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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 1d

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report.

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the report here: www.citizen.org/article/trum...

Trump's Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power - Public Citizen

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 5d

As global warming brings longer summers, people around the world are exposed to more dangerous heat. Find out what that could mean for your health.

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body - Inside Climate News

As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 6d

Maine is fighting to make Big Oil companies pay for climate damages, stop engaging in deceptive practices, and give up the profits that they illegally obtained while lying to consumers about the dangers of fossil fuels.

A court just ruled that the state's case can go forward. 🙌

Maine’s climate deception case can move forward in state court | Center for Climate Integrity

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 5d

Last week, the U.S. Energy Secretary falsely claimed “there are not oil and gas subsidies.” 🙄

In reality, "nothing even comes close” to fossil fuel subsidies, @whitehouse.senate.gov told @emdashsanders.bsky.social.

A new @oilchange.bsky.social report calculated them to be $34.8 billion annually.

The fossil fuel subsidy denier-in-chief

Fossil fuel companies are getting propped up with billions in tax dollars, but the U.S. energy secretary claims otherwise.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 6d

The heat will shift into the Northeast early next week where temperatures are expected to exceed 80F for multiple days in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and portions of the interior Northeast. This kind of heat is typical of July, not October. Check out your forecast at www.weather.gov.

National Weather Service

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 6d

These unseasonably warm temperatures have big implications for people, livelihoods and ecosystems, and will get worse as the planet continues to warm.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 6d

These record-breaking temperatures so late in the season aren’t by chance. According to Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index, these temperatures were made 4x more likely due to fossil fuel-caused climate change.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Locations like Minneapolis, MN are forecasted to approach 90F Friday and Saturday. If they reach 90F on Saturday, it would be the latest point in the calendar year that this has occurred in the city’s recorded history.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Climate change won’t stop for a government shutdown. We’re following a developing late-season heatwave in the Midwest and Northeastern US. Temperatures are expected to be over 20F above normal today through early next week.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 7d

New from @kathymulvey.bsky.social:
Who Wrote the Trump Administration’s Flawed Climate Report? Meet the Architects of Disinformation

Who Wrote the Trump Administration’s Flawed Climate Report? Meet the Architects of Disinformation

This month, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) filed comments and submitted a letter signed by more than 1,000 scientists opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposal to rescin...

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 8d

If we zoom out, the special interests behind the administration’s attacks on climate science are the same people who bear an outsized responsibility for the crisis in the first place: oil and gas companies (www.ucs.org/resources/tr...).

Tracing Tides

Major fossil fuel producers have played a large role in driving climate change and increasing global temperatures and sea levels, prompting questions about who bears responsibility.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a profound shame that the federal agencies we depend on to keep us safe during extreme weather—like FEMA and NOAA—face ongoing attacks from the Trump administration. If you haven’t already, show your support for science here: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

Protect NOAA and FEMA from Trump's Dangerous Budget Cuts

Tell Congress to reject any proposal that weakens the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Weather forecasting, emergency prepared...

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 8d

While the 2025 hurricane season seems quiet - no landfalls in the U.S. - we’ve already observed 3 major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. For the first time since 1935, the Atlantic’s first 3 hurricanes were major (Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto). Humberto is still a Cat 4 hurricane near Bermuda.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 8d

Folks living along the southeast coast are dealing with flooding and surf impacts from Tropical Storm Imelda. Luckily, Imelda is not expected to make landfall in the U.S. and instead will drift out to sea. Be sure to follow the National Hurricane Center for the latest information: www.hurricanes.gov

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration’s continuing attacks on science and scientists make us all less safe. Congress must work to counteract the administration’s budget cuts, ensuring that #NOAA and #FEMA are fully funded and staffed to effectively warn of and respond to future climate disasters.

Trump Administration Slashes NOAA, FEMA, Making 2025 Hurricane Season More Dangerous

NOAA and FEMA must be fully funded and staffed to respond to hurricanes properly.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 11d

We need sustained and increased resources for scientists at key federal agencies such as #NOAA and its #NHC and #NWS divisions to do their job of issuing accurate, timely forecasts of extreme weather events that help protect lives and property.

Danger Season 2024: Deadly Heat Waves, Wildfires, Hurricanes and Flooding Show How Climate Crisis Advances

This Danger Season was deadly and hotter than ever.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 11d

Helene struck during the hottest year ever recorded. Human-caused climate change significantly contributed to Helene’s extreme rainfall, according to scientific research, with one study saying global warming may have caused half of the hurricane’s historic total of 30 inches.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Further Proof We’re Not Ready for Fossil Fuel-Caused Climate Change

Lawmakers need to catch up and cut heat-trapping emissions.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 11d

At least 250 people lost their lives during Helene and its aftermath, most in the Asheville, NC area. It was the costliest single disaster in 2024 in the US, causing nearly $80 billion in damage.  The rural and mountainous nature of the region made rescue and recovery efforts even more challenging.

Trump Administration Actions Could Make Hurricane Helene's Impacts Worse for Asheville

Community members spoke out at extreme weather “People’s Hearing.”

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 11d

It has been one year since Hurricane Helene, a climate change-supercharged storm, tore an 800-mile path of destruction across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.

Hurricane Helene's Massive Destruction Was Supercharged by Climate Change, Here's How You Can Help

There is so much more we need to do to keep the people and places we love safe.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 13d

TOMORROW: Last chance to sign up for our #ClimateWeekNYC webinar on holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Featuring scientists, community leaders & legal experts from @ucs.org, @climateintegrity.org, Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub & Lekeh Development Foundation.
#MakePollutersPay

Danger Season & Decades of Deceit: Why We Must Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable

Join a virtual discussion on the critical strategy in the fight for climate justice and a livable planet: holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Thursday, September 25, 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET.

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 14d

As a nominee, Howard Lutnick promised that NOAA would not be dismantled or privatized, and its public forecasting would not be touched.

As Secretary of Commerce, Lutnick has done a U-turn on all three promises.

#NOAA #Lutnick

Howard Lutnick’s Record as Commerce Secretary: Banging U-eys

It's not too late for him to keep his word and uphold his oath of office.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 15d

Wednesday at #ClimateWeekNYC: "Fossil Fuel Accountability in the Trump Era"

Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and
featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 15d

🌎✊We kicked off #ClimateWeek in NYC by joining the #MakeBillionairesPay March w/
@gretchentg.bsky.social

— because it's long been time to make polluters pay.

We're hosting & engaging in events all week long. Learn more about how you can join us in person or virtually:

➡️ act.ucsusa.org/3K8sNCt

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