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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Texas AG's office has announced a sweeping "birth tourism" investigation, citing as evidence a website that redirects to a GoDaddy parking page

The url that the Texas attorney general's office linked to to illustrate its concerns with "birth tourism" doesn't lead to an active website.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Really nice motion here by State Farm to prohibit homeowners from showing a California jury pictures of their kids and baby deer at their home before it burned down

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

President Donald Trump has drastically cut protections for two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalanate. In this morning’s Landmark, read about the brewing legal fight and history of the Antiquities Act — a 100-year-old law likely to be at the center of that dispute.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A friend sent me a link to this "AI news" site Prism today, and I can't get over that it has affiliated links bringing you to stuff like this Ebay listing for a reconditioned Ford E-450 shuttle bus I wonder what their small commission is if I buy this bad boy...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love these two together on the timeline today

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Breaking Supreme Court News: The high court has undermined a $745 million coastal land loss suit filed by a Louisiana Parish against fossil fuel companies, including Chevron.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This was my dog’s reaction when I told her about the new inflation numbers. Not fussed, I guess…

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

New in Landmark today: Expect some tricky legal maneuvering behind the scenes as lawsuits challenging the Trump EPA’s endangerment finding repeal progress.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

New in Landmark today: Expect some tricky legal maneuvering behind the scenes as lawsuits challenging the Trump EPA’s endangerment finding repeal progress.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Update: Young people represented by @youthvgov.bsky.social have also filed a petition challenging the rule. They kids — who successfully sued Montana over its rules enabling climate change, and settled with Hawaii later — claim the rule violates the U.S. Constitution.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

But for real, if “no politics” from Bad Bunny and Green Day is the goal then I really don’t think Goodell’s team did a very good job during vetting

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

NEWS: Offshore wind developers have scored a clean sweep in early legal challenges to the Trump administration’s attempt to halt their projects.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

NEWS: Oregon is suing the Trump admin over a secretive plan to build an ICE detention center along the state's coast. The complaint claims the area is "inhospitable" and is exposed to strong wind, hail and cold temps. It is also an area where numerous endangered species have been seen.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Is the U.S. government unable to tell when images and videos are doctored? ht tps://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/30/us/epstein-files-release

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled today that a secret Department of Energy working group that issued a report used to justify the revocation of a keystone climate regulation last year was unlawful.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This NPR story is crazy. The Trump admin secretly slashed safety and environmental safeguards for nuclar power. The changes included an increase in the amount of radiation workers can safely endure, and huge cutbacks to water quality requirements. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The Trump administration has sued California, seeking to kill a state law that prohibits oil and gas development near schools and hospitals in the state. Docs: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72145...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

All of these photos linked below are pretty amazing, and horrifyingly cinematic. This one especially made me pause:

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The lawsuit was first filed in 2020. But it was paused after the Biden admin took office and started a new enviro review of potential drilling. In 2024, the admin held a very small lease sale that received zero bids. The Trump admin has since reversed course and opened the entire coastal plain.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

JUST IN: Indigenous groups and enviros have revived a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin’s oil and gas lease program for the Coastal Plain of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling there threatens sacred land, as well as caribou, polar bear and bird habitat, they said today.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Trump admin's had said in Dec that work must stop due to far-fetched concerns that wind turbines create radio interference/create a national security threat. The admin has reportedly asked other agencies to try to figure out ways to stop offshore wind (including by analyzing health effects).

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Today, a judge in DC will consider whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump admin's SECOND stop work order on offshore wind development. This is the second time Revolution Wind, whose $6.2B wind farm off CT/RI is roughly 87% complete, has had to ask the court for this relief.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Finished my first book of the year: Rising by Elizabeth Rush. Beautiful reporting on sea-level rise and the American communities already living with it. A reminder of how grounding it is to follow one careful thread all the way through for a while.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

An ICE agent shot and apparently killed a woman in her car today in Minneapolis. It goes without saying — this should never happen. But police know better, too: after the George Floyd murder, LE guidelines were updated to prohibit firing into moving vehicles. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Shoutout to my LinkedIn feed for keeping the main thing the main thing today.

Saint Nicolas was a Greek guy born in what is today's Turkey. So Santa Claus or Saint Nicolas was not Black.
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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Here's the latest, by me, on the brewing insurance investigation in New York, where state lawmakers have been probing why homeowner/property rates are going up so fast: Sen. Brian Kavanagh told me he isn't convinced by the insurance industry's explanations for the crisis, at least not yet.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

BIG NEWS: A group of homeowners have filed the first-ever climate suit against Big Oil over insurance costs. Like similar cases, they allege Big Oil deceived the public about the dangers of burning oil/gas. Now, homeowners are paying billions of dollars more for homeowners' insurance, they claim.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Climate change, inflation and aging infrastructure concerns impact building insurance regardless of whether its affordable or market rate. But affordable housing, which has restrictions on revenue, is especially vulnerable to price increases that everyone in the US seems to be experiencing.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

