Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
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At work in the ruins. Executive Director:
@westernlaw.org
Thoughts my own.
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My thoughts on
@westernlaw.bsky.social
's strategic approach to the Trump 2.0 era. ā Hold the line at the federal level ā Move in space at the state level ā Build power for change How? With an ecology of kinship.
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TO THE WESTERN HORIZONS!
The Western Environmental Law Centerās Strategic Approach to the Confluence of Political, Ecological, and Economic Crises Faced by theā¦
https://medium.com/@erikschlenkergoodrich/to-the-western-horizons-89d4bb44760a
over 1 year ago
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Costa Samaras
about 4 hours ago
This is more money than all annual Department of Energy geothermal power, solar power, and wind power research and development spending, combined.
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Read some energy discourse on Twitter and my takeaway is that a primary reason people donāt prioritize climate is because the discourse is now dominated by a bunch of lame wonks (real & wannabe) who do little but suppress interest in climate action.
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Hamilton Nolan
about 1 month ago
Murdering thousands of children: an unwise use of political capital for Democrats? We discuss at this year's Welcomefest.
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Parker Molloy
about 10 hours ago
However much you hate centrists, it's not enough.
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emptywheel
about 10 hours ago
The Strait of Hormuz, which Iran owns thanks to Trump, is 270 times as long as the reflecting pool.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
about 10 hours ago
these bastards think they own us
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
about 10 hours ago
really cannot be emphasized enough that every democratic policy goal must run through breaking the power of this corrupt court
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Sen. Ruben Gallego observing that "God, it's a lot of white people here" while speaking at the 2026 centrist WelcomeFest in DC underway today. Lol.
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jamelle
about 19 hours ago
crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect
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Erin Lockwood
about 15 hours ago
Faced with a choice between two profitable economic transitions, the US chose to go all-in on the one that undercuts humanity, destroys jobs, and worsens our dependence on fossil fuel instead of the one that contributes to a greener, more sustainable world.
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Welcome to the world the western U.S. has been living through for years: wildfire season.
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 15 hours ago
āIām Kid Rock.ā āIām Naomi Wolf.ā āIām Kanye West.ā āIām Matt Taibbi.ā āIām Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.ā
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Ross Macfarlane
about 15 hours ago
Social license matters. The tech industry's rush to site data centers without addressing community concerns about costs, pollution, public health, and other issues has generated a massive backlash that cuts across partisan lines.
@heatmap.news
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Really makes me think whether the āAbundanceā push, though facially centered on housing and green energy infrastructure, was really all about laying the groundwork for AI data centers. But even if not by design, it is the reality. And the public isnāt buying it.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
about 17 hours ago
was reading The Road again and sent a message to the writer group about how cmc gives no fucks and leaves it all out there in a way that everyone should aspire to but mixed up my chats and turns out everyone in the fantasy football group text also agrees that christian mccaffrey is that guy
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James Temple
about 18 hours ago
Treating all claims that AI is/will be a climate savior as abject nonsense until I see a radical shift in these trends.
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Jesse Felder
about 16 hours ago
DANIEL YERGIN: āEven a swift reopening doesnāt mean a swift return to ānormal.ā According to S&P Globalās analysis, it would take up to six months to return to 80% of precrisis supply.ā
www.wsj.com/opinion/ener...
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Opinion | Energy Markets Limit the Hormuz Shock
The worldās supply of fuel is much more diversified than it was during the energy crises of the 1970s.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/energy-markets-limit-the-hormuz-shock-fb793c18?st=dZkVHA&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Glimmers of hopeāand a testament to the power, foresight, and promise of the Endangered Species Act. Gratitude to all the federal, Tribal (here, the Yurok), and state folks who collaborated to ensure the condor still roams the Americaās skies free and wild.
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Condor flies into Oregon for first time in over 120 years
A 2-year-old female condor named B9 traveled 80 miles through southern Oregon during a four-day journey in May, marking a historic milestone for the critically endangered species managed by the Yurok ...
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/06/condor-flies-into-oregon-for-first-time-in-over-120-years.html
about 17 hours ago
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Jeff Hauser
about 18 hours ago
This is what "Abundance" was always meant to justify.
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She's a partisan hack who has never tried a case as lead counsel, whether civil or criminal.
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As Trump, Congress, and the Supreme Court ravage bedrock environmental laws, I must ask: Is this Abundance? If not, why is Congressāon a bipartisan basisācontemplating "permit reform" to further weaken bedrock environmental laws? Such a profound mistake.
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Feds to Open Tens of Thousands of Acres of Colorado Wilderness to Oil Drilling
Wildlife habitat, endangered animals and recreation could all be at risk in state's biggest public land sale in modern history.
https://capitalandmain.com/feds-to-open-hundreds-of-acres-of-colorado-wilderness-to-oil-drilling
about 18 hours ago
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Tony's thread raises a critical insight: Proponents of "build, baby, build" have embraced an "all of above" & "tech neutral" ethos that bends the government's knee to markets, does not resolve what we should or should not build, & thus confines policy design to (ironically) procedural fetishism.
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Bedrock environmental laws are eroding as a result of politicians & economic interests fixating on material interests to the exclusion of nature, creating a clear & present danger to our shared future. Our country urgently needs to craft new, strengthened environmental laws.
