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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · 6d

#Abundance bros act like civil society is the enemy & enviro laws aren't relevant.

Even the pope disagrees ;)

"Everyone in society, through [NGOs] and advocacy groups, must put pressure on governments to develop and implement more rigorous regulations, procedures and controls."

E&E News: Pope Leo calls for environmental action worldwide

The first American pope urged people everywhere to become politically active on issues like climate change.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent piece by @emdashsanders.bsky.social for
@levernews.com

California set to unleash CO2 pipelines for CCS, thanks in part to fossil fuel lobbyists:

California opens the door for Big Oil’s CO2 pipeline plans

States will be responsible for keeping people safe as the oil industry pushes a massive buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines near communities.

www.exxonknews.org

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 8d

California is setting a path to lift its moratorium on CO2 pipelines with new safety regs. But the state won't set a distance requirement protecting communities, which oil lobbyists opposed.

Advocates say it's a recipe for disaster. from me & @levernews.com

www.exxonknews.org/p/california...

California opens the door for Big Oil’s CO2 pipeline plans

States will be responsible for keeping people safe as the oil industry pushes a massive buildout of carbon dioxide pipelines near communities.

www.exxonknews.org

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · 28d

Yesterday we launched CACTI, a #SanFrancisco Bay Area coalition against carbon capture & storage (CCS). I spoke, along with others. It was a powerful event!

Huge thanks @foodandwater.bsky.social for your key organizing role 💙

Learn more here: cacticoalition.org

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Ctr4BioDiv: Climate & Energy Justice Programs @cbd-climate-energy.bsky.social · 28d

It's (beyond) time to stop paying polluters to wreck our planet.

*This year alone* the fed gov't will give $34.8 billion to fossil fuel companies 😱

New report: www.commondreams.org/news/us-foss...

'Paying for Climate Chaos': Report Exposes $35 Billion a Year in US Handouts to Big Oil | Common Dreams

New report reveals US government will hand out $34.8 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel companies this year.

www.commondreams.org

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · 28d

From the lead author of this new study:

“We have to avoid giving people false hope by suggesting that climate change can be fixed without cutting carbon emissions, which is the only real solution." 👈
insideclimatenews.org/news/0909202...

Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says - Inside Climate News

New research by a team of top ice and climate scientists debunks some speculative technological climate fixes for preserving the polar ice caps.

insideclimatenews.org

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ask anyone in the "Abundance Faction" why the Koch brothers are funding their movement, and they'll say it's good to have a big tent.

But the Koch brothers are truly evil, not least for their decades-long (and successful) work to destroy US understanding of climate science.

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Tweets: Revolving Door Project • 1h
0 ...
It turns out, the core of abundance is a lot of Silicon Valley money, with a healthy dollop of Koch funding too. The conference taking place today is the perfect example of this. It does include a lot of who you'd expect, like figures from the Niskanen Center and The Argument
David Shor

Revolving Door Project • 1h g..
But the conference also features figures from the Koch-backed group Stand Together, and from the deeply conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation (which

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 5

A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!

The evidentiary core of each chapter consists of a summary of the academic work of a few experts, usually economists, with frequent and lengthy quotations, as well as the occasional interview, whose conclusions are repeated uncritically. (To take one example, they quote without scrutiny the claim of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that he is requiring employees to work in person in order to foster trust, rather than to impose discipline or to recoup the costs of commercial real estate. They give no sense of the unruly literatures on their subjects, the ranges of disagreement, the difficult problems and mutually exclusive solutions. They claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation.

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Ctr4BioDiv: Climate & Energy Justice Programs @cbd-climate-energy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happening Sept 9:
Join SF #BayArea groups & residents at a press conference announcing their alliance to fight the Montezuma Carbon Hub -- a massive waste injection hub proposed near wetlands & communities.

www.mobilize.us/fww/event/83...

CA Press Conference: Stop the Montezuma Carbon Hub! · Food & Water Watch

Join other Bay Area residents as we come together to protect our communities and health against the proposed Montezuma Carbon Hub Project. **A new coalition, Communities Against Carbon Transport & In...

www.mobilize.us

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 Breaking:

Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️

So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.

Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!

Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center With Preliminary Injunction

MIAMI— A federal judge today ordered the state of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center ...

biologicaldiversity.org

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Aug 22

Long live Heyday Books

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...

