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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda

@vbogg.bsky.social

Climate law attorney, Bay Area nerd. w/ Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.

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E&E News: Pope Leo calls for environmental action worldwide The first American pope urged people everywhere to become politically active on issues like climate change.

#Abundance bros act like civil society is the enemy & enviro laws aren't relevant.

Even the pope disagrees ;)

"Everyone in society, through [NGOs] and advocacy groups, must put pressure on governments to develop and implement more rigorous regulations, procedures and controls."

02.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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California opens the door for Big Oil’s CO2 pipeline plans States will be responsible for keeping people safe as the oil industry pushes a massive buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines near communities.

Excellent piece by @emdashsanders.bsky.social for
@levernews.com

California set to unleash CO2 pipelines for CCS, thanks in part to fossil fuel lobbyists:

30.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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California opens the door for Big Oil’s CO2 pipeline plans States will be responsible for keeping people safe as the oil industry pushes a massive buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines near communities.

California is setting a path to lift its moratorium on CO2 pipelines with new safety regs. But the state won't set a distance requirement protecting communities, which oil lobbyists opposed.

Advocates say it's a recipe for disaster. from me & @levernews.com

www.exxonknews.org/p/california...

30.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday we launched CACTI, a #SanFrancisco Bay Area coalition against carbon capture & storage (CCS). I spoke, along with others. It was a powerful event!

Huge thanks @foodandwater.bsky.social for your key organizing role 💙

Learn more here: cacticoalition.org

10.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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'Paying for Climate Chaos': Report Exposes $35 Billion a Year in US Handouts to Big Oil | Common Dreams New report reveals US government will hand out $34.8 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel companies this year.

It's (beyond) time to stop paying polluters to wreck our planet.

*This year alone* the fed gov't will give $34.8 billion to fossil fuel companies 😱

New report: www.commondreams.org/news/us-foss...

10.09.2025 17:08 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says - Inside Climate News New research by a team of top ice and climate scientists debunks some speculative technological climate fixes for preserving the polar ice caps.

From the lead author of this new study:

“We have to avoid giving people false hope by suggesting that climate change can be fixed without cutting carbon emissions, which is the only real solution." 👈
insideclimatenews.org/news/0909202...

10.09.2025 17:17 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

08.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 509    🔁 146    💬 9    📌 11
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It turns out, the core of abundance is a lot of Silicon Valley money, with a healthy dollop of Koch funding too. The conference taking place today is the perfect example of this. It does include a lot of who you'd expect, like figures from the Niskanen Center and The Argument
David Shor

Revolving Door Project • 1h g..
But the conference also features figures from the Koch-backed group Stand Together, and from the deeply conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation (which

Tweets: Revolving Door Project • 1h 0 ... It turns out, the core of abundance is a lot of Silicon Valley money, with a healthy dollop of Koch funding too. The conference taking place today is the perfect example of this. It does include a lot of who you'd expect, like figures from the Niskanen Center and The Argument David Shor Revolving Door Project • 1h g.. But the conference also features figures from the Koch-backed group Stand Together, and from the deeply conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation (which

Ask anyone in the "Abundance Faction" why the Koch brothers are funding their movement, and they'll say it's good to have a big tent.

But the Koch brothers are truly evil, not least for their decades-long (and successful) work to destroy US understanding of climate science.

1/2

04.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 61    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 3
The evidentiary core of each chapter consists of a summary of the academic work of a few experts, usually economists, with frequent and lengthy quotations, as well as the occasional interview, whose conclusions are repeated uncritically. (To take one example, they quote without scrutiny the claim of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that he is requiring employees to work in person in order to foster trust, rather than to impose discipline or to recoup the costs of commercial real estate. They give no sense of the unruly literatures on their subjects, the ranges of disagreement, the difficult problems and mutually exclusive solutions. They claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation.

The evidentiary core of each chapter consists of a summary of the academic work of a few experts, usually economists, with frequent and lengthy quotations, as well as the occasional interview, whose conclusions are repeated uncritically. (To take one example, they quote without scrutiny the claim of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that he is requiring employees to work in person in order to foster trust, rather than to impose discipline or to recoup the costs of commercial real estate. They give no sense of the unruly literatures on their subjects, the ranges of disagreement, the difficult problems and mutually exclusive solutions. They claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation.

A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!

05.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 196    🔁 58    💬 3    📌 11
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CA Press Conference: Stop the Montezuma Carbon Hub! · Food & Water Watch Join other Bay Area residents as we come together to protect our communities and health against the proposed Montezuma Carbon Hub Project. **A new coalition, Communities Against Carbon Transport & In...

Happening Sept 9:
Join SF #BayArea groups & residents at a press conference announcing their alliance to fight the Montezuma Carbon Hub -- a massive waste injection hub proposed near wetlands & communities.

www.mobilize.us/fww/event/83...

04.09.2025 18:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center With Preliminary Injunction MIAMI— A federal judge today ordered the state of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center ...

🚨 Breaking:

Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️

So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.

Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!

22.08.2025 04:07 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A mighty redwood of a man has fallen.’ Remembering Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday books Writer, editor and publisher Malcolm Margolin, who promoted Indigenous cultural renewal across California, died Wednesday. He was 84.

Long live Heyday Books

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...

22.08.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Commentary: California is backsliding on climate progress. It's (mostly) Gavin Newsom's fault From rooftop solar to oil drilling, the Golden State governor is failing to live up to his soaring rhetoric.

No way around it: California is starting to backslide on climate. And it’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault.

