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NEWS: A federal court in D.C. tonight invalidated a Biden administration decision to offer 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing, saying the administration did not consider climate impacts.
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The House voted 229-191 to reinstate an Obama-era regulation on methane emissions.
12 Republicans voted for the resolution, which passed the Senate in April and heads now to Biden's desk.
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Joe Biden today on climate, disasters:
"The past few days of Hurricane Ida and the wildfires in the West and the unprecedented flash floods in New York and New Jersey is yet another reminder that these extreme storms and the climate crisis are here."
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a bulwark of conservatism and lobbying heft, comes out in support of the rejoining the Paris climate agreement.
#climate
#Inauguration2021
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Justice KAGAN with a memorable quote in her dissent in WV v. EPA, a case with massive climate implications:
“Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. And let’s say the obvious: The stakes here are high.”
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NEWS: Pres. Trump minutes ago rescinded an Obama-era executive order on protecting oceans, coasts & Great Lakes.
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The Senate just unanimously confirmed former Florida senator Bill Nelson to lead NASA.
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NEWS: DC is suing Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell, accusing them of "systematically" deceiving the public by lowballing the dangers of climate change.
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NEWS:
#Trump
admin's requests to stay and to appeal kids' climate case is denied. Case by
@youthvgov
proceeding in federal court.
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What do a liberal governor in Colorado and a conservative governor in West Virginia have in common?
They are part of a group of American politicians who paid little to no tax in recent years.
(per
@propublica
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BIG NEWS: The Supreme Court halts a potentially landmark climate change lawsuit, which was slated for trial Oct. 29
BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halts discovery and the upcoming trial in the kids’ climate change case, pending a response to DOJ’s stay request, which is due by 3p Wednesday.
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Janet Yellen on climate change: “This is one of the most critical issues facing our country and the world, and it poses an existential threat.”
“It will be a focus of president-elect Biden in his entire administration.”
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@GeorgeTakei
Check out the archived Obama White House site, Mr. Takei. Climate, equality, health care still there:
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BIG NEWS: The Supreme Court has denied the Trump administration’s effort to block the kids’ climate case, formally Juliana v United States. This means the case moves forward.
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In a proclamation marking death of Madeleine Albright, President Biden notes she came to America as a refugee.
"She was an immigrant fleeing persecution. A refugee in need of safe haven."
She and her family fled Nazis during WWII.
Flags lowered through Sunday.
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Asked if charges that
#ExxonMobil
withheld information on climate change,
#Tillerson
declines to answer twice.
#SecretaryOfState
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well, this seems newsy.
Donald Trump says FBI agents are searching his house in Florida.
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Elissa Slotkin (
@RepSlotkin
) says admin officials alarmed about what Trump does next.
"I’ve heard from a number of senior Trump Administration officials this morning that he is increasingly unhinged, and they are concerned about the actions he could take in the next few weeks."
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I'm not writing on this, but
@LFFriedman
already has this story up on this big news about what was the largest lease sale in American history.
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NEWS: The Interior Department is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to Washington from Grand Junction, Colo., reversing a decision from the Trump administration.
Grand Junction will remain BLM's hub in the American West.
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NEW, in non-SCOTUS news, the Interior Department is canceling two mining leases in northeast Minnesota near a wilderness area that borders Canada, dealing a blow to potential copper mining project.
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“Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes. It can be enabling and empowering as long as you don’t get stuck there. It is up to others to help ensure that experience can be cathartic.”
interesting Q&A with
@MichaelEMann
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Mr.
#Tillerson
's opening statement 2100+ words long. Topic of climate change is not in it.
#SecretaryOfState
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BREAKING: Massachusetts county court orders
#ExxonMobil
to comply with Mass. AG investigation into its knowledge of climate change.
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Cute moment leaving the Supreme Court this morning:
Young-ish boy: "If you're a journalist, will you put me in your case?"
Me: "Yep, I'm on it."
Boy: "Oh, and thank you for your service."
**awww shucks** 😁😁
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Tillerson: "Not to my knowledge" has
#ExxonMobil
lobbied against sanctions. POLITICO reported otherwise:
#Tillerson
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I'm been reading about clever
#climatechange
lawsuits. These stick out:
1. Cases vs Exxon and Shell about sea levels
2. SF & Oakland suing Big Oil
3.
@youthvgov
case
4. What Dem AGs are doing (
@StateImpactCntr
)
5. Immig hardliners suing over CO2
6. RICO
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Sec. of State Tillerson used separate email w/ pseudonym "Wayne Tracker" to discuss
#climate
at
#Exxon
, per
@AGSchneiderman
office.