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about 18 hours ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
1 day ago
We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just donāt. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.
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Mark Joseph Stern
1 day ago
This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And itās outrageously partisanāa totally unprincipled gift to the GOP.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Taniel
1 day ago
RESULT: Deb Haaland will be Democrats' nominee for governor in New Mexico. Haaland, the former Interior Secretary, easily defeated Sam Bregman, a tough-on-crime DA, the AP just called. (The GOP nominee remains unclear.)
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Chris Murphy
1 day ago
The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.
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Ian James
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Starving gray whales are washing up on the Pacific coast in alarming numbers. āWith the continued warming of the oceans, and the ensuing changes in food availability, animals such as gray whales⦠are dying.ā
@susrust.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The latest on our gray whales
It's looking like another really bad year for gray whales.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-05-28/latest-on-our-gray-whales
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Leah Stokes
1 day ago
TRUTH!
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Chris Nagano
1 day ago
āOne acre of secure habitatā is all thatās needed for an ESA listed Rocky Mountain Grizzly bear? A bit of a reduction from the scientific agreed upon 2,500 acres But such is U.S. Flop & Wildlife Service āScienceā USFWS comes up w/desired conclusion, then makes up numbers/data to support it
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Western Environmental Law Center
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NEWS RELEASE: We're suing USFS/USFWS over redefining grizzly bear secure habitat patches down from 2,500 acres to ONE ACRE. Case filed just now. Details below:
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Lawsuit challenges USFSā and USFWSā drastic redefinition of "secure habitat" slashing grizzly protections in critical connectivity corridor - Western Environmental Law Center
Today, Montana conservation organizations challenged the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for dramatically weakening a core benchmark for grizzly bear conservation...
https://westernlaw.org/lawsuit-challenges-usfs-and-usfws-drastic-redefinition-of-secure-habitat-slashing-grizzly-protections-in-critical-connectivity-corridor/
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Abundance discovers that people like everything bagels. The difference with, e.g., Green New Deal folks is that they like their bagels sprinkled with Tech Bro garbage and fossil fuels rather than equity, justice, & other measures that create a social foundation for people.
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Man, I feel this. Similar dynamics in the advocacy world. Especially as tech money floods philanthropy.
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Carl Quintanilla
2 days ago
ā.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.ā
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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āBob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, said the US is seeing a wave of investor interest in North American hydrocarbons. Thatās because the previous consensus that oil and gas consumption has peaked has shifted to expectations of demand growth after 2030, McNally said.ā
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Interiorās $4 Billion Permian Oil Lease Sale Shatters Record (2)
A $4 billion federal oil and gas lease sale Wednesday in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas was the largest onshore lease sale in US history in terms of revenue generated, more than quadrupling...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/interiors-4-billion-oil-lease-sale-shatters-all-time-records
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āBased on current conditions, U.S. airlines will probably pay some $25 billion more for jet fuel in 2026 than they expected to. Thatās more than what the industry earned in 2024 and 2025 combined.ā
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Opinion | Going to Europe This Summer? Good Luck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/summer-travel-planes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m1A.eA92.ycTPHRdHiM3m&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Josh Lappen
2 days ago
As more rain has fallen, people have looked for something to blame. Many have landed on umbrellas. (this is a really good article.)
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dan sinker
2 days ago
Hormuz open next week is the new infrastructure week
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Mike Eliason
3 days ago
market: homes for computers > homes for people
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
Futures go red: * IRAN'S TASNIM NEWS AGENCY SAYS IRAN'S NEGOTIATING TEAM IS STOPPING MESSAGE EXCHANGES WITH U.S. THROUGH MEDIATORS OVER ATTACKS ON LEBANON
@reuters.com
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Chris Murphy
3 days ago
There is no deal FYI. The Strait will remain closed. This is terrible news but itās the price of incompetence.
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Acyn
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Ossoff: Heās trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when heās gone⦠because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.
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Carl Quintanilla
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BIANCO: ā.. Feb 27 is the day before the war began. The black line is the S&P 500; it is up 10+% since Feb 27. The blue line is the S&P WITHOUT the AI stocks. .. It is still DOWN 0.66%. Maybe soaring gas prices are having an impact on the market after all?ā
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Luke Stupor
5 days ago
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Katharine Hayhoe
5 days ago
Iām a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. āNearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.ā
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
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I feel like itās the people saying that we need fossil fuels to live well who have the least faith in human ingenuity, actually.
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Would absolutely love it if the clean electrification sector gets some swagger & moxy rather than get dragged along in the wake of the fossil fuel energy industry & itās transparent play for āall of the aboveā & ātech neutralā policy (which is purposefully designed to favor fossil fuel incumbents).
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David Roberts (@drvolts)
Clean electrification is the most dynamic, hopeful sector of the economy, but when it comes to politics, it's a 98-pound weakling, a pathetic junior partner in trade groups dominated by fossil gas. To...
https://substack.com/@drvolts/note/c-267213651?r=92loe&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Hakeem Jeffries
4 days ago
Just completed a congressional oversight visit with members of the New Jersey delegation. Delaney Hall should be shut down. This is not America.
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