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Clara Vondrich

@claravondrich.bsky.social
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Climate Counsel @Public Citizen New Mama to Laska 🍄 Hunter & 🧘🏽‍♀️ UVA Law /Colorado College

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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW from @factcoalition.bsky.social: what Microsoft's taxes reveal about tax havens, and the tax implications of hyperscalers' enormous AI investments. Is the current complex, loophole-ridden US tax code up to the task of taxing AI profits? thefactcoalition.org/ireland-ai-a...
thefactcoalition.org
Ireland, AI and Microsoft’s Vanishing Tax Bill
Microsoft’s new financial disclosures demonstrate the challenge facing policymakers interested in taxing AI: massive investment in the sector is lowering tax collected today, and even when the technol...
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Destroying Earth isn't enough for these guys. Space! The next frontier.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Big Tech is Big Trouble for climate. Check out my oped @desmog.com on the double whammy Big Tech is perpetrating: 1) a bonanza build-out of fossil gas to fuel AI data centers, 2) sale of AI to Big Oil to find more oil, faster. And these companies call themselves climate champs! #datacenters #AI
desmog.com
Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer
The industry has abandoned its climate pledges in favor of fossil fuel-powered AI data centers.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Come hear from @repmaxwellfrost and @nallelicobo about why climate can’t wait - at a virtual Youth Town Hall. Bring your questions and your friends. All are welcome! #climatetownhall @publiccitizen.bsky.social Details and sign up here:
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Youth Climate Townhall with Rep Maxwell Frost · Climate Action Campaign
Right now, young people are being forced to inherit a climate crisis they didn’t create while the Trump administration treats our future as expendable. The good news is countless young people are taking action and organizing to build the world we want and need to thrive. One of them is named MAXWELL FROST. He's the youngest person in Congress, elected at age 25. But he's not only a tireless climate advocate, he's also a drummer known for his sick beats.* Come hear from him how young people can grow the movement to tackle climate change! Nalleli Cobo will moderate the town hall and share her inspiring story of turning outrage into activism and eventually victory.** Join from anywhere. Just bring your IDEAS, QUESTIONS and FRIENDS. Cosponsored by: genCLEO, Sunrise Orlando, Climate Power, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, League of Conservation Voters, Moms Clean Air Force, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Next Gen Education Fund, Poder Latinx, Public Citizen, Physicians for Social Responsibility Florida, Rock the Vote, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Voters of Tomorrow, Young, Gifted, & Green, Clean Water Fund, NAACP Grand Rapids Chapter, Community Collaboration on Climate Change, Elected Officials to Protect America, Youth Action Fund *https://www.teenvogue.com/story/maxwell-frost-congress-drumming-music **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKAYPHqmpY&t=4s
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...
peri.umass.edu
National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing
The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Big Tech is Big Trouble for climate. Check out my oped @desmog.com on the double whammy Big Tech is perpetrating: 1) a bonanza build-out of fossil gas to fuel AI data centers, 2) sale of AI to Big Oil to find more oil, faster. And these companies call themselves climate champs! #datacenters #AI
desmog.com
Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer
The industry has abandoned its climate pledges in favor of fossil fuel-powered AI data centers.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 16/07/2026
Data centers are on track to produce nearly 400 million metric tons (one Australia's worth) of planet-heating pollution a year by 2030 — unless Big Tech invests in renewables instead of gas-fired power to fuel the AI juggernaut.
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Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer
The industry has abandoned its climate pledges in favor of fossil fuel-powered AI data centers.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm attending Disappeared in America's event, “Justice4Lorenzo&Johan: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call” - sign up now to join www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...
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Justice4Lorenzo&Johan: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call · Disappeared in America
On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. He was a dad driving a work van with his crew when he was gunned down. Then on Monday, July 13, ICE un...
