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Lydia Heye

@lydiaheye.bsky.social
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Attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center. Opinions are my own.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 01/04/2026
The examiner kicked the projects’ review back to the county permitting department.
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Hearing Examiner scolds Whatcom County for AltaGas permitting process, orders redo | Cascadia Daily News
Environmentalists hail decision as victory for Salish Sea
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Oregon Wild @oregonwild.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On February 19, 2026, the Trump administration announced its intention to revise Western Oregon BLM management plans. Officials have stated that their goal is to return to the logging levels of the 1970s and 80s
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 06/03/2026
Good news! In a blow to Trump's 'drill, baby drill' agenda, zero companies bid for the chance to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's Cook Inlet. This comes after we notified the Interior Department last month of our intent to sue over the planned unlawful lease sale on March 4.
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Trump keeps trying to auction off this US property for oil drilling. No one is buying. | CNN
A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 27/02/2026
Good news: We won a victory in court to help salmon safely move past dams in the Columbia River Basin. A federal court in Oregon ordered federal agencies to change operations of the Columbia Basin hydropower system in critical ways to help improve salmon survival.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s a dark day in America when a sitting Member of Congress has to remind the president that Black people are not apes. I stand with Al Green.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6% — higher than the global average. Read our feature: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Electric Vehicle Sales Boom as Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports
The East African country is making use of cheap hydropower and Chinese electric vehicles to ditch the internal combustion engine.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/02/2026
“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.
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Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 12/02/2026
The Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding, a scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The endangerment finding compels the government to limit climate pollution as a matter of public health. Repealing it has no basis in law or reality.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 09/02/2026
When Bad Bunny scaled a utility pole during his Super Bowl show, it was more than a stunt. His performance highlighted Puerto Rico's frequent power cuts, which have been exacerbated by energy privatization. We're fighting for an equitable and just clean energy system for all Puerto Ricans.
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Why Was Bad Bunny Singing on Top of a Broken Utility Pole at the Super Bowl?
Bad Bunny’s 13-minute performance at the big game was an ode to Puerto Rico — and its energy woes.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ajc.com
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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isaac @sevier.io · 09/02/2026
Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org
queremossolpr.org
LO QUE TENEMOS
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
BLM just took the first step toward leasing the Arctic Refuge’s Coastal Plain on sacred Gwich’in land. Stand with the Gwich’in. Tell companies to stay away. #ProtectTheArctic Check out GSC's statement: gwichinsteering.org/feb-2-2026/
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They call immigrants criminals as they unleash a crime wave. They call immigrants rapists as they keep raping people. They call immigrants invaders as they keep invading communities. They call immigrants murderers as they keep murdering people.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/01/2026
And there it is:
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Trump administration is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Trump administration is once again prioritizing foreign mining interests over Alaskan communities and wild lands. Check out Alaska Wilderness League's statement on the new executive order directing the government to approve the Ambler road. #noamblerroad alaskawild.org/blog/america...
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America First? Not When Public Lands Are Being Used to Profit a Foreign Company.  | Alaska Wilderness League
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 6, 2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org  ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Alaska Wilderness League
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National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) @protectparks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Even as parks grapple with a severe staffing crisis, a potential government shutdown and the threat of even more cuts to staff and funding looms. Use your voice: npca.org/savetheparks 
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Stop Cuts to the Park Service
The National Park Service has lost 1 in 4 staff since January, forcing cuts to ranger programs, visitor centers, and vital upkeep. Our parks--and the landscapes and history they protect--are at serious risk. Tell Congress to back the Senate's bipartisan...
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 16/09/2025
"These national forests belong to all Americans, not to the timber industry, which wants them sold to the highest bidder." -Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation at Earthjustice. Earthjustice has successfully defended the Roadless Rule in court for decades. Nothing will stop us from continuing the fight.
azcentral.com
Trump agencies push ahead to repeal 'roadless rule,' halt public lands conservation
The USDA is seeking public comment through Sept. 19 on plans to repeal a policy prohibiting the construction of roads on nearly 45 million acres.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 27/08/2025
“These national forests belong to all Americans, not to the timber industry. Earthjustice has successfully defended the Roadless Rule in court for decades. Nothing will stop us from taking up that fight again.” -Drew Caputo, Earthjustice VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife and Oceans
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2025
At least one-fifth of U.S. national parks have been significantly strained and understaffed because of steep cuts mandated by the Trump administration, according to internal government data obtained by The New York Times.
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How Trump Administration Cuts Are Hurting National Parks
Amid deep cuts, more than 90 parks have reported problems like lost revenue and cuts to emergency services. One expert called this “a dangerous path.”
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 22/08/2025
BIG WIN! A federal judge has ordered the state of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the Everglades Detention Center.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 07/08/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge sided with conservation groups, ordering the state of Florida and the Trump administration to temporarily stop further construction of the mass detention center in the Florida Everglades.
