Ken Schles (@kenschles) — Bluesky Profile

1 month ago

Vital City | A Crucial Tool in the Fight Against Pollution Despite the opposition of the real estate lobby, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should fully implement and enforce Local Law 97.

The real estate lobby has been working hard to weaken Local Law 97. @petesikora.bsky.social makes the case for why Mayor Mamdani should enforce Local Law 97 as designed, close loopholes, and keep the city on track for deeper emissions cuts.

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...

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1 month ago

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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1 month ago

Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...

Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

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2 months ago

Today 20,000 NYCers said No Wars, No Kings, No ICE & told @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social NO FUNDS FOR ICE OR WAR

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3 months ago

Resign bureaucrat apparatchik @amandalefton.bsky.social of the fossil fuel state! Make the NYDEC environmentally accountable to law and science! Stop already with the arbitrary and capricious rulings on sensitive benthic habitats!

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3 months ago

@governor.ny.gov took a page from Big Oil propagandists to slow walk, underfund and delay on climate action. She has the bully pulpit, a super majority legislature, the law and science behind her, and all she does is make excuses, bend a knee to Trump, the crypto bros and the fossil fuel industry. 🫤

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3 months ago

Capturing Our Movement with Activist and Photographer Ken Schles How does art inform activism and vice versa? Learn more from Ken Schles, Food & Water Watch volunteer and award-winning

We are lucky and honored to work alongside @kenschles.bsky.social, a brilliant photographer and activist!

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4 months ago

Hochul’s dirty deal w/ Trump on the pipeline follows other pro-oil & gas decisions.

The NYS DEC commissioner, NYSERDA president NYS PSC chair talk like they’re pro-consumer/anti-pollution, but they govern like oil/gas lobbyists.

Lefton, Harris & Christian should resign.

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4 months ago

WE WON'T VOTE FOR A GOVERNOR WHO CAVES TO DONALD TRUMP I pledge not to vote for Kathy Hochul for Governor of New York in the upcoming Democratic Primary if she does Trump's bidding by approving the massive Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. If Hochul doe...

NY needs a leader, not a fossil fuel enabler. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

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4 months ago

WE WON'T VOTE FOR A GOVERNOR WHO CAVES TO DONALD TRUMP I pledge not to vote for Kathy Hochul for Governor of New York in the upcoming Democratic Primary if she does Trump's bidding by approving the massive Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. If Hochul doe...

NY needs a leader, not a fossil fuel enabler. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

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4 months ago

WE WON'T VOTE FOR A GOVERNOR WHO CAVES TO DONALD TRUMP I pledge not to vote for Kathy Hochul for Governor of New York in the upcoming Democratic Primary if she does Trump's bidding by approving the massive Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. If Hochul doe...

NY needs a leader, not a fossil fuel enabler. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

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4 months ago

Outrageous sell out of NY by Hochul to Trump. Join us to protest at 330 today

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4 months ago

Authoritarians are trying to stop us from exercising the basic right to protest.

The NOPE Act would uphold free speech and ensure accountability for those who try to violate these rights. Tell your Reps to support it: https://fwwat.ch/3Ixemr8

(Photo: @kenschles.bsky.social)

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4 months ago

Cancel the Trump pipelines @governor.ny.gov Reinstate the windfarms and their associated transmission cables, fully build out the NYPA, follow the mandates of the Climate Action Council and, yes, the CLCPA. New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules @nysfocus.bksy.social

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5 months ago

Local Law 97 is (was?) the nation’s leading local jobs and climate law.

But Mayor Adams unceremoniously eviscerated the law at the behest of the real estate lobby.

Don’t let landlords to buy their way out of reducing pollution.

Pass CM De La Rosa’s Intro 1180 to close the landlord loophole!

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5 months ago

@schumer.senate.gov don’t cave to POTUS threats that a shutdown will create a pretext for more firings. We’re already in an ongoing shutdown and ongoing acquiescence to Trump’s charade only highlights the fact that Congress is not functional. Assert oversight, stand strong and call out the charade.

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5 months ago

@nyccomptroller.bsky.social 2 days after you spoke alongside @billmckibben.bsky.social for #SunDay2025 and then dined w/ @climatedefiance.bsky.social BECAUSE of this historic agreement to divest NYC from dirt money managers — are you so ignominious as to backtrack? Say it's not so!

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5 months ago

@governor.ny.gov @nysdps.bsky.social @dec.ny.gov time to get your log term environmental plans back on track. Time to assert states rights and uphold NYS law. Time to stand up to authoritarians. Time to get your heads out of your butts. #noTrumpPipelines

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5 months ago

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

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5 months ago

"And in light of the abhorrent and destructive policies coming out of Washington every day, I needed to know the next mayor will not be someone who would surrender one inch to President Trump." — @governor.ny.gov And we expect the same from our governor: not one inch of Trump's pipelines in NYS!

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5 months ago

News Release:

Over 1,000 New Yorkers pledge to @KathyHochul @governor.ny.gov:
I will not vote for you if you do Trump’s bidding by approving the Williams fracked gas pipelines. #NoTrumpPipelines

Take the pledge 👇

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6 months ago

🤔When @governor.ny.gov cancels renewable projects, funds speculative unproven nuke technology at taxpayer expense, subverts meeting mandated goals of NY climate laws, and meets behind closed doors with POTUS to collude to build unnecessary fossil fuel projects, are these grounds for impeachment? 🧐

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6 months ago

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6 months ago

@governor.ny.gov There’s no walking back complicity with authoritarians. Reject the Trump pipelines. Your democratic base will not vote in a Vichy governor come November. Stop the Williams NESE pipeline. #notrumppipelines #stopwilliamsnese

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6 months ago

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when are you going to stand up publicly to oppose the Williams NESE pipeline? Your silence is very loud

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6 months ago

Hey Assembly Member @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, just wondering what your thoughts are on the Williams Pipeline☠️ which would poison our beaches, worsen climate change and raise costs for working families?? It would be SO helpful if you spoke out against it!

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6 months ago

@governor.ny.gov do not irreparably alienate your base. Reject the Williams NESE pipeline #notrumppipelines !

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6 months ago

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
it’s time to come out against the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline project that Trump is demanding.

If it’s approved it will raise utility bills, pollute the air and water, and cook the climate. ⏰

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6 months ago

Glad to see our congressional leaders pushing back on the truncated deadline of the Williams NESE pipeline. NYers don’t need to building more fracked gas infrastructure during #climatebreakdown #notrumppipelines

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6 months ago

Rep. Nadler Leads Letter to Governor Hochul and NYSDEC Commissioner Lefton on Extending Public Comment and Hearings for Northeast Supply Enhancement Project

Today, I led @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @ocasio-cortez.house.gov, and @velazquez.house.gov in a letter to @governor.ny.gov and @dec.ny.gov requesting that they extend the public comment and hearing period for the Williams NESE Pipeline.

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