Fossil fuel exports vs. orcas and people in Northwest Washington state. columbiainsight.org/on-washingto...

Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

To my elected representatives: @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov: This is my position too: We are in a national crisis. I do not want to hear anything from you besides a plan to deal with it.

I know its hard to keep track of the destructive nonsense that this Administration does. But hoo-boy. Washington's last coal plant has been on track to close for nearly 15 years and its illegal to operate here. Nobody wants it, including the utilities. But nope, Trump ordered it to keep operating.

USMNT v. Soccerroos in Seattle June 19 is going to be absolutely bananas.

Good.

We are sleepwalking into one of the greatest social and economic transformations in history. There's plenty of room for a political party to come out and say, hold up a second. Read the latest from @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

I've been a member of the @sierraclub.org since I was 16 years old, and have been their lawyer in more cases than I can count. No organization is perfect, and they've had a bumpy few years for sure. But anyone who read the NYT hit piece from this weekend should hear their side of the story.

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

No one needs to participate in this shameful venture. Don't buy his cars, stay away from his fascist AI, and hell no to house robots. Everyone involved in this should feel profoundly ashamed.

Companies you interact with and give your money to - Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, etc - are actively working in cahoots with a fascist authoritarian administration and I wonder if we should let them know that we're paying attention. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Read the dissent. The majority decision is not "merely absurd" - its dangerous. Don't often see this kind of heat in dissents.

This is a solid retrospective on the epic fight to keep the Pacific Northwest from becoming a global coal export hub. We won through relentless organizing, brilliant political strategy, and focused legal work. Glad its getting some attention. www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

Trump is working overtime to cut the "people" out of the "people's environmental law"--NEPA. Their latest step was to unilaterally revoke regulations across every agency that implement this important law. The result will be chaos and environmental harm. We're fighting back - read more here:

Today multiple agencies across the federal government revoked rules and standards implementing NEPA--our keystone environmental law. In their place? Not much. Here's our statement: earthjustice.org/press/2025/t...

Today we went to court to overturn the administration's reckless and illegal freeze of funding for electric vehicle chargers. Congress passed this funding in a bipartisan bill - Trump has no authority to refuse to distribute it. Read more here: earthjustice.org/press/2025/n...

Today the Admin filed 4 cases attacking state climate policies and initiatives - in Hawaii, Vermont, NY, and Michigan. West coast states likely next. Outrageous and abusive litigation. The HI and MI cases challenge the states' *intention* to bring lawsuits against oil companies for climate harm.

What a joke. The only "emergency" here is a lawless and corrupt administration. Any project proponent that tries to use these illegal procedures will be hanging an illuminated "SUE ME" sign on themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...

Trump Admin continues its effort to gut the nation's keystone environmental law, NEPA, by revoking the rules that govern its implementation. Its a recipe for chaos and confusion. Tossing out the rulebook isn't going to get projects permitted faster. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

Drew Ensign's statement that "if Abrego shows up at a port of entry we will facilitate his entry" is beyond shameful. It is sanctionable misconduct. We are a self-regulating profession. We get to determine who has a license to practice law. It is past time to hold DOJ lawyers accountable.

Just can't imagine why Dems are struggling to inspire their voters! We are in the middle of a slow motion coup and economy-wide vandalism and this cringe garbage is their response. So painful.

The office of management and budget has invited the public to send in ideas for getting rid of government regulations. I will be submitting my idea to repeal whatever regulation allowed OMB to hire a dope and failed coup plotter like Jeff Clark public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06316.pdf

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

couldn't get anywhere near stage. couldn't hear any speeches. absolutely overwhelming turnout at #handsoff. seattle strong. 💪

Not surprised but profoundly disappointed in my profession. The Perkins Coie order is cartoonishly illegal. This is a chance to stand up and speak with one voice that the legal profession will not be bullied. But nope, its everyone for themselves. www.ft.com/content/494a...

#BREAKING: Court in D.C. finds that govt violated federal law when it issued leases for over a BILLION BARRELS of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Court faulted their analysis of climate impacts (which absurdly said greenhouse gas emissions would be minor) .... financialpost.com/pmn/business...

