Pleiades Strategy
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We work with climate leaders in civil society, government, and industry to track and accelerate the clean energy transition and ambitious and equitable climate solutions. Founded by francessawyer.bsky.social.
Something you might have missed in our 2025 Statehouse Report: Fossil fuel lobbyists now work hand in hand with right-wing extremists to force businesses to work with risky industries using controversial “debanking” bills. Let’s unpack that 💼
July 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Something you might have missed in our 2025 Statehouse Report: Fossil fuel lobbyists now work hand in hand with right-wing extremists to force businesses to work with risky industries using controversial “debanking” bills. Let’s unpack that 💼
Anti-ESG is still here, and anti-climate legislators are eager to undermine the clean energy transition that’s well underway — jobs, profits, and free markets be damned. Protecting fossil fuels has always been the goal of anti-ESG legislation.
July 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anti-ESG is still here, and anti-climate legislators are eager to undermine the clean energy transition that’s well underway — jobs, profits, and free markets be damned. Protecting fossil fuels has always been the goal of anti-ESG legislation.
Our 2025 Statehouse Report is here, mapping how "anti-ESG" forces have escalated attacks on climate risk management under a fossil fuel-friendly administration. From the 106 bills introduced, it’s clear these grps are throwing their full weight behind protecting fossil fuels.
July 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our 2025 Statehouse Report is here, mapping how "anti-ESG" forces have escalated attacks on climate risk management under a fossil fuel-friendly administration. From the 106 bills introduced, it’s clear these grps are throwing their full weight behind protecting fossil fuels.
📣Proud to announce the release of Pleiades Strategy’s 2025 Statehouse Report recapping the 106 "anti-ESG" bills introduced and 10 passed in state legislatures this year. The takeaway: Anti-ESG actors are emboldened and evolving, chilling the climate action landscape 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📣Proud to announce the release of Pleiades Strategy’s 2025 Statehouse Report recapping the 106 "anti-ESG" bills introduced and 10 passed in state legislatures this year. The takeaway: Anti-ESG actors are emboldened and evolving, chilling the climate action landscape 🧵
🏛️With just weeks left in state legislative sessions, 103 anti-ESG bills are still moving in 31 states. Only 5 have become law. Here are the major themes we’re tracking:
May 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🏛️With just weeks left in state legislative sessions, 103 anti-ESG bills are still moving in 31 states. Only 5 have become law. Here are the major themes we’re tracking:
🚨 Trump’s new executive order calls for a coast-to-coast mining spree on U.S. public lands. His goal? Extract “critical” minerals for tech and energy—no matter the cost to our public lands or our communities.
May 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 Trump’s new executive order calls for a coast-to-coast mining spree on U.S. public lands. His goal? Extract “critical” minerals for tech and energy—no matter the cost to our public lands or our communities.
🚩Georgia Power’s new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is raising red flags. It expands fossil fuel production, and doesn’t explain how to get the 9.5 GW in new capacity it calls for.
May 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🚩Georgia Power’s new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is raising red flags. It expands fossil fuel production, and doesn’t explain how to get the 9.5 GW in new capacity it calls for.
Trump’s DOJ is suing New York, Vermont, Michigan and Hawaii for daring to pass climate accountability laws. It’s a direct attack on states protecting their residents from climate risk. And a gift to fossil fuel companies.
May 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trump’s DOJ is suing New York, Vermont, Michigan and Hawaii for daring to pass climate accountability laws. It’s a direct attack on states protecting their residents from climate risk. And a gift to fossil fuel companies.
The Bank of England is raising the bar on climate risk oversight, requiring banks and insurers to set clear risk metrics and prove they’re prepared for worsening climate shocks. This is what real climate leadership looks like.
May 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Bank of England is raising the bar on climate risk oversight, requiring banks and insurers to set clear risk metrics and prove they’re prepared for worsening climate shocks. This is what real climate leadership looks like.
⚡🏠The key to a safer, faster rebuild in L.A.? Electrification. A new report from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment @cleeberkeley undercuts claims from officials waiving all-electric rules, finding that going all-electric isn’t just safer, it's faster and cheaper too.
May 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
⚡🏠The key to a safer, faster rebuild in L.A.? Electrification. A new report from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment @cleeberkeley undercuts claims from officials waiving all-electric rules, finding that going all-electric isn’t just safer, it's faster and cheaper too.
Skyrocketing home insurance premiums and cancellations are turning climate risk into an insurance emergency, everywhere. A new tool from @RevolvingDoorDC & @Public_Citizen maps the crisis by ZIP code, showing just how widespread the damage really is.
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Skyrocketing home insurance premiums and cancellations are turning climate risk into an insurance emergency, everywhere. A new tool from @RevolvingDoorDC & @Public_Citizen maps the crisis by ZIP code, showing just how widespread the damage really is.