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The
#WayneTracker
email account is already the subject of a federal lawsuit: ($)
@OCTorg
#climatechange
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This statement from a member of Congress in the Republican Senate leadership👇
Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism.
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with Janet Yellen back in the news, everyone should remember that she interviewed herself for a column in her high school paper.
it was tradition for the editor to interview the valedictorian -- and she was both.
so...
#Yellen
#TreasurySecretary
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The White House to unveil a slew of climate moves today, including:
-- Freeze on oil/gas leasing
-- Freeze on coal leasing
-- National goal to protect 30% of land, waters by 2030
-- Depression-style conservation jobs effort
-- "Scientific integrity" memo
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The White House just put out a summary of its first "national climate task force" meeting:
#climate
#ClimateCrisis
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Lindsey knows more about Congress than many members of Congress. She is a Capitol Hill fixture, tracking down lawmakers, cornering them and demanding answers. She's there night and day.
Hire her before someone else does, fools!
Some unfortunate personal news:
I was laid off from my job at CQ Roll Call on Friday after 8 years.
My position of congressional leadership reporter was eliminated, along with others at FiscalNote.
I'm in the market for a new congressional reporting gig, so please send leads
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@samjmintz
Plus the fact we're not on track for herd immunity and a whole chunk of the country doesn't show interest in getting vaccinated.
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New Jersey is on the brink of rolling back its public record law.
My colleague
@colleenodea
is all over this issue and the bill that "decimates" the state open-records law.
#OPRA
@NJSpotlightNews
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NEWS: President Trump tonight rescinded an Obama-era rule that required agencies to set goals to cut carbon emissions, address climate change.
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@Fahrenthold
@washingtonpost
"The information Trump relayed had been...considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies..."
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I spent last Tuesday on Capitol Hill w/ people who want a carbon tax. Their advice:
1) "Talk about the risk"
2) "Propel innovation"
3) Be the "human face"
4) "We don't want it to be like health care."
5) Remind Congress voters will $$$
@citizensclimate
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A defendant named in the case against Bob Menendez is a longtime donor to the senator and the Democratic Party.
Now, politicians who've gotten money from Menendez and his donor friend are giving it away.
My first piece for
@NJSpotlightNews
:
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NEWS: Fishermen in California and Oregon today sued 30 fossil fuel companies over climate/warming the oceans.
"...we’re demanding these companies pay for additional measures that will help mitigate future impacts."
Defendants include: Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, more.
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This morning, NJ Republican Tom Kean said he would vote for Donald Trump.
Tonight, Trump is officially a felon.
Kean's district is one of 17 House districts Joe Biden carried in 2020.
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Michael Regan, Biden's pick to lead EPA, has a date for his confirmation hearing:
-- Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m. before EPW
read about his background in this piece I wrote w/
@JessicaWehrman
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Pres. Trump's speech text tonight, by word count/theme:
"American/s" -- 51 times
"Border" -- 14 times
"Wall/s" -- 10 times
"trade" -- 7 times
"infrastructure" -- 4 times
"energy" -- 2 times
"Climate" -- 0 times
#SOTU
#climate
#StateOfTheUnion
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NEWS: The chairwoman of the House Oversight committee has subpoenaed four oil companies and two trade groups for internal records about climate science and corporate planning.
Companies/groups:
--Exxon
--Chevron
--BP's America arm
--Shell Oil
--API
--U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Here is the Obama order (Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes), signed in 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Asked of U.N. climate change Paris accord,
#Tillerson
said "I think it's important that the United States maintain its seat at the table."
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed the lawsuit
#Exxon
filed against New York and Massachusetts AGs, both investigating the company about climate change and possible fraud.
#climatechange
#ExxonMobil
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NEW in
@rollcall
--->
With the midterms looming, 170+ Democrats in Congress want Biden to get more aggressive in pushing for a big climate bill.
"...do everything in your power to reach a deal..."
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NEW: Climate Envoy John Kerry unveils U.S.-China agreement on climate change.
"I think this is only a beginning," Kerry said. "We have agreed to a basic framework. Deal includes goals to cut methane, enforce deforestation laws. Says China would announce a methane plan in 2022.
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The Trump administration is weakening protections for birds, whose population has dropped by 3 billion since the 1970s.
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He replaced the Obama rule with his own order, which emphasizes the military, offshore drilling, national security and economic issues.
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If I don't make it back to wander the corridors of Congress, it's been a pleasure talking shop and looking for lawmakers with
@nick_sobczyk
,
@ellengilmer
,
@Timothy_Cama
,
@ReporterCioffi
,
@kadiagoba
,
@kelseybrugger
,
@jcqlnwng
and myriad other folks!
