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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Not enough to shut down climate action in Congress. @USChamber turned to the courts. #ChamberofCarbon
In 2010, @USChamber sued @EPA, challenging the agency’s finding that carbon pollution endangers public health and welfare. #ChamberofCarbon chamberlitigation.com/sites/default/…
In 2014, @USChamber convened rogues' gallery of fossil fuel lobbyists and lawyers to plot legal strategy to take down #Obama administration efforts to limit carbon pollution. #ChamberofCarbon nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/…
In 2015, @USChamber led fossil fuel front groups suing to block the Clean Power Plan. #ChamberofCarbon chamberlitigation.com/sites/default/…
Here’s my brief in the Ninth Circuit exposing the mischief they’ve been up to: whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/w…
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Increasing #ClimateRisks are forcing the insurance industry to recalculate. Climate change may be gradual, but its market effects are volatile. What we are doing currently — nothing—will cost us big.
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Look at Texas. The annual probability of a Texas storm dropping 20 inches of rain is expected to rise from 1% to 18%. When insurance companies get scared, that’s a pretty good sign that we should be too. #ClimateCosts usatoday.com/story/weather/…
Where does this end? For some coastal areas, insurance companies stop offering protection all together. Homeowners will be left on their own to deal with the #ClimateCosts.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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WATCH LIVE: The Third Federalist Society twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
One @FedSoc darling has received a particular amount of attention recently, the newly confirmed DC Court of Appeals judge Neomi Rao. Her deep connections to the Federalist Society are no secret. #CapturedCourts
When Rao testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I asked her about the funding of her so-called Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason’s Scalia Law School. She testified to me that NO anonymous or Koch brothers funding had gone to her Center.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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We know the consequences of climate inaction:
1⃣#ClimateRisk becomes uninsurable leading to crisis in insurance markets.
2⃣Sudden collapse of coastal property values when markets react to #ClimateRisks of rising sea levels.
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My first peer reviewed article was published today! I'm grateful for the chance to write about my Master's thesis and share some of my thinking about #climatechange and #narrativedissonance . Please get in touch if you're interested in chatting more. canada.ca/en/public-heal…
My qualitative study looked at the #stories of young people who already know about and care about #climatechange. I wanted to know: how are they making sense of climate change in their everyday lives? How are they responding, and is that #engagement meaningful to them?
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Christine Boyle
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Next Wednesday @CityofVancouver staff report back to #Council on ramping up our #ClimateAction, in line with the #IPCC science and in response to the #ClimateEmergency. Here’s my breakdown of the recommendations 👇
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Alexander Reitzenstein
@AlexReitzenst
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1. Thread:

Riots in France, 2nd rejection of carbon tax in Washington State, and u-turns in Germany and Ireland, all since Oct:

Are carbon taxes are dead, and we should look to plan B on climate?

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Or: josephcurtin.com/single-post/20…
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Carl Meyer
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Scientists are once again warning about #climate armageddon. Thousands vetted the best science out there. More extinction, death and disease is in store if we don't act fast.

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Rep. Don Beyer
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President Trump and Acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler just teamed up with their friends in the fossil fuel industry to release a Dirty Power Plan that would open the floodgates to more carbon pollution across the country.

It is dangerous for all of us. Here's why: 1/
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Trump never withdrew this finding, which still stands, binding the EPA to act. 2/
The Dirty Power Plan just issued by Trump and Wheeler will enormously weaken the US government response to something the US government still says is an active threat to our health and the planet. On purpose. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
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