📣NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is putting Wall Street on notice, again. He’s demanding asset managers handling the city’s $284B in pension funds submit net-zero transition plans (scope 3 inclusive), or risk losing their business. Plans are due by the end of June.⌛
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is putting Wall Street on notice, again. He’s demanding asset managers handling the city’s $284B in pension funds submit net-zero transition plans (scope 3 inclusive), or risk losing their business. Plans are due by the end of June.⌛
A new Dartmouth study found that just *21 fossil fuel companies* are responsible for $28 trillion in global heat-related economic losses – and that doesn’t even include extreme weather or climate disasters. 🔥 🌎
May 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A new Dartmouth study found that just *21 fossil fuel companies* are responsible for $28 trillion in global heat-related economic losses – and that doesn’t even include extreme weather or climate disasters. 🔥 🌎
🫢Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis has quietly become the region’s biggest polluter with its 30+ methane gas turbines operating *without permits* to power its supercomputer.
May 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🫢Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis has quietly become the region’s biggest polluter with its 30+ methane gas turbines operating *without permits* to power its supercomputer.
The war on disaster victims continues. The Trump administration's rejection of federal disaster aid for Arkansas, where deadly storms killed at least 60, is a further step toward politicizing climate disaster response.
May 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The war on disaster victims continues. The Trump administration's rejection of federal disaster aid for Arkansas, where deadly storms killed at least 60, is a further step toward politicizing climate disaster response.
💸New meta-analysis from @EnergyInnov found that repealing clean energy tax credits could raise household energy bills by $6B annually within 5 years and up to $25B annually by 2040. A setback for clean energy is a setback for consumers.
May 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
💸New meta-analysis from @EnergyInnov found that repealing clean energy tax credits could raise household energy bills by $6B annually within 5 years and up to $25B annually by 2040. A setback for clean energy is a setback for consumers.
A historic win for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU): their new contract includes groundbreaking climate provisions, from solar panels at 30 schools to cleaner air and water for students. Labor + climate = real impact. ✊
May 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A historic win for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU): their new contract includes groundbreaking climate provisions, from solar panels at 30 schools to cleaner air and water for students. Labor + climate = real impact. ✊
🔋Federal uncertainty is stalling a $1.3B battery plant in Virginia. Microporous was set to bring over 2,000 jobs to Pittsylvania County, but it's now delayed as Trump’s DOE targets clean energy projects for grant clawbacks.
May 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🔋Federal uncertainty is stalling a $1.3B battery plant in Virginia. Microporous was set to bring over 2,000 jobs to Pittsylvania County, but it's now delayed as Trump’s DOE targets clean energy projects for grant clawbacks.
⚡A $5.8B bet on clean steel is coming to Louisiana. Hyundai Steel’s new plant will use Electric Arc Furnace tech that cuts emissions emissions up to 85% compared to coal-fired blast furnaces common in the U.S., in a monumental first for steel.
May 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
⚡A $5.8B bet on clean steel is coming to Louisiana. Hyundai Steel’s new plant will use Electric Arc Furnace tech that cuts emissions emissions up to 85% compared to coal-fired blast furnaces common in the U.S., in a monumental first for steel.
🤫 Green hushing is in. Equinor just started building Empire Wind 1, an 810 MW offshore wind project near NYC, with barely a whisper. No ribbon-cuttings, no press blitz. Just a quiet email to boat captains. And that’s strategic in today’s anti-wind political climate.
May 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🤫 Green hushing is in. Equinor just started building Empire Wind 1, an 810 MW offshore wind project near NYC, with barely a whisper. No ribbon-cuttings, no press blitz. Just a quiet email to boat captains. And that’s strategic in today’s anti-wind political climate.
Clean energy isn’t the future—it’s already the present
We just hit a major milestone: in March 2025, clean energy generated more than half of all U.S. electricity for the first time ever—50.8%, per new data from @Ember_energy.
We just hit a major milestone: in March 2025, clean energy generated more than half of all U.S. electricity for the first time ever—50.8%, per new data from @Ember_energy.
April 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Clean energy isn’t the future—it’s already the present
We just hit a major milestone: in March 2025, clean energy generated more than half of all U.S. electricity for the first time ever—50.8%, per new data from @Ember_energy.
We just hit a major milestone: in March 2025, clean energy generated more than half of all U.S. electricity for the first time ever—50.8%, per new data from @Ember_energy.
NYC’s housing crisis is colliding with climate change. A new report says over 80,000 homes in the region could be lost to coastal flooding by 2040—just as the city needs to build 1.2 million new homes.
April 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
NYC’s housing crisis is colliding with climate change. A new report says over 80,000 homes in the region could be lost to coastal flooding by 2040—just as the city needs to build 1.2 million new homes.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is turning up the 🔥on big banks. He’s filed shareholder proposals at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley demanding they disclose how much they finance clean energy vs fossil fuels.
April 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is turning up the 🔥on big banks. He’s filed shareholder proposals at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley demanding they disclose how much they finance clean energy vs fossil fuels.
Trump’s new tariffs are a major blow to America’s clean energy future. They cut renewable developers off from key suppliers and hand China an even bigger share of solar and wind markets.
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Trump’s new tariffs are a major blow to America’s clean energy future. They cut renewable developers off from key suppliers and hand China an even bigger share of solar and wind markets.
Pleiades convened a panel yesterday bringing together fire survivors, consumer advocates, and insurance policy experts. The national insurance crisis playing out in CA is serious, but there are steps we can take to protect people, our economy, and our climate 🌎
April 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Pleiades convened a panel yesterday bringing together fire survivors, consumer advocates, and insurance policy experts. The national insurance crisis playing out in CA is serious, but there are steps we can take to protect people, our economy, and our climate 🌎