humboldt’s total electricity needs. With its demise, our odds at reaching our global climate goals become more distant while our challenge to achieve 100 percent clean, renewable energy […]
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Straight from the PALCO Playbook
An ember of the old Timber Wars is still smoldering in the woods near Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole. There, a stand-off between forest defenders and Humboldt Redwood Co. is heating up. It is like 1997 all over again — tree-sitters are blocking road construction and logging operations, the sheriff’s office and private security are […]