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Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 5d

Totally agree on another Jason Grumet point (!) at @bipartisanpolicy.org permitting conference- unless there’s a big change from the Trump administration which tried to block $25B in almost complete offshore wind projects only a month ago, then bipartisan permitting reform won’t happen.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 5d

I low key agree with Jason Grumet on one point- the Trump administration is breaking norms and trying to block all clean energy and without changes to that we are looking at a dystopian future. @bipartisanpolicy.org permitting conference

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 5d

The INGAA speaker probably could see my eye roll from the back at @bipartisanpolicy.org permitting conference when she complained that people don’t want more of their polluting pipelines and infrastructure in their communities & fight at every step. Hopeful note: communities know pipelines pollute!

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 5d

At @bipartisanpolicy.org permitting reform hearing Rep. Gabe Evan take aim at the Clean Air Act, lying about how wildfire smoke events are dealt with- these are called exceptional events and absolutely do not mean local industry has to reduce their pollution.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 12d

Was that a Freudian slip because his Big Oil friends are always in his ear about how ethanol is really just a plot of China’s trying to unseat American Fossil Dominance?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "China will be sending me a bill very shortly supporting year round E15 to my desk, and I will sign it without delay"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "China will be sending me a bill very shortly supporting year round E15 to my desk, and I will sign it without delay"

House Agriculture Committee Democrats @houseagdems.bsky.social · 12d

Republicans promised to deliver for farmers and families. Instead, they excluded farm aid, family aid and year-round E15 from their government funding bill. It’s time Republicans grow a spine or admit they won’t.

Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 17d

We had a deal on the table to allow the year-round sale of E15, but House Republicans couldn’t get out of their own way.

At a time when markets for Illinois farmers are being decimated by President Trump’s trade wars, they deserve better than this uncertainty.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 24d

My brain just melted in multiple ways but particularly the last bit- “people don’t do this w/out people in power making it seem ok.”

1. Trump gave the middle finger and said “F you” to a UAW worker ‘proudly’ just two days ago.
2. ICE guys aren’t known for their mild manners and polite words.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24d

Leavitt complains that protesters are pointing their middle fingers at ICE vehicles

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24d

Leavitt complains that protesters are pointing their middle fingers at ICE vehicles

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 25d

He really is doing all of it.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 25d

For the people in the back: the TRUMP administration is COVERING UP the fact that THEIR ROLLBACKS of environmental safeguards MAKE US UNHEALTHY AND KILL PEOPLE.

Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 26d

For decades, the EPA has done one basic thing when setting clean air rules: weigh the costs to industry against the public health benefits to real people, including fewer asthma attacks, fewer hospital visits, and fewer Americans dying prematurely.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · 25d

Cancelling tailpipe pollution standards = more costs for families = more profits for oil execs

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 26d

Tailpipe emissions standards save American families hundreds of dollars each year while also reducing air toxins and climate pollution.

They are a win-win for all of us.

Trump proves once again he is on the side of billionaire polluters who don't care if our lives get worse so long as they profit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Trump: "We're canceling the EPA's absurd tailpipe emissions standard, one of the worst ever"

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 26d

Tailpipe emissions standards save American families hundreds of dollars each year while also reducing air toxins and climate pollution.

They are a win-win for all of us.

Trump proves once again he is on the side of billionaire polluters who don't care if our lives get worse so long as they profit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Trump: "We're canceling the EPA's absurd tailpipe emissions standard, one of the worst ever"

Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 26d

For decades, the EPA has done one basic thing when setting clean air rules: weigh the costs to industry against the public health benefits to real people, including fewer asthma attacks, fewer hospital visits, and fewer Americans dying prematurely.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 27d

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Roadless Rule. I call on the Trump administration to reverse course and protect our public lands for the next generation and generations to come.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

The headlines keep piling up, and Trump and congressional Republicans are calling it a con job and giving handouts to their fossil fuel billionaire cronies instead of offering up real solutions for families struggling with surging costs in energy, healthcare, and groceries. #Coal4Xmas

