📢 Power to the People News | Dec 25, 2025
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🌪️ AP photographers capture destruction, heartache and resilience as climate change advanced in 2025
Powerful images by AP photographers document the human toll of climate change in 2025, showing communities grappling with floods, wildfires, heat waves, and storms. The photographs highlight both devastation and moments of resilience as families rebuild and adapt amid worsening conditions. The collection illustrates how climate impacts are no longer abstract but deeply personal and widespread. Together, the images underscore the accelerating pace of environmental change and its human cost. — The Seattle Times
🌊 The Man Who Broke Offshore Wind
Mother Jones writes about “How David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector.” The profile a conservative activist working to halt offshore wind projects along the U.S. coastline. It details how legal challenges, political connections, and grassroots organizing are being used to delay or block renewable energy development. The activist has received backing from Donald Trump and aligned groups skeptical of wind energy. Critics argue the effort threatens climate goals and clean energy transition plans. — Mother Jones
🌍 UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss
United Nations officials are urging countries to address climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and land degradation as interconnected crises. The warning emphasizes that piecemeal solutions will fail without coordinated global action. “What we’re saying is we can become much more sustainable, but it will take unprecedented change to transform these systems… It has to be done rapidly now because we’re running out of time.” Leaders stress the need for shared responsibility across governments, industries, and communities. The message highlights the urgency of integrated environmental policies to prevent irreversible damage. — The Seattle Times
🏭 DOJ ends monitoring of illegal dumping in Houston in retreat from environmental justice
The Justice Department has ended oversight of a long-running agreement that monitored illegal dumping in Houston’s predominantly minority neighborhoods. Environmental advocates warn the move weakens protections for communities historically burdened by pollution. The monitoring had been part of broader efforts to address environmental justice violations. Critics say ending it signals a retreat from holding polluters accountable. “A DOJ investigation found in 2023 that the Houston neighborhood in question had been inundated by illegal dumping of trash, medical waste, mattresses and even dead bodies and “rotting carcasses”— The Seattle Times
🔥 EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming’s causes. Scientists call it misleading
The Environmental Protection Agency removed references to fossil fuels as drivers of climate change from a public-facing webpage. Scientists and climate experts say the change misrepresents decades of established research. “It is outrageous that our government is hiding information and lying,” said former Obama National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief and Oregon State oceanographer Jane Lubchenco. “People have a right to know the truth about the things that affect their health and safety, and the government has a responsibility to tell the truth.” Critics argue the edit downplays human responsibility for global warming. The move has raised concerns about political interference in scientific communication. — The Seattle Times
⛽ Trump Is Trying to Make Us Pay More for Gas
Why would gas prices rise even with more drilling? An analysis in the Legal Planet explains how Trump-backed energy policies prioritize fossil fuel and deregulation, increasing price volatility for consumers. While energy companies stand to gain, households would likely face higher costs at the pump. “This new Trump proposal would raise fuel consumption by around 100 billion gallons through 2050 relative to the Biden standard, costing Americans up to $185 billion…So, while American families are spending more money on energy, those automakers who were sucking up to Trump in the Oval Office last week would save $35 billion through 2031.” Critics argue the approach by the Trump administration undermines clean energy investments that could stabilize prices long term. — Legal Planet
📅 Davis: Project 2025, eleven months in
What if a radical agenda didn’t stall—but quietly moved into position? Nearly a year after its launch, Project 2025 has shifted from theory into coordinated action, with policy blueprints and personnel pipelines already taking shape. “Organizations like the Center for Progressive Reform and Reproductive Freedom for All have established trackers charting how many of the more than 500 specific proposals in Project 2025 have been implemented so far, and the general consensus is that about 50% of the project has been completed in the first 11 months of the second Trump administration.” — Colorado Times Recorder
📜 How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?
Is Project 2025 really fading—or just going quiet? Despite public attempts by some Republicans to downplay its influence, the Heritage Foundation’s plan continues advancing through staffing pipelines, policy networks, and state-level coordination. “As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document’s 920 pages.” — The 19th News
🏗️ Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push
What happens when communities say no to Big Tech? An Arizona city rejected a proposed data center after heavy AI-linked lobbying, citing concerns over water use, energy demand, and environmental strain. Residents questioned whether promised economic benefits outweighed long-term costs. “Explaining her no vote, Chandler Vice Mayor Christine Ellis said that she had long framed her decision about the local benefits rather than the national push to build AI. She recalled a meeting with Sinema where she asked point-blank “what’s in it for Chandler? If you can’t show me what’s in it for Chandler, then we are not having a conversation,” Ellis said before voting against the project.” The decision reflects a growing backlash against unchecked tech infrastructure expansion. — E&E News
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