After Zohran Mamdani's election last week in NYC, I think a lot of people are wondering how feasible his 200k apartments plan is. I've seen a lot of emotional takes. But I took a crack at explaining an oft-overlooked, unsexy but very important system that could be a big obstacle: Insurance. (1/x)

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The database - which shows the US had 14 separate billion-dollar disasters in the first half of 2025 - is available here: www.climatecentral.org And my story can be found here for subscribers of Insurance Insider: www.insuranceinsiderus.com/article/2fhn...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Earlier this year, the Trump administration killed NOAA's billion-dollar disaster database - one of many attempts to censor climate change in the federal gov But the climatologist who compiled the program just revived it, launching just this morning with the folks @climatecentral.org

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My latest, analyzing the legal justification for the Trump admin’s latest attack on climate regs, just posted. Featuring commentary from Joe Goffman, a former Biden EPA air & radiation office official:

What was less clear heading into the announcement was exactly what this proposed repeal would look like. More importantly, it was unclear how exactly the agency would try to justify a move that basically contradicts the vast majority of climate science that points to greenhouse gases as the cause of climate change, and climate change as a deadly and costly growing phenomenon.
Those questions have finally been answered, at least somewhat: The proposal largely dodges questions of science and focuses on the legal argument that Congress never gave the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The argument relies heavily on interpretations of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have together already restricted the powers of administrative agencies like the EPA.
“It’s hard to avoid the thought that EPA and the administration are beckoning to the court to make new law here,” Joe Goffman, a former assistant administrator in the EPA’s office of air and radiation during the Biden administration, told Landmark.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

NEW: A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states have sued the Trump administration for illegally eliminating FEMA’s BRIC pre-disaster grant program. Billions of dollars needed to fortify communities against hurricanes, floods and earthquakes (among other climate change risks) are at stake.

The lawsuit comes just short of two weeks after devastating floods hit Texas communities, and killed over 100 people.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court this morning rejected an effort by Texas to block a federal plan to temporarily store nuclear waste in the state. The decision removes a major roadblock for site, and comes amid renewed interest in nuclear facilities to help meet American energy needs.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

NEWS: Just hours after Trump revoked California’s “clean cars” waivers, a coalition of states filed a groundbreaking lawsuit. Experts say there isn’t precedent for this type of case, since the law used to revoke the waivers doesn’t have explicit judicial review. substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Troops being deployed to Los Angeles are telling friends and families that they’re uncomfortable with the assignment to police American citizens. They said morale is down, and they feel like pawns in a political fight, according to the Guardian.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Yesterday, a DOJ memo was published that determined Trump, as president, can abolish protected national monuments should he so choose. Legal experts tell Landmark that the opinion is a rare departure from a previous DOJ position and a a “dramatic shift” with a lot at stake.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

NEWS: A new memo released by the Trump administration concludes the president has the power to completely abolish national monuments designated by past presidents under the Antiquities Act. The legal conclusion sets up potential court fights over untested legal questions.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Not to be a “slam the NYT” guy but… I feel like a lead story quoting 7 Republicans saying the LA riots are an “invasion” by lawless Dems and not mentioning ANY protest context (the admin has illegally deported people to foreign prisons without due process) kind of misses the bar.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The daughter of a woman who died in a 2021 heat wave has become the first person to sue Big Oil in the U.S. for wrongful death due to climate change. The complaint brings with it unique legal challenges that we haven’t seen in other cases by governments with similar allegations, but…

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Trump’s EPA this week sent a warning shot to blue states and tribes that they shouldn’t use the Clean Water Act to deny permits for projects without direct water quality implications. The move aligns the administration with fossil fuel companies and other developers.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Some huge climate change law news out of New York yesterday— Local Law 97 beats preemption claims in the state’s highest court.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Will insurers sue Big Oil over climate change damages? Hawaii lawmakers sure think they should. The state became the first in the U.S. this week to explicitly recommend insurers file lawsuits to recoup costs after major natural disasters, like the 2023 wildfires in Lahaina. (1/4)

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Trump administration just announced a big shift for drilling in the Alaskan arctic: To further the president’s energy agenda, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum today said his department would make moves to open up contested parts of Alaska to drilling. Cont…

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A jury in North Dakota today issued a verdict that could bankrupt Greenpeace following its protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project. After two days of deliberation, a nine-person jury ordered the non-profit to pay an estimated $660 million in damages to pipeline co Energy Transfer.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a complaint filed by 19 Republican-led states seeking to quash climate change accountability lawsuits seeking damages from Big Oil.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case about an energy issue that could hugely influence the future use of nuclear power in America: what do we do with all the nuclear waste power plants create? Here’s a quick breakdown of the legal arguments: substack.com/@clarkmindoc...

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

NEW: The Supreme Court this morning issued a ruling that weakens the EPA’s enforcement of wastewater pollution restrictions (in this case it’s sewage in the San Francisco Bay).

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New: Environmentalists are suing to force the Trump EPA to hand over communications related to its reported decision to revoke the greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

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Clark Mindock @clarkmindock.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Judge William Alsup says no law “in the history of the universe” gives DOGE the power to simply fire federal employees at agencies like the EPA, BLM, DOI, etc.

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