Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

ICYMI. My NY Times Sunday print edition op ed on Big Oil's effort to get the same Congressional immunity shield given to gun manufacturers. Instead, Big Oil should be held accountable financially for its contribution to climate driven losses. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

@cadavejones.bsky.social, upon being (deservedly!) honored as one of the "50 People Shaping our Society in 2026": “In the long run, if we don’t address the root cause [of the insurance crisis], which is the substantial amount of emissions from fossil fuels, insurance will no longer be available.”

Hawai`i House votes to hold Big Oil accountable for climate-driven home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity Hawaiʻi House of Representatives advances bill empowering state and insurers to make oil and gas giants pay insurance-related costs of climate disasters.

In the wake of historic flooding, Hawaiʻi could soon become the first state in the nation to take tangible steps to make Big Oil cover the growing costs of climate change, rather than letting them be passed onto the public via higher home insurance premiums. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Unfun Friday news dump: new GOP bill would put Big Oil above the law, letting them off the hook for decades of deceiving the public and banning anyone from trying to hold them accountable in court. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

Climate change is hitting Californians hard. The state should make Big Oil pick up the tab OPINION: Oil companies continue to escape accountability for their role in climate change disasters and their share of the costs are being passed onto the public, Dave Jones writes.

Big CA study allocating costs from catastrophic wildfires has glaring omission. No discussion of holding Big Oil accountable for their substantial contribution to the crisis. Instead of shifting deck chairs on Titanic, need to pass SB 982. My SFChron op ed today: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

"Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too." #Opinion from Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social and former California Insurance Commissioner www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

re: Affordability Discourse. Inflation data is only picking up ~half the recent (climate change-driven) spike in home insurance rates. Itʻs no wonder people are more pissed off about the state of the economy than egghead economists and @whstancil.bsky.social say they should be.

Bill hearing today to allow CA to sue oil companies for climate losses Lawmakers in Sacramento will hear a bill to hold oil and gas companies liable for climate-related disasters.Senate Bill 982 would authorize the Attorney General to sue to recover damages after

"There (are) going to be more climate-related disasters in the future. Someone's gonna have to pay for it, and I think [the oil companies] should be held accountable."

Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

If Big Oil were given total legal immunity, "it would be an injustice with lasting and cascading harm," writes @cadavejones.bsky.social.

"The public would keep paying for the costs of climate change, while the fossil fuel companies most responsible for them would continue to pay nothing."

Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

"If Big Oil were to secure immunity from liability for climate damage, the public would keep paying for the costs of climate change, while the fossil fuel companies most responsible for them would continue to pay nothing." @cadavejones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Insurance Affordability in California California is in an insurance crisis, and politicians are siding with corporate polluters over everyday families. Californians shouldn't be the only ones footing the bill of the climate crisis.

Californians (and anyone)! Email Dem. State Senators on the CA Senate Judiciary Committee today & urge them to vote tomorrow for SB982 (Wiener) (Affordable Insurance & Recovery Act). envirovoters.org/insurance-af...
Find their names and links to email addresses here: sjud.senate.ca.gov/members

Hawaii Has a Bold Idea to Make Big Oil Pay for Disasters Hawaii may seem like Eden to those of us living in, say, New Jersey. But lately the only thing biblical about it has been the scale of the punishment it’s taking from nature. In the process, it’s also...

Hawaii joins CA and NY with legislation to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for insurance related losses.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and many dozens of pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from Canada to Mexico.

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

Dave Jones shows how climate change drives the property insurance crisis The director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment recently published an article in the Yale Law Journal suggesting federal and state policy solutions.

Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, recently published an article in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social analyzing how climate change is driving the growing property-insurance crisis. https://bit.ly/44zf2nB #BerkeleyLaw @cadavejones.bsky.social

Dave Jones (@cadavejones.bsky.social), Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, was named to the @washingtonpost.com "Post Next: 50 people shaping our society in 2026" list: www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...
#BerkeleyLaw

.@washingtonpost.com named @cadavejones.bsky.social, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at our @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, one of the Next 50 People Shaping Our Society in 2026: https://bit.ly/4d6xpoQ #BerkeleyLaw

‘We’re Just Seen as Sex Objects’: Dolores Huerta’s Years in the U.F.W.

Rename parks, streets, plazas, days for Dolores Huerta!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Honored to be included in the @washingtonpost.com "Next 50 People Shaping Our Society in 2026"! www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...

Looking forward to moderating a panel today at California Law and Policy Center Conference on Wildfire Resilience in California, at UC Davis Law School.

law.ucdavis.edu/celpc-confer...

Fmr CA Insurance Commissioner & my @cleeberkeley.bsky.social colleague @cadavejones.bsky.social on what it will take to stabilize the US insurance market in the near-to-medium term:

yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...

Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds - Inside Climate News First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.

New report from @climateintegrity.org documents oil and gas majors lies and deceptions regarding fossil fuel emissions role in driving #climatechange. insideclimatenews.org/news/1112202...

Privileged to be asked to contribute an article on climate change & insurance for latest edition of Yale Law Journal. "The only long-term solution to preserve an insurable future is to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries."
yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-un...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How Insurance Companies are Weathering Climate Change, Pulling In Record Profits, and Squeezing Us Dry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation ... The Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative invites you to join a virtual deep dive into the climate-driven insurance crisis to discuss: ● what the insurance industry has been up to and how their pract...

Looking forward to joining a panel hosted by the Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative today, Tuesday, December 9, 2025 for a 1.5 hour virtual briefing on the intersections of climate change, insurance, housing, and consumer protections. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm ET
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

So excited to see former Climate One guests on this list. Congrats @cadavejones.bsky.social and Rilen Duren!

YOU ARE THE POWER - A Call to Action Help Gary create an updated, expanded version of his successful activism handbook, for use before the midterms with funds for outreach.

My friend @glucks.bsky.social Gary Lucks, attorney & activist, is finishing a new book YOU ARE THE POWER, which is a guide to effective political action. Join me in supporting it publication thru Kickstarter.
Deadline December 9th at 7:00 pm PT. www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...

Sun Day Festival An afternoon of food, entertainment, speakers and activities focused on the power of the sun and sustainable energy.   SunDay is a global day of action on September 21st, 2025, celebrating the u...

Join me at this #SunDay action in new York City! actionnetwork.org/events/sun-d...

Excited to be speaking at the Harvard Climate Symposium at The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University today!

salatainstitute.harvard.edu/hcaw/

Terrific report on terrible anti-consumer impact from another gem from Florida's deregulation of its insurance market. @publiccitizen.bsky.social

A good news story from Colorado, courtesy of
@jordanhaedtler.bsky.social — Colorado became the first state to require insurance companies to include climate risk in insurance modeling!

"Let's make sure when we do these huge, amazing zoning reforms ... that we're not zoning for new housing in these risk zones," says Heather Clark

It's time to do disaster-informed zoning!