Earth is the little crescent 🌏 🌒 🛰️ #Artemis

From parks to oil fields: Plan to open California lands to drilling sparks backlash Trump’s Bureau of Land Management wants to open federal public lands in the Golden State for new energy leases. There is fierce opposition.

We're in the fight--for public lands, species, the health & safety of Californians, and more. 💪

w/ @biologicaldiversity.org @cbd-climate-energy.bsky.social via @courthousenews.bsky.social

“Californians can breathe easier knowing that the state’s protections against oil and gas drilling are still in place. We’ll continue fighting to ensure these critical safeguards aren’t ripped away." -- me (see below)

Could Oil Derricks Come To Mount Diablo? BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

The BLM’s plans include parcels that the agency itself acknowledges have no or low #OilAndGas potential — which could lead to the development of exploratory “wildcat” wells in pristine and populated areas alike.

Could Oil Derricks Come To Mount Diablo? BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

Not if we can stop it.

w/ @cbd-climate-energy.bsky.social by @baynature.org

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Trump admin says drilling by Bay Area parks will have ‘minimal’ environmental impacts - Local News Matters The Trump administration’s plans to expand oil drilling across the state, including in parts of the Bay Area, are another step closer to moving forward

YOU can fight the move to open 1 million+ acres of CA to fossil fuel drilling 💪

Public hearing on Central Coast/Bay Area, 1/29: empsi.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Public hearing on Bakersfield area, 2/3: empsi.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 #California could see *1 million+ acres* opened up to fossil fuels:

"We won’t let this administration get away with destroying our public lands. We’ll fight this effort to worsen climate change & expose CA’s people & wildlife to toxic pollution from drilling & fracking.”- @vbogg.bsky.social

Opinion | Biomass is a money pit that won’t solve California’s energy or wildfire problems Utilities customers help pay for biomass because electric utilities buy its products to produce electricity, paying four times more. Is it worth it?

Biomass is held up as a "green" energy source on par with solar and wind. But it's polluting, expensive, and not helpful with wildfires.

Our Climate Science Director explains in this new op-ed w/ @calmatters.org:

Gorgon shows CCS boasts are built on technical uncertainty New data from Chevron on its Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Western Australia shows the lowest amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured and stored for a year since the project, the ...

Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is a *massive* failure. And it used millions in public $$$ that could have been used on real climate solutions.

"Gorgon captured just <3% of the total emissions from extracting, processing and burning gas from the Gorgon fields."

The latest: ieefa.org/resources/go...

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.

#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."

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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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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.

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

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...

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...

‘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.

Long live Heyday Books

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

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."

📢 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...

Great reporting, great listen

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.

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 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.

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-...

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.

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

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.

📰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

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.

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

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."

Or a Garbage Pail Kid

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 [...]

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". 🤦

Gorgon CCS underperformance hits new low in 2023-24 In the last financial year, the Gorgon CCS project captured only 30% of the CO2 it removed from its reservoir, its weakest performance to date. As a result of technical challenges and underperformance...

Huh. Another failing CCS project. 🤔

via @ieefainstitute.bsky.social
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