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one of many stories to think about whenever crypto bros are trying to convince you that bitcoin transaction processing ("mining") is environmentally friendly:

> "The plant burns waste coal, a lower-grade fuel left over from abandoned mining operations, to generate electricity. It uses that electricity for crypto-mining, a process where power-hungry computers generate digital currency like Bitcoin."

wesa.fm/environment-energy/202

A large pile of dirt next to trees.
WESA · Crypto mining company agrees to speed cleanup of its Pa. coal ash pileBy Reid Frazier | Allegheny Front

The protest pictured in the LB actually was reported; here's a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer about it: inquirer.com/news/philadelphia It sounds like they may need to persist and get bigger for our Senators to pay attention to them, though. (One person there told me that Fetterman's staff hadn't come in the day of the protest.) #uspol #papol

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Philly protesters promise to resist the new Trump administrationBy Ximena Conde

The great climate-electoral group Lead Locally is looking for volunteers to canvass in Pennsylvania the last two weeks of the election to win on climate from the statehouse to the White House.

If you can’t make that kind of commitment, join a Lead Locally phonebank this Wednesday.

Links ->
hillheat.news/p/the-water-the-
#climate #uspol #climatechange #climatevoters #papol #swingstates

Hill Heat'The water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water’Also: Warren Washington, dolphinic microplastics, and volunteer opportunities