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Advocating and acting for climate & environmental justice. Chair: Michelle Regalado Deatrick Chair Substack: michelledeatrick.substack.com/ dncclimate.org | linktr.ee/DNCClimate

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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 19h
Cancer rates in #Iowa are soaring, just like the nitrate levels in their water. Republicans had ~2 decades to take the crisis seriously & they've let Iowans get sicker and sicker. Chris Jones is a water scientist running to flip the Sec. of Agriculture seat & we can help — JanePAC.com/ChrisJones
A Jane Fonda Climate PAC endorsement graphic featuring Iowa's Chris Jones, in a ball cap, smiling confidently, against a black background. Text reads "Jane Fonda Climate PAC Endorsed 2026." A label below says "Iowa | Secretary of Agriculture Chris Jones.”
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Act to protect it! 45 million acres+ of national forest. 25,000+ miles of trails. 10,000 climbing routes. And it all loses protection if the Trump administration rescinds the Roadless Rule. Public comment closes Tuesday, Oct 6: act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR0603784
Sunlit mountain valley with snow and covered in evergreen forest, with no roads visible. Text reads: Act to protect 45 million acres of national forest. DNC Climate Council logo.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watch Elida's clip on our YouTube Channel: youtube.com/shorts/nr_lHxdMIL0 Full meeting: youtu.be/QeBqHiJMy_o And make your plan to vote: iwillvote.com
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mayor Elida Castillo of Taft, Texas, a true champion for people over profit, spoke at our Council Meeting! "Your voice is your power. Use it, because if we're not using it, someone else is telling our narrative for us, and that's not freedom." @texasyoungsta.bsky.social @danielayalajrtx.bsky.social
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Commish. Davante Lewis @davanteforla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you @leadlocally.bsky.social and @thehumpod.bsky.social for the opportunity to share the story of Louisiana’s #Meta Hyperion Data Center project at #NYCClimateWeek @peterhubbardga.bsky.social #EnergyJustice #datacenters #Louisiana #ClimateJustice
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The shameful Stop Climate Shakedowns Act lets Big Oil off the hook for the climate chaos it knowingly created, then blocks states from making Big Oil pay for what it did to us all - even though the industry misled the public for decades about its terrible climate impacts.
insideclimatenews.org
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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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RSVP for the rallies: Washington, DC: thepeoplevbigoil.org Boulder, CO: actionnetwork.org/events/bould...
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Join Us: Oct. 5 | The People v. Big Oil
Big Oil knew and lied. Now, they need to pay. Join us in Washington, D.C, to make our voices heard.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three ways to follow this: 🎧 Listen live: supremecourt.gov, 10am ET, Oct. 5 📞 Contact Congress: (202) 224-3121, oppose the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act (S.4340 / H.R.8330) ✊ Rally: Washington, DC (Supreme Court steps, 9am ET) or Boulder, CO (courthouse, 11am ET)
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Supreme Court of the United States Home
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Justice Alito has finally recused himself from Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the case that opens the Supreme Court's new term. It was about time: he's gained $2.9M from fossil fuel investments since joining the Court. This could decide whether 24+ climate liability lawsuits survive at all.
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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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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a sea change from 2025, data centers now are central to Climate Week conversations. We have to regulate them, and the AI they fuel. Recommended: NEW Data Center Policy Toolkit by We Build Progress & partners: webuildprogress.org/data-center-...
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Regulate Data Centers — Communities Take Charge: Launching the Data Center Policy Toolkit — We Build Progress
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In NYC for Climate Week? We're excited to co-host this, with climate advocates GA PSC Commissioner Peter Hubbard, NY State Rep Emily Gallagher & LA PSC Commissioner Davante Lewis! Mod by Hum's Saul Levin. @davanteforla.bsky.social @peterhubbardga.bsky.social @leadlocally.bsky.social
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Fight Data Centers: A Panel & Live Recording with Lead Locally & The Hum · Lead Locally
**Join us for a panel & podcast recording (followed by happy hour!) about how local leaders are standing up to the rapid expansion of AI data centers to protect their communities, their utility bills,...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great events from @leadlocally.bsky.social this week! In NYC for Climate Week? Join our Chair @mdeatrick.bsky.social at the 9/24 Fight Data Centers & Happy Hour events!
