Climate, energy, insurance, political change. Holding Big Oil accountable at @climateintegrity.org - I like my cities dense, my wilderness wild and my baseball teams winning. He/him.
Caleb Heeringa
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A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
We have some really cool jobs open right now at EPI, if I may say so. An early-career fellowship, a data engineer position, and a CA-focused research manager.
My colleagues are amazing. We have fun and we make a difference.
energyandpolicy.org/jobs/
Hear me out: make the Tech CEOs use the Fracking CEOs’ wastewater in closed loop systems; leave the fresh water that is becoming increasingly scarce due to these two industries for human beings.
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Extreme heat kills more people in the US every year than all other severe weather events combined, and the US is facing another deadly summer.
Meanwhile, Trump has eliminated scores of crucial heat prevention programs.
His agenda isn’t just cruel. It’s deadly.
"Our summers haven’t simply gotten worse. They have been made worse by specific companies that knew that what they were doing would ruin summer and went ahead and did it anyway. We shouldn’t let them get away with it." @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2113...
🚨Fossil fuel-backed groups are trying to influence judges who could preside over climate lawsuits against Big Oil.
As a fracking executive, Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke to private audiences of judges at least 3 times at events whose sponsors have funding ties to Exxon, Koch, and Leonard Leo.
The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
Jobs at the Energy and Policy Institute - a watchdog exposing the attacks on renewable energy and countering misinformation by fossil fuel interests.
Climate displaced among millions of people the trump admin is attacking, per @olliemilman.bsky.social
“I was invited to come here and be part of this country and now all of a sudden you try to make me go back after establishing a life here?” - doctor from Sudan
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"what was once a path into the middle class, homeownership, now becomes a path into bankruptcy court, a path beaten by fleeing insurers and incoming extreme weather." www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/10/c...
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes – many uninsured. Why no
Climate change is making it increasingly hard to have fun in the sun—and the leading fossil fuel corporations have long known this was going to happen.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
This blew my mind.
Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people.
Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
Ryan Enos
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
The ultimate boss of failing upward.
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