It is past time to take the streets and shout a collective NO to the chaos, cruelty, and destruction. April 5. Spread the word. handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

#BREAKING: King Co Superior Court STRIKES DOWN Washington Initiative 2066 for violating the state constitution.

Craven submission by Paul, Weiss to flagrantly illegal and un-American bullying. Law students -- shame these cowards.

This guy is live-tweeting the hearing in front of Judge Boasberg now.

"We’re not stopping...I don’t care what the judges think.” ICE director Tom Homan on ignoring federal court injunctions. This guy, who usually appears on TV slurring drunk, announces the official start a full-blown constitutional crisis. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I don't like Big Law and I don't like Perkins Coie - for decades they have profited from advocating for the worst polluters on the planet. But the Trump attack is some next level bad shit and today I tip my hat to the Big Law lawyers who brought and won this case www.rawstory.com/perkins-coie...

#BREAKING: The White House has summarily revoked regulations implementing one of our nation's foundational environmental laws, the National Environmental Policy Act. The rules have been in place for nearly 50 years. Effective immediately. earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...

The American Bar Association speaking with more moral clarity than the leadership of the Democratic party at this moment. "It is wrong." Practice getting your mouth to say those sounds.

“The law is still the law...What happens when you get rid of CEQ or you get rid of the rule book for how to apply [the law] is chaos. There isn’t any yardstick to judge an agency’s compliance with NEPA, agencies and courts will be on their own to figure it out on a case by case basis.”

Big news for NEPA lawyers: ND judge has tossed out NEPA's implementing rules as outside White House authority. Rules revert to previous sets of regulations but Trump admin has already promised to overhaul them to streamline energy projects.

As of 5pm today, a search on EPA's website for the term "environmental justice" yields over half a million results. Let's see where we are in a week

I wonder if hiring morons to run government agencies, and firing all their employees, has any downsides.

Its a damn shame that RFK is such an erratic and unqualified weirdo because I sure would like someone in government to be seriously talking about corporate control of food systems, chemical food additives, basic nutrition, and excessive political power of big pharma.

I am told that there are many people - fit, organic granola-eating types - that *actually believed* that Trump was going to make America healthier. No amount of disdain is enough for these naïve rubes. Mock them without mercy.

Unbelievable. Trump's fever-dream hatred of clean energy runs so deep that he pulled out of the Paris accords when even the oil industry begged him not to. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Reviewing the new Exec Order on energy dominance and permitting, a couple thoughts: Its a fine example of the combined incompetence and malevolence that is the hallmark of this President. Its not even proofread. It seeks to gut permitting and environmental review to streamline permitting of....

Me too. I didn't ask for this. Nobody did! People have busted their asses for decades to build clean energy, and it's getting hung up because of a technology no one wants.

"We hired qualified and competent people and bad things still happened, so let's hire a fucking clown and see what happens" is the perfect encapsulation of MAGA's governing philosophy in 2025.

DOGE is an absurd grift run by childish dilettantes. If it wasn't, it would put appoint public interest representatives to get rid of massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and other corporate interests. There's plenty of government waste and abuse to get rid of!

Happy "Cert Denied" Day to all who celebrate. Seriously, this is a big deal. SCOTUS will presumably wade into the climate liability cases at some point, but this means they can proceed for now. What's next? Discovery and jury trials that show the fossil fuel industry LIED about climate.

Wyoming is considering a bill that declares CO2 a "foundational nutrient necessary for all life," harkens back to the glorious time when CO2 levels stood at 2,600 ppm, and declares that the state "shall not pursue" any measures to reduce it. Never change, Wyoming. www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/...

Its hard to find a more vivid example of Seattle's dysfunction than its inability to keep cars out of Pike Place Market. Google maps takes unsuspecting tourists into pedestrian gridlock; everyone is baffled and frustrated. Will this problem finally be fixed for the weirdest reason...security?

RIP to one of the most decent human beings in modern public life. In the election year of 1976, I tried to take a poll of my second grade classmates: Carter or Ford? I quickly grew frustrated, as all the boys voted for The Fonz and all the girls voted for Pinky Tuscadero.

#BREAKING: A coalition of climate and energy groups, the City of Seattle, and King County have filed a lawsuit to overturn Initiative 2066, which blocks measures that might "discourage" the use of fossil gas. The measure violates the state Constitution. More to come.