March for climate action at #UNFCCC global climate meeting #COP24 today in Katowice Poland. #ClimateActionNow
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A little perspective, please. Sourcing minerals needed for the #CleanEnergy transition poses real challenges that need to be addressed, but the scale and environmental harm is tiny compared to #fossilfuels extraction
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Last week, a shooter entered an SF synagogue & fired a gun. His motives were initially unclear. It now appears it wasn’t a random attack. This guy had significant Nazi propaganda on his social media: facebook.com/matthew.finkel
Another example of how Jews aren’t safe anywhere.
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BREAKING: CA Senate Bill 1137 — which establishes a 3,200 ft buffer zone between oil drilling & where people live/work/play — has been signed into law, but Big Oil is still up to its dirty tactics - spending millions to repeal it. 🧵 1/4
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“Warehouse-induced pollution has created a state of environmental injustice and a public health crisis in San Bernardino and Riverside counties,” dozens of labor, environmental and community groups said urging Newsom to implement a regionwide moratorium
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CA rooftop #solar was demolished by who are bought by #utilities w/ our $$
"It has also waged PR campaigns that fuel climate denial, defend its slow climate action, and even raise costs and restrictions for rooftop solar."
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California town averted disaster thx to 2,100 acres (850 hectares) of former farmland just across the San Joaquin that have been largely restored to a natural floodplain. #restoration #ecosystems #biodiversity #water
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We're driving local lion populations to extinction, literally. research shows that 1-2 mountain lions were killed every week on CA roads and highways between 2015 and 2022. ucdavis.edu/climate/news/m Shocking number of lions were killed (red dots) during that time.
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Chile fights to contain wildfires that left at least 23 dead
#climatecrisis #landuse #ecosystems #wildfire
Must read: the great majority of Colorado basin #water use is for irrigated agriculture, mostly for animal feed, which seems far cheaper to fallow than the cost of most other proposed actions.
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Resistance is Futile – Agriculture is Key to Fixing Lower Colorado River Water Shortages californiawaterblog.com/2023/02/05/res
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Resistance is Futile – Agriculture is Key to Fixing Lower Colorado River Water Shortages
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Now if we could only do something about deep GOP stupidity, like the members of Congress who called for a vigilante Lawn Chair Larry-style shoot down, and didn't realize there were 3 Chinese balloons that passed freely over the US under Trump.
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Thankful to President Biden and the U.S. Military for putting the safety of the American people first.
And then taking down the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance balloon that unacceptably violated our air space.
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Today, I spoke with small family farmers who shared how the recent storms have upended their work and livelihoods—We have a lot of work to do.
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Data released for the first time showed police in some wealthy enclaves, like Piedmont and Los Altos, stop Black drivers at disproportionately higher rates than cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Big Oil moved quickly to stop DECADES of work by frontline communities -- Please stand up to show support for setbacks in our communities from the harmful effects of oil drilling!
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Breaking: Big Oil’s deceptive referendum to undo public safety law SB 1137 just qualified for the 2024 ballot.
Big Oil is trying to reverse the ban on neighborhood oil drilling, we can’t let them. Read the thread & take action: action.greencal.org/action/calgem
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New report: CA could ease its #WaterCrisis by transitioning to renewables, stopping abuses, and managing water as a public resource.
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My family needs a second vehicle and I'm in the process of deciding whether or not it can be an e-cargo bike and the amount of pushback this idea has generated from the otherwise progressive circles I operate in is really eye-opening.
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An even deadlier pandemic is possible- avian influenza. We have solutions but need to implement. via
Thanks to the Chinese Chamber & volunteers who, despite the rain, organized another great Chinese New Year Parade tonight - the largest parade of its kind outside of Asia. Happy Year of the Rabbit!
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Ugh. Chile wildfires right now.👇🏼 Hard to see. They also have Mediterranean climate prone to wildfires and drought.🔥 We need to work more with other governments across the world that face these same challenges (Spain, South Africa, parts of Australia).💡🌎
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Huge smoke plumes from forest fires in #Chile 
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The increase in monthly PG&E bills hit Californians across all income levels, yet the impact was worst among those who could least afford it.
“We’re finding so many people behind three or four months on their utility bills and they don’t know what to do."
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2 critical rules give authority to regulate carbon pollution from the power sector—111(b) and 111(d).
Evergreen’s explains why they are the most effective tool has to tackle climate change ⬇️
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A well understood signature of increasing greenhouse gases is low-level warming and stratospheric cooling. This graph shows temp at a mid-level, selected deliberately to confuse people who don’t understand this.
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Here’s a fact: California has the strongest gun safety laws in the nation and one of lowest firearm mortality rates.
And with #SB2, were going further. We’re going to save more lives.
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Chile wildfires spread amid heat wave as death toll rises (from @AP) - At least 22 people have died in connection to the fires and 554 have been injured, including 16 in serious condition apnews.com/article/f1eaf0
Wow.👀 Oil companies are challenging California’s new protections that create buffers between oil drilling & schools, daycares, and homes.🙇🏽
Any guess if any of these oil company executives live right next to oil drilling?🤔
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WOW. The Pentagon just confirmed that THREE Chinese balloons flew over the U.S. during the Trump presidency & not only did he not shoot them down, but he also didn’t say anything about it. Shows you how ridiculous Republicans are right now by only talking about the balloon.
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Bad day to be a spy balloon.
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The Inflation Reduction Act is great, but not enough. Strong pollution standards by can ensure decarbonization of the power sector. My latest opinion piece in The Hill.
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RT @markjacob@mastodon.lol
I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or (1/2)
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Me too!
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We want to be done w/COVID-19, but it isn't done. "As cases have dropped more people are abandoning masks altogether, increasing the social pressure to follow suit. @HealthySCC's Dr. Cody said that is a mistake." I'm still wearing mine indoors in public. mercurynews.com/2023/02/04/edi
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The oil industry spent millions & deceived voters to get this referendum on the ballot, but still has the tools he needs to protect Californians from oil industry pollution:
1️⃣ Put emergency setbacks rules in place
2️⃣ End new drilling permits
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We need to get guns out of circulation. Enough is enough. #handguns #guncontrol
Half measures aren’t working.
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I took a bit of time to dissect the “spy balloon” story - both how it is portrayed in the US and China’s response.
As you'll see, the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing.
A small 🧵
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I'll let you decide for yourself which story makes more sense…
The sheer ridiculousness of this Nth “red scare” episode is absolutely obvious to anyone with an iota of common sense. Except, sadly, common sense seems to be in critically short supply nowadays…
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The Pentagon itself said that “the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites” and that “the balloon posed no serious physical or intelligence threat”.
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A piece in WaPo seems to confirm this, quoting “experts in national security and aerospace [who] said the craft appears to share characteristics with high-altitude balloons used by developed countries around the world for weather forecasting” 🔽
(src: washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/ )
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NEW: Statement from after SB 1137 gets put on pause due to a referendum.
“It’s one thing for Big Oil to make record profits as they rip off Californians at the pump. It’s quite another to push to continue harmful drilling near daycares and schools and our homes.”
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