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Climate change x insurance with @publiccitizen.bsky.social (formerly w/ Sierra Club). Views are my own, but they can be yours too.

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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵There's a battle of global importance being waged inside the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Oil&Gas companies are desperate to shield their financiers from scrutiny. (1/3) 👇 Report: www.citizen.org/article/cali...
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California Air Resources Board is Proposing a Watered Down Corporate Emissions Disclosure Rule - Public Citizen
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure program for all large companies…
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Home insurance companies are fleecing us with abandon and the regulators who are supposed to protect us are playing coy. See the spread of their opinions and the consequences for consumers (read: everyone) in my 13 page report 👇
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@publiccitizen.bsky.social & @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social document the fleecing of Americans by home+auto insurers. They saw record profits of $69 bil, investment income of $112 bil, and a record surplus of $1.27 trillion. It's their fault you can't make ends meet. www.citizen.org/article/insu...
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Insurers Score Record Profits While Consumers Paid in 2025
The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry just posted its most profitable underwriting year in over two decades.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Insurance companies are in bed with the arsonists to fleece you for everything you're worth. Fantastic piece to understand the financial machine warming our world.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bien joué !
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has relentlessly undermined hurricane readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
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Democrats Can’t Let Trump Off the Hook When the Next Big Hurricane Hits
The White House has relentlessly undermined disaster readiness and response capacity. When things go wrong, the opposition should make the president and his GOP accomplices pay a political price.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What he said 👇
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...
"In his role as a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Guillou had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Months earlier, some of his colleagues in the court had been similarly targeted by the US.

The shock was the reach of the sanctions. “It was not clear to us at that time the extent of disruption that it creates in our daily life,” Guillou says.

Within days, he was cut off from all the services that rely on US companies. He could not have an American credit card and instead had to rely on cash and national payment systems such as iDEAL in the Netherlands for online transactions.

