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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday I was transfered from UM Medical Center in Baltimore to Medstar DC. This will make it easier for my kids in DC to visit me as I embark on a very long rehab process. Thank you to everyone for your support and caring.

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Sep 4

SO happy about this:

youtu.be/B7VLNK4JkL8

Maryland Women's Basketball | Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center | Facility Unveil

YouTube video by MarylandAthletics

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Scott Jennings: "I don’t care what they think...They don’t know what’s good for them. I do not care one bit." (2/2)

ca.news.yahoo.com/scott-jennin...

Scott Jennings suggests people of D.C. should not have a say if the city should be under federal control.

CNN’s MAGA contributor Scott Jennings has been condemned for suggesting he doesn’t care that the people of Washington, D.C., overwhelmingly oppose Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the capital. “I do...

ca.news.yahoo.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Aug 14

I moved to Capital Hill in DC 46 years ago when I started my clerkship w Justice White. My kids went to public schools on the Hill and their kids also do. DC has never been safer, but we still lack voting representation in Congress. What we don’t lack is fear-mongering outsiders who dump on DC.

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sad to see that the Trump administration has politicized an important and formerly objective human rights report. Trump appointees cut sections on LGBTQ rights and government corruption and tempered criticism of El Salvador:

State Department Issues Human-Rights Report Reflecting Trump Priorities

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Aug 2

Great article by Fiona Harvey, only reporter to attend every climate COP, who participated in my VLS summer class as a media fellow in 2020. I wrote a chapter about this issue in Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Oxford Press 2018). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?

The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian

www.theguardian.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 31

If EPA repeals its endangerment finding, the basis for industry’s fervent wish to displace state climate litigation is gone. You CANNOT have it both ways. See: journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/ar...

Could Official Climate Denial Revive the Common Law as a Regulatory Backstop?

The Trump Administration is rapidly turning the clock back on climate policy and environmental regulation. Despite overwhelming, peer-reviewed scientific evidence, administration officials eager to pr...

journals.library.wustl.edu

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 27

You Tube video of my Hot Topics talk with Sean Donahue on the impact of the second Trump administration on environmental law is now available online. Thank you to Vermont Law School where I just spent a great week teaching Global Environmental Governance: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDJ...

Hot Topics 2025: Sean Donahue and Robert Percival

YouTube video by Vermont Law and Graduate School

m.youtube.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 23

ICJ says cimate change is an “existential threat” to mankind just as Trump climate deniers at EPA say they will try to repeal its 2010 “endangerment” finding. Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/c...

Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

www.nytimes.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 13

No matter how determined certain politicians are to prop up old fossil fuel technology, the sun is winning dramatically, both in the U.S. and the rest of the world, as Bill McKibben explains. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · Jul 8

Mark the Calendar‼️

@CIJ_ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations in relation to #ClimateChange & the protection of the climate system & the rights of present & future generations on July 23 at 3pm in The Hague‼️

Climate Rights Intl on 2024 ICJ hearings
cri.org/icj-major-fo...

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 4

On final day of IUCN AEL Colloquium in Lima, Peru, Maryland law grad Emily Hurley presents on waste incineration in China and Baltimore. Recent grad Jenna Schaeffer (on right) presents on EV regulation. Greatly appreciated that they participated in person while studying for the bar exam!

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 3

One of the biggest of many MAGA lies is that this administration cares more about free speech than its predecessor. newrepublic.com/post/197616/...

EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”

The Environmental Protection Agency is targeting employees who raised concerns about the direction of the agency under the Trump administration.

newrepublic.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 1

Maryland Carey Law delegation to the 22nd Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the Universidad Cientifica del Sur in Lima, Peru: Left to right: Samantha Bingaman, Jon Mueller, yours truly, Bill Piermattei, Tim Cohn & Emily Hurley. Not pictured: Jenna Schaeffer.

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jul 1

This reinforces my prior observation. With three more teams next year WNBA teams will not be waiving such talented European champions.

www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/30/g...

Golden State Valkyries waive Julie Vanloo, others as roster shuffle continues

More roster moves are expected this week with EuroBasket departures set to return to team

www.mercurynews.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 30

Bravo! This was sorely needed as illustrated by the fact that the existing WNBA teams could not find room for several stars (like Maryland’s Shyanne Sellers).
WNBA announces record expansion to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am quoted in this article about the Court’s nationwide injunction decision today. The Court should have just taken the case on the merits and voided Trump’s blatantly unconstituional executive order. www.eenews.net/articles/sup...

Supreme Court takes aim at nationwide injunctions

The high court’s conservative majority placed new limits on when lower courts can issue orders that take effect across the country.

www.eenews.net

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 22

Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.

www.nytimes.com

Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 22

The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

Opinion | The Waste Musk Created

www.nytimes.com

Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 11

My granddaughter Zoey graduating yesterday from fifth grade at Watkins Elementary. Fun fact: she can sing the national anthem of Serbia in Serbian! She and her classmates sang it during a visit to the Serbian embassy. Both my children also are grads of Watkins, a great public school on Capital Hill.

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 3

Tried to link to this Washington Post article in my last post.

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 3

This comports w my experience. A letter asked if I wanted to update the beneficiary on my Social Security records. My late wife was still listed. But I could no longer update it online and no one answered the phone at SS.

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · Jun 1

In the print edition of today’s Sunday New York Times (article was posted online several weeks ago as part of the Times’s “50 States, 50 Fixes” series highlighting positive environmental actions at the state and local levels).

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

Maryland Protected Nearly a Third of Its Land, and It’s Reaching for More

www.nytimes.com

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Bob Percival @rperci.bsky.social · May 28

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

German court throws out Peruvian farmer's climate case against RWE

A German court on Wednesday threw out a Peruvian farmer's lawsuit seeking damages from RWE for the German energy utility's alleged role in putting his home at risk through climate change.

www.reuters.com

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · May 28

3/ 🌐 ⚖️ But the case impacts expands well beyond these two actors. The judges will confirm today whether big polluters can be held accountable for climate harm & made liable to pay their fair share of the adaptation costs of impacted communities across the world. #ClimateJustice

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