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Caleb Heeringa

@calebheeringa.bsky.social
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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.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 6h
Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep
Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 8h
Homer saying “those are prizes” while holding a blasting cap
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 14h
Many of us who live in Seattle don't have a ton of personal space. That's why the public spaces we all share are so important. My proposed budget includes $1.4 million for 12 new public restrooms across Seattle so everyone can explore our beautiful city with comfort and confidence.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 15h
“We have to sit and listen as men worth unfathomable sums speculate about whether our species will survive their companies’ initial public offerings. We definitely weren’t designed to cope with all this.” 🎯
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18h
The assault on public lands is so disgusting to me. Once these are privatized, they are never coming back.
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The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News
Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 20h
Hot new fad on the right: granting special legal rights to corporations by taking away everyday peoples’ right to access the court system. Corporate bill mill ALEC pushing these in a state house near you next year. @newrepublic.com @aaronregunberg.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2154...
newrepublic.com
The Right-Wing Plot to Make It Harder to Sue Corporations
Oligarchs and their Republican lackeys are working together to shield corporations from accountability for the widespread harms they do to the American people.
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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 20h
latest by me - the number of people cut off from their electricity surged in July, the hottest month ever recorded in the US. Americans describe cutting back on food and suffering heatstroke as inflation and the climate crisis collided this summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer
Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 21h
"Exxon and Suncor can point to no language in the Clean Air Act that preempts Boulder’s claims. Why? Because there is none." Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and former EPA general counsel Avi Garbow on why Big Oil's arguments to escape accountability "have no credibility whatsoever."
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Big Oil can’t hide behind the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 28/09/2026
Justice Samuel Alito has recused from Suncor v. Boulder — one of the dozens of state and local lawsuits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their climate deception and the resulting harms.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
cool seeing what the 1000s of military forces stationed in the nation's capital are getting up to #freedc #nationalguardgohome #possecomitatus
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JTF-DC Alaska National Guard Conduct Close Quarters Clearing Training
U.S. National Guardsmen with the Alaska National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC) in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission, practice close-quarters room clearin...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmental groups that argued he was compromised by his financial holdings in the oil and gas industry."
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Alito recuses himself from major Supreme Court climate change case | CNN Politics
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmen...
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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW — Conservative groups have filed over 100 records requests at 19 universities across the country, targeting at least 30 climate researchers since 2021. The goal: Discredit scholars who could persuade judges and juries in multi-billion-dollar climate cases. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smart and strategic organizing works.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOOOO!
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"More than half of [rising household costs due to climate change] came from higher home insurance rates — and indirect insurance costs on businesses that are passed on to consumers." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: Prices are already high. Add ‘climateflation’ to the tab.
Climate change is boosting costs for households beyond the inflationary pressures from war and tariffs.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Americans are paying the [climate change] bill. Twice. Higher energy costs. The public health toll of unchecked pollution. Rising disaster costs. Homeowners’ insurance becoming unaffordable and unavailable. Lost taxpayer revenue." www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...
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Leader Schumer, Whitehouse Unveil Comprehensive New Report Exposing Corrupt Fossil Fuel Industry Control Over Trump Administration
As energy and electricity costs skyrocket, Americans are paying Trump’s debt to the fossil fuel industry Bombshell investigation released as part of Leader Schumer’s Anti-Corruption Workin...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans want people to use more gasoline, no matter what it costs them, so that fossil industry profits will rise. No, really. This is not a culture war. That’s why they’re making cars burn more gasoline.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ocean surface temps tend to decline around this time but this year they're just kinda saying no thanks to that idea
Chart of daily sea surface temperatures for the world excluding the polar regions, showing a red line for 2026 now well above all other years including recent records, and only a slight decline from an August peak while other years tend to start getting cooler this time of year
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
welp... earlier this year I wrote for @desmog.com about what this could mean for US communities in the path of the LNG export buildout
reuters.com
EU to delay methane emissions rules after pushback from governments
The European Commission plans to postpone ​the European Union's landmark law ‌to reduce methane emissions, a spokesperson said on Monday, ​following calls from governments ​including France and the ⁠U...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What AI is doing to the already rapacious and deadly American healthcare system is truly dark. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Make Polluters Pay International @makepolluterpayint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is huge! The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just used his final General Assembly speech to world leaders to pay tribute to our #MakePollutersPay movement. “You are on the right side of history – keep going.” This movement is powerful. We are changing politics. Get involved!