Wire transfers bounced back. His hotel reservations on Booking.com and Expedia were cancelled. He could not rent a bike from the City of Paris’s public Vélib’ Métropole scheme, which requires a credit card guarantee. Packages delivered by UPS were returned to the sender. His health insurer tried to cut him off.
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amb @amb.fyi · 12/05/2026
shutting down streets outside schools for kids to play soccer is pretty much my political praxis. How is he so good at all of this
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW in @350.org: Fossil fuel pollution, which insurers continue to support through their underwriting and investment practices, is supercharging the extreme weather that is driving up home insurance prices.
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Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums – the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So proud to stand with extreme weather survivors from Louisiana hurricanes and San Diego floods. We delivered a letter to every state insurance commissioner backed by 49 orgs and 20,000 activists demanding to see the data behind the home insurance crisis. www.citizen.org/news/as-insu...
Activists stand behind a banner and one speaks into a microphone. The banner reads, "Climate change is driving a home insurance crisis. Commissioners: We pay the premiums. We deserve the data." It has Public Citizen's logo at the bottom right.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NEW: Dwindling home insurance availability and affordability is a clear manifestation of fossil fuel-driven climate chaos. Today, the Revolving Door Project published two tools to help illuminate aspects of this worsening crisis. 🧵⬇️
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RELEASE: Home Insurance Regulation Blunted by Revolving Door Activity and Insufficient Resources. New Tools Highlight Scale of Problems | Revolving Door Project
It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A couple of weeks ago @bluestein.bsky.social tweeted a hot mic moment of a GA Rep about property insurers: "These insurance companies are just ruthless, greedy, sonsofb****es destroying our country in the disguise that they're helping." I wrote up how they're doing it: citizen.org/news/the-tor...
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The “Tort Reform” Racket - Public Citizen
TL:DR The insurance industry is denying more and more claims and running a nationwide strategy to deny your right to…
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Ben Cushing @bmcushing.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
👀 BlackRock just lost another ~$6B mandate after backsliding on addressing climate risk to its clients’ portfolios. NYC pension trustees meet this week and could approve the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendation to shift $42B for the same reason. 🍿
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Governor Hochul is taking New York backwards. We won't let her. Thousands will march in Albany on April 18th with a clear message: It's Deadline Hochul. Join the mobilization launch Dec. 15 with special guests @billmckibben.bsky.social & @markruffalo.bsky.social ⬇️
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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 10/11/2025
This weekend, the New York Times ran a story claiming Sierra Club’s values have diluted our mission. They couldn’t be more wrong. The list of their errors is too long for one social post, but we go over some examples in these slides.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
840,000 insurance policyholders in Florida are trapped in a mandatory arbitration system where the insurer almost always wins. Regular people are left to pick up the pieces and pay the settlements. We need a real investigation and accountability for this broken system.
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Another day, another major news outlet publishing First Street criticism of FEMA whole cloth and without mentioning they are in the business of selling an alternative... www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
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Under water: How FEMA's outdated flood maps incentivize a system in which risk is negotiable
About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own flood mapping and appeal.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We disrupted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners national gathering this morning. Our homes and health are too important to let the insurance industry buy off our regulators. www.citizen.org/news/why-we-...
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Why We Disrupted the Insurance Commissioners' National Gathering - Public Citizen
We’re at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ quarterly conference to demand state insurance commissioners listen to their constituents and…
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Insurance commissioners shouldn’t take lavish gifts, campaign cash, or job offers from the companies they regulate. We’re demanding every state regulator sign an Anti-Corruption Pledge—no more revolving door, no more conflicts of interest ✍️ Add your name: act.citizen.org/page/86590/a...
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Tell regulators to protect people, not big insurance companies
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Like a good neighbor. . .
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thinking of Texans in the Hill Country as they, their loved ones and neighbors work to recover from the tragedy that occurred over the past weekend. If you're looking for a way to help, consider the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: tinyurl.com/KerrFloodRel...
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/erp/donate/create/fund
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Kenny Stancil @kennystancil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Insurance giants shouldn’t be allowed to post profits and hike rates while denying fire survivors compensation they deserve. Tell CA officials to stand up to Big Insurance: No hikes until people get paid! Sign here: act.citizen.org/page/85237/p...
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Tell Gov. Newsom and the California Insurance Commission to stand with fire survivors
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
6 months after the LA wildfires, CA is investigating 400+ insurance complaints from survivors. Yet, State Farm's raking in profits and asked for a 30% rake hike. Tell @governor.ca.gov and commissioner Ricardo Lara: No rate hikes until people get paid! act.citizen.org/page/85237/p...
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Arkush ar-crushes it again on the senate floor. No notes.
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NY Renews @nyrenews.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New Yorkers can’t afford more delays to our Climate Law! NY Renews is cosponsoring a @thirdactorg.bsky.social talk with @delgadoforny.bsky.social & @billmckibben.bsky.social on 5/7 at 7 pm to discuss how we get there! thirdact.org/nyc/events/lt-gov-delgado-bill-mckibben-in-conversation-30-minutes/
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Carly Fabian @carlyfabian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looking to see how the home insurance crisis is affecting your area? Check out these new interactive maps we released, with incredible work from @kennystancil.bsky.social
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Alex Martin @alexmartin196.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Here's our reaction to the CA FAIR plan bailout with a quote from @carolinenagy.bsky.social. CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public. Two things you might not realize though: ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...
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News Release: California Hands $500M Insurance Bailout Bill to Families & Homeowners - Americans for Financial Reform
The California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a $1 billion bailout of the state’s FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) plan to help cover over 3,400 claims it has received ...
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“This choice shows that the new administration will leave no favor ungranted for the oil and gas industry and the wealthy fossil fuel executives who funded Trump’s campaign,” - yours truly via @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump taps oil industry insider to oversee drilling on public lands
Bureau of Land Management nominee Kathleen Sgamma heads a fossil fuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark conservation rule.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
With all this talk of a property insurance crisis, remember that it's regular people who are in crisis, not the companies. Insurers are sitting on an historic $1+ TRILLION surplus. The companies are just fine. They're laughing all the way to BlackRock. content.naic.org/sites/defaul...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I often hear wind and solar lead to more power outages. But it’s not true. Here's the data for Germany: Wind + solar had a share of 33% of electricity in 2022. ➡️But there were 43% FEWER interruptions than in 2006 when wind + solar contributed only 5%.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/12/2024
it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
the only thing that stinks worse than tim ryan's betrayal of the american people is the methane gas leaking from the export terminals he's shilling for
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Two pathways to help communities adapt to ecologically "indefensible" areas in this time of climate change. In Wales, people were abandoned and the whole thing collapsed. In France, people were taken care of and the area became more resilient. The 2 most important case studies for the US right now.
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Property insurance looks a lot like health insurance: companies take increasingly higher profits while withdrawing coverage and offloading costs to more and more people. We can turn it around. Here's how 👇 #WithinOurPower to #InsureOurFuture
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you think Direct Air Capture (DAC) is going to save us, please read this. This is isn’t some left-wing fringe environmental group saying this. It’s MIT. news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
the Kochs are not your friends. Glad to see @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social digging into the libertarian side of the "abundance movement." (And I'm fully on board with housing YIMBYs).
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therickmorris.bsky.social @therickmorris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My guy @alanzibel.bsky.social brings the receipts: we're exporting SO MUCH gas that it's driving up prices here at home. The plan to export more just means jacking up costs even more while like 10 billionaires laugh all the way to the bank.
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Aaron Regunberg @aaronregunberg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Kamala Harris treated climate change as an issue to be avoided. But climate is one of Dems' best opportunities to tell stories that, like Trump's, have clear villains and center the way elites (like Big Oil CEOs) are hurting working class people. That's why it's time for climate populism.
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The Answer to Democrats’ Class Problem Is Staring Them in the Face
The climate crisis offers one of the strongest fields imaginable for proving fealty to the working class against rapacious elites.
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