My column today looks at Newsom’s failures on rooftop solar, oil industry accountability, home electrification and more: www.latimes.com/environment/...

21.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 75    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 5
A photo of an oil rig; beneath it, black text on yellow reads "NEW REPORT: Kern Co. oil & gas sites are leaking — and California’s loopholes are letting it happen."

A photo of an oil rig; beneath it, black text on yellow reads "NEW REPORT: Kern Co. oil & gas sites are leaking — and California’s loopholes are letting it happen."

📢 NEW: CCEJN reports —

31% of oil & gas sites near Kern County homes, schools & parks are leaking
37% of leaks are allowed by regulatory loopholes
The “heavy oil” exemption shields 68% of CA’s oil & gas sites from leak monitoring & repair rules

#ClimateJustice

👉🏽 ccejn.org/2025/08/12/p...

19.08.2025 17:53 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great reporting, great listen

04.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Supports This Climate Solution: Is That A Bad Thing? - Latino USA Carbon capture promises to fight climate change—but in California’s Central Valley, locals question who really benefits from this controversial technology.

Take a listen: Latino USA digs into CCS in California, & the massive taxpayer subsidy that pays for it (and more oil production!)

feat. @biologicaldiversity.org attorney Maggie Coulter & community advocates, incl. CCEJN

www.latinousa.org/2025/08/03/c...

04.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump EPA moves to repeal 'endangerment finding' used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions The proposed rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

Cheers to @mjhankins.bsky.social on this AP video explaining the endangerment finding rollback!

So appreciate clear communication of this super important issue to the public:
apnews.com/video/trump-...

30.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

29.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 57    🔁 36    💬 6    📌 5
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Exxon’s new project will capture carbon to drill for more oil Exxon sold carbon capture and storage as a climate solution — but under new Trump tax credits, public funds will be directed toward more oil extraction with less regulation.

Surprise, surprise: CCS is bad 😠 😔

"Exxon sold carbon capture & storage as a climate solution — but under new Trump tax credits, public funds will be directed toward more oil extraction with less regulation."

by @emdashsanders.bsky.social

25.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.

📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law.
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs

24.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 77    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 1
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DuPont agrees to settle lawsuit over Hoosick Falls water pollution DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls.

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

08.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 213    🔁 66    💬 9    📌 4

Essay by @savelifeonearth.bsky.social 💙

Hellbenders as emissaries:

"The same forces that drove the decline of these amphibians sacrificed public health in Appalachia. Their demise echoes the struggle of communities that continue to be jeopardized by extractive industries & betrayed by politics."

07.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Or a Garbage Pail Kid

06.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SEC. 50403. ENERGY DOMINANCE FINANCING.

    (a) In General.--Section 1706 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 16517) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``avoid'' and all 
                that follows through the period at the end and 
                inserting ``increase capacity or output; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) support or enable the provision of known or 
        forecastable electric supply at time intervals necessary to 
        maintain or enhance grid reliability or other system adequacy 
        needs.'';
            (2) by striking subsection (c);
            (3) by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as 
        subsections (c) through (e), respectively;
            (4) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2);
            (5) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``for--'' in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that 
        follows through the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``for enabling the identification, leasing, 
        development, production, processing, transportation, 
        transmission, refining, and generation needed for energy and 
        critical minerals.''; and
            (6) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Funding.--
            ``(1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
        available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal 
        year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
        appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available through 
        September 30, 2028 [...]

SEC. 50403. ENERGY DOMINANCE FINANCING. (a) In General.--Section 1706 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16517) is amended-- (1) in subsection (a)-- (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the end; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``avoid'' and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting ``increase capacity or output; or''; and (C) by adding at the end the following: ``(3) support or enable the provision of known or forecastable electric supply at time intervals necessary to maintain or enhance grid reliability or other system adequacy needs.''; (2) by striking subsection (c); (3) by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as subsections (c) through (e), respectively; (4) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)-- (A) in paragraph (1), by adding ``and'' at the end; (B) by striking paragraph (2); and (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); (5) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking ``for--'' in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that follows through the period at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting ``for enabling the identification, leasing, development, production, processing, transportation, transmission, refining, and generation needed for energy and critical minerals.''; and (6) by adding at the end the following: ``(f) Funding.-- ``(1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2028 [...]

Lost in the wave of many terrible things, this is so dumb. The bill changes DOE sec. 1706 loan guarantees from repurposing and repowering of energy infrastructure to reduce emissions to "Energy Dominance Finance". 🤦

04.07.2025 02:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Gorgon CCS underperformance hits new low in 2023-24 In the last financial year, the Gorgon CCS project captured only 30% of the CO2 it removed from its reservoir, its weakest performance to date. As a result of technical challenges and underperformance...

Huh. Another failing CCS project. 🤔

via @ieefainstitute.bsky.social
ieefa.org/resources/go...

03.07.2025 19:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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California Democrats Agree to Roll Back Landmark Environmental Law

they killed ceqa 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

01.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 61    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 6
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🎉 Let's celebrate! The polluting wood pellet industry is NOT getting a foothold in CA! 🌟

“Stopping this dirty, dangerous project is a big victory for communities, the climate & our forests.”
-Dr. Wolf, @biologicaldiversity.org

CA’s Largest Wood Pellet Project Defeated:
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

25.06.2025 22:17 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

24.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 2114    🔁 938    💬 226    📌 86

I’m in West Virginia & happy to share there are two (!) small but mighty No Kings contingencies out where I am in today ✊

14.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@vbogg is following 20 prominent accounts