Letting the perfect be the enemy of the necessary. I strongly support community solar (and rooftop, and ...), but this kind of purism leaves the fossil fuel incumbents in place counting their money while the climate pollution continues to accumulate in the atmosphere

of harm is based on a series of abstract harms and contingencies about hypothetical actions third parties may take if the State of Hawaii is ultimately successful in the state tort lawsuit. The long chain of contingencies is too speculative and attenuated to establish Article III standing."

Trump's Department of Justice sued the state of Hawaii to try to block it from suing the fossil fuel companies over climate change damages. Hawaii sued anyway. The federal court just dismissed DOJ's suit with prejudice. The court: "Plaintiff United States’ theory ...

Trends in Concern About Global Warming or Climate Change, by Political Party I'm going to read you a list of environmental problems. As I read each one, please tell me if you personally worry about this problem a great deal, a fair amount, only a little or not at all. How much do you personally worry about global warming or climate change? % Worry a great deal - Democrats - 72%- Independents 46% - Republicans 6% 80% 72 70 60 50 • 46 40 30 20 10 2002 2010 2018 2026

Americans DO care about #ClimateChange!

Don’t listen to the partisans who lie about this.

72% of Democrats & 46% of independents “worry a great deal” about climate.

And 68% of Democrats & 47% of Independents expect global heating to threaten their way of life NOW or in the future.

Hochul Moves to Weaken Aggressive New York State Climate Law Citing concerns about affordability, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed revising the state’s 2019 climate law, asking to delay regulations to implement it and to adopt a different greenhouse-...

"If a very blue state like New York moves backwards on climate change as well, that’s a negative sign for the country. If you can’t do it here, can you do it anywhere?"-- @michaelgerrard.bsky.social [gift link]

By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.

Revolution Wind begins delivering power to New England Built by more than 1,000 local union workers, the project is expected to power 350,000+ homes with affordable, reliable electricity.

Ørsted's 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project started delivering power to New England's electric grid yesterday: orsted.com/en/media/new... 🔌💡

Statement on Public Availability of Scientific Information and Scientific Evidence on Climate Change The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The Trump administration has removed the chapter on climate change from the "Reference manual on scientific evidence", an essential handbook for judges as they weigh evidence in court. The response of the American Meteorological Society has just been published (below). And...[1/2]

Endangered Species Committee Meeting Announcement The Endangered Species Committee will meet regarding an Endangered Species Act exemption for Gulf of America Oil and Gas Activities.

meeting on March 31. They didn't say which species they want to make extinct. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Endangered Species Committee Meeting Announcement The Endangered Species Committee will meet regarding an Endangered Species Act exemption for Gulf of America Oil and Gas Activities.

Committee, known as the "God Squad," mostly consisting of cabinet officers, that can authorize federal actions that lead to species extinction. It hasn't met in decades, but they just announced in the Federal Register that they are .....

Endangered Species Committee Meeting Announcement The Endangered Species Committee will meet regarding an Endangered Species Act exemption for Gulf of America Oil and Gas Activities.

To support oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the Department of the Interior is launching the procedure to allow it to drive species into extinction. The Endangered Species Act creates a body called the Endangered Species .....

helped by this DOJ action except for the oil industry, which benefits from both higher demand and higher gasoline and diesel prices.

to reduce the demand for oil. They would reduce U.S. vulnerability to price shocks and lower emissions of GHGs and conventional air pollutants. EVs also save consumers a great deal of money over their lifetimes. It's not clear who is ...

Oil prices are soaring, thanks to the war that Trump started. However, today the U.S. Department of Justice sued California to try to block a program that would advance adoption of electric vehicles. EVs are the top way 🧵

gas endangerment finding last week will weaken that defense; whether it kills that defense remains to be seen.

courts, and it will be up to the state courts whether to put the cases on hold or let them proceed with discovery, further motions, and possibly trials.
A major defense the fossil fuel companies will raise is whether the state claims are preempted by federal law. EPA's revocation of the greenhouse

fuel companies over climate change.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall of 2026 and decide in late 2026 or early 2027. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel companies will probably ask that the two dozen or so other similar pending cases be put on hold. These cases are all in various state

international greenhouse gas emissions on global climate.
The first question is mostly about whether the appeal is too early, since there has not yet been a trial and state appeals from that. The second question, if answered in the affirmative, could preclude other cases seeking damages from fossil

proceed. The two questions on which the U.S. Supreme Court requested briefing are:
1. Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.
2. Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief from injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and

The U.S. Supreme Court just agreed to hear an appeal from Suncor and other fossil fuel companies in a lawsuit brought by the City and County of Boulder seeking money damages related to climate change and the companies' alleged deception. The Colorado Supreme Court had ruled that the case could 🧵

A coalition of public health and environmental groups has just filed a lawsuit against EPA in the DC Circuit court challenging revocation of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding. They are represented by some of the country's leading environmental litigators. aboutblaw.com/bkXr

812 Indonesia

653 Saudi Arabia

588 South Korea

580 Germany

Source: Source: IEA-EDGAR fossil CO2 emissions, edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025

it would be the fifth largest CO2 emitter in the world. Annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 2024 (MMT):

13,124 China

4,632 United States

3,153 India

2.009 Russia

1,678 U.S. transportation

972 Japan

829 Iran

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Trump's EPA said a major justification for revoking the GHG endangerment finding is that emissions from the U.S. transport sector (cars, trucks, etc.) are so low that reducing them wouldn't make any difference to the climate. But if this sector was a country, 🧵

Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.

South Fork Wind had a capacity factor of 52% last month - on par w/ NY state's most efficient gas plants

And Vineyard Wind had a 75% capacity factor during Winter Storm Fern

The data doesn't lie. #OffshoreWind works - especially during cold winter months

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

EPA isn't now denying that climate change is happening. Instead they are saying that whatever the U.S. does now will not make enough of a difference to warrant the expense to Americans.

The U.S. is historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and is abdicating its responsibility.

As soon as EPA does take this action, lawsuits in the D.C. Circuit will soon follow. They may ultimately go to the Supreme Court. My September article arrays the range of potential outcomes.

4. Would revocation of the endangerment finding take away the leading defense that the fossil fuel companies have in the numerous pending lawsuits against them by states and cities over climate change -- that since EPA can regulate GHGs, these actions are preempted?

2. Will the courts find, contrary to the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, that EPA does not have the power to regulate GHGs?

3. Will EPA adequately respond to the thousands of comments it received on its draft rule?

National Academies Publish New Report Reviewing Evidence for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare A new National Academies report reviews evidence gathered by the scientific community since 2009 on greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on U.S. climate, health, and welfare.

1. Will EPA contest the science of climate change, relying on the report by five climate contrarians that has been discredited by the National Academies of Sciences, bit.ly/4aFW7uy, and others, written by a committee that the federal court held was improperly formed, bit.ly/4qofhd5 ?