Caleb Heeringa

US Lawmaker Moves To Shield Oil Companies From Climate Cases A US lawmaker is drafting legislation to block a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, advancing a top priority of the oil and gas industry.

To be clear what's being proposed here: that US taxpayers should pay for 100% of the costs of climate change ... basically forever. Somebody's gotta pay; right now it's everyone except the oil giants that knew about the problem decades ago and lied to the public. www.barrons.com/news/us-lawm...

My major new legislation, the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act, authorizes California's attorney general to sue fossil fuel companies and hold them accountable for the increased insurance costs they've caused. Stay tuned.

How climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires » Yale Climate Connections Drier vegetation and soil make it easier for wildfires to spread and become more destructive.

It goes without saying but a data centre company that burns an unfathomable amount of methane gas on site instead of using the power grid is *still* making your life worse: just through the intermediary of the atmosphere, which gives them full deniability

I’m just going to leave this here

Citizens Lab for Regulatory Review - Narrative Proposal (Apr. 15, 2022)

This week’s @nytimes.com story on how ultra-conservative activists plotted to wipe out federal climate regs included this doc, obtained by Fieldnotes.

It's a confidential proposal seeking $2 million for a secret effort to draft regs and assemble an “arsenal" of climate denial.

Full proposal here:

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

New reporting shows Elon Musk continues to flout air pollution laws using unpermitted gas turbines to power his massive Colossus AI supercomputers in poor Memphis neighborhoods. All so Grok can undress teenagers and heap praise on Elon and Hitler. @selc.bsky.social @theguardian.com

The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push t...

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Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.

"The data from January shows that the nation’s two operating utility-scale offshore wind farms ... performed as well as gas-fired power plants and better than coal-fired facilities, including during last month’s Winter Storm Fern." www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... by @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡

These perverts in government want to poison everyone’s kids because they irrationally hate the people who are anti-poison.

Going on the record on this: climate change is in fact bad

Expensive too! @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This move, based on long-debunked climate-change denialism, will throw gasoline on America's home-insurance and health-insurance fires

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters: Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are c...

These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters: Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are c...

California and Hawai`i join growing movement to hold Big Oil accountable for the climate-driven home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity New bills would empower state attorneys general to protect the public from rising insurance costs after a climate disaster

Home insurance rates are soaring in the aftermath of wildfires in Maui and Los Angeles.

Two new bills introduced in Hawaiʻi and California would help protect families from rising costs by making Big Oil pay their fair share. 👏
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GOP Lawmaker Says Bill Being Crafted to Shield Big Oil From Climate Liability Lawsuits | Common Dreams GOP lawmakers are actively working to shield Big Oil from climate lawsuits, putting profits over accountability for climate disasters. Should fossil fuel giants be immune from paying for the damage th...

“Let’s be clear: You don’t need immunity unless you are in fact responsible for the damages claimed in these lawsuits. A liability shield for Big Oil would ... stick US taxpayers with the massive and growing bill for climate damages" @climateintegrity.org www.commondreams.org/news/lawmake...

The Insurance Crisis Is About To Get Even Worse The Trump administration will make it official policy that greenhouse gases don't endanger Americans' well-being and therefore don't need federal regulation.

"It’s long been a cliche to say ʻYou may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.ʻ But it’s also true ... In just the past 12 years, the U.S. alone has spent $6.6 trillion on catastrophes, outdoing the Great Depression." @markgongloff.bsky.social www.fa-mag.com/news/the-ins...

Is Canada's national paper the Globe and Mail publishing AI op-eds from oil lobbyists?

A recent piece the Globe ran attacking climate regulations seemed like it was written by robots. So I put the op-ed into an AI detector and here was the result lol

Record snow drought in western U.S. raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires Except for California, most Western states are experiencing the worst snow drought in decades, not because of dry conditions but really warm temperatures that change snow to rain.

Scientists say they haven't since this little snow cover or snow depth in the Western U.S. in decades. Since December 1, there have been 8,500 daily high temperature records broken or tied in the West. www.latimes.com/environment/...

UK insurance payouts hit record owing to climate impacts from storms & flooding

Chief scientist at flood modeller Fathom said climate change was creating the conditions for more extreme weather as warmer temperatures lead to longer-lasting rainfall

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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Major corporations bankroll "America First" propaganda Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil are spending millions to promote events supporting Trump and his divisive political agenda.

ExxonMobil is one of the corporations bankrolling Trump's "Freedom 250" propaganda birthday bash: popular.info/p/major-corp... via @juddlegum.bsky.social

California and Hawai`i join growing movement to hold Big Oil accountable for the climate-driven home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity New bills would empower state attorneys general to protect the public from rising insurance costs after a climate disaster

Home insurance rates are soaring in the aftermath of wildfires in Maui and Los Angeles.

Two new bills introduced in Hawaiʻi and California would help protect families from rising costs by making Big Oil pay their fair share. 👏

Behold! Technology!

California and Hawai`i join growing movement to hold Big Oil accountable for the climate-driven home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity New bills would empower state attorneys general to protect the public from rising insurance costs after a climate disaster

Guess what's a key driver of the US's affordability crisis? Home insurance costs that keep going up due to the kinds of worsening weather disasters that the oil giants predicted decades ago.

3 states are now advancing bills to make Big Oil pay their fair share. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ca...

sigh

Alabama moves to end Public Service Commission elections after Democrats win in Georgia www.al.com/politics/202...

Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning ‘world is in peril’ Other AI safety researchers have also left leading firms, citing concerns about potentially catastrophic risks.

I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Oregon’s record snow drought could mean less water, more wildfires A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting Oregon, along with most of the American West.

A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting Oregon, along with most of the American West.