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Tom Owens

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Center for Oil and Gas Organizing taking on fossil fuels. Formerly in climate, energy and water philanthropy

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In honor of the death of eternal legend Dolly Parton, here’s her 2023 #ClimateChange anthem “World on Fire.” “Liar, liar, the world’s on fire / What’cha gonna do when it all burns down … Still got time to turn it all around.” 😭💚🙏 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJX...
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Dolly Parton - World On Fire (From The 58th ACM Awards)
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When two of the most corrupt men in history step into someone else’s moment. Congrats Spain for an incredibly impressive run and Finals win
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One of the many findings in my story on talks between Gov. Josh Shapiro’s admin & Amazon… Pennsylvania offered Amazon “exclusive early access” to a permitting fast track program Months before it was available to the public In a memo labeled covered by a NDA ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓
For example, in April 2025, months before Amazon announced its $20 billion investment, Shapiro's office offered the tech giant "exclusive early access" to a permitting fast track program not yet available to the public. Kirshner described the provision to Amazon as an "enhanced permit coordination framework established specifically for Amazon Web Services (AWS) development projects within Pennsylvania." According to a memo included in the emails bearing the governor's insignia, the state would help AWS "be among the first companies" to utilize a new program that lets third-party contractors complete parts of the permit application review process.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Cool cool so the Exec Chairman of Williams, one of the biggest methane gas pipeline companies polluting communities and your home through gas stoves, is now the Oklahoma Senator. Meanwhile they’re waiting on several federal energy permits from FERC and others www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Oklahoma energy executive Alan Armstrong sworn in as U.S. senator
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) appointed Armstrong to the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R), who was confirmed as homeland security secretary Monday.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Christmas hoax
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The North American temperature anomaly forecast map for around XMas is something to behold!
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/11/2025
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New @dataforprogress.org polling shows a majority of US voters (55%) SUPPORT the phaseout of fossil fuels, including a majority of Dems (74%), voters under 45 (69%), and Independents (57%). @governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
A Majority of Voters Support a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels at COP30

Some countries are proposing a worldwide planned phase out of fossil fuels, including coal and oil, to address climate change.
Do you support or oppose countries agreeing to a phase out of fossil fuels at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference?
Strongly support
Somewhat support
Don't know
All likely voters
Strong support 25%
Somewhat support 30%
Don’t know 13%
Partisanship
Democrat
41%
33%
Independent /
Third party
21%
36%
Republican
10%
24%

November 14-17, 2025 survey of 1,224 U.S. likely voters
DATA FOR PROGRESS
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 14/11/2025
Hochul's husband's law-firm client, "Tulsa-based Williams Companies, is planning to build a $1 billion underwater gas pipeline off [NYC]. The pipeline project had previously been rejected three times by [NYS] regulators over environmental concerns. But on Monday, Ms. Hochul said she would allow it"
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Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"More than 6,500 jobs and $2.5 billion in investments have been lost in New York due to the Trump administration’s energy policies." An self-made American tragedy: www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
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Thousands of New York jobs lost to federal energy policies
More than 150,000 jobs have been lost or delayed nationwide due to the Trump administration's hostility toward clean energy, according to a new report from
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/10/2025
It is widely agreed that robust LNG exports from the US will have the effect of globalizing the price of NG, which will in turn have the effect of *raising the price of domestic NG*. So why aren't all the "focus on affordability" people fighting LNG exports?
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 06/09/2025
BREAKING: Activists are at the #USOpen to call out one of its major sponsors – Chubb – and demand it stop insuring Freeport LNG, a toxic fossil fuel project threatening our climate, and the health & safety of local communities. 📸: Erik McGregor @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
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The state that canceled your bus is wasting $1.6B on a polluting boondoggle | Will Bunch
Pa. officials promised a Shell plastics plant was the future, awarding a $1.6B tax break to an economic dud and pollution nightmare.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Softbank buying an electric vehicle factory to turn it into an AI server factory. Ping @ketanjoshi.co
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11/08/2025
Exactly right. At a time when demand is rising, the Administration is restricting and raising taxes on the main sources of capacity being added to the grid: clean energy. The result: hiring electric bills, greater risk of blackouts, and more pollution.
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...
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Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.
Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
So just hear me out .. we could feed kids, or offer low-middle income affordable housing, or maybe build renewable energy that is already the cheapest for developers and consumers, or cut off aid to Israel's military occupation. Nah how about nuclear in space? www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is actually a strategy to “deregulate” as chaotically as possible, and then let the courts sort it out.
That’s where the AI tool comes in, the PowerPoint proposes. The tool will save 93 percent of the human labor involved by reviewing up to 500,000 comments submitted by the public in response to proposed rule changes. By the end of the deregulation exercise, humans will have spent a grand total of 36 hours gutting half of all federal regulations, the PowerPoint claims.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Global additions of capacity in 2025 698 GW of solar (BNEF) 138 GW of wind (GWEC) W&S will grow ~838 GW in 2025. What about gas? ~45-60 GW of gas may be added. With gas retirements, the net additions will be less! World moves to clean energy as US embraces coal & gas. #energysky
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating
Zuck thread of posts (on Thread) bragging about building "several multi-gigawatt" data center clusters in the pursuit of "superintelligence"
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Every minute matters youtu.be/BOzsASyXdyI?...
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Deadly Texas floods highlight impact of climate change
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Washington State will have higher electrical bills of $ 115 per year, and lose 21,000 jobs in the next five years due to Trump’s disastrous reconciliation bill. Heckuva job Mr. President. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/11/m...
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Megabill’s elimination of tax credits for clean energy projects could cost WA $8.7 billion • Washington State Standard
Officials are warning that the megabill passed last week will likely raise Washington households’ electricity costs and eliminate thousands of jobs in Washington’s clean energy and manufacturing secto...
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 23/06/2025
Today, 188 U.S. groups called on EU Commissioners to refuse to bow to the Trump administration's pressure to increase reliance on U.S. #LNG & other fossil fuel imports. The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG. oilchange.org/news/letter-...
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Letter from 188 U.S. Environmental Groups Urges EU Commissioners to Reject Trump’s Pressure to Purchase U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) - Oil Change International
Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So poor people get poorer. Rich get richer. Clean energy manufacturing and jobs halt. States are prevented from regulating AI for ten years. Call your Senators and stop the bill
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Nothing to see here.
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‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo
World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
	•	Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
	•	Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
	•	Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
	•	Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
	•	Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
	•	Average Federal Salary: $106,000
	•	Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
	•	A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
	•	Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
	•	Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
	•	Federal Employee Data: USAFacts
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
USAID was investigating Starlink CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
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Jeremy Symons @jeremysymons.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Energy Secretary Granholm is finishing strong at DOE. She asked questions about #LNG that the industry didn't want asked, and the facts are in. Here are some notable excerpts of what Granholm said today in a statement on the new DOE LNG studies...
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“unfettered (LNG) exports” would mean less gas available at home, causing domestic wholesale prices to increase about 30 percent. That, in turn, would increase costs for the average American household by more than $100 a year by 2050 and quite likely also cause electricity prices to rise.
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Tom Owens @tomowens1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is exactly the kind of leadership we need at the DNC. Ben Wikler is a champion of winning political strategies that measure their impact by making real impacts in people’s lives. He’s done that in Wisconsin. He can do it nationally. youtu.be/TfBtlvfysjw?...
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Ben Wikler - A Vision For the Future of the Democratic Party | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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