insane that today wasn't a federal holiday, cannot think of anything more important we can do in this life than sit outside with a bunch of people and scream at the sky together in awe
Nearly 60 Democrats in Congressโincluding former speaker Pelosiโare urging the White House to withhold arms from Israel.
But just this week the US agreed to give $23.5B of new military aid to Israel.
Does
@VP
hear these cries to end Americaโs support for the slaughter in Gaza?
a Baltimore sanitation worker died of hyperthermia on Friday during trash pickup when the heat index was 105ยฐ
last month the city's Inspector General found dept of pub works employees had inadequate water & no AC when the heat index was 100ยฐ+
labor justice is climate justice
FULL STATEMENT: The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing) |
#OOTT
new: plastic producers have known for 30+ yrs that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. but they promoted it anyway, a new
@climatecosts
analysis shows.
the report is full of new docs & evidence.
iโm an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest
@ColumbiaSJP
, in my 3 years at
@BarnardCollege
i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings
i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.
mike rowe fronts like he's a friend of the working class, but his new show is funded by the oil industry & so is his foundation! i wrote about it here:
sources say today is my first day on the climate team at the
@BostonGlobe
(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
my new email is dharna.noor
@globe
.com and my DMs are open, please hit me up!
sources say I'm the new fossil fuels & climate reporter at
@guardian
/
@GuardianUS
:)
I'll be covering the fossil fuel industry's contributions to the climate crisis & efforts to mislead the American public, as well as the attempts to hold the sector accountable.
VERY EXCITED
just days ago, the US tried to position itself as a climate leader at COP26. but this morning, the biden administration is set to hold the largest offshore oil & gas lease sale in US history. i wrote about it for
@BostonGlobe
President Biden said in an interview Wednesday that โpractically speakingโ he already declared a climate emergency, a move that liberal lawmakers and environmentalists continue to advocate to unlock far-reaching executive powers to address global warming.
if this is a cancellable take i'm very sorry but i don't think you need to feel guilty about enjoying an absurdly warm day in february. you did not make climate change happen and your guilt is not going to fix anything!
BREAKING: Anticipating pro-Palestine campus divestment protests, Portland State University has just announced it will โpauseโ accepting donations from genocide-profiteer
@Boeing
, a major funding contributor.
Weโve obtained a copy of the email sent to faculty & students:
buying a car (SORRY) improved my life. if we had serious public transit and didn't design cities around these polluting and killing machines, that wouldn't be the case. i wrote about my mixed feelings:
cori bush introduced the unhoused bill of rights this week and is now sleeping outside the capitol building in a push to extend the federal eviction moratorium
Many of my Democratic colleagues chose to go on vacation early today rather than staying to vote to keep people in their homes.
Iโll be sleeping outside the Capitol tonight. Weโve still got work to do.
๐จ๐จ๐จ biden appointed a top recipient of fossil fuel money to be a liason between climate activists & industry.
@blkahn
and i took a dive into his campaign contributions and his history with environmental justice organizers and let me tell you, it's ugly.
U.N. Secretary Gen Antรณnio Guterres on the brand new IPCC climate report: "Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels."
the TX bill that stripped construction workers in Austin and Dallas of the right to water breaks and shade breaks โ and more broadly limited municipalities' ability to impose regulations โ has been declared unconstitutional
BREAKING: HB 2127 has been declared unconstitutional.
This is a HUGE win for the working people of Texas, local govs, and communities across our state.
While we expect an appeal, it remains clear this law is an unacceptable infringement on the rights of Texans and cities.
exclusive: Columbia, Tulane, and UVA students have just filed legal complaints saying the schools' investments in fossil fuels are illegal
they come as Columbia faces outrage for its treatment of students protesting the war in Gaza
if u want, u can put a shot of espresso in a jar full of ice and then top w a full can of diet coke the juice of half a lemon & some black walnut bitters. as an afternoon treat. if u want. u don't have to
Private plane travel to COP26 is so prevalent that an official guide for delegates lists two private airports among the arrival points. I wrote about why we should ban private jets.
new IPCC report says continuing to operate *existing* fossil fuel infrastructure would put us past the 1.5 degree warming goal
right now, the White House is calling on US fossil fuel producers to *increase* their output
i don't really know how to say this but i lost a beloved cousin to covid. he was only 41 and had just adopted a baby earlier this year. i am absolutely devastated and i cannot stop thinking about how this may have been prevented if world trade was not a death machine. maddening
The moody haze in the paintings of Claude Monet and JMW Turner is air pollution, according to a recent study.
Obsessed with this research, feel so lucky to have gotten to write about it.
climate change is expected to to thaw and screw up the soil underneath this huge oil drilling project in Alaska, leaving its rigs vulnerable.....so ConocoPhillips plans to use chillers to keep the tundra frozen
we live in hell
if you want people to like you, you start the message with an exclamation point! then you temper it with a period. but then another exclamation point to end the last sentence!
i wrote about how students are pushing universities to kick oil companies' recruiters off campus.
