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Abbie Dillen

@abbiedillen.bsky.social
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President of Earthjustice + Earthjustice Action

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/11/2025
Adopting this warmed-over BTI perspective is kind of goofy at any time, but doing it today, in the year of our lord 2025 -- while clean energy represents the *only* way to accelerate economic growth without breaking the bank -- is so sad. Not just hackery but moldy, past-its-expiration-date hackery.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Planet Earth vs. Trump — lawsuits, lots of them. @earthjustice.org President, @abbiedillen.bsky.social, breaks down what the heck is happening in environmental law. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1773809532
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
What the heck indeed! Any time I get to talk to @ayanaeliza.bsky.social, we always get to go to what matters most.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Must tune in to @stevevladeck.bsky.social in this instance and truly, all the time, to understand — and be real about — where SCOTUS is going. If you aren’t following One First yet, you need to.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Excited for this conversation with two of two of my heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social and @manishbapna.bsky.social
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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...
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E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
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Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org · 11/09/2025
"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:
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No Way Out Without a Fight (SSIR)
The ground-up work to stop US oil and gas expansion and create new climate politics
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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...
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No Way Out Without a Fight (SSIR)
The ground-up work to stop US oil and gas expansion and create new climate politics
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Karen Zraick @karenzraick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
An effort to kill off lawsuits against oil giants is gaining steam - my latest in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/c...
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An Effort to Kill Off Lawsuits Against Oil Giants Is Gaining Steam
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/05/2025
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.
nytimes.com
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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.
nytimes.com
Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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...
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Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists
Abigail Dillen sees the increase of lawsuits targeting green groups as just one of the growing threats to environmental advocacy organizations — and the people who staff them.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 25/03/2025
"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."
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Opinion | Trump’s Environmental Agenda Is Actually Toxic
Trump says one thing about toxins — and does another.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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.
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Raphael Ofner @raphael-ofner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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.
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Germany: Parties agree on historic debt deal – DW – 03/14/2025
The CDU/CSU bloc and the SPD have reached an agreement with the Greens on a massive increase in government borrowing.
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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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...
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 13/03/2025
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.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.”
epa.gov
Trump EPA Kicks Off Formal Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding with Agency Partners | US EPA
EPA News Release: Trump EPA Kicks Off Formal Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding with Agency Partners
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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...
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Ric O'Connell @ricoconnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#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
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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!
earthjustice.org
New Challenge on Trump Administration's Attempt to "Terminate” New York’s Congestion Pricing Program
Groups join MTA’s Lawsuit Against DOT’s Approval Reversal of Congestion Pricing Tolling Program that results in cleaner air, less traffic, and crucial funding for public transportation improvements an...
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 02/03/2025
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.
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy
President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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...
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127. Chief Justice Roberts's Administrative Stay in the Foreign Aid Funding Cases
There are two very different ways to understand Wednesday night's order temporarily absolving the government from spending $1.5 billion in obligated funds. We'll know soon enough which one is correct.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As bad as it sounds.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“and now, we are ready to do it again” The debt of gratitude to Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies can never be repaid.
reuters.com
Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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E&E News: Trump scraps Clinton EJ order, calling it ‘discrimination’
The president revoked a 1994 directive requiring agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Should Pay for the Los Angeles Fires
It’s time to require these companies to compensate communities, homeowners, businesses and even insurers for the losses.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 22/01/2025
"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.
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Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand
We stand for clean air, clean water, a safe and stable climate. Earthjustice will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨 🚀🌍 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: buff.ly/4jsf5HJ 🧵⤵️
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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Whiplash: How Big Swings in Precipitation Fueled the L.A. Fires
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain says that two very wet years followed by a very dry one helped to turn the Los Angeles wildfires into raging infernos. This phenomenon of “hydroclimate whiplash,” h...
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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.
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Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday
Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just praying for all the people in Pacific Palisades and for the first responders trying to get people out.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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”
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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...
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thanks for this great list @aimeewitteman.bsky.social !
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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:
nytimes.com
Confidence in U.S. Courts Plummets to Rate Far Below Peer Nations
Very few countries have experienced similar declines, typically in the wake of wrenching turmoil. Experts called the data, from a new Gallup poll, stunning and worrisome.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
OK friends, is it really impossible to edit a typo in your post? Just tried Skeets and couldn’t find an edit function.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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.
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‘Unfettered’ Gas Exports Would Harm U.S. Economy, Energy Secretary Warns
Jennifer Granholm said a new analysis showed that the continued pace of exports was “neither sustainable nor advisable.”
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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. 🧵
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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."
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Liz Moran @lizmoran.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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.
euronews.com
South African court rules plans for new coal power are unlawful
Civil society organisations said the government’s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children’s right to a healthy environment.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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.
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Bans Perc and T.C.E., Two Chemicals Used In Dry Cleaning
The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/12/2024
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-...
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EPA hails 'revitalized' enforcement efforts as Biden administration heads to exit
The Environmental Protection Agency says it concluded more than 1,850 civil cases this year, a 3.4% increase over 2023, and charged 121 criminal defendants, a 17.6% increase over the previous year.
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Climate One @climateone.org · 06/12/2024
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.
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What Trump 2.0 Means for the Climate
On the surface, climate policy couldn’t face a worse future than under a second Trump administration. As a candidate, Trump said on his first day back in office: “I want to drill, drill, drill.”
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Abbie Dillen @abbiedillen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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.
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