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Russia's Conditions for Peace in Ukraine

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-s-conditions-for-peace-in-ukraine

BY TYLER DURDEN

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Russia on Monday made clear, it is sticking by initial demands…

The US Attorney for D.C. wrote that search engines such as Google prioritize Wikipedia results. If the content is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities that wish to do harm to the United States, search engine prioritization amplifies the propaganda.

It has also come to their office’s attention that generative AI platforms use Wikipedia data to train large-language models. It has the potential to launder information on behalf of foreign actors.

The article and full…

April 26, 2025

Mr. Turkel writes:

"Maine spends more than $4.5 billion a year on out-of-state fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. The fix is to power our economy with electricity from local, renewable energy sources."…

Bangor Newspaper Company Has Received More Than $2.4M from Mills Admin for “Public Affairs”

Steve Robinson

April 24, 2025

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How independent can the newspaper be when its corporate sibling is under contract to carry out government messaging? And critically, what stories are written — or, perhaps more importantly, not written — in order to protect lucrative government…

The Medieval Warm Period In Germany: Inconvenient And very Real

04/24/2025 • Mises Wire • William L. Anderson

Despite some claims that wind and solar are less expensive than conventional power, the opposite is true. Wind and solar benefit from far more subsidies than other power sources, which merely shift their high costs to taxpayers rather than directly to customers’ electricity bills. Also, the intermittent and often unpredictable nature of wind and solar power impose substantial costs on the grid, requiring other power sources to frequently ramp up and down – quite inefficiently – to cover for…

New Yorker Ratepayers Forced to pay 2.5x Market rate for Empire Wind Electricity …

Usually, Central Maine Power and Versant requests for electric rate changes before the Maine Public Utilities Commission are months long deliberations including the same few stakeholders voicing their opinions. Really boring.

FERC commissioner and former chair Willie Phillips has resigned from the five-member agency—leaving open the possibility of a Republican-controlled Commission.

• Without Phillips, a Democrat who often focused on issues of reliability, transmission expansion, and environmental justice and equity, President Trump now has a seat to fill. Currently, FERC is made up of two Democrats and two Republicans.

Senator Ron Johnson Links WTC Building 7 to 9/11 ‘Cover-Up’, Demands New Investigation Into the Attacks

Senator Ron Johnson is urging Congress to reopen the investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, focusing in particular on the unexplained collapse of World Trade Center…

The termination letter said Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment failed to pay at least 65% of its climate-smart agriculture grant directly to farmers.

April 21, 2025

Penelope Overton

Portland Press Herald

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After nearly three months of frozen payments, the U.S. Department…

“Start with Building 7,” he said. “I don’t know if you can find structural engineers other than the ones that had the corrupt investigation inside NIST that would say that thing didn’t come down in a controlled demolition.”

He mentioned the molten steel under the towers and questioned why evidence was quickly removed from the…

Large Windmill Projects Making Downstream Windmill Projects Unprofitable

Conflicts of Interest: Major Environmental Organizations Being Bribed by Offshore Windmill Subsidy Hucksters

Julia Tilton

April 18, 2025

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program was brought to a halt by the Trump administration in February. But states have interpreted federal guidance differently.

If you’re driving an electric vehicle up I-95 or 295 these days, particularly in York or Cumberland counties, odds are you won’t have to travel far before hitting a public charging station.

But head north and the stations taper off. Until recently, $5…

By Jennette Barnes,

Ben Berke / The Public's Radio, Miriam Wasser / WBUR

Published April 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM EDT

Vineyard Power President Richard Andre in Vineyard Haven. (Liz Lerner/CAI)

Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked to fulfill a…