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Leverage for a just Green Transition. Mostly focused on California. Posts by @joshmorsell.bsky.social and @trying-to-be.bsky.social.

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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great America First Hypocrisy on Public Lands
How Selling Public Lands to Foreign Corporations Became Patriotism
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/j...
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New York offshore wind project to resume construction after judge lifts Trump suspension
Equinor, the Norwegian company developing the project, said it "will now focus on safely restarting construction activities."
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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Kleptocratic greenwashing? morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/utah-seize...
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Utah Seizes Control of 8 Million Acres of Your Land
How a Smiling “Partnership” Hands Utah the Keys to Your National Forests
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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?
Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for f...
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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ahh, mystery solved by @afreedma.bsky.social.
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Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN
A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
nytimes.com
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Alarmingly low Colorado River levels put water talks under pressure
California shoots pointed words at states upriver, as negotiators struggle toward sharing supplies. Without a deal, the Trump Administration will step in.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
In California, too, we can restore forests and kelp and enjoy their excellent carbon capture. thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
thetyee.ca
Want a Carbon Fix? It’s Closer than You Think | The Tyee
While Canada bets big on engineered tech, experts say nature still offers our best climate solutions.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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California’s Largest Proposed Wood Pellet Project Defeated
Due to public pressure, Golden State Natural Resources’ biomass project shelved.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
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Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Another study (using drones) shows that extreme sea temperatures in 2024 triggered mass morality of corals on the Great Barrier Reef, compounding losses in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022. (And 2025). The higher the heat exposure, the greater the impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages - Nature
Acute heat stress from the extended marine heatwave of 2016 is a potent driver of the transformation of coral assemblages, which affects even the most remote and well-protected reefs of the Great Barr...
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Yikes! "300% rate hike or no water: Diablo Grande crisis deepens." youtu.be/-SpP7GaEfI0?... Here's some background: mavensnotebook.com/2025/06/25/s...
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300% rate hike or no water: Diablo Grande crisis deepens
YouTube video by ABC10
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We're trying to understand the consequences of this change to CEQA - does anyone have thoughts? And on how to maximize positive outcomes and mitigate negative ones? www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Environmental groups are outraged after Newsom overhauls CEQA
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law two bills that will overhaul the landmark California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to streamline housing development in the state.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
National Climate Report Website Goes Dark www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
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National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...
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Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon
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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 10/06/2025
my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social is a collaboration with @emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED newsletter — all about the fossil fuel billionaire assholes funding groups on the right pushing anti-trans rhetoric atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-...
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Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/05/2025
Today on Volts: Tapestry, which spun out of Google's X "moonshot factory," is an effort to pull together disparate sources of images & information to create a comprehensive map of the grid, which can help utilities lower maintenance costs & accelerate grid interconnection. Cool stuff.
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A "Google Maps for electrons"
Can a comprehensive map of every wire and transformer unclog the world's grid interconnection queues?
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
calmatters.org/environment/...
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US Senate blocks California’s electric car mandate in historic vote
Today’s decision could upend California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars and its battle against air pollution. Some experts say Congress’ move is illegal and will trigger a legal battle.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
www.axios.com/2025/05/13/e...
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Climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy can proceed, Colorado's top court rules
The City of Boulder alleges the oil giants "intentionally misled the public" on the impacts of their fossil fuel products.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Emissions linked to Chevron, the highest-emitting investor-owned company in our data, for example, very likely caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/04/2025
Really nerdy but also pretty important - this @accr.bsky.social report details how fossil fuel companies claim to be aligned with climate scenarios using a bunch of irritatingly clever visual data tricks www.accr.org.au/research/the...
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The (mis)use of scenarios in fossil fuel and industry climate disclosures - ACCR
Analysis of the disclosures of a major sample of investor-owned fossil fuel companies shows a widespread misuse of climate scenarios – leaving investors blind to material risks.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
California ports are a major source of air pollution, challenging to electrify as ports "drag their feet and delay action," reports CalMatters. calmatters.org/environment/...