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A $7 billion program for solar on 900,000 lower-income homes. Terminated by Trump's EPA in August 2025. Called a boondoggle by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge ruled the termination illegal. Congress had obligated the funds. EPA didn't have the authority.
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Court reinstates $7B ‘Solar for All’ program axed by Trump
A federal court has rebuffed the Trump administration’s effort to slash a $7 billion program that seeks to provide rooftop solar power in disadvantaged communities.  Judge Mary McElr…
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
39 years ago the world found a hole in the sky and agreed to close it. Over 99% of ozone-depleting chemicals phased out, and last year's Antarctic hole was the 5th 2 weeks ago the UN said we'll cross 1.5°C anyway. The Montreal Protocol is proof the second one is still ours to shape.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Registration is the first step to fighting Trump's polluting agenda, and to electing the commissioners, county boards, and legislators who decide what you pay for power. Register. Vote the entire ballot. Get three friends to vote it too. iwillvote.com
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Indigenous-managed forests in the Amazon absorb 340 million tonnes of CO2 a year, which is as much as or more than the whole of California. Amazon land outside those territories releases 270 million tonnes. As we overshoot 1.5C, learning from Indigenous land management is more crucial than ever.
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Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks
Forests managed by Indigenous people in the Amazon are a strong carbon sink, removing a net 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere each year, equivalent to the U.K.’s annual fo...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For years, Big Oil's defense has been that you can't prove which company caused which disaster. Somebody just did. A new study traces specific emitters to specific events: fossil fuel companies raised the odds of the 2021 Pacific NW heat wave by 31%. Ten years ago this was impossible.
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It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Register Here!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: WED, AUG 26 NIB ZOOM . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Major Institutions Endorse National Infrastructure Bank: Answer to the Economic Decline Support for the National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) policy has accelerated over the past eight weeks with major ...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need stable funding! Wed, August 26, 8pm ET: Council Chair Michelle Deatrick speaks at a virtual town hall on the proposed $5 trillion National Infrastructure Bank. Rail, transit, high-speed rail, low-carbon cement. Hosted by the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank.
Navy and black gradient graphic with wind turbine illustration. Headline: National Infrastructure Bank, A Zoom Town Hall. Subhead: Building green infrastructure. Cutting transportation emissions. Creating jobs. Speaker billing for Michelle Deatrick, RSVP link, and hosting attribution to the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Another important and informative Climate Cafe from the Democrats Abroad Environment and Climate Crisis Council, this time focusing on ocean plastic pollution. Wed. August 26, 11am ET / 5pm CEST Organizing for climate and democracy does not stop at the water's edge. @demsabroad.bsky.social
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August Climate Café, Turning the Tide: In Conversation with Ocean Cleanup
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
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Democrats Abroad Canada @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 1PM ET, the @demsabroad.bsky.social Women’s Caucus is teaming up with the DA Youth Caucus for a live conversation on gun violence, the economy, climate change, and what's at stake for first-time voters. Wed, August 26, 1pm ET www.democratsabroad.org/sally_desipi...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yesterday, the Supreme Court let Trump keep building the ballroom he demolished the East Wing to make room for. It didn't yet rule his project lawful - and two lower courts had found it wasn't. Council Chair Michelle Deatrick's Substack on what this is actually about.
michelledeatrick.substack.com
You Don’t Erase What Doesn’t Matter
From paving the Rose Garden to piling up Mount Trump
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump demolished the East Wing and had it hauled to a public golf course on Park Service land. Two thousand truckloads, and now the soil there has tested positive for lead, chromium and PCBs.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AI helps fossil fuel companies find deposits, plan extraction, and pull more out of the ground. The net effect: half a billion to nearly 2 BILLION tons of additional CO2 a year. Clean energy would need productivity gains 4 to 5x more than oil and gas to cancel that out. That's not happening.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Turns out, AI's main climate impact isn't the enormous energy demand of the data centers that fuel it. It's what AI is doing for oil and gas. New peer-reviewed research: those gains could enable 3.3 to 13.3x more carbon pollution than data centers produce today.