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NEWS: The Trump administration has again urged a federal appeals court to dismiss a federal climate lawsuit known as the "kids' climate case."
Formal name of the case is Juliana v. United States.
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on behalf of all the climate/environment reporters out there, thanks
@SusanPage
for asking about climate
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The Senate confirmed Meg Whitman, former GOP candidate for CA governor and ex-CEO of eBay and HP, to be ambassador to Kenya.
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Hat tip to
@voxdotcom
for the
@S_C_
(
#JayZ
) reference in tonight's Sentences letter
http://t.co/dOBmVfflYG
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NEWS: The Biden administration is restoring the boundaries of three national monuments shrunk during the Trump era, a move sure to spark a pitched legal fight.
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Joe Biden makes his climate/energy picks official, calling them his "climate" team:
Deb Haaland -- Interior
Jennifer Granholm -- Energy
Michael Regan -- EPA
Brenda Mallory -- CEQ
Gina McCarthy -- national climate advisor
Ali Zaidi -- deputy national climate advisor
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@exxonmobil
The work you're discussing (link below) was peer-reviewed by 3 outside experts:
#Exxon
#climate
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We've known about it for longer than that. This U.S. gov't report was presented to LBJ in 1965.
From conclusion: "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
For 30 years we've known about the dangers of climate change, and still CO2 emissions are not under control.
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The Nixon presidential library getting in on the trolling act...
#COMEY
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NEWS: The kids' climate case against
#Trump
admin going to trial. Court date set for Feb. 2018:
#climate
@youthvgov
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NEWsy: The House Committee on Homeland Security said it will hold a full committee hearing June 9 about the recent Colonial pipeline hack.
Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount is scheduled as a witness.
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NEW: Despite the pandemic, there's been a surge in drivers killing people with their vehicles.
On Thursday, the Biden administration rolled out a plan on traffic fatalities.
(by
@JessicaWehrman
)
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Some details on White House climate summit, per admin officials:
--Will not include bilateral meetings or side "zoom rooms"
-- All 40 invited heads of state are slated to appear
--Will include plenty of Cabinet heads, including Sec. DEF, heads of Interior, State, CEQ, more
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what a seismic loss for climate journalism.
@ClimateNexus
has long been a vital information lifeline for me and myriad environmental reporters.
Influential climate communications firm Climate Nexus will shutter June 21. Staff was informed today.
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"I'm refusing to sell out the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil and gas drilling," Biden says, getting big applause.
Big applause lines on protecting Bristol Bay from mining and Tongass Forest from logging in Alaska.
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NEWS: Federal appeals court will hear oral arguments in San Francisco on Dec. 11 in the landmark climate case between a group of kids and the
#Trump
admin.
@youthvgov
#climatechange
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Federal judge blocks Trump admin's move to toss landmark climate lawsuit:
@youthvgov
#climate
#climatechange
#GHG
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"The truth will come out." // Government archives show presidents since JFK have known about climate change.
🔒
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NEWS for
@NJTRANSIT
riders.
1) Overheard wires may not be the main reason for all the train delays
&
2) Of 5 delays in May, NJ Transit was to blame in 3 cases and
@amtrak
was to blame for 2, according to a not-public letter.
@NJSpotlightNews
#NJTransit
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big news days like this make me miss the spread of front pages, in the U.S. and abroad, that the Newseum would lay out every day
RIP,
@NewseumED
If we still had the Newseum as a Pennsylvania Avenue neighbor, their Today’s Front Pages exhibit would be hopping tomorrow
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the biggest climate denier in Senate history is dead
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@Fahrenthold
@washingtonpost
WaPo withholding "details...at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important intelligence capabilities."
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NEWS: Schumer says he and Manchin have a deal to drop the permitting/Mountain Valley Pipeline language from the spending bill the Senate is debating.
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#ExxonMobil
did business in 2003-2005 in Iran, Syria and Sudan when
@StateDept
was sanctioning those nations: ($)
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This article has been DEEPLY misconstrued & misread all day. It is about a paper the
@RichmondFed
published by three researchers about climate change. It is NOT about the Fed itself -- America's central bank -- warning about climate. That would be far, far bigger news.
Those hippies at the Federal Reserve Bank say climate change “could reduce US economic growth by up to 1/3 over the next century”
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A bill that could soon be New Jersey law would make it harder to scrutinize police.
“It’s extremely disturbing, and it undermines accountability."
Good reporting by
@taylorjung_
@NJSpotlightNews
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