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'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention camp in Florida must temporarily halt construction, judge rules
Construction at the controversial facility in the Florida Everglades has been stopped for 14 days over a lawsuit alleging it skirted environmental laws.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuels Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
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Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
New BirdLife report reveals how bioenergy is accelerating the climate crisis.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/06/2025
BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani. apnews.com/article/andr...
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Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani
Andrew Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.
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Southern Environmental Law Center @selc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s xAI facility is polluting South Memphis, we’re taking action. Get the latest: www.selc.org/news/resista...
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Court upholds permits for the destructive Willow Project, despite proven harm to Arctic communities, wildlife, and the climate. Link to our official statement: trustees.org/.../2025-App....
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 12/06/2025
A “historic” deal made two years ago between the U.S. government, four tribes, Northwest states and environmentalists to put legal battles aside and invest in restoring endangered Columbia River fish runs is now off. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/12/t... by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
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Trump breaks historic Columbia River deal between U.S. government, tribes, Northwest states • Oregon Capital Chronicle
In an order Thursday, Trump said he is withdrawing the U.S. from a 2023 deal made with tribes, states, to end lawsuits over fish losses.
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 05/06/2025
The POWER Act passed by the #orleg today ensures charges for grid expansion and infrastructure needed to power data centers, AI processing facilities, Bitcoin mines in Oregon are not passed onto residential and commercial customers. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/05/b...
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Bill to protect residential electricity customers from subsidizing data center demand moves forward • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The POWER Act creates a new rate class for data centers so grid expansion and infrastructure costs are paid by tech companies that own them.
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Today, Interior announced plans to strip protections from millions of acres in the Western Arctic, paving the way for drilling. This move threatens ecosystems, subsistence traditions, and local communities, all for the benefit of special interests. We will continue to fight to #ProtectTheArctic
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Yesterday, Trustees on behalf of The Gwich’in Steering Committee and a dozen other groups appealed a court ruling that lets AIDEA hold onto illegal oil leases in the Arctic Refuge. The fight to protect these sacred lands will continue in court. Read more: trustees.org/wp-content/u...
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Lydia Heye @lydiaheye.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wood pellet plants pose a risk to our forests — and our health washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/05/09/w...
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Wood pellet plants pose a risk to our forests — and our health • Washington State Standard
COMMENTARY | Washington residents who live near Longview and Hoquiam are concerned about two wood pellet plants proposed for construction.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
One of the most troubling aspects of the legal academy is how professors publish scholarship of debatable—to put it mildly—quality, which is then cited as authority in judicial opinions. It’s a legitimation machine for reactionary legal change. And now it’s coming for citizenship.
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samsankar.bsky.social @samsankar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Earthjustice invites D.C. bar members to meet Diane Seltzer, candidate for bar president, on April 22. You must RSVP at the link. Remember that voting begins on April 15, and that Diane's opponent is Brad Bondi. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/498vwymc
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/03/2025
NEW: We joined more than 20 other civil rights organizations condemning President Trump’s memo directing the DOJ to target lawyers and law firms that pursue litigation the Trump administration deems “frivolous” or “unreasonable.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:      Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Estimated number of people who could die within a year without American foreign aid for: H.I.V. prevention and treatment: 1,650,000 Vaccines: 500,000 Food aid: 550,000 Malaria prevention: 290,000 Tuberculosis prevention: 310,000
nytimes.com
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstream.
apnews.com
A river ‘died' overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine
Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs o...
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Trustees for Alaska @trusteesforalaska.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Oil & gas development in the Arctic Refuge is once again on the table. Don’t miss this piece highlighting the work of @OurArcticRefuge & how this would negatively impact her community, traditional ways of living, and culture: atmos.earth/inside-the-d...
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Inside the Debate to Drill at the Nation’s Largest Wildlife Refuge | Atmos
Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination are at the heart of Alaska Native stances on both sides of this contentious issue.
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Lydia Heye @lydiaheye.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BLM has announced a 9.1 acre expansion on the Willow Project’s runway. The expansion will add to the already massive footprint of the Willow Project and increase habitat fragmentation, disturb wildlife, and create long-term ecological consequences. www.silainuat.org/call-to-action
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Call to Action — Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic
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Lydia Heye @lydiaheye.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Sunny weekend in Eugene for #PIELC
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 28/02/2025
Last week, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) gutted the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — the bedrock law that protects communities by requiring the federal government to disclose environmental consequences of its decisions. Local communities are already fighting back.
rollingstone.com
Trump Eviscerates a Bedrock Public Health and Environmental Protection Law
President Donald Trump effectively ended the National Environmental Policy Act, but some activists are still fighting.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
nytimes.com
Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 19/02/2025
We're suing the Trump administration over an illegal order to revoke offshore oil drilling protections from most U.S. coastlines. “A nearly identical effort by the first Trump administration to expand drilling was stopped by Earthjustice in federal court.”
nytimes.com
Environmentalists Sue to Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plans
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