nature.com
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AI helps fossil fuel companies find deposits, plan extraction, and pull more out of the ground. The net effect: half a billion to nearly 2 BILLION tons of additional CO2 a year. Clean energy would need productivity gains 4 to 5x more than oil and gas to cancel that out. That's not happening.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As the planet warms, mosquito species' territory is expanding. Larger ranges, more mosquitoes, longer mosquito seasons. Extreme weather, humidity and heat are creating ideal conditions for mosquitos. Read more on how to protect yourself!
sanantonioreport.org
West Nile virus turns up early in San Antonio mosquito trap
West Nile virus turned up in a San Antonio mosquito trap months earlier than usual. Here's how to stay safe this summer.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🦟 It's #WorldMosquitoDay. An important day to note that 95% of major U.S. cities now face an average of 18 more "mosquito disease days" per year compared to the 70s. San Antonio has its first case of West Nile Virus, months earlier than usual.
insideclimatenews.org
As Climate Change Expands Mosquito Ranges, Better Monitoring Is Key to Preventing Disease - Inside Climate News
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Combined storage has drained at about 16,000 acre-feet a day since March, and researchers expect a new record low every day until spring snowmelt. Forty million people get their water from this river. The federal rules for operating these reservoirs expire in December.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On July 12, Lake Powell and Lake Mead hit their lowest combined storage on record. The last time the Colorado River held this little water, Lake Powell didn't exist. It was 1957.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More on what we're doing about this fight: demclimate.org/JOIN
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DNC Council on the Environment & Climate Crisis
Bold, ambitious action to address the climate crisis and other environmental issues
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And Ryan O'Donnell, ED of @dataforprogress.org, presented polling showing exactly the same: voters oppose an AI data center in or near their community by 22 points, and 63% hold utility profits responsible for their bills.
Ryan O'Donnell speaks at a podium in front of a projection screen showing polling data on AI data centers.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our panel on environmental justice and water in Texas with Mayor Elida Castillo and Daniel Ayala, and our panel on winning elections in Texas and Arizona with Clara Pratte and Andre Treiber, showed how much climate, energy affordability and water matter to voters, from Arizona to Corpus Christi.
Texas Environmental Dems President Daniel Ayala and Taft Texas Mayor Elida Castillo at a table with a micDNC Native Caucus Chair and Arizona Corporation Commission Candidate Clara Pratte and DNC Youth Council Chair Andre Treiber at table with a mic.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ryan O'Donnell, ED of @dataforprogress.org, presented polling showing voters oppose an AI data center in or near their community by 22 points, and 63% hold utility profits responsible for their bills. He stated the opposition to data centers has almost certainly grown since the poll.
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DNC Council on the Environment & Climate Crisis
Bold, ambitious action to address the climate crisis and other environmental issues
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
DC pundits are trying to hush climate talk by Democrats. You know who knows better? The 70+ DNC members, Texans and environmental advocates at our Austin meeting last Friday. And the voters.
Photo of about people standing in a group holding signs that read "DNC Environment & Climate Crisis Council," "Stop Fossil Fuel Welfare," "Dems Win On Climate" and "No Planet B — Vote Democrat."
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🐘Records obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity under FOIA. Permits began issuing within a month of the second inauguration, and Safari Club International is lobbying to roll back the 2024 Endangered Species Act protections for African elephants.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Says one thing. Does another. Same old playbook. In 2017, Trump called elephant trophy hunting "this horror show." In 2025, his administration approved 300+ elephant trophy imports, More than 2x his entire first term.