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Breaking down the climate implications pf the AI data center craze: tinyurl.com/4rprfvpu
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MO-KAN HASH @mokanhash.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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kansasreflector.com
Do data centers impact our physical health? Studies are few and far between. • Kansas Reflector
There research into physical health impacts related to data centers is still in its early stages, but seems comparable to other industries.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Did you know the Supreme Court's atrocious Bayer/ Monsanto decision today comes smack dab in the middle of Pollinator Week? To hell with humans AND butterflies.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lions, tigers and snakes, oh my! Climate driving 1st two to extinction, and the third into your house where it will bite you. Maybe when climate also causes super-size spiders will we wake tf up.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you don't believe in climate change, that's ok. It sure as hell believes in you! (very proud of this line) :-)
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This won't be popular but it's the truth: The window for curbing fossil-fueled climate change without massive societal sacrifices is closed. No more happy talk about green prosperity. @soniaaggarwal.bsky.social @halharvey.bsky.social called this "The Costs of Delay" circa 2011. We delayed too long.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now that's what I call effective communications.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Man, we'll do just about anything to avoid short-term discomfort! Slashing fossil fuel emissions surely brings some tough choices, but the payoff could be survival. Instead, we'd rather skip the grind and throw our fate with unproven potentially catastrophic geoengineering. Makes perfect sense.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
At least 18 dead in France in fossil-fueled heat wave -- 5 from overheating, including 2 kids, and 13 by drowning as masses seek to beat the heat. A nightmare scenario predicted by Big Oil decades ago. While people die, Big Oil rides a sugar high from the Iran War & welfare from the Administration.
reuters.com
At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes
At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a ​heatwave hung over Europe, smashing temperature records in several cities on Monday.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Dude - the latest best thinking of Democrats and Abundance purveyors is that we can't talk about climate if we want to win elections. What a bunch of horse shit! Do we really think Americans are that morbidly dumb? Climate is the ultimate cost-of-living crisis now and tomorrow.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is classic AI direction of travel: Meta fires 8K people, then promptly starts a ‘Workforce Academy’ to train workers to build data centers. "Forget about learning to code. Meta Platforms says it’s time to pick up a wrench." Jesus Christ. We are literally just cogs in the wheel now.
wsj.com
Meta Launches ‘Workforce Academy’ to Train Workers to Build Data Centers
The five-week program, which is free of charge and guarantees a job, follows a recent layoff of 8,000 employees.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Top 65 banks invested $900B in fossil fuels last year! Imagine if that was invested in renewables instead. Shout out @rainforestactionnetwork @IENearth @BankTrack @PriceofOil @ReclaimFinance @urgewald @ceedphilippines @sierraclub for exposing the BS #bankingonclimatechaos #BOCC #defundclimatechaos
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
JP Morgan admits climate tipping points are coming, but refuses to name the problem. Fossil fuels are driving us to tipping points and mega-banks are leading investors in fossil fuels. Banks have to get real like Tay-Tay: "Hi, I'm the problem, it's me." @carbonbubble
greencentralbanking.com
JP Morgan becomes one of the first banks to look at climate tipping points
Leading bank outlines how firms can start thinking about climate tipping points in a report aimed at institutional investors.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Data centers are now a country in terms of energy use! Now consuming more power than all but 10 nations globally. By 2030, they will be 6th largest user. This is not inevitable. New report @ununiversity.bsky.social #StopDataCenters #BanAISlop #climatecrisis #stopburningshit unu.edu/inweh/collec...
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Come visit the Museum of Unnatural History on the Mall! Pop-up exhibit for two weeks only with awesome panels and programs. Even if you don’t believe in climate change, rest assured climate change believes in you! 😛 #unnaturaldisastersmuseum www.actonclimate.com/museum-of-un...
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"How Wounded Masculinity Fuels the Climate Crisis." @matthewgreen.bsky.social and his family of philosophers is making sense of the senseless. How did we reach this crisis point, where Bigger, Harsher and More imperils the future for all? The roots are deep. But some answers are here, now.
matthewgreenglobal.substack.com
How Wounded Masculinity Fuels the Climate Crisis
And the task of cultivating healthier models of what it means to be a man.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"The speed of the AI revolution is increasingly contrasting with the speed of the physical, social and economic systems that underpin it." Opinings from a Luddite philosopher on abstract questions of human and planetary survival? Nope, just facts from the International Energy Agency @iea.org
iea.blob.core.windows.net
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This guy! A political genius.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Even the plunder of the dirtiest, most expensive oil makes sense if you’re paid to do it. These oil guys are as tricky as they are twisted, as clever as they are corrupt. We just have a few decades left until the current ruling class is dead and gone. But, man, the damage possible in that time …
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The @volts.wtf pod is stomach-turning. Pier Lafarge trots out all the nationalist American exceptionalism rhetoric that the fossil fuel industry does -- we have to beat China at all costs and "it matters whether we put data centers in Ohio and Kansas versus Saudi Arabia. We don't and it doesn't.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
People all across America are saying NO to data center expansion, and that AI risks far outweigh the benefits. But did you know that Big Tech is also Big Oil's #1 Accomplice? @microsoft.com is currently worst offender but other hyperscalers catching up fast.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The biggest climate threat no one saw coming.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Insurers rake in the bucks by squeezing affordable housing supply. Big ass corporations squeezing blood from a stone. Same old story, different billionaires. #OverIt
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Climate silence is the the new climate denial. It's like, "ya, fight for equality but never say Holocaust or Slavery--too political." What a bunch of amoral and asinine bulshit. I will say climate crisis till the cows come home, and SO the cows come home.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Climate change is the biggest affordability crisis of our time. Check out RDP's new blog on point, and a sister piece I wrote a few months back.
