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Dana Drugmand

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Climate/enviro journalist covering climate accountability & litigation. New England native & citizen of 🌎

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 17h
This internal 1988 memo shows that Exxon understood climate action as a threat to its business And it supports the argument that any "climate solutions" Exxon promoted (algae, CCS, etc.) were not serious fixes to the climate change problem fueled by the company's core products
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 17h
A must read from @insideclimatenews.org, reporting on previously undisclosed docs in a consumer fraud case against Exxon brought by Massachusetts, a case that is deep into discovery 👀 insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...
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New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil - Inside Climate News
Court filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18h
Big win for climate accountability in Australia 🇦🇺 Australia's High Court ruled that approval of a coalmine expansion failed to consider imposing conditions to minimize scope 3 GHG emissions - and was therefore invalid www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big day for climate & environmental law today w/ #SCOTUS hearing Suncor v. Boulder A rundown here on some of things that came up during oral arguments www.climateinthecourts.com/big-oil-and-...
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Big Oil And Boulder, Colorado Face Off At US Supreme Court
Some justices seemed skeptical of oil companies’ broad constitutional arguments. The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday with oral arguments in a case called Suncor v. Commissioners of...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's the eve of a "blockbuster" climate case hearing at the US Supreme Court (and yes, the term "deception" in the title here is intentional, as there is lots of mischaracterizing going on) Some thoughts here #SCOTUS #climatelitigation #BigOil www.climateinthecourts.com/climate-dece...
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Climate Deception Suit Comes To The Supreme Court
A few points to keep in mind as the highest U.S. court hears a landmark climate case. Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court opens its fall term with what has been described as a “blockbuster” climate cas...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 03/10/2026
Just days before the Supreme Court hears Boulder’s landmark climate case against Big Oil, a New Jersey county filed the latest climate suit against the industry.
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New Jersey’s Middlesex County Sues Big Oil Over Escalating Climate Impacts - Inside Climate News
The lawsuit comes as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in a similar climate case against oil companies. A ruling in the industry’s favor in that case could kill dozens of pending climate s...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A NJ county filed the latest climate suit against #BigOil just days before SCOTUS hears a landmark climate case. That decision could end the county’s suit & dozens of others nationwide But county officials say they weren't deterred by the looming #SCOTUS ruling insideclimatenews.org/news/0210202...
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New Jersey’s Middlesex County Sues Big Oil Over Escalating Climate Impacts - Inside Climate News
The lawsuit comes as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in a similar climate case against oil companies. A ruling in the industry’s favor in that case could kill dozens of pending climate s...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Update - Today legal challenges to this rollback were filed by a coalition of environmental groups (@sierraclub.org, @biologicaldiversity.org & others) and, separately, by California & 25 other states, cities & counties www.sierraclub.org/sierra/fuel-...
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Fuel Costs Will Increase, and Carbon Emissions Too, After Trump’s CAFE Standards Rollback
The Trump administration’s new policy will make the high cost of living even more unaffordable
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I spoke to lawmakers and advocates in Minnesota, Washington State, Connecticut, and Vermont, and their message to polluters is clear: they're not backing down.
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Grist @grist.org · 30/09/2026
States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in.
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States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in.
New York’s "climate superfund” law has suffered two losses in court, while a U.S. Supreme Court case next week could determine the fate of similar efforts nationwide.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aaron's piece is spot-on This extends far beyond climate & "really does represent an attempt to fundamentally restructure our corporate governance model in the US" They want to not only dismantle the regulatory state, but also take away any judicial recourse to remedy harms. It is utter impunity
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Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration finalized a rule on Monday that significantly rolls back fuel economy standards on motor vehicles—a move that harms public health, the environment and consumers pocketbooks. It comes as gas prices skyrocket and Americans reel from an affordability crisis.
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Fuel Costs Will Increase, and Carbon Emissions Too, After Trump’s CAFE Standards Rollback
The Trump administration’s new policy will make the high cost of living even more unaffordable
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In these perilous times, w/ escalating backlash to climate action from corporate polluters & government backers, the UN SG reminded us that those fighting for accountability & justice "are on the right side of history" More reflections here from #ClimateWeekNYC www.oneearthnow.org/p/keep-going...
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“Keep Going”: Reflections from Climate Week on the Global Struggle for Accountability
Through climate lawsuits and other initiatives, people and communities around the world continue to fight to hold polluters accountable for climate change harm.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 29/09/2026
Justice Samuel Alito, who holds investments in individual fossil fuel companies, just recused himself from a key climate case before the Supreme Court. But he participated in the decision-making process to hear the case in the first place.
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Alito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late? - Inside Climate News
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership o...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The recusal follows new research from @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social showing that Alito owns individual stocks in oil companies that have warned shareholders for years that climate lawsuits against them could pose financial risks
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Karen Zraick @karenzraick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers said Tuesday that they had identified “staggering” missteps in a multimillion-dollar verdict against Greenpeace last year and argued that the judgment should be overturned. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/c...
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$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers accused the judge of bias and “general incompetence.”