โIt makes no sense that a university dedicated to truth and the pursuit of knowledge would host ... an oil company,โ
@isaac_slevin
told me
lawyer steven donziger won a historic lawsuit against chevron for massive oil pollution in the amazon. now, he's on house arrest and entire indigenous communities are still suffering. here's a story i've been working on for months:
UAW president Shawn Fain says this is "a turning point in the class war that's been raging in this country for the past 40 years."
He labeled the union's tentative deal with Ford "a call to action to workers everywhere to organize and fight for a better life."
Lithium is a key component in EV batteries. Extracting it can have devastating environmental and social effects.
But we can decarbonize transit by 2050 without the mining boom, a new report from
@cpluscp
led by
@triofrancos
says. Here's how:
in addition to being word salad, the prob with this is that she seems to be suggesting the response to climate change has to be renewable energy investments
but simply bringing more renewable energy online doesn't cut emissions, we have to actually stop producing the oil
big news this morning: The White House unveiled a long-awaited proposal to establish the nationโs first-ever federal standard to protect workers from extreme heat
it comes after years of pressure from climate and labor advocates
i spoke with climate scientists about that flashy, new study that says climate change has reached the "point of no return" & we need carbon capture. they say it's bullshit (in not so many words)
BREAKING: House GOP just quietly submitted an amendment to increase Pentagon spending by $25 BILLION.
That would bring our defense budget to $778 BILLION.
They want billions more for war even as we WITHDRAW FROM AFGHANISTAN.
We HAVE TO stop this amendment. Please share this.
spent the day talking to people in baltimore โ my hometown โ who are reeling after the collapse of the key bridge early this morning for
@GuardianUS
(i am also reeling)
new investigation: dozens of utilities offer homebuilders incentives โincluding cash and luxury travel โ to install gas appliances
trade groups are also training members to sell builders on the continued use of gas, newly revealed recordings show
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this week, workers are organizing actions in 13 cities across the country focused on heat protections.
โWe have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,โ
said Lourdes Cardenas of
@UFWupdates
some bittersweet news: it's my last day at
@EARTH3R
, the best climate blog.
i've learned so much in my 2 years here. i'm rly gonna miss working with
@blkahn
(the single best, kindest, most patient editor) and
@mollytaft
(my hero) & everyone at
@Gizmodo
! more on next moves soon๐
before aoc rashida tlaib lhan omar etc the inspiring brown lady socialist was kshama sawant. kshama's 2013 race is probably the reason i rly rly realized the power of electoral politics. i am sorry for being so fucking earnest on this website of late.
yesterday i said goodbye to my best friend and confidant, my grandfather. thank you for raising me and for teaching me how to read and write and think critically and treat everyone with dignity. i don't know how to be without you. but in some sense i guess i'll never have to.
Mike Rowe wrote a 6,000-word Facebook post berating climate reporter
@dharnanoor
after she called out his show's ties to Big Oil and I am absolutely obsessed with it
a decade ago, attorney
@SDonziger
sued Chevron and won. the oil giant has been attacking him in court ever since. he has been on house arrest for two years. and today, he was sentenced to SIX MONTHS in prison, despite calls from the UN to release him.
big: the vermont legislature just passed the climate superfund act
this would make vt the first US state to charge big oil for climate damages
it's now heading to Gov Phil Scott's desk. supporters say they have a veto-proof majority
my story this week:
new: edelman, the world's top PR firm, has been covertly working on a political campaign for ExxonMobil.
at the same time, it has been pushing out an environmental justice campaign that boasts
@sza
as an ambassador.
new info from
@cleancreatives
today
@CFigueres
conceded that the fossil fuel industry shouldn't attend COP unless they abandon their core business model when pressed at the
@CoveringClimate
conference
the top human rights body in the world said it is "appalled" at
@SDonziger
's treatment by the US court system & said it sounds like "retaliation" for his work fighting Chevron
I'm in Helena, Montana this morning for the start of a groundbreaking climate trial. The case was brought by 16 youth plaintiffs. Here's a preview โฆ
@GuardianUS
โฉ
breaking: eight young people are suing the government of Alaska โ the nationโs fastest-warming state โ claiming a major new fossil fuel project, Alaska LNG, violates their state constitutional rights.
ok ok some bittersweet news: i'm saying goodbye to
@BostonGlobe
. i've learned so much from the Globe's incredible team and am SO grateful to have gotten to play a part in launching out climate initiative, Into the Red. buuuut i'm stoked about what's next! ๐
two scholars published the most comprehensive study yet on the role of PR firms in spreading climate disinformation & obstructing climate action. i wrote about it
@BostonGlobe
.
@RBrulle
@M_Aronczyk
@KertDavies
Stop glamorizing โthe grindโ and start glamorizing getting 7+ hours of sleep at night, having healthy relationships, feeling safe at work, taking sick days, being paid a living wage, working hard when youโre at work, boundaries, and self-caring your way to success.