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Stephen Kretzmann

@kretzmann.bsky.social
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Father. Founder. PNW transplant. Bearing witness to fossil fuel industry greed for 35 years. The struggle continues.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 02/10/2026
The only reasonable conclusion is that just like the American Petroleum Institute and the American Gas Association, the data-center lobbyists are wrong about the implications of this bill that was negotiated with Mike Lee, Shelley Capito, and the White House Energy Dominance Council.
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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a bad bill—bad for environmental justice, bad for climate, bad for humans. Some good people are fighting for it b/c they don't believe we can get better, but straight up, it's a bad bill. Sometimes we have to fight like hell for better options; it's the only way we get them.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm throwing well-deserved shade at @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov for the Senate permitting deal. We were betrayed. But don't forget this deal is built w/i a frame set by Joe Manchin in 2022 exploited by Trump, Sen. Lee (of public land sale infamy), & Sen. Capito.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 01/09/2026
On October 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy’s arguments to escape trial in the City and County of Boulder, Colorado’s climate deception lawsuit. Join us in Washington, D.C., to show support for Boulder and all communities seeking accountability.
thepeoplevbigoil.org
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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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wtaf
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: This Wednesday (9/16), the House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup on legislation that aims to give Big Oil companies sweeping immunity from any laws or lawsuits seeking to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬
npr.org
Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 28/07/2026
📣 Our new report finds that the Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables will make it even harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.
Line graph comparing projected nominal average Henry Hub natural gas prices from EIA and Rystad Energy against a 2% inflation baseline from 2025 to 2040.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
cbc.ca
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 15/07/2026
Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Unreal. Messi is inevitable. Unreal.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's so important not to succumb to "shifting baseline syndrome," as @jasondovemark.bsky.social illuminates in this piece on the photographic evidence of Mount Shasta's disappearing glaciers: www.hcn.org/articles/on-...
hcn.org
On Mount Shasta, a photographic record outlasts living memory - High Country News
The re-photo project is a map of what time used to be.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Holy Toledo she DID sign it. "We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities," Hochul said... Because lots of resistance made them do so, to be clear. They were entirely prepared NOT to address those challenges. We are powerful.
wired.com
New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is not what we want to hear about anything relating to climate—and we're going to be hearing it more and more. Fight for this world with all you have.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵
SEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE
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The First Rule About Solving Climate Change While battleground voters overwhelmingly agree climate change is a problem, addressing it is not
a priority for them.
September 22, 2025
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%. www.opb.org/article/2026... #energysky
opb.org
Oregon approves PGE’s 29.7% rate hike for data centers under landmark law
The Oregon Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Portland General Electric’s rate hike for large energy users to take effect Wednesday. Residential rates will go down 1.3%.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
oh HELL no.
washingtonstatestandard.com
Proposed oil pipeline to B.C. coast spurs alarm in Washington state • Washington State Standard
The province of Alberta late Thursday announced a route for a new, one-million-barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast that terminates within about a mile of Washington state waters. ...
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Aaron Regunberg @aaronregunberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"When white moderates complained in similar fashion about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King criticized their 'mythical concept of time' in Why We Can’t Wait. We can’t wait when it comes to climate change, either."
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The spectacular utility bills coming from this heat wave are driven by fracked gas power. Gas = high bills, pollution NYC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should support #GasFreeNYC ✅ lower bills ✅ good, union jobs ✅ less pollution More 411 below 🧵
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/07/2026
It's Fucking Obvious That Oil Barons Have Cooked The Planet So They Can Have Super-Yachts While Everyone Else Suffers And Dies
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
AD DROP: "Michigan First" Not tech CEOs Not Wall Street And definitely NOT hyperscale data centers I'm running for Congress in #MI07 to stand with my neighbors. To protect our families, homes, and futures from corporations and culture wars. We Will Win — together.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration
After they wrapped up their research, the authors sat down with Trump to check their facts. He drifted on to why his "love affair" with Venezuela went back to his years of owning the Miss Universe pageant, which featured many beautiful Venezuelans. What he really wanted to relate was a conversation he had had with a historian whose verdict was that Trump was "without question, the most powerful man the planet [had] ever known - by a long way." The historian had sent Trump a two-page memo from which he read. "If President Trump is the American Eagle, then William the Conqueror was merely a sparrow." Curious about the identity of the historian, Swan tracked down a golf caddie in Florida, who confessed a passion for history.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 11/06/2026
”You cannot use a military solution to solve what is fundamentally an economic problem. … It’s just a recipe for more war.” — IPS drug policy expert @sanho.bsky.social on the Trump administration's push for more militarized drug enforcement @news.dw.com
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High-tech drug tunnel discovered between Mexico and California | DW News
A sophisticated, 2,000‑foot drug tunnel linking Mexico to California has been uncovered, along with a $45 million cocaine seizure. Four suspects have been arrested. Authorities are calling it a major…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IT WORKED!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump's attendance
'It felt so dark yesterday, I was like, this is not the Garden that I know, the fan said
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/06/2026
Sorry, gotta keep poisoning your family.