climateandcapitalmedia.com
Care about affordability? Then care about climate change – cuz you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Fossil-fueled extreme weather is jacking up prices for everyone and everything. We need to start saying so.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We’re campaigning hard against data centers around the country. Microsoft is one of the biggest and the baddest Techies to blame. Want clean air, clean water and a clean climate? Then slowing AI is a must. I don’t know about you but I don’t need a better chat bot. I need a healthy and happy world.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Celebrate good times, c'mon! BP raping in the profits from bloody wars and dying kids. To think, I invested my 1995 high school graduation money there at height of Beyond Petroleum propaganda. Long since divested but what was really funny? My position BARELY appreciated over the 10 year or so term.
cnbc.com
BP profits more than double, beating expectations as Iran war boosts oil prices
The results come shortly after BP's board suffered a shareholder revolt at its annual general meeting.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Plastic was the last lifeline for a fossil fuel industry on the brink. Now it's AI data centers. @enabledemissions.bsky.social
abcmoney.co.uk
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Now Lobbying for AI Grid Prioritization
When reading through transcripts of congressional testimony and regulatory filings, there’s a point at which something’s shape becomes clear. An entire industry is shifting, nearly simultaneously, tow...
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I spent Earth Day in Virginia’s Data Center Alley visiting one of the poster children for noise from data centers. Smack in the middle of a residential area, with no pathway to quiet. My latest for @heatmap.news explains how little we’re doing to stop one of the worst parts about data centers.
heatmap.news
I Spent the Day At a Noisy Data Center. Here’s What I Learned.
Noise ordinances won’t necessarily stop a multi-resonant whine from permeating the area.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Lawmakers who have taken 9.5 million in donations from Big Oil now have a bill to shield the industry from climate laws & lawsuits nationwide. Here's what the bill could do, including preventing states from regulating emissions at all. with @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/this-new-b...
exxonknews.org
This new bill in Congress would shield Big Oil from all climate liability nationwide
Oil-funded lawmakers aim to block all current and future state climate laws and accountability lawsuits in one fell swoop.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
April showers bring May flowers? Sadly f*ng not. East Coaster most of my life. Wildfires never a thing. Now Georgia & Florida are burning in APRIL due to fossil-fueled climate drought. Meanwhile Trump turning @forestservice.bsky.social into a timber mill. Read latest from @loisparshley.bsky.social
citizen.org
Uprooting the Forest Service - Public Citizen
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Seeking recommendations for reputable Iranian relief organizations. #iranrelief #iranwar #iranattack
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
12 ships x $2 million per = $24 million dollars. A day. To Iran. The Strait was open -- and free -- until Feb 28th
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Summary (via a friend): They closed the strait again b/c war that isn’t a war that we already won has a ceasefire that isn’t a ceasefire that was just violated, now strait that’s completely open that will also open up naturally is closed but that’s fine we don’t need it also open the f---in strait
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Jaker @jaker6267.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I Love It, We need to be off of big oil, and time for more renewables in the USA, wind, solar ... etc.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Orphan wells, AROs and accounting fraud. Dull stuff but could actually help knock Big Oil down a peg: capitalandmain.com/oil-companie...
capitalandmain.com
Oil Companies Accused of Massive Accounting Fraud in New Mexico
Suit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
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Lorne Stockman @lornestockman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Trump's Iran debacle may not be your classic oil grab. But if the US wasn't awash in oil and gas, would it be happening?
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
STUNNING revelation: Trump wanted to seize Iran's oil as early as 1988, when he said he would be “harsh on Iran” if he ever became president. “I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it." First-rate reporting, as usual, @dharna.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com #oilimperialism
theguardian.com
‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep
Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Consider this: In a nation with a population approaching 349 million, the participation of 8 million people means that more than one of every 50 U.S. residents joined a No Kings rally. Stat seen on @usatoday.com
1 out of every 50 people in the U.S. attended a No Kings protest
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