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LA port communities have waited decades for clean air. Why a new plan may fall short
The LA and Long Beach ports are the region's biggest sources of air pollution. Groups representing 400,000 residents say new proposed rules don't go far enough.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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'We should be in crisis mode’: A toxic fumigant could be seeping into these communities
Residents near LA-area businesses that use methyl bromide are angry that officials didn’t notify them for years and haven’t assessed their health risks.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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A Calif. agency angered Musk. Now a Trump-backed congressman aims to gut it.
Republican California congressman Kevin Kiley, backed by Donald Trump, has introduced federal legislation to essentially abolish the Coastal Commission.
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Canada likely to tax US coal exports, increasing pressure for US West Coast to establish a new marine export terminal for coal. US Mining Association: "Should Canada choose to target American coal, it will force American exporters to look for other export options." www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLQw...
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B.C. Premier Eby calls on Ottawa to put a tax on U.S. coal exported through B.C. ports
YouTube video by CBC News
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's a good time to donate to @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social. Let's help them appeal this crushing, unjust verdict and damages award. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/gr...
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Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
A jury in North Dakota has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for defaming Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Texas-based pipelin...
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
On lithium: "There [need not be a] zero-sum tradeoff between zero emissions transportation and protecting biodiversity and Indigenous rights … It is possible to have more mobility and less mining while making rapid progress to zero emissions." shorturl.at/pa7HE. Thanks @cplusc.bsky.social!
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New Report: Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining - Climate and Community Institute
First of its kind research shows how the US can lower lithium demand in transportation by 90 percent in the next 3 decades: decreasing car dependency, …
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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“You won’t get anywhere talking about sacrificing real people for an imagined future,” Maria Nunez-Lopez said at #PIELC 2025, in support of a just #GreenTransition. e.g. EVs are only as good as their electricity; power plants in Maria’s neighborhood cause asthma. 1/4
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If Canada puts tariffs on US coal, expect pressure to increase for the US west coast to build a new coal export terminal. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca
Eby Looks at Tariffs on US Coal Shipped Through BC | The Tyee
Vancouver is a major export port for coal shipments, which its US counterparts reject.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚨How the Big 6 ad agencies all profit from greenwashing fossil fuel firms - and have also carefully greenwashed their own images to successfully escape criticism. Vital reporting from @desmog.bsky.social this week, as Ogilvy owner WPP is accused of climate and human rights violations.
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Ad Firms Make Oil Companies Look Green. Here’s Six Ways They Greenwash Themselves.
Imagine spending countless hours producing a catchy ad campaign that’s now blanketing the internet. Views are bubbling up like champagne fizz. The creative team is high-fiving each other down the hall...
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Ground Truth Forest News @groundtruth.app · 12/02/2025
Open data builds trust: track climate commitments, hold decision-makers accountable, and solve problems together. Read our in review with Renato from Open Data Charter groundtruth.app/open-data-ch... #ClimateData #OpenData #Reforestation
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Open Data Charter on the Importance of Environmental Data
"Opening the data helps building trust by: tracking progress on commitments; holding decision-makers accountable; and engaging in collaborative problem-solving."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here is Bates's opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Some things you can do to help archive federal websites and datasets: -Archive web pages using Save Page Now at web.archive.org. -Nominate web pages for preservation at digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/e.... -Download important datasets and share them. Thanks @salonnewsroom.bsky.social!
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Wayback MachineHamburger iconInternet Archive logoWeb iconTexts iconVideo iconAudio iconSoftware iconImages iconDonate iconEllipses iconDonate iconUser iconUpload iconSearch iconSearch iconSearch icon...
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
More on the heroic archivers working to save taxpayer-funded science and federal data before the new administration deletes it - and on what we each can do to help: www.salon.com/2025/02/04/a... @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
salon.com
As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it
The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear
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Green Intel @greenintel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
California should republish deleted federal websites on state servers and hire climate scientists fired by Trump. Keep data public. How about it, @chrisrogersca.bsky.social, @benallenca.bsky.social, and @scottwiener.bsky.social? shorturl.at/3eVTr 1/3
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
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