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.@GeoffreySupran is right: obtaining fossil fuel corporate documents is “one of the most important actions Congress could take to address the climate crisis.” The House must act.
theguardian.com/business/2020/…
"The reality is that as much as we know about fossil fuel interests’ denial and delay, we’ve really found those skeletons in the closet just by looking through a tiny keyhole – everything we know is based on just a few hundred documents scrounged from various sources."
"From my perspective every indication of this evidence is once that closet door gets blown open, the skeletons are going to come tumbling out."
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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In her confirmation hearing, Chairman Neumayr agreed that climate change is real, that it’s a major issue for coastal states like Rhode Island, and that some of our most important financial institutions are warning about the dire threats it poses.
npr.org/2020/01/09/794…
Now, she’s proposing to neuter the environmental law that ensures the government’s most consequential decisions account for the effects of climate change.
We didn’t need more proof that the fossil fuel industry has hardwired the Trump administration to deliver on its interests, but we got it anyway.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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.@NOAA: “particularly endangered” are Alaska and the Florida Keys, so where’s the climate action?
@NOAA "Alaska waters are especially vulnerable to [ocean acidification]. Most vulnerable are Alaska communities that rely on subsistence crab harvests and communities with fishing economies."
@NOAA "Alaska's seafood industry employs more than 50,000 people, pays $2 billion a year in wages, and includes the nation's largest and most valuable crab fishery.”
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Well, “cognitive dissonance” sure is a nice way to say it. I’d just call a lie a lie. When has Big Oil NOT lied about climate change? What makes “we care about climate change” a more difficult lie to tell than “climate change isn’t real”?
insideclimatenews.org/news/30122019/…
Liars lie. It’s what they do.
It is ‘not for nothing’ that the real commitment comes from a European company, @RepsolWorldwide, that’s not infected with the U.S. curse of being able to use lies and money and front groups and political muscle to deny reality and corrode politics.
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Teresa Anderson
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By ignoring socio-economic realities facing the people that the tech is supposed to benefit, GM Golden Rice could make things much, much worse for them.

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One thing in the way of effective action on our #climate crisis (and our toxics crisis, our biodiversity crisis, our plastics in the ocean crisis, not to mention our violence, war, poverty, racism, & sexism crises) is a terrible misunderstanding of who/what we are.
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Patrick Galey
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