nytimes.com
Cash Back for Replacing a Gas Stove With Electric? Not Anymore.
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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Is it possible that fear of snakes will further motivate a rapid and just and durable energy transition? Stay tuned…
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I highly recommend reading this piece. "Will this fossil fuel fascism, that billionaire-backed campaign to crush a green transition by any means necessary, hold back the tide of clean energy autonomy? It cannot be ruled out."
theguardian.com
The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts
China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Guess which California governor candidate is now being backed by half a million dollars from the state's biggest oil driller? Hint: It's not Tom Steyer. Lots of news in today's CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/oil-money-...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
News roundup: More oil money for Xavier Becerra
But first: The solar industry has a new leader.
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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Spoiler alert: yes
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
@us.theguardian.com has a new piece about our working class climate agenda. As the story makes clear, we believe that climate politics must directly address the cost-of-living crisis in order to win policies that are desperately needed in the US.
theguardian.com
As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?
Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/04/2026
"...periods of ultra-cheap—and sometimes effectively free—electricity have become a regular feature of life in parts of the region." Can't do that with fossil fuels.
atmos.earth
Blowin’ in the Wind: How Nordic Countries Made Electricity Free | Atmos
As wind and hydropower flood Nordic grids, electricity prices are plunging and offering a glimpse of a cheaper energy future.
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Harper @harlander.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
One of the greatest headlines ever made
The Daily Mail News
'Fury as 'white female mamdani' mayor who has never owned a car takes away lane of road from motorists to stop route 8 bus she rides from being late'
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
REMINDER: From the legendary folk singer, poet and organizer Utah Phillips (R.I.P.) #EarthDay #ClimateSky🔌💡
Picture of folk singer and people's historian Utah Phillips, a white bearded old man sitting in a chair and wearing a hat, next to one of his many famous quotes:

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips
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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Government of, by, and for oil companies shall not perish any damn time soon
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
stopgreedbuildgreen.org
Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute
A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Wow
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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Avi! Congrats to the NDP and to all Canadians.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
break them
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 22/03/2026
According to @theguardian.com, the first 14 days of war in Iran "is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined." Trump's wars deepen the climate crisis. This war must end for its sake and the sake of those caught in its crosshairs. bit.ly/4bZpyIH
bit.ly
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds
Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
scmp.com
China to help Cuba with solar energy amid US oil blockade and total power outage
Beijing will ‘intensify its support’ to Havana after around 10.9 million people were left without power amid an ongoing energy crisis.
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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m sure that this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that in a month, Colombia is hosting the first ever conference focused on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. transitionawayconference.com
nytimes.com
U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Colombia’s President, a Onetime Trump Foe
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Greenpeace USA @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Oscar for Biggest US Methane Plume goes to Energy Transfer (ET) 🏆 The UCLA Stop Methane Project says ET's Texas facility was the biggest plume detected in the US in 2025, releasing an average of 5.5 metric tons of methane per hour 🧵
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Greenpeace España @greenpeace.es · 10/03/2026
Perdón si nuestras palabras son extremadamente polarizantes, quizá nos ha radicalizado la decencia más básica, pero creemos que la guerra está mal. NO A LA GUERRA.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Brontosaurus rears its head.
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The fuck kind of answer is this
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wijude.bsky.social @wijude.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
WTF!?!?! U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 03/03/2026
1/ Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders and investors get rich. Read our deep dive 🧵👇:
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 03/03/2026
9/ The world’s continued dependence on globally traded oil and gas not only poses a grave threat to the climate but also to economic stability, and the prospects of peace and security for billions of people around the world. Read the deep dive : oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...
oilchange.org
Trump’s War on Iran: As People Are Killed, Big Oil’s Windfall Will Deepen Our Energy Affordability Crisis - Oil Change International
Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The same can be said for Pete Hegseth.
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