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Climate & Accountability Campaigns at the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucsusa.bsky.social. Your place for rigorous, independent, intersectional climate science. #EnvironmentalJustice always.
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3/3 Independent Trial Monitors noted multiple due process violations in the trial. More than half the jurors had ties to the fossil fuel industry and many demonstrated bias in favor of Energy Transfer. Corporate attacks on our rights to free speech, assembly & protest must not be allowed to stand.
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2/3 In addition to this retaliatory lawsuit's alarming implications for free speech, this point from Natali Segovia of Water Protector Legal Collective is critical: “At its core, it’s a proxy war against Indigenous sovereignty using an international environmental organization."
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UCS' Kathy Mulvey notes that the science is clear that burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of dangerous climate change, and that major oil & gas companies have understood for decades that their products could have catastrophic effects on people and the planet. Read more here:
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March for Future Generations coming up next week at CERA Week: oilchange.org/news/media-a...
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We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:
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The Trump administration is threatening NOAA with massive funding and staffing cuts.
The impacts on science and everyday people would be ruinous.
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NOAA’s foundational science helps us understand the ways in which our world is changing. It’s a crucial service for protecting people and our economy, and it’s free to the public.
Your weather app uses NOAA science. Farmers use it. Emergency responders use it.
NOAA is indispensable.
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More than 2,500 scientists, researchers, and other experts just sent an open letter to Congress and the Trump administration.
Their ask? Protect NOAA.
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“Any recommendation to strike the Finding would be a bad faith attempt to circumvent the law and best available science with the sole aim of boosting fossil fuel use and the profits of polluting companies,” said UCS’s Rachel Cleetus in a statement:
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UCS stands in solidarity with Greenpeace USA as they face this absurd & punitive lawsuit from Energy Transfer, which seeks to intimidate movements for clean air & water, environmental & climate justice, and Indigenous sovereignty. An attack on one is an attack on all.