I encourage folks to check out this thread (and those linked) as they digest the big NYT article about Sierra Club's organizational woes.

UPDATE: The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source.

#Abundance bros act like civil society is the enemy & enviro laws aren't relevant. Even the pope disagrees ;) "Everyone in society, through [NGOs] and advocacy groups, must put pressure on governments to develop and implement more rigorous regulations, procedures and controls."

Excellent piece by @emdashsanders.bsky.social for @levernews.com California set to unleash CO2 pipelines for CCS, thanks in part to fossil fuel lobbyists:

California is setting a path to lift its moratorium on CO2 pipelines with new safety regs. But the state won't set a distance requirement protecting communities, which oil lobbyists opposed. Advocates say it's a recipe for disaster. from me & @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/california...

Yesterday we launched CACTI, a #SanFrancisco Bay Area coalition against carbon capture & storage (CCS). I spoke, along with others. It was a powerful event! Huge thanks @foodandwater.bsky.social for your key organizing role 💙 Learn more here: cacticoalition.org

It's (beyond) time to stop paying polluters to wreck our planet. *This year alone* the fed gov't will give $34.8 billion to fossil fuel companies 😱 New report: www.commondreams.org/news/us-foss...

From the lead author of this new study: “We have to avoid giving people false hope by suggesting that climate change can be fixed without cutting carbon emissions, which is the only real solution." 👈 insideclimatenews.org/news/0909202...

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Ask anyone in the "Abundance Faction" why the Koch brothers are funding their movement, and they'll say it's good to have a big tent. But the Koch brothers are truly evil, not least for their decades-long (and successful) work to destroy US understanding of climate science. 1/2

A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!

Happening Sept 9: Join SF #BayArea groups & residents at a press conference announcing their alliance to fight the Montezuma Carbon Hub -- a massive waste injection hub proposed near wetlands & communities. www.mobilize.us/fww/event/83...

🚨 Breaking: Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️ So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory. Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!

Long live Heyday Books www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...

No way around it: California is starting to backslide on climate. And it’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault. My column today looks at Newsom’s failures on rooftop solar, oil industry accountability, home electrification and more: www.latimes.com/environment/...

📢 NEW: CCEJN reports — 31% of oil & gas sites near Kern County homes, schools & parks are leaking 37% of leaks are allowed by regulatory loopholes The “heavy oil” exemption shields 68% of CA’s oil & gas sites from leak monitoring & repair rules #ClimateJustice 👉🏽 ccejn.org/2025/08/12/p...

Take a listen: Latino USA digs into CCS in California, & the massive taxpayer subsidy that pays for it (and more oil production!) feat. @biologicaldiversity.org attorney Maggie Coulter & community advocates, incl. CCEJN www.latinousa.org/2025/08/03/c...

Cheers to @mjhankins.bsky.social on this AP video explaining the endangerment finding rollback! So appreciate clear communication of this super important issue to the public: apnews.com/video/trump-...

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

Surprise, surprise: CCS is bad 😠 😔 "Exxon sold carbon capture & storage as a climate solution — but under new Trump tax credits, public funds will be directed toward more oil extraction with less regulation." by @emdashsanders.bsky.social

📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law. Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice. nyti.ms/3IKYNvs

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Essay by @savelifeonearth.bsky.social 💙 Hellbenders as emissaries: "The same forces that drove the decline of these amphibians sacrificed public health in Appalachia. Their demise echoes the struggle of communities that continue to be jeopardized by extractive industries & betrayed by politics."

Lost in the wave of many terrible things, this is so dumb. The bill changes DOE sec. 1706 loan guarantees from repurposing and repowering of energy infrastructure to reduce emissions to "Energy Dominance Finance". 🤦

Huh. Another failing CCS project. 🤔 via @ieefainstitute.bsky.social ieefa.org/resources/go...

they killed ceqa 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

🎉 Let's celebrate! The polluting wood pellet industry is NOT getting a foothold in CA! 🌟 “Stopping this dirty, dangerous project is a big victory for communities, the climate & our forests.” -Dr. Wolf, @biologicaldiversity.org CA’s Largest Wood Pellet Project Defeated: www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

I’m in West Virginia & happy to share there are two (!) small but mighty No Kings contingencies out where I am in today ✊

We're celebrating the judge's decision to grant a temporary restraining order against an oil pipeline that spilled in 2015 and is seeking to restart. 🌟 "It’s a relief that the company can’t restart these onshore pipelines while the court considers this case.” [email protected]

The #Abundance doctrine is coming from the left (Klein, center Dems) and right (classically, & seen in yesterday's SCOTUS NEPA decision) Here's @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social's fact sheet pushing back: "Why We’re Skeptical Of The Abundance Agenda" therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/u...