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 14

Starting to notice a trend here 🤔

Data centers are spiking electricity costs in Maryland. It’s the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ one expert warns
By
CNN Expansion DC - November 2021, Shoot ID: 1089822 , 11/16/2021, Ella Nilsen
Ella Nilsen

Data center growth pressuring higher electricity rates across Oklahoma

Energy market watchers see Ohio electric bills rising as data center demand continues

Virginia's electricity costs rise amid data center boom

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Appreciate @velazquez.house.gov laying out the costs of Trump’s ban on clean energy and how we should be addressing it instead of the extreme anti-environmental policies served up by Republicans in the House.

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 18

"We don’t need to weaken environmental protections to get cheaper, cleaner energy."

@velazquez.house.gov was clear: what we really need are policies to speed up renewable energy deployment and hold polluters accountable.

"That’s how we lower costs." 👏

Opinion: New Yorkers deserve clean and affordable energy, not more fossil fuel greed

Despite what oil lobbyists claim, it’s not true that environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act are slowing down renewable energy projects.

www.cityandstateny.com

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Appreciate @rephuffman.bsky.social leading the charge in exposing these giveaways to polluting execs while the rest of us suffer the high costs and dirty and air water that will result. #Coal4Xmas

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 18

“It abandons transparency and accountability while ignoring the single biggest permitting problem facing the energy sector right now: the Trump admin’s all-out war against wind and solar.”

@rephuffman.bsky.social called out Republicans’ SPEED Act that only serves to benefit fossil fuel execs 👇

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 18

“It abandons transparency and accountability while ignoring the single biggest permitting problem facing the energy sector right now: the Trump admin’s all-out war against wind and solar.”

@rephuffman.bsky.social called out Republicans’ SPEED Act that only serves to benefit fossil fuel execs 👇

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 18

"We don’t need to weaken environmental protections to get cheaper, cleaner energy."

@velazquez.house.gov was clear: what we really need are policies to speed up renewable energy deployment and hold polluters accountable.

"That’s how we lower costs." 👏

Opinion: New Yorkers deserve clean and affordable energy, not more fossil fuel greed

Despite what oil lobbyists claim, it’s not true that environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act are slowing down renewable energy projects.

www.cityandstateny.com

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

And, meanwhile, Trump’s and Johnson’s plans to further drive up families’ electric bills: #Coal4Xmas. Arctic sea ice and the mid latitudes be damned, too!

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Dec 17

The decline in Arctic sea ice from climate change is not only a tragedy for the region's people & wildlife

Scientists at the National Snow & Ice Data Center
talk of "a potential causal relationship between Arctic ice retreat and extreme weather in midlatitudes"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Trump’s and Speaker Johnson’s plans to further drive up families’ electric bills: #Coal4Xmas

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban

A state law requires Washington utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity beginning next year.

www.seattletimes.com

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

And just last night, hoping no one would notice, Trump’s Department of Energy forced an aging, expensive, dirty coal power plant in WA to stay online, rather than connect cheap clean energy projects. DOE has forced MI’s Campbell coal plant to stay on, already costing families $80M! #Coal4Xmas

Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · Dec 17

Families are paying more and more for electricity, but instead of backing clean, cheap energy that would lower costs and deliver relief, Washington Republicans are siding with polluters over the American people.

Matthew H. Davis @matthewhdavis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Economic fallout and the affordability crisis from Trump’s Big Ugly Bill continue to harm working families.

LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · Dec 17

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is one of the world's leading climate research labs and is used in forecasting weather events and disasters around the U.S.

Dismantling such an essential institution is an assault on science and truth, and a threat to the millions facing extreme weather.

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

www.nytimes.com

Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · Dec 17

Families are paying more and more for electricity, but instead of backing clean, cheap energy that would lower costs and deliver relief, Washington Republicans are siding with polluters over the American people.

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