@safe-climate
Dan Becker @ The Safe Climate Campaign @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social advocates strong environmental action, holds automakers and other polluters & govt accountable for cutting pollution to fight climate change. Washington, DC. safeclimatecampaign.org
How Would The Iran Crisis Unfold In An Electrified World? Much of the energy powering industry and digital infrastructure would come from clean electricity generated domestically from wind and solar. Transport would rely far more on electricity than on oil. www.forbes.com/sites/mariam...
For Tr$mp, it’s affordability, schmafordability!
As gas prices soar, Trump is ignoring the lessons of the last oil crisis. Fuel economy rules have reduced U.S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up — and then sent gas prices through the roof.
By Jake Bittle grist.org/regulation/t...
A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War. Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition. @hirokotabuchi.bsky
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...
Shame on Tr$mp for killing off gas-sipping car rules!
More pain may be on the way, analysts said, as oil prices continue to trend upward. On Friday, U.S. oil futures settled at $90.90 a barrel, up nearly $10 and the biggest single-day rise since April 2020. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Rest your eyes and ears with a moment in the rainforest!
Our take:”This report shows how badly we need strong clean car rules even as Trump sends them to the morgue. Automakers failed to use the best technology on many vehicles, making a fleet that guzzles and pollutes too much @biologicaldiversity.org
@dougobey.bsky.social insideepa.com/climate-extr...
Greenland already shows signs of too much fishing as halibut are getting smaller. Bigger fish are caught and the smaller, younger ones are left.
That problem could worsen as the retreating ice makes fish more accessible.
@eburrows.bsky.social
Evgeniy Maloletka
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Victory over Tr$mp and car pollution!
Congestion Pricing Wins in Court After Lengthy Battle With Trump. Judge rules his attempt to end New York’s congestion pricing toll was illegal.
@stefanoschen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/n...
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power. “Solar energy is the energy of the future. We must rapidly expand solar to compete with China,” Right-wing firebrand and podcaster Katie Miller.
@evanhalper.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Lake Tekapo, glacial lake!
Hundreds of former EPA staff warn that Tr$mp’s EPA has abandoned the agency’s core mission of protecting people and the environment from preventable toxic exposures from brain-damaging mercury and pesticides in food; lead and arsenic.
@lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2702202...
Speak out. Tell your elected representatives that you care about climate change and support the transition to clean energy. Urge that fossil fuel industry flunkies at EPA, Departments of Interior and Energy be replaced by knowledgeable, caring people. t.co/aycvPXLez6
We are physicians in Washington state. We have seen the impacts of climate change and air pollution on our patients. Trump is abdicating his responsibility to protect people from the dangers of climate change. @markvmd.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/repe...
Ordinary Americans are still on the hook for funding the U.S. data center boom — despite President Donald Trump’s promises Tuesday night and the tech industry's pledges to shoulder more of the costs. @zcolman.bsky.social and Peter Behr
www.eenews.net/articles/why...
Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a “staggering and deeply concerning” loss of marine life, a study has found, with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade.
By Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Abandoning EVs risks sending US automakers off a cliff. EVs sell, particularly Chinese high-tech, low-cost cars. If US automakers turn their backs on EVs, their sales outside the US will shrivel. @keithnaughton.bsky.social, David Welch
financial-post.com/pmn/business...
Oily fraud!
Oil and gas operators are supposed to report to regulators details of emissions, the amount of crude spilled, well pressure test results and how much gas is coming out of a well. But some companies have faked data. By Shelby Webb
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Democratic-led states are accelerating efforts to curb climate change as action stalls in Washington. Their initiatives took on new urgency when Trump stopped regulating greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels, the main driver of Earth’s dangerous warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...
Despite Tr$mp, school systems in blue and red states are adding classes in clean energy and infusing environmental sustainability lessons in construction, culinary and other career pathways, an effort to prepare students for a workplace altered by climate change. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Another payoff to Big Oil!
Trump is opening subsistence habitat critical to Alaska Native hunters to oil drilling, violating agreements. Environmentalists and an Iñupiat group filed lawsuits to block drilling on 5.5 million acres. @nkus.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...
Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial Against TotalEnergies challenging the oil major’s expansion plans. The case would set an important precedent for corporate climate accountability that could have ripple effects far beyond France. @danad1012.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...
Our take: “EPA's report shows how badly we need strong clean car standards.With Trump killing strong standards and eliminating penalties for cheating, automakers will be free to guzzle and pollute and consumers will be forced to pay for more gas at the pump.” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
What a bunch of weenies! Call his bluff or let US go!
US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities. Tr$mp’s energy chief had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate. @elenagiordano.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/us-s...
Ha! JD Vance’s motorcade just passed the regular Thursday morning Honk If You Hate Trump protest. And all the limos and secret service vehicles were blaring their sirens. So you know what that means!
A coalition of scientific, preservation and historical groups sued the Trump administration, arguing that the removal of information about civil rights, climate change and other topics at national parks amounts to illegal censorship.
@bradydennis.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
“We’re suing to stop Trump from torching our kids’ future in favor of a monster handout to oil companies. Consumers will pay more to fill up, and our skies and oceans will fill up with more pollution, all based on political poppycock, not science or law. David Pettit @biologicaldiversity.org
Our take: “They’re popping champagne corks at the OPEC and GM headquarters but also in Beijing, where China’s EV makers will face no competition from the US to dominate the world’s clean car market.” Dan Becker @biologicaldiversity.org
By Jim Motavalli www.autoweek.com/news/a703945...
Mourning Dick Ottinger, an early, strong and outspoken environmental champion in Congress and out.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
Our take: The Trump administration “is telling American manufacturers, ‘You guys go build gasoline cars again. The Chinese government is telling its manufacturers, ‘You go build the advanced vehicles that are going take over the world.” Becker @biologicaldiversity.org www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
Our take: Vehicles that burn more fuel cost car owners more at the pump, in addition to the costs to the climate, public health and industrial competitiveness, said Dan Becker @biologicaldiversity.org By Hiroko Tabuchi www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
