Letter: How climate goals skewed incentives for Shell and BP
From Ben Cushing, Director, The Sierra Club’s Sustainable Finance Campaign, Washington, DC, US
My letter on the @financialtimes.com story on BP/Shell’s climate rollbacks is now published.
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
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Leavitt has an audience of one.
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In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
Sierra Club filed the lawsuit that became Massachusetts vs EPA and led to the endangerment finding. Making climate science denial official US policy is a crime against humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
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"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
Corporate polluter CEO in a Reagan-era "Doonesbury" strip: "So what will protect the public? Oh -- here it is! The goodness of our hearts."
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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"What we have here is a form of looting." Nobel economist George Akerlof on 2003 tax cuts.
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Same was true of Bush 43
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How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork
I can confidently say two things. This is sick, and it will work, if "work" means not spending money on people who will suffer and needlessly die because you didn't.
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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Cartoon
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A Piping Plover chick tries to squeeze in. Moms are so patient and amazing.
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And courts go to statutory arguments first.
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Not an expert, but I believe that Harvard also has statutory arguments regarding political missue of the IRS.
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I was living with my grandmother in a rural Ohio viillage an hour from Kent. One thing I remember is how many good, decent adults there believed that the Guard had been in danger, that protestors were throwing rocks and tear gas cannisters at them. When in fact, those killed were 300 feet away.
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Woman kneeling next to a dead Kent State student. A child with napalm-burned flesh running towards a camera. A prisoner executed by a South Vietnames general in a Saigon street. 3 of the definining images of the Vietnam era -- as Susan Sontag wrote, photography changed how we think.
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Stating the obvious: these people have no idea what a 3C degrees world means.
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The E.P.A. vs. the Environment
With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.
The E.P.A. is planning to rescind a set of Biden-era rules aimed at curbing CO2 emissions. Undoing regulations of any sort is an arduous and time-consuming process. But the agency could squander years on the endeavor.
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BREAKING: @campaignlegal.org @ucsusa.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social & Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and DOGE's unlawful & devastating funding & staffing cuts to the U.S. National Park Service & Forest Service www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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Opinion | The Sweet Spot (Published 2003)
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says Bush administration's tax cuts are phony because government is now borrowing to make up for loss of revenue; says, however, that any Democratic candidate who proposes to...
The Sweet Spot www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/o...
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
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Nixon tried to impound appropriated funds, leading to Congress passing the Impoundment Act in response. It's a clear violation of Congress's appropriations powers.
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Watching history being made turns out to be terrifying.
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"Carter was by far the wisest President in seeing the need for an energy revolution away from fossil fuels .... He provided more leadership in protecting America’s landscape than any President since Teddy Roosevelt." -- Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director from 1992 to 2010
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