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Lew Daly
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Sr. Fellow of Just Solutions, https://justsolutionscollective.org / climate equity and energy justice: transformative policy and regs + strategy / West Harlem, NYC / opinions and perspectives here my own.
Western Apaches' irreplaceably sacred Chi'chil Bildagoteel in SE Arizona, slated for federally-legislated destruction by foreign mining behemoths Rio Tinto and BHP,

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is "the worst mining project I have ever encountered," says geologist Steven Emerman:
Dr. Steven Emerman Testimony - Resolution Copper Mining at Oak Flat
YouTube video by House Natural Resources Committee Democrats
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August 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Professor Beverly Moran stresses that many aspects of the Trump budget bill, including even the $1,000 baby bonds, will make the racial wealth gap grow. This makes sense because the median racial wealth gap...
How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care
The measure enables broad tax cuts that disproportionately favor wealthy households while forcing its costs on the most economically vulnerable Americans.
theconversation.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The looming destruction of Chi'chil Bildagoteel for a fortune in copper ore must be stopped:

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Is Nothing Sacred? Western Apache Face Irreversible Loss for Copper Profits - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
In Arizona, copper mining threatens a Western Apache sacred site. Securing domestic energy could cost Native American communities.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hundreds of carbon capture projects depend on what happens with 45Q tax credits. Most projects are in the Gulf South for gas and oil "upgrades." We analyzed potential costs compared to government estimates.

Fiscal disaster + more local pollution.

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TAXPAYER COSTS FOR CARBON CAPTURE, UTILIZATION, AND STORAGE – Just Solutions
The 45Q tax credit expansion for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, dramatically increases the expected cost to taxpayers without adequate oversight or transparency to ensure fiscal integrity or program efficacy. Independent analyses suggest tax subsidies could average $46 billion per year—more than 140 times the original official projections. Total costs could reach as high as $835 billion by 2042; and were industry-proposed expansions implemented, the taxpayer cost could surge above $2 trillion. With lax oversight, little transparency, and most credits funding enhanced oil recovery rather than true carbon reduction, the risks to taxpayers are enormous. This report examines the 45Q program’s potential fiscal impacts and the urgent need for reform of this flawed federal subsidy.
justsolutionscollective.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Well they have their ICE and now they have their thousands of freezing old and poor people.

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Home energy assistance program gutted in HHS mass firings
LIHEAP is among the latest victims of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal government.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump wants to repeal the EPA's improved standard for the deadliest common air pollutant, small particulate matter (PM2.5; aka "soot"). States MUST step in now as backstop regulator to drive down PM2.5, to restrict new pollution...
Where EPA Falls Short, States Lead the Way on Addressing Pollution Burden in Disadvantaged Communities – Just Solutions
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March 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Wonder what's next on the racial erasure hit list in DC?

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Watch as DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza is dismantled
Construction crews began dismantling the large painting of the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ just one block from the White House on Monday. Washington, D.C
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March 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Message Alert: Drill baby drill is a plot to kill US living standards with higher energy bills.

Exhibit A: LNG permitting frenzy to further ratchet up net natural gas exports will drive up home heating and electricity costs. It's not complicated.

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DOE Issues Extension to Delfin LNG Project
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March 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Drill, baby, drill" to lower domestic fuel prices will only happen by decree. The drillers profit by constraining supply and especially, now, by exporting lots of gas. For domestic prices to go down Trump will have to force them to drill and ban exports by emergency powers. Thoughts, SCOTUS?
March 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
LNG export boom, Canadian tariffs, mean energy-driven reinflation, hitting hardest in Northeast and Upper Midwest and everywhere with gas power and heat.

Let's get forecasts and messaging going on Trump's plan to wreck us with higher energy bills!

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DOE Issues Export Approval to Golden Pass LNG, Accelerating President Trump’s Pledge to Restore American Energy Dominance
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March 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A canny exercise but no Green Delta here with people reeling from tariffs to get heat pumps and energy efficiency upgrades. All of that is unaffordable for probably 60-70 percent of folks who can't access (or fully access) the residential energy tax credits. Truth is

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Call Him ‘Green New Donald’
Oh, he’d never self-identify as an environmentalist. But not even climate activists have had the courage to propose a 10% tax on energy.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They want to delete public spending from GDP. That's as dumb as wondering how productive you'd be without, say, the microchips and Internet accelerated by decades thanks to government funding.

In fact we should be measuring the Public GDP, which means...
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The flat real-wage trends got lost in much ado about green jobs in the Dems narrative. We don't have mass unemployment; we have stagnant or declining real earnings for most and a threadbare safety net that keeps millions of marginal workers from getting a foothold in the economy.
February 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
SCOTUS has delayed its decision to take or refuse Apache Stronghold vs. USA through three succesive monthly conferences. Apaches are trying to stop a foreign mining company from cratering sacred ground at Oak Flat, Tonto National Forest, east of Phoenix.

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February 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Whites cause much more pollution than they are forced to breathe. Biden's more stringent health-based Particulate Matter (PM2.5) standard is due for implementation over the next several years and states need to lead where Trump will try to add more harm.

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February 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection buckles in first major test of the state's pioneering cumulative impacts law: www.tapinto.net/towns/newark...
Fourth Ironbound Power Plant a 'Slap in the Face,' Newark Mayor Says
Construction of a controversial gas-fueled power plant in a Newark neighborhood already plagued by air pollution is just one permit away from finalization.
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February 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
There is nothing patriotic about Trump's "Energy Dominance" plan. The LNG permitting frenzy now underway, for example, means windfall fossil fuel profits in overseas markets and shareholder enrichment from the profits of planetary death, and also, whoops, higher energy prices at home.
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Western Apache sacred land at Oak Flat in Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix will be completely destroyed by a Rio Tinto subsidiary for 40 billion pounds of copper if the Supreme Court rejects the religious freedom petition of Apache Stonghold vs. USA, imminently pending for certification.
February 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I wouldn't recommend far-right OMB Director Russell Vought's writings

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if you are interested in well-crafted legal arguments or really any debatable theory at all...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Report back--Good habits for not losing it now:

1. It's Midnight so stop reading PHMSA investigation of Satartia, MS, carbon dioxide pipeline disaster.
2. Clear debris off standing desk, pop it up.
3. Dose mint tea with radiant mood sleeping powder.
4. Contemplate musical selection.
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Stop the REAL Steal !!!

DOGE is not about waste and fraud. If so it would start with forensic analysis of the Defense Budget, which undoubtedly contains more waste and fraud than all other federal agencies combined and by a wide margin. DOGE is really about LOOTING the federal government...
February 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Dustin Mulvaney's recent congressional testimony on mining and national security is state-of-the-art informed and incisive on myriad needed reforms, but we also need more scrutiny (and research) on Point 4 in his remarks, on domestic mineral supply chains. naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...
Now Ore Never: The Importance of Domestic Mining for U.S. National Security | Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | House Committee on Natural Resources
naturalresources.house.gov
February 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Sharing this resource: a comprehensive blueprint for defending and advancing climate justice in the unfolding national crisis. A collaboration with about 50 national and state groups. Thanks for sharing however you can! justsolutionscollective.org/new-report-d...
New Report: Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies – Just Solutions
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February 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In keeping with the historic pattern, in 2023 roughly 2/3 of residential energy tax credit dollars went to 100K + households.

See Table 2. www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-clean-energy-tax-credit-statistics
February 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM