Excited for this conversation with two of two of my heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social and @manishbapna.bsky.social

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

The Trump administration’s next move to crush effective climate policy. E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

"The scale and urgency of the current threat should settle a long-simmering debate about the strategic value of targeting oil and gas production directly." @earthjustice.org president @abbiedillen.bsky.social writes in SSIR on the next chapter of the climate fight:

There’s a lot to worry about right now. The quiet part is a U.S. oil & gas renaissance. As extreme weather rocks the country, it’s time to invest in brass tacks planning, deep organizing, and the essential state and local fights to achieve clean energy transition … in time. ssir.org/articles/ent...

An effort to kill off lawsuits against oil giants is gaining steam - my latest in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/c...

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

On a tough day in Congress, loving this point of light! Messing up farmers is terrible for everyone, and going to court can still unlock solutions. Grateful to our courageous clients.

It’s been an eventful first 92 days of Trump. My take on (some of) what’s different this time around. Stiff headwinds but we will stay the course. Happy Earth Day. www.propublica.org/article/eart...

"It is hard to imagine a more sweeping agenda to make Americans less healthy," says Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social in today's New York Times. "The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections."

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

Remarkable climate news from Germany! Conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) agreed in principle with the Green Party on plans for a massive increase in state borrowing for infrastructure and military. The Greens secured a €100 billion fund for climate and economic transformation.

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

We're suing. Earthjustice is representing Inflation Reduction Act grant recipients & holding the Trump administration accountable for illegally freezing funds that were meant to benefit communities.

Just because you aren’t surprised doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read this extraordinary artifact of March 2025. Will be of special interest to all of you practicing that cult “climate change religion.”

By 5-4 vote, #SCOTUS *denies* Trump’s emergency application in foreign aid funding cases, but in a way that sends things back to the district court *before* the payments will have to be made: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

#ERCOT has been running at 85% clean today: 75% wind and solar and 10% nuclear. You would have been laughed out of the room if you predicted this 10 years ago. But the smallest interconnection in North America is cranking away at 75% variable resources. Beautiful sight. @gridstatus.io #EnergySky

Policies can rarely deliver an immediate, positive change that people can see and feel every day. Excited that my colleagues have filed suit to defend congestion pricing in NYC!

Front page of today's NYT: "This is not the kind of stately tennis match of the usual switch-over in administrations. This is full on Fight Club," said @abbiedillen.bsky.social, President of Earthjustice, on the Trump admini's blitz on environmental regulations. Earthjustice is fighting back.

The Trump administration is now deploying the FBI and trying to invoke criminal law to go after Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund recipients. Thank goodness prosecutors and courts are not going along so far.

Will SCOTUS provide a check to lawless spending freezes and back up lower courts that hold the Trump administration accountable? We will soon find out. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

As bad as it sounds.

“and now, we are ready to do it again” The debt of gratitude to Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies can never be repaid.

Clinton’s environmental justice E.O. was a durable directive that shaped federal data collection, analysis, decisions, and successful advocacy over 30 years. Losing this baseline commitment will make it even harder to prevent, much less, remedy wild health disparities along lines of race and income.

Dave Jones, former CA Insurance Commissioner absolutely nails it. The L.A. fires turned our insurance crisis into a full blown emergency. It won’t just be California that feels the pain. This will hit everyone. Financial accountability for fossil fuels companies has to be part of the solution.

"While not surprising, it is no less alarming that the Trump administration wasted no time in rolling back overwhelmingly popular, life-saving policies," said Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social We'll keep fighting in court to ensure we all have the protections we need and deserve.

🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ 🧵⤵️

I spoke to @weatherwest.bsky.social about the role of warming and "hydroclimate whiplash" in the L.A. fires and where we go from here: e360.yale.edu/features/dan...

All week I’ve been in a fugue state, grieving for friends and places and giving into a sense of doom for L.A. and California. This piece is so excellent. I hope everyone will read it. We can’t escape climate risk or rely on luck to save our cities. We CAN do the work to be infinitely more prepared.

Just praying for all the people in Pacific Palisades and for the first responders trying to get people out.