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're in your forties you can only achieve this sort of gain by drinking three beers in one day.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 28/09/2026
Can’t make it up. A former sundown town with a now majority black population with 1 in 4 below the poverty line despite being the home to a Fortune 500 company that is now constructing data centers with tax breaks.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is literally a Simpsons joke
So learn on the go with
your phone, wherever you are.
Genghis Khan
Professor of HistoryGenghis Khan Simpsons

YOU'LL GO WHERE I GO DEFILE WHAT I DEFILE, EAT WHO I EAT HMM?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess none of what I said about attribution, mitigation, or adaptation was interesting enough so I need up being quoted for something that any auntie could have said. 😩
David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was at home in Honolulu when Lala hit. His neighborhood flooded, and he was one of 200,000 electricity customers across the state who lost power. More than 200 homes and an estimated $67 million worth of public infrastructure were damaged, according to
*he Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
"We have a lot of houses that were built before the building codes were modernized, Ho told me. "So once in a while, you have roofs that just fly away."
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The decline of Starbucks is a boon for small local businesses.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I don’t want Clippy, I want trains, libraries and abundant affordable housing.
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🏳️‍🌈Toofthey 🔜 WPAFW 🏳️‍⚧️ @toofthey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
smh of course the Bezos Washington Post won't acknowledge that @theneedling.com already outscooped them on this story theneedling.com/2026/02/08/e...
theneedling.com
Environmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep Using
Accomplishing what no other green energy advocate has before, this month environmental hero President Donald Trump successfully created so much indefinite economic turmoil in the global oil market …
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades, climate-concerned folks have been saying that we need to plan for fair and orderly transition away from fossil fuels, or we’ll get an unjust and chaotic one. We’re all going to be living the later in the coming months.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Birdpoof @birdpoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So I was looking at some Fidelity mutual funds. They have a "Climate Action Fund" with the top holdings in....NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Microsoft. Not sure about Apple, but everyone else is guilty of massive climate pollution in pushing AI.
Screenshot of the Fidelity Climate Action Fund, showing the top holdings as NVIDIA, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Microsoft.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
If someone wants to build an actually good machine learning tool, mapping satellite data into actionable evidence regulators can use to fine or arrest mega-polluters, such as tech monopoly subcontractors running fossil generators at data centers far beyond permits, seems like a solid place to start.
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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thinking about how we are definitely going to see an escalation after the midterms, regardless of the result. I think November-January will be pivotal for US democracy and I hope everyone is connected with a local civic organization that takes the threat seriously.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate vocab of the day: Carbon Tunnel Vision—when climate policymakers obsess about reducing carbon emissions, while avoiding the root cause: fossil fuels. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera on that and more w/ @ninalakhani.bsky.social: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
May 2024: "You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. Giving $1 billion would be a 'deal,' Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Without huge policy interventions (like making Big Oil pay its fair share of climate damages), this is the future for millions of American homeowners: legit insurance companies skip town due to rising disaster risk, leaving sketchy providers as your only option. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
California homebuyer forced into 'no-name insurance' with a $25,000 fire deductible
Low-risk homes accounted for 90% of the policies added to the California FAIR Plan.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 24/09/2026
I can't stop thinking about the framework this piece lays out -- it is a really powerful way to think about climate risk. ( a short thread)
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Judges say: No really, stop doing third-country removals immediately. And ICE flights are kinda still landing in third-country removal countries??? prospect.org/2026/09/24/j...
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Judges Reject ICE’s Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Any proactive government (not to mention one concerned about affordability) should be seizing this opportunity to accelerate the transition to electric ferries, not watching as fares tick upwards and routes get cut. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
Record diesel prices are squeezing Bay Area ferries. Riders could soon pay more
Record-high fuel prices are putting strain on the Bay Area’s popular ferry system, prompting one of the biggest operators to cut a mid-day route and consider a surcharge for passengers.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The truth is that the world has never experienced an El Nino of anything like this strength, so we really have no idea just how catastrophic its impacts and consequences will be My guess is that the number of casualties will be far higher than this www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not even halfway through the typical Pacific hurricane season, a historic El Niño still ramping up and Hawaiʻi is preparing for its fourth (!) hurricane of the year. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/w...
cnn.com
El Niño is supercharging Pacific storms. A new hurricane threat for Hawaii and monstrous Polo are further proof | CNN
An El Niño-fueled Pacific hurricane season isn’t slowing down, with a threat taking shape for Hawaii a day after Hurricane Polo hit Category 5 status off Mexico’s coast.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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