David Arkush

Wonder why the East Coast is facing extreme heat?

Oil companies have known that fossil fuels would cause heatwaves like this. They ran their own climate models. The science was clear.

Instead of listening to it, they buried the truth.

Now, we’re the ones paying the price.

First, Toyota donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

Then, Trump's CFPB said they don't have to pay $40 million in customer refunds anymore.

And now, Trump's DOJ closed its investigation into allegations of Toyota bribery.

Our government is up for sale.

Big Oil has known for over 50 years that burning fossil fuels would cause "globally catastrophic harms."

Those are their own words.

And yet they kept burning.

Listen to David Arkush testify in front of Senate Judiciary on Big Oil's complicity in the climate crisis:

Big Oil "knew ‪decades ago that burning fossil fuels would cause, in its own words, 'globally catastrophic' harm."

What did the industry do with that knowledge?

"It actively lied and deceived people," said @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social

The public deserves accountability!

We are losing to China in a competition for the future.

Instead of producing energy smarter, the U.S. is defunding cleaner, safer, and cheaper energy.

So the way to make America great is to fall behind???

Make it make sense.

Starting at 2:30 pm - @darkush.bsky.social and @whitehouse.senate.gov take on climate deniers led by Sen. Ted Cruz in a hearing on the fossil-fuel industry and climate litigation

Daughter’s lawsuit aims to hold Big Oil accountable for mother’s death | Center for Climate Integrity Julie Leon died during the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, a deadly climate disaster that was fueled by Big Oil’s decades-long deception, lawsuit argues.

“There would be no question that we would hold them accountable if they caused other types of deaths. This is no different. They foresaw this, they did it anyway, and they hurt people,” said @darkush.bsky.social.

From Wildfires to Wall Street, Powell’s Retreat on Climate Change Puts Economy at Risk President Trump has no plans to address climate risks other than to bully federal agencies and private institutions into ignoring them, but this reckless approach does not preclude action by the Feder...

Powell has been negligent on addressing climate-related financial risk for some time now. With Trump looming, Powell is ignoring risks and leading the Fed into further retreat.
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Couldn't be prouder to work with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social and @darkush.bsky.social on describing the crime that best captures Big Oil's conduct: causing or risking catastrophe. nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...

He may not read them, but apparently he dictates them

Alert fatigue: The phrase that defined our climate in 2024 From "carbon cowboys" to "snow loss cliff," these 10 terms captured the spirit of the hottest year yet.

One of the top ten phrases of 2024: climate homicide.

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from @gristnews.bsky.social

Property insurance looks a lot like health insurance: companies take increasingly higher profits while withdrawing coverage and offloading costs to more and more people.

We can turn it around. Here's how 👇

#WithinOurPower to #InsureOurFuture

Interesting argument - climate activists are bad because they need to come around to supporting policies like the ones they passed two years ago and generally view as their biggest achievement to date.

🚨 Maine just became the 9th U.S. state to sue Big Oil for climate deception!

Big Oil companies have lied for decades about the catastrophic harm they knew their products would cause.

Now it's time for accountability.

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Yes to those working to build - and win - a progressive populist vision

This is the Fossil Free Finance Act's main policy: bit.ly/45aUMGs

The letter was joined by @reprashida.bsky.social, @aoc.bsky.social, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Andre Carson, Sen. Sanders, @senatorheinrich.bsky.social, Sen. Merkley, @schatz.bsky.social, Sen Warren.

Thank you all for your leadership!

On Monday @senmarkey.bsky.social & Rep. Pressley wrote the Federal Reserve urging it to mitigate climate-related risk by requiring institutions it supervises to "submit and execute plans to align their activities with science-based climate targets, including reducing financed emissions." BFD!

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1. Insurers profit off fossil fuels that kill Californians, destroy their property, and destroy the CA insurance market.

2. Insurers abandon CA.

3. CA makes concessions to insurers to lure them back ... but fails to stop them from supporting fossil fuels.

See the problem?

It's good that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and Ricardo Lara
are acting to stabilize the CA insurance market.

It's bad that they're ignoring the root of the problem. They should require insurers to stop supporting fossil fuels.

If they don't stop the crisis at the root, it will keep coming back.

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Insurers like are "screwing the public on climate change" -- abandoning homeowners over climate hams while continuing to insure and invest in fossil fuels. Great coverage from
@emorwee.bsky.social in Heated.

A vanishingly small percentage of voluntary offsets are legit.

Besides, the better move is to avoid creating more carbon pollution in the first place.

The music industry needs a real leader on this.

Plenty of places to read about the problems with offsets. In the media, coverage in The Guardian and Bloomberg has been great.

This podcast will also tell you what you need to know: www.volts.wtf/p/voluntary-...

I'm not kidding - if anyone can decarbonize touring, it's Taylor Swift. Go for it!

Fantastic that you care about climate & are loud and proud about it!

Unfortunately, nearly all carbon offsets are a sham.

A revolutionary thing you could do: Find a way to really decarbonize touring - not w/offsets, but zero emissions. Others would follow your example if you'd blaze the trail.

I'm not going to call out this guy by name. But can anyone explain how someone who's not a troll could think "net zero by retirement" is clever?

Chart: Renewables are on track to keep getting cheaper and cheaper A new report says that ongoing improvements in solar and wind tech will keep driving steep cost declines that make them even more competitive against fossil fuels.

The transition to clean energy is being driven by economics.

​“There is an inexorable economic logic to this transition,” he said. And although the transition needs to go faster, ​“it provides massive momentum to have the economics on our side.”

It's bad enough for @politico.com to run API ads. It should at least reject ones that are grossly misleading / nearly outright false. This "car ban" rhetoric is making its way to everyday people as "the EPA wants to ban your car and take it away." False and inflammatory -- and that's the point.

David H Koch: Making humanity go the way of the dinosaurs.

70+ NGOs issued an open letter about it today.

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