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Link   The discussion starts about 9 minutes into the talk.

Great discussion by former US Atty, former Ohio PUC member, and journalists about First Energy bribing the Ohio legislature and PUC Chair in order to get high rate increases and subsidies for their gas, coal, and nuclear plants. Some   speakers say that the utility should be put into bankruptcy,  have its price increases refunded to customers, be put under supervision of the Dept. of Justice or an outside law firm,   have its officers indicted and jailed, and have its Board replaced.

Link  "Methane, among the most potent greenhouse gasses — along with VOCs like toluene, butane, hexane, and benzene, a known carcinogen linked to a host of serious health complications — show up as a dance of color to the infrared camera."

 "short-term health impacts like nose bleeds and nausea were real. "

"McKenzie laid out a series of complications potentially linked to fracking exposure: “In areas with dense oil and gas development, we’ve been seeing low birth weights, more preterm births, more children with congenital heart defects and increased incidence of childhood cancers such as acute lymphocytic leukemia.” Children growing up close to high-density fracking were four times as likely to develop blood cancer. "

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 Stanford's Jacobson's defense of renewables in MT lawsuit

Montana would save 6.3 billion per year by switching to renewable energy instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 

  Mary Warwick, Head of Houston Humane Society's Wildlife Center, and volunteers, gathered, heated up, and fed bats suffering from hypothermia during freezing temperatures.  They had fallen from under the bridge.  These free tail bats eat tons of mosquitos. 

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 if applied just to cool the NH, which might have preferential local climate responses (eg, less Atlantic TCs) for the geoengineering parties, there could be potentially devastating impacts (eg, Sahelian drought) in other regions.

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