An African elephant with its trunk raised stands in front of blue mountains under a clear sky. Text over the image reads: "In 2017, Trump called elephant trophy hunting 'this horror show.' In 2025, his administration approved 300+ elephant trophy imports. Double his entire first term." Across the bottom: "World Elephant Day," with the DNC Council on Environment & Climate Crisis logo.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On Aug 3, after courting them for years, Abbott paused new data center approvals pending an audit. Kudos to Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, for pushing further: hold the moratorium until the Legislature meets. It doesn't convene until January 2027.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Texas has 248 data centers planned and 32 proposed gas plants to power them, more than any state. Those plants are seeking permits to emit as much as 287 million tons of greenhouse gases a year. The climate equivalent of 61 million cars.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New polling from @dataforprogress.org NY: just enacted the first statewide pause via Hochul's 7/14 order. Trump: Put corporations over people & called data centers "liquid gold." Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez: Have a federal bill in both chambers. Five local measures are on 2026 ballots.
dataforprogress.org
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
63% of voters want to pause AI data center construction for at least a year. 67% of Democrats | 66% of independents | 58% of Republicans Those startling numbers reflect the unity we're hearing and seeing at listening sessions and in town halls.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
News we are excited to share! Congressman Greg Casar is joining us as keynote speaker at our Aug. 14 Meeting in Austing. It's going to be another packed, dynamic meeting and we are looking forward! RSVP here: bit.ly/dnc-summer-m... — August 14, 4:00 PM CT, Austin, TX
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Austin, get ready! Join us August 14 for the DNC Council's Summer Meeting — national & TX enviro issues, climate as a winning issue, and more. Featuring DNC Youth Council Chair Andre Treiber & TX Environmental Democrats President Daniel Ayala. 📅 Aug 14 | 4 PM CT | Austin, TX 🔥RSVP Below!!
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RSVP & Event Details
The DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council is delighted to invite you to our meeting at the DNC Summer Meeting in Austin, Texas. RSVP using this form. And for expedited check-in/credentialling, p...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nobody's gas bill gets cheaper. One neighborhood goes back under the flare. The only winners here are Trump's oil and gas cronies.
thehill.com
White House eyes reopening oil refineries amid high gasoline prices
The Trump administration is looking to reopen closed oil refineries, including an embattled one in the Virgin Islands, amid high gasoline prices spurred by the Iran war. A White House official conf…
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gas is $4.09 today. The plant has sat idle since 2012, and EPA was still overseeing hazardous-material removal there in January. A restart takes years. The community that got the oil rain is nearly 75% Black, per EPA's own analysis.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In 2021, EPA shut down the St. Croix USVI refinery for raining oil onto homes (yes, really) and contaminating drinking water up to seven miles away. Trump's White House is now courting investors to restart it, and pitching it as relief for prices at the pump.
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Our Chair is live with the Duval County, Florida Democrats, discussing her perspective on building a stronger climate, environmental, and environmental justice platform for the 2026 and 2028 election cycles. www.youtube.com/live/TNVmUBZ...
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Panel 1 - Government, Policy + Civic Engagement with Michelle Deatrick DNC Climate Council
YouTube video by Duval Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
June: Energy Secretary Chris Wright was asked if federal grants should depend on how a state votes: "They shouldn't and they weren't." July: Wright's DOE, in a court filing, admits terminations were "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state."
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The grid doesn't know how your state voted. Neither does a methane leak, or a battery plant, or a hydrogen hub. Trump's Energy Department does. And this month, it admitted to not only knowing it, but acting on it, in writing.
cnn.com
Trump administration admits it canceled clean-energy grants in states that voted for Kamala Harris | CNN Politics
Democratic lawmakers accused the Trump administration of abusing its power after officials admitted in a federal court filing they recommended terminating several billion dollars in grants for clean-e...
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DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council @dncclimate.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Habitat loss is the leading cause of extinction. The ESA brought back the bald eagle, the American alligator, and the California condor. All by protecting the places they live. www.worldwildlife.org/our-work/wil...
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Double tigers
Tigers are close to extinction. WWF aims to double wild tiger populations through habitat protection, anti-poaching efforts, and community engagement.
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