On this day of #NEPA days, I'd like to leave slides from researcher Jamie Pleune (Utah College of Law) on the myths of NEPA & delay. IMO: today's gutting of NEPA by SCOTUS won't "unleash" anything other than enviro harms. Maybe we need an even stronger enviro law now 🤔 www.eli.org/sites/defaul...

It’s a beautiful day in Sacramento to #MakePollutersPay! Hundreds rally urging #CALeg to pass the climate superfund bill. CA has a growing budget deficit w/vital programs facing harmful cuts. Giving Big Oil a free pass won’t help. It’s time to hold polluters accountable & invest in our communities.

We just sued the U.S. Air Force and Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to release public records detailing the Trump administration’s plans to build landing pads for SpaceX rockets in sensitive marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean. More info: biodiv.us/43ACrDD

[email protected] on today's SCOTUS #NEPA decision: "This disastrous decision to undermine our nation’s bedrock environmental law means our air and water will be more polluted, the climate and extinction crises will intensify, and people will be less healthy." BUT: we'll keep fighting. ✊

Big #NEPA decision out. More soon. "In a 8-0 ruling, the justices found that a lower court should more narrowly tailor NEPA analyses to focus on effects that are close to projects under review and fall directly under the purview of approving agencies." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Climeworks’ Iceland capture plant fails to cover its own emissions “Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution” heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

"What’s alarming is that many California Democrats aren’t just standing by—they’re aiding and abetting the environmental destruction," writes John Buse, senior counsel at the Center.

“Abundance all but ignores life beyond city limits. That some places should be spared from a ‘liberalism that builds’—that the concerns of the Bay Area & NYC shouldn't automatically inform policy everywhere else—goes unconsidered.” Right on. By @bengoldfarb.bsky.social defector.com/an-abundance...

One critique of the new book “Abundance” is its failure to consider nature. If a goal is abundance & rewilding in the face of scarcity of wild places, we need environmental laws, actually, to protect wildlife & those wild spaces. New from @bengoldfarb.bsky.social defector.com/an-abundance...

Holy shit, go read this brilliant @bengoldfarb.bsky.social critique of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's "Abundance." "...But by bemoaning America's cumbersome regulatory apparatus, the Abundists play into the hands of people who want to unleash hell." defector.com/an-abundance...

“If you’re not used to fighting, and losing battles, then don’t become a lawyer ... Our job is to stand up for people who can’t do it themselves.” “Right now ... we can’t lose the battles we are facing.” - Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Anecdotal, but I’m hearing a lot about CA lawmakers being “Abundance-pilled” and proposing/backing bills that will rip the heart out of enviro review for almost ALL big projects (not just housing) and exempt/fast track permitting elsewhere. All over EJ, scientist, etc concerns. I hate this.

As climate costs pile up, Hawaii is taking several actions to try to alleviate the impacts, including suing #BigOil over climate damages & deception, urging insurers to take polluters to court, & raising a new "green fee" on tourists More here from One Earth Now www.oneearthnow.org/p/hawaii-tak...

Next Thurs, May 1: stand up for the rule of law! ✊ ⚖️ "Join attorneys, law students, & judges for a powerful demonstration to defend the essential foundations of our democracy." Actions in SF and nationwide: lawdayofaction.org/home#map

“I have seen more people in tears in the last 100 days than I’ve seen in 20 years. It’s an absolutely shocking, abusive display of power that’s creating a very hostile work environment.” www.kqed.org/science/1996...

Now, let's take a look at all those well-documented documents. Oh wait, the proposal provides none. You can't overcome arbitrary and capricious review with just vibes.

“[I]t is well documented that many career federal employees use their positions to advance their personal political or policy preferences instead of implementing the elected President's agenda.” This is so cynical & wrong. And that’s from someone (me) who sues federal agencies.

Get some sleep tonight, enviro ngo friends. Nothin' worrying about tomorrow can do right now. Get up again tomorrow and do the job, same as yesterday. Do it till they stop you. Don't make it easier on them by burning yourself out with dread.