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
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
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
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
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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.
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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.
A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!
05.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 196 🔁 58 💬 3 📌 11
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."
📢 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
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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
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
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
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 [...]
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
🎉 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
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...
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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
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