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David Arkush

@darkush.bsky.social
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Climate crisis at @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Former @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Wonder why the East Coast is facing extreme heat? Oil companies have known that fossil fuels would cause heatwaves like this. They ran their own climate models. The science was clear. Instead of listening to it, they buried the truth. Now, we’re the ones paying the price.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
First, Toyota donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Then, Trump's CFPB said they don't have to pay $40 million in customer refunds anymore. And now, Trump's DOJ closed its investigation into allegations of Toyota bribery. Our government is up for sale.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Big Oil has known for over 50 years that burning fossil fuels would cause "globally catastrophic harms." Those are their own words. And yet they kept burning. Listen to David Arkush testify in front of Senate Judiciary on Big Oil's complicity in the climate crisis:
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 26/06/2025
Big Oil "knew ‪decades ago that burning fossil fuels would cause, in its own words, 'globally catastrophic' harm." What did the industry do with that knowledge? "It actively lied and deceived people," said @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social The public deserves accountability!
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We are losing to China in a competition for the future. Instead of producing energy smarter, the U.S. is defunding cleaner, safer, and cheaper energy. So the way to make America great is to fall behind??? Make it make sense.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 25/06/2025
Starting at 2:30 pm - @darkush.bsky.social and @whitehouse.senate.gov take on climate deniers led by Sen. Ted Cruz in a hearing on the fossil-fuel industry and climate litigation
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U.S. Energy Policy and Climate Litigation
Subcommittee hearing entitled “Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance.” Witnesses: David Arkush, director, climate prog...
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 30/05/2025
“There would be no question that we would hold them accountable if they caused other types of deaths. This is no different. They foresaw this, they did it anyway, and they hurt people,” said @darkush.bsky.social.
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Daughter’s lawsuit aims to hold Big Oil accountable for mother’s death | Center for Climate Integrity
Julie Leon died during the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, a deadly climate disaster that was fueled by Big Oil’s decades-long deception, lawsuit argues.
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Elyse Schupak @elyseschupak.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Powell has been negligent on addressing climate-related financial risk for some time now. With Trump looming, Powell is ignoring risks and leading the Fed into further retreat. www.citizen.org/news/from-wi...
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From Wildfires to Wall Street, Powell’s Retreat on Climate Change Puts Economy at Risk
President Trump has no plans to address climate risks other than to bully federal agencies and private institutions into ignoring them, but this reckless approach does not preclude action by the Feder...
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Donald Braman @donaldbraman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Couldn't be prouder to work with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social and @darkush.bsky.social on describing the crime that best captures Big Oil's conduct: causing or risking catastrophe. nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...
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Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe – Environmental Law Journal
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
One of the top ten phrases of 2024: climate homicide. grist.org/culture/aler... from @gristnews.bsky.social
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Alert fatigue: The phrase that defined our climate in 2024
From "carbon cowboys" to "snow loss cliff," these 10 terms captured the spirit of the hottest year yet.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Property insurance looks a lot like health insurance: companies take increasingly higher profits while withdrawing coverage and offloading costs to more and more people. We can turn it around. Here's how 👇 #WithinOurPower to #InsureOurFuture
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 26/11/2024
🚨 Maine just became the 9th U.S. state to sue Big Oil for climate deception! Big Oil companies have lied for decades about the catastrophic harm they knew their products would cause. Now it's time for accountability. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ma...
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
On Monday @senmarkey.bsky.social & Rep. Pressley wrote the Federal Reserve urging it to mitigate climate-related risk by requiring institutions it supervises to "submit and execute plans to align their activities with science-based climate targets, including reducing financed emissions." BFD!
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
It's good that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and Ricardo Lara are acting to stabilize the CA insurance market. It's bad that they're ignoring the root of the problem. They should require insurers to stop supporting fossil fuels. If they don't stop the crisis at the root, it will keep coming back.
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Insurers like are "screwing the public on climate change" -- abandoning homeowners over climate hams while continuing to insure and invest in fossil fuels. Great coverage from @emorwee.bsky.social in Heated.
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
I'm not going to call out this guy by name. But can anyone explain how someone who's not a troll could think "net zero by retirement" is clever?
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
The transition to clean energy is being driven by economics. ​“There is an inexorable economic logic to this transition,” he said. And although the transition needs to go faster, ​“it provides massive momentum to have the economics on our side.”
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Chart: Renewables are on track to keep getting cheaper and cheaper
A new report says that ongoing improvements in solar and wind tech will keep driving steep cost declines that make them even more competitive against fossil fuels.
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
It's bad enough for @politico.com to run API ads. It should at least reject ones that are grossly misleading / nearly outright false. This "car ban" rhetoric is making its way to everyday people as "the EPA wants to ban your car and take it away." False and inflammatory -- and that's the point.
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Q: In this era, who holds a symposium called "Structural Shifts in the Global Economy" and fails to put climate change and the clean energy transition on the agenda? A: The Federal Reserve, other central bankers, and top economists. The absence of leadership is stunning.
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David Arkush @darkush.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
I have an op ed in the @sfchronicle.bsky.social today with Carly Fabian: Like a Bad Neighbor, State Farm Is Gone. More tomorrow. It's late, and I'm on vacation! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfor…
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