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this yr, MI brought an antitrust lawsuit against #BigOil alleging a conspiracy to thwart renewables & EVs. Legal experts said this approach - a departure from other climate deception suits - seemed promising On Tues. a federal court tossed out the case insideclimatenews.org/news/2309202...
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Court Nixes Michigan’s Novel Antitrust Case Targeting Big Oil  - Inside Climate News
The state alleged that oil companies colluded to delay the energy transition, driving up prices for consumers. The court was not convinced this conspiracy directly caused overcharges for energy.
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...
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Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Climate campaigners today delivered petitions w/ over 2 million signatures to the UN calling on governments to make polluters pay Their demand was just echoed by the UN Secretary-General @polluterspay.bsky.social
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In announcing the proposed rollback of all limits on power plant GHG emissions, EPA claimed: "Any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the US power sector" But EPA's own website appears to dispute this claim
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Point Source News @pointsourcenews.org · 17/09/2026
As climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies get closer to trial, oil giants and a constellation of well-funded allies are deploying multiple strategies to try to undermine the cases or completely immunize the industry from liability. Here's a roadmap of all the ways they're doing it.
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“They’re pulling out all the stops”: Big Oil’s all-encompassing attacks on climate lawsuits
The fossil fuel industry and its allies are coordinating to end lawsuits that could make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is considering proposals for at least 12 data centers and data center-related infrastructure projects to be built on federal public lands — far more than previously known.
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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Supreme Court has recognized and upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases for nearly two decades. But the EPA is repealing the 2024 greenhouse gas standards for power plants and eliminating climate pollution controls for the electric sector. This is disastrous for the climate.
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Trump, Zeldin Try to “Unleash” Dirty Energy with Repeal of Pollution Standards
The EPA’s rollback of emissions from power plants puts public health, climate at risk
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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While erasing any limit to planet-heating pollution from power plants, Donald Trump's EPA made two bold claims - that this will lower Americans' energy bills and the pollution doesn't even matter anyway. The EPA's own documents tell a very different story www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’
Claims that dismantling pollution rules will lower energy bills and have little climate impact are far from convincing
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEWS: I'm thrilled to be launching Point Source with the one and only @rebleber.bsky.social today! We'll be working to expand the too-small ecosystem of climate accountability reporting. We've already got two new stories up on the site -- please check them out and subscribe!
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On Wednesday a congressional committee will consider advancing a sweeping liability shield bill that would immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate lawsuits 👀 Meanwhile, the Trump admin is repealing all climate regulations insideclimatenews.org/news/1509202...
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Congressional Republicans Aim to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits - Inside Climate News
The House Judiciary Committee will consider the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act as the Trump administration moves to roll back federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On Wednesday a congressional committee will consider advancing a sweeping liability shield bill that would immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate lawsuits 👀 Meanwhile, the Trump admin is repealing all climate regulations insideclimatenews.org/news/1509202...
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Congressional Republicans Aim to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawsuits - Inside Climate News
The House Judiciary Committee will consider the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act as the Trump administration moves to roll back federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The news media's recent reporting on the devastating & deadly flood disaster in Nepal, however, could mark a turning point, as "more news outlets are making the climate connection...than has ever been the case", said @coveringclimatenow.org's Mark Hertsgaard coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...
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Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage? — Covering Climate Now
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southe...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 3 major US broadcast networks aired 194 segments in July on record-shattering heat events, & not a single one mentioned climate change This failure to connect the dots is part of a larger trend of 📉 declining coverage, along w/ layoffs of climate journalists www.sierraclub.org/sierra/why-w...
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Why Won’t the Media Say “Climate Change”?
Climate coverage has been dropping even as extreme climate-supercharged weather gets worse
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on "Fossil Tech:" "Forget the shiny clean image Silicon Valley nurtured for years. Not only is the industry now steeped in oil, gas and coal, we are witnessing a dangerous and novel symbiosis between the two most powerful and profitable sectors in history."
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The AMOC is now at its weakest in at least 1,000 years." - Watch PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explain how climate change is putting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC at risk and what this could mean for Europe and the world. ➡️ Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | "Most tech geeks don’t resign from their roles because…the tech they’re building could end humanity."
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Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade
"Most tech geeks don’t resign from their roles because…the tech they’re building could end humanity," said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, running for US Senate in Michigan.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Climate change is bankrupting ranchers" said CO rancher Kathryn Bedell "It’s affecting us directly,” rancher Caleb Valdez said. “I hope the lawsuit holds the largest contributors accountable for the consequences." Great reporting here from @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability
Colorado ranchers struggling with severe drought and heat have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a climate case that soon will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UPDATE: A federal panel granted environmental groups' request for a stay, halting the data center project while the legal challenges get resolved "We’re thrilled that this data center has been stopped dead in its tracks," said @biologicaldiversity.org's Patrick Donnelly
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A federal court on Monday struck down NY's climate superfund law, siding w/ Republican state AGs & fossil fuel industry groups that sued to overturn it But the legal fight might not be over. Supporters of the law are urging the NY AG to appeal www.climateinthecourts.com/court-deals-...