Why does POTUS want to fast-track gas to power data centers? These Senators have it right: “Some of the world’s largest companies are leading the buildout of data centers and have demonstrated their ability to bring new clean energy onto the grid. We should not relieve them of that responsibility”

I have been reading Josh Marshall for 20 years. Rarely has he been righter. We need this badly. It's easy to understand why. There are people who could make it happen. It hasn't happened so far. A Big Pile of Money and Lawyering to Defend Trump’s Legal Targets. bsky.app/profile/josh...

Thanks for this great list @aimeewitteman.bsky.social !

People aren’t wrong. The conservative majority at SCOTUS is driving an extreme and unpopular agenda with shock-and-awe speed, and Trump-appointed lower court judges that were appointed for their ideology are eagerly assisting. The less bad news is:

OK friends, is it really impossible to edit a typo in your post? Just tried Skeets and couldn’t find an edit function.

NYT previewing strong findings findings on LNG exports from Secy. Granholm, including: 30% increase in wholesale gas prices in U.S.; displacement of more clean energy than coal abroad; and 1.5 gigatons in additional emissions annually by 2050. Rising GHG emissions in all 5 modeled scenarios.

Important reporting. This case is about a railroad that is proposed for the sole purpose of transporting waxy oil in Utah’s Uinta Basin to Gulf refineries. It’s meant to facilitate drilling by providing a path to market. It’s clear where the oil is headed and where it will be refined. 🧵

The trend line could get worse. Load growth should drive massive clean energy investment, but there’s a lot of momentum for new gas right now. Hearing that backsliding on gas is inevitable and OK, especially for data centers, because AI will somehow solve it all. I’d prefer to bet on a clean grid.

Great piece on the big $$$ behind third-party funding of lawsuits against governments that try to protect citizens from predatory energy companies and environmental destruction. For the financial firms funding the lawsuits, it's like “gambler’s Nirvana: Heads I win, and Tails I do not lose."

Important thread about how this western NY fossil fuel company is using ratepayer dollars to fight policies that will lower energy bills for their customers and reduce climate pollution. Same old playbook. @govkathyhochul.bsky.social shouldn’t fall for it.

The “Cancel Coal” case prevails in South Africa! Another landmark climate win for youth. So thrilled for Centre for Environmental Rights and the tremendous coalition that made this happen.

These bans on cancer-causing chemical are a very big deal reflecting tireless work to highlight the dangers of TCE, amend the Toxic Substances Control Act, and litigate all through Trump I to give the law teeth. Now the fight goes back to the courts. @earthjustice.bsky.social will be there.

There can never be justice for Assad’s atrocities. But it matters that everyone knows, that the crimes are prosecuted, never forgotten. In 2016, the thought was: “when the day of justice arrives, we’ll have much better evidence than we’ve had anywhere since Nuremberg.” Hope that day is close

After being utterly denuded by the first Trump administration, the EPA has finally built itself back up & resumed doing serious enforcement of the law -- just in time for the second Trump administration to denude it again. apnews.com/article/epa-...

Is it possible to still make climate progress during the second Trump administration? Leaders of environmental organizations like Heather Reams of CRES and Abigail Dillen of @earthjustice.bsky.social aren't giving in. They join Greg and Ariana for our latest episode, now on all pod platforms.

It was a true pleasure talking with the great folks at @climateone.org about climate litigation, the courts, and what’s in store for environmental protections in the next Trump administration.

If it's one thing I wish more people understood about Cancer Alley—that stretch of road full of fossil fuel facilities between New Orleans and Baton Rouge—it would be this: it is not the only Cancer Alley in the country, or even in the state of Louisiana.

Surplus interconnection is a great way to make the most of the grid we’ve got. In a time of load growth and affordability challenges, we have to prioritize these opportunities to more quickly plug in lower cost, lower risk resources 🔌

If you heard SCOTUS took up a non-delegation doctrine case and felt a wave of panic, @stevevladeck.bsky.social will make you feel a little better.

Hey look who’s here! The great @samsankar.bsky.social. Best explainer of so many things, including courts.