LIVE Updated 3 minutes ago Trump Administration Live Updates: Civil Rights Group Says It Is Under Investigation by Justice Dept.

A few weeks ago the President called environmentalists “terrorists”; now, it seems, the The Southern Poverty Law Center is being investigated by the Justice Department for its work.

This is how they’re doing it: not all at once, but in dribs and drabs, normalizing the criminalization of democracy.

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

You love to see it!

Worst-written post ever. Great news, though!

Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’ - Carbon Brief Around 50 nations will gather in Colombia to debate ways to “transition away” from fossil fuels, in the face of worsening climate change and high oil prices

Read the whole @carbonbrief.org on the historic report written by a group of scientists, including IPCC authors, who are willing to be policy prescriptive and whose recommendations are not getting watered down by petrostate governments.

www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...

The report lists 12 "action insights", each with three "action recommendations". (The list was cut down from a shortlist of about 40-50 insights, Carbon Brief understands.) One of the most striking in the draft is "action insight 5", which says: "Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions. Ban new fossil infrastructure, mandate deep methane cuts, accelerate electrification and inscribe fossil-fuel phase- down targets in NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and clean-energy pathways support to low and middle income countries (LMICs)." The accompanying three "action recommendations" include "halting all new fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure projects ahead of a final investment decision", "implementing deep, legally binding methane cuts in the energy sector" and "inscribing] targets for fossil- fuel phase down, electrification and green exports in NDCs". (The draft report includes multiple references to "phasing out" and "phasing down" fossil fuels, rather than the "transition away from fossil fuels" language that was, ultimately, agreed by countries at the COP 28 UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023.)

A preliminary scientific “synthesis report” circulated to the 50 nations at the conference on fossil-fuel phase out in Santa Marta, Columbia, recommends real-talk "action recommendations" including the ban of new fossil infrastructure and fossil-fuel phase-down targets in NDCs.

This is the way!

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Exclusive: Where We’re At in the Race to Save the Planet Investor and philanthropist John Doerr shares a refresh to his Speed & Scale climate action tracker.

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I should say the *academic* left, actually. Why not be specific while I'm subtweeting, I ask you?

This is such necessary work. Thank you for doing it!

Hilariously, there are some on the New Left who think it's regressive and anti-democratic to villainize oil and gas companies and the elected officials they collude with. No, really.

Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 to protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.

Republicans introduced federal legislation literally called the Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation to give oil & gas companies immunity from laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

You should let the @heatmap.news reporter know!

Widow's Plans for Her Final Years Upended as Proposed Data Center Leads to 28 Evictions in One Neighborhood (Exclusive) Residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Kentucky, many of them elderly, disabled, retired, or on fixed incomes, are opening up to PEOPLE about being told they had roughly 90 days to vacate...

In Maysville, Kentucky, dozens of elderly and disabled residents are being evicted from their mobile homes in order to allow for construction of a giant data center

“They just up and said you have 90 days to move ... Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”

Exclusive: Where We’re At in the Race to Save the Planet Investor and philanthropist John Doerr shares a refresh to his Speed & Scale climate action tracker.

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Forest Service too? The new plan doesn't address the big unanswered question inherent in Interior's fire service: Will it eventually include the firefighting forces of the Forest Service, which are currently located within the Agriculture Department? The Forest Service, because it handles the majority of public land fires, often bears the brunt of congressional ire over fire management on public land. The Trump administration has sought to move those firefighters to the new agency at Interior. But appropriators last year rejected that proposal, instead ordering a study of its feasibility. Ellis is convinced the wildfire agency is being set up and shaped to eventually also include the Forest Service firefighters. "I can't help but wonder, what is the Grand Plan?" he said in an email, noting that the Trump administration has shifted thousands of BLM employees to the new fire service and lost many of its senior leaders while the Forest Service under Trump has lost thousands of employees. "All of this suggests the Administration's intent is to eventually move Forest Service fire/fuels over to DOI and quite possibly the entire organization."

Why is Trump consolidating federal firefighting forces under the Department of Interior? Does anybody know?

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it. was. a. joke.

#EndClimateSilence

so true

People dislike data centers more than wind farms — and that’s without the millions of dollars in propaganda that right-wing forces levy against wind farms.

People don’t like data centers just on their own merits lol.

Another state looks to help protect homes against disasters Colorado weighs a program to pay for installing disaster-resistant roofs in an effort to reduce damage — and property insurance costs.

Just your regular reminder to policymakers that climate change is extremely expensive, and your residents will pay for it one way or another-- so might as well keep and strengthen the climate mitigation policies you have, whose cost pales in comparison:
www.eenews.net/articles/ano...

The rise in climate pollution from the US is 2025 canceled out the reductions from China, India, Japan, and the EU combined.

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Once more with feeling: Technology that definitely generates carbon plus technology not yet proven to remove carbon at scale does *not* equal negative emissions

Haha no indeed!

At least we know it’s a Divinity School position, which gives the religion angle a little more sense…

California Utility Bills Are 20% Higher Due to Wildfires A new government report warns that climate change could upend the state’s economy if policy makers don’t act.

A reminder to *state-level* policymakers considering rolling back state-level climate policy in the name of affordability: climate change is unaffordable.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Continuing conversations about global climate efforts is imperative as we fight for sensible climate policies on our own turf. Thanks to the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition for hosting an important conversation on how we can be good stewards of smart climate policy around the world. 🌎

wow

Thank you, Ketan! Someone also gave me this analysis of the bill, which is super useful and has the names of the groups supporting and opposing:

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But I still need to read the arguments in this analysis in particular, because the OP said that this was a good bill and enviro groups were totally wrong to oppose it. So I do want to see how the bill manages the trade-offs, according to supporters and opposers.