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Court Deals A Blow To New York's Climate Superfund Law
The ruling strikes down New York’s landmark polluter pays law. But the legal battle may not be over just yet. Story co-published with One Earth Now State efforts to hold major fossil fuel produc...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Five US states have already passed bills shielding polluters from climate accountability. More could soon follow - ALEC recently adopted a model bill that would ban climate liability 👀 Now NZ has become the first country to ban climate tort claims www.oneearthnow.org/p/new-zealan...
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New Zealand Just Made It Illegal to Sue Polluters for Climate Harm
The right-wing coalition government has passed legislation that bans climate tort litigation and shuts down a case that was set to go to trial next year.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 28/08/2026
NEW: A fossil fuel front group funded by the company behind a Trump-backed gas pipeline says it helped flip Gov. Kathy Hochul. The group met with her office, supplied dubious polling — then bragged that, within weeks, Hochul embraced its agenda.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NZ 🇳🇿 has passed a controversial new law that prohibits climate change tort liability It comes amidst mounting legislative efforts in the U.S. to similarly immunize polluters from any prospects of climate liability www.oneearthnow.org/p/new-zealan...
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New Zealand Just Made It Illegal to Sue Polluters for Climate Harm
The right-wing coalition government has passed legislation that bans climate tort litigation and shuts down a case that was set to go to trial next year.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great reporting! I wrote about it here :) www.oneearthnow.org/p/new-zealan...
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New Zealand Just Made It Illegal to Sue Polluters for Climate Harm
The right-wing coalition government has passed legislation that bans climate tort litigation and shuts down a case that was set to go to trial next year.
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Emily L Williams @emilywilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨New paper alert! We conducted an end-to-end (i.e. source-to-impact) attribution study, quantifying how much less water supply, more water demand, and resulting groundwater decline we have because of emissions traced to the Carbon Majors.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amidst one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in the US, staffing & resources to combat the fires are at critically low levels And Trump admin policies like embracing a full suppression approach & repealing the Roadless Rule could exacerbate wildfire risk www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump...
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Trump, DOGE Slashed Firefighting Resources Before One of the Worst Fire Seasons on Record
Budget cuts and policy shifts have curtailed the federal government’s ability to respond
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 24/08/2026
Boulder, CO, and Big Oil will head to the Supreme Court in early October, which could be consequential for over two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.
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Boulder, Colorado, and Big Oil Prepare for High-Stakes Clash in Supreme Court - Inside Climate News
The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Except where right-wing politicians pass laws prohibiting it (i.e., New Zealand, Utah, etc.) www.oneearthnow.org/p/new-zealan...
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New Zealand Just Made It Illegal to Sue Polluters for Climate Harm
The right-wing coalition government has passed legislation that bans climate tort litigation and shuts down a case that was set to go to trial next year.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NZ 🇳🇿 has passed a controversial new law that prohibits climate change tort liability It comes amidst mounting legislative efforts in the U.S. to similarly immunize polluters from any prospects of climate liability www.oneearthnow.org/p/new-zealan...
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New Zealand Just Made It Illegal to Sue Polluters for Climate Harm
The right-wing coalition government has passed legislation that bans climate tort litigation and shuts down a case that was set to go to trial next year.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Supreme Court is set to hear a high-stakes climate case this fall - the ability of state & local governments to hold polluting corporations accountable for climate damage could be on the line More here #climatelitigation #SCOTUS insideclimatenews.org/news/2308202...
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Boulder, Colorado, and Big Oil Prepare for High-Stakes Clash in Supreme Court - Inside Climate News
The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UPDATE - The New Zealand Parliament has now passed this legislation banning climate tort lawsuits & extinguishing a live case against major emitters "Courts are not the right place to resolve claims of harm from climate change" said Minister Paul Goldsmith insideclimatenews.org/news/1905202...
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New Zealand Moves to Ban Tort Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Damage - Inside Climate News
The move comes as the American Petroleum Institute and Republicans in Congress push legislation in the U.S. to shield the oil and gas industry from climate accountability.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UPDATE - The New Zealand Parliament has now passed this legislation banning climate tort lawsuits & extinguishing a live case against major emitters "Courts are not the right place to resolve claims of harm from climate change" said Minister Paul Goldsmith insideclimatenews.org/news/1905202...
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New Zealand Moves to Ban Tort Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Damage - Inside Climate News
The move comes as the American Petroleum Institute and Republicans in Congress push legislation in the U.S. to shield the oil and gas industry from climate accountability.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of municipalities & states across the US have sued #BigOil firms like ExxonMobil over the past 9 years, alleging they lied about the climate harms of their products Now, oil companies are looking to quash all of these suits, w/ the help of #SCOTUS www.oneearthnow.org/p/the-us-sup...
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The U.S. Supreme Court is Set to Hear a Landmark Climate Change Case Against Big Oil
The ruling could impact dozens of climate deception lawsuits that are pending against oil companies.
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