‘A mighty redwood of a man has fallen.’ Remembering Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday books

Writer, editor and publisher Malcolm Margolin, who promoted Indigenous cultural renewal across California, died Wednesday. He was 84.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Aug 21

No way around it: California is starting to backslide on climate. And it’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault.

My column today looks at Newsom’s failures on rooftop solar, oil industry accountability, home electrification and more: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Commentary: California is backsliding on climate progress. It's (mostly) Gavin Newsom's fault

From rooftop solar to oil drilling, the Golden State governor is failing to live up to his soaring rhetoric.

www.latimes.com

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California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) @ceja.org · Aug 19

📢 NEW: CCEJN reports —

31% of oil & gas sites near Kern County homes, schools & parks are leaking
37% of leaks are allowed by regulatory loopholes
The “heavy oil” exemption shields 68% of CA’s oil & gas sites from leak monitoring & repair rules

#ClimateJustice

👉🏽 ccejn.org/2025/08/12/p...

A photo of an oil rig; beneath it, black text on yellow reads "NEW REPORT: Kern Co. oil & gas sites are leaking — and California’s loopholes are letting it happen."

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Great reporting, great listen

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Ctr4BioDiv: Climate & Energy Justice Programs @cbd-climate-energy.bsky.social · Aug 4

Take a listen: Latino USA digs into CCS in California, & the massive taxpayer subsidy that pays for it (and more oil production!)

feat. @biologicaldiversity.org attorney Maggie Coulter & community advocates, incl. CCEJN

www.latinousa.org/2025/08/03/c...

Trump Supports This Climate Solution: Is That A Bad Thing? - Latino USA

Carbon capture promises to fight climate change—but in California’s Central Valley, locals question who really benefits from this controversial technology.

www.latinousa.org

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Cheers to @mjhankins.bsky.social on this AP video explaining the endangerment finding rollback!

So appreciate clear communication of this super important issue to the public:
apnews.com/video/trump-...

Trump EPA moves to repeal 'endangerment finding' used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

The proposed rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

apnews.com

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Jul 29

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 29

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Jul 25

Surprise, surprise: CCS is bad 😠 😔

"Exxon sold carbon capture & storage as a climate solution — but under new Trump tax credits, public funds will be directed toward more oil extraction with less regulation."

by @emdashsanders.bsky.social

Exxon’s new project will capture carbon to drill for more oil

Exxon sold carbon capture and storage as a climate solution — but under new Trump tax credits, public funds will be directed toward more oil extraction with less regulation.

www.exxonknews.org

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jul 24

📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law.
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs

Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law

A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.

nyti.ms

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jul 8

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

DuPont agrees to settle lawsuit over Hoosick Falls water pollution

DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls.

timesunion.com

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Jul 7

Essay by @savelifeonearth.bsky.social 💙

Hellbenders as emissaries:

"The same forces that drove the decline of these amphibians sacrificed public health in Appalachia. Their demise echoes the struggle of communities that continue to be jeopardized by extractive industries & betrayed by politics."

mds.marshall.edu

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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · Jul 6

Or a Garbage Pail Kid

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Lost in the wave of many terrible things, this is so dumb. The bill changes DOE sec. 1706 loan guarantees from repurposing and repowering of energy infrastructure to reduce emissions to "Energy Dominance Finance". 🤦

SEC. 50403. ENERGY DOMINANCE FINANCING.

(a) In General.--Section 1706 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42
U.S.C. 16517) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the
end;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``avoid'' and all
that follows through the period at the end and
inserting ``increase capacity or output; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) support or enable the provision of known or
forecastable electric supply at time intervals necessary to
maintain or enhance grid reliability or other system adequacy
needs.'';
(2) by striking subsection (c);
(3) by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as
subsections (c) through (e), respectively;
(4) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by adding ``and'' at the end;
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph
(2);
(5) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking
``for--'' in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that
follows through the period at the end of paragraph (2) and
inserting ``for enabling the identification, leasing,
development, production, processing, transportation,
transmission, refining, and generation needed for energy and
critical minerals.''; and
(6) by adding at the end the following:
``(f) Funding.--
``(1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise
available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal
year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2028 [...]

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