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Kevin Kirchner

@kevinkirchner.bsky.social
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Working to protect our land, air, water, climate, and civil and human rights. Cuz if we don't hold them accountable, who will? Opinions my own.

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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Damn good question!
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need more of this’
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The narrative promise of permitting reform is not rationally connected to the permitting reform proposals on the table—especially those that scapegoat bedrock environmental laws—or the factual predicates it is built on. The canard that the "SunZia line took 18 years" is a case in point.
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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wondering why it is bad for the public treasury as well as the environment? The Forest Service spends millions each year building and maintaining roads into remote areas -- money that is a huge subsidy to logging & mining companies. westernlaw.org/trump-admini...
westernlaw.org
Trump administration attempt to repeal Roadless Rule met with widespread opposition  - Western Environmental Law Center
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect  more than 45 million a...
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trembath pontificates from a pedestal of ignorance as only a 37-year old man can. Whether it’s deliberate or he just doesn’t care is largely irrelevant. But he sure as hell should know that “climate-change-as-apocalypse” has roots at Exxon. Yeah, that Exxon. 45 years ago - before Trembath was even..
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Follow the oil money
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yeah, it’s that stupid: “Next they’ll be calling Canada geese ‘Donald ducks’”
nytimes.com
‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’ (Gift Article)
President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just kick back and enjoy the warmer temperatures….
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pretty much sums it up: youtube.com/shorts/OTOKw...
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Are electric vehicles better than gas cars? Rory Sutherland explains. #ev #evvsgas #climateaction
YouTube video by FIVE MINUTE NEWS
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Maybe he should sleep on it…
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wasn’t Woke 1 the Boston Tea Party, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution? Surely the Civil War, Progressive Era, New Deal, WW II (to stop fascism), and Civil Rights Era were also Wokes. We must be on at least Woke 7 or 8 by now in the US.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trying to obtain money under false pretenses…?
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The fossil fuel industry: They knew. They lied. They paid to skew judges views on climate change. They want a liability shield from Congress to prevent courts from holding them accountable. They made massive profits. And they want taxpayers to pay to clean up their mess. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
thehill.com
Big Oil wants to rig the courts. You’ll pay for it on your utility bill.
Congressman Mike Levin argues that rising energy costs and climate disaster expenses stem from fossil fuel industry deception and lack of corporate accountability, proposing the Energy Bills Relief…
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/08/2026
Nothing symbolizes Todd Blanche's time at DOJ better than the banner hanging over its entrances. The DOJ & the Attorney General do not work for the president, they work for the people. And it's for that very reason why Todd Blanche is unqualified to be our Attorney General.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes. This is a climate crisis. And the fossil fuel industry’s own experts and managers knew this would happen. One of Exxon’s managers wrote in 1981 that if the company continued with business as usual, it could be “catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).”
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So who is the real threat to “public safety?”
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Accountability?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026
People are always whining about the "system costs" you’re supposed to add to the price of solar, but, uh ...
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Why the true cost of new gas plants is much higher than the sticker price
When reviewing gas-fired power plant proposals, regulators often fail to consider pipeline, fuel and storage costs, which can add about 30% to a project’s total cost, GridLab’s Cassady Craighill write...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
July 4 weekend is a time to celebrate friends and family - and a distraction for a criminal president to pull off the biggest heist in 250 years Don't let go of a holiday news dump about Trump's $2B-and-counting sale of the presidency. Demand justice My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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The America-turns-250 column Donald Trump doesn’t want me to write | Will Bunch
Americans have been showing our best selves as the nation turns 250, but grifter Trump sees this as a distraction to steal.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great investigative reporting from Sammy Roth.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Apparently, this is now a new Pantone color. It’s called “Trump Bluet”
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
They’re just funding greenwashing.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
They’re definitely “meaner”
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Would absolutely love it if the clean electrification sector gets some swagger & moxy rather than get dragged along in the wake of the fossil fuel energy industry & it’s transparent play for “all of the above” & “tech neutral” policy (which is purposefully designed to favor fossil fuel incumbents).
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David Roberts (@drvolts)
Clean electrification is the most dynamic, hopeful sector of the economy, but when it comes to politics, it's a 98-pound weakling, a pathetic junior partner in trade groups dominated by fossil gas. To...
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If it goes up your nose, will RFK jr approve…?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I put a couple of dishes in the dishwasher so my household chores are “95% done” The remaining 5% of chores are putting up a new fence and planting a new garden and painting all of the upstairs bedrooms
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Key excerpt from the court hearing in Chicago “Broadview 6” case. Worth a read. For a federal prosecutor, this is shocking misconduct. They are destroying our beloved DOJ.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/05/2026
Howard Lutnick's FIRST political donation since becoming Commerce Secretary was a $5 MILLION donation to House Republicans 1 month before they interviewed him about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.   Let that sink in.
nytimes.com
Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump’s EPA is aiding and abetting the poisoning of our water supplies.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/05/2026
Trump's memecoin is one of the most corrupt schemes we've seen from a U.S. president. Foreign actors are using it to buy influence inside our White House, while at home, investors have lost billions. My amendment would've shut this scam down. Every Republican voted against it.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I don’t need another reason to support @willjawando.bsky.social for Montgomery County Executive. But if I did, this would be it. Out-of-state developers joining local real estate industry in amassing a $1.2 million war chest to try to smear him. montgomeryperspective.com/2026/05/14/r...
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Real Estate Industry Gets Ready to Clobber Jawando - Montgomery Perspective
By Adam Pagnucco. A coalition of developers, builders and other real estate interests has assembled $1.2 million in a Super PAC to play in this...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"I think Big Oil is choosing its governor. They are indicating very clearly which side they're on," said @rlmiller.bsky.social. "They have chosen Becerra as the person who will do their bidding."
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Rip Van Blinkle. nymag.com/intelligence...
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White House: Trump Wasn’t Asleep, He Just Blinked (for 18 Seconds)
Video seems to show President Trump struggling to stay awake in a meeting. But Team Trump can explain!
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Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
All O’Leary is missing is the clown nose. And a few brain cells.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Putting one more layer on the stupid cake doesn’t help.”
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Worth reading what oil & gas professionals are saying about Trump's Iran policy to the Dallas Fed. These aren't politicians - they're just people trying to plan when morons are in charge of US energy & foreign policy. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
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Dallas Fed Energy Survey Q1 2026 update
In response to recent developments in the global oil market, we conducted a follow-up to the first quarter survey that published March 25.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
With support from big oil: the gatherings are often luxurious all-expenses-paid affairs. [The goal] is to challenge the status quo on science [and] “give judges a rounded understanding and healthy skepticism of the invocations of ‘science’ that lurk in the background of lawsuits they are hearing”
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yes!
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Oil and Gas Industry: A ban on thee, but not on we.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/04/2026
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Big Oil wants to be above the law? How convenient…
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Kevin Kirchner @kevinkirchner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Good thread about how Supreme Court Justice Roberts ignored both law and the facts to make up one of the most consequential and destructive Court doctrines to the benefit of the fossil fuel industry.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan. It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
nytimes.com
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.
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