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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 1d

Every state supreme court that has reviewed climate deception claims so far has allowed them to proceed

It remains to be seen whether the top court in Maryland will follow that pattern. The court heard oral arguments today

More here

www.climateinthecourts.com/maryland-sup...

Maryland Supreme Court Hears Appeal In Municipalities’ Climate Deception Cases

Lawsuits brought by Maryland municipalities against major fossil fuel companies over alleged deception and failure to warn about climate change risks came before the Maryland Supreme Court today as pl...

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 5d

"We’re pretty sick and tired of people making bajillions of dollars & then we have to clean up their messes. That’s what this bill does" - state Rep Tricia Farley-Bouvier
@350ma.bsky.social @thebeatnews.bsky.social @hvatoday.bsky.social @polluterspay.bsky.social
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Climate activists and community leaders call on Massachusetts to pass Make Polluters Pay bill - The Berkshire Edge

Speakers at the event highlighted some of the localized impacts of a changing climate—from wildfire smoke to flooding in the Housatonic River Valley—and explained why they are supportive of the legisl...

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lisa martine jenkins @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday, Russ Vought tweeted out that DOE is canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy funding. Today, @latitudemedia.bsky.social @maeveallsup.bsky.social obtained the list of all 321 projects that are having their awards pulled.

🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...

SCOOP: These are the 321 awards DOE is canceling

All of the awards, totaling $7.5 billion, are for projects in blue states.

www.latitudemedia.com

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 8d

"We see his reporting, and his advocacy on behalf of people who are being savaged by an overheating Earth, as fitting squarely into the arc of history representing the best of what journalism can do."

@coveringclimatenow.org on @billmckibben.bsky.social

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben's Climate Journalism

Some traditional journalists complain that McKibben is an advocate — the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.

www.rollingstone.com

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 7d

Youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. US have petitioned an international tribunal, accusing the US of human rights violations over its fossil fuel energy policies

"What the government has been doing for 5 decades is illegal"- @youthvgov.bsky.social's Kelly Matheson

insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review - Inside Climate News

Plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government in 2015 for promoting fossil fuel policies and failing to protect them from climate change have petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for an ...

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 13d

"Five or ten years from now, if we’re going to give a climate hero award…President Trump is going to win that award" said Energy Secretary Chris Wright moments ago during a press briefing

You can't make this shit up

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 13d

"The fossil fuel industry has captured everything, from politics, to the media, and general discourse...

Eventually the day of reckoning will come for the US, and sooner or later something has to change" - Vanuatu minister Ralph Regenvanu

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil fuel industry influence

Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation said the step was on ‘behalf of everybody’

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 16d

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 14d

"Donald Trump in his speech today is incorrect" - Piers Forster, one of the world's leading climate scientists, speaking now during @climateanalytics.org's #ClimateWeekNYC event

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump: "It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and 1930s they said, 'global cooling with kill the world.' Then they said 'global warming will kill the world.' But then it started getting cooler ... it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."

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Matt Kennedy @mckennedy.bsky.social · 14d

Since the whole carbon footprint thing was something the fossil fuel industry came up with to deflect responsibility onto individual consumers, this quote might be the one correct thing he's said.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump to the UN: "The 'carbon footprint' is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction."

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 14d

Trump speaking at the UN right now just called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world"

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 14d

The Production Gap report comes as @gchalliance.bsky.social published an analysis last week warning of the extensive harms of fossil fuels on human health

“Not only are they a climate problem, fossil fuels are driving a global public health emergency"

climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...

Cross-Cutting Report Reveals Devastating Global Health Impacts of Fossil Fuels - Thru Production Life Cycle, & Across Human Lifespan

A sweeping new report released today reveals the devastating impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use on human health. Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just T...

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 14d

"Countries are now collectively planning even more fossil fuel production than two years ago" said SEI's Derik Broekhoff, a lead author of the Production Gap report

And the gap may be even wider, as US projections do not yet reflect Trump's moves on fossil fuels

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/gap-b...

The Gap Between Climate Targets and Fossil Fuel Production Is Wider Than Ever

The world’s top greenhouse-gas-emitting countries are failing to take a path that avoids catastrophic warming

www.sierraclub.org

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Construction on Revolution Wind will resume after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today against the Trump administration

Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · Sep 5

"There’s no basis in the law to stop construction on a project that has been fully permitted" @theclf.bsky.social's Kate Sinding Daly told me

Now the Trump admin's stop work order is facing legal challenges, from both the project developer & from RI & CT

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump...

The Trump Administration’s Campaign Against Renewable Wind Reaches a New Phase

Environmental advocates say that stop work orders will raise consumer prices and risk energy shortages

www.sierraclub.org

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Fossil Fuel Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Breaking news from the #UNGA sidelines:

🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026

Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference

#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA

Government of Colombia Announces First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

During the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Colombia proudly announces its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The ...

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing like a solar-powered bookstore if you’re an environmental writer! #SunDayofAction

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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 17d

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 16d

"The world is making this transition from a resource that’s only available in a few places to one that’s available to everyone everywhere,” @billmckibben.bsky.social says. “This is one of the few concrete ways to begin to erode [authoritarians’] power.” #SunDay ☀️

www.oneearthnow.org/p/surge-in-s...

Surge in Solar Energy Deployment Offers a Glimmer of Hope in Dark Times

As Trump tightens his authoritarian grip in the US, hundreds of ‘Sun Day’ events celebrate and showcase the promise of clean, affordable energy.

www.oneearthnow.org

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18d

“We fight for the day on which the pen beats the wallet.” 💯

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18d

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 21d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 20d

⚖️ #ClimateLitigation update: Switzerland’s implementation of its legal obligations under the European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int ruling remains insufficient, confirms @coe.int Council of Ministers in its latest decision.

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 20d

Seriously what is happening?!

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 20d

Update on this litigation - a judge today has denied plaintiffs' (EDF & UCS) motion for a preliminary injunction to block the report, finding they are not irreparably harmed

Judge also rejected gov defendants' claim that the CWG is exempt from FACA, keeping the case alive

Next hearing on Sept. 23

Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Trump administration assembled a group of climate deniers to put together a report used to justify revoking a 2009 finding that gave the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide. Now, conservation groups are suing to prevent this flawed report from further undermining climate action.

New Lawsuit Contends Trump’s DOE Handpicked Panel of Climate Deniers

The EPA relied heavily on a report the panel produced rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change

www.sierraclub.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 20d

It's day 2 of the high-stakes hearing in the youth climate case challenging the Trump administration's orders unleashing a fossil fuel frenzy

Youth plaintiffs & expert witnesses are testifying live. No witnesses are testifying on Trump's side

www.climateinthecourts.com/historic-hea...

Historic Hearing Underway In Youth Constitutional Climate Case Against Trump

A federal court in Montana is hearing arguments and live witness testimony this week in a new youth-led lawsuit challenging several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders designed to boost fossi...

www.climateinthecourts.com

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