Senior Policy Counsel @Public_Citizen Climate Program
Public Voices Fellow @TheOpEdProject @YaleClimateComm
@UVALaw @ColoradoCollege
#FossilFueledClimateChange
Feb 4, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Please stop & read this trenchant investigative report by my dear friend @Matthew__Green on the “greenest LNG [liquified gas] project in the world. The secret? Carbon capture+storage (CCS), a tech primarily used for extracting more oil & gas. 1/ sgq.io/TD1wQcr@DeSmog
CCS for storing carbon underground at a scale relevant to the climate crisis is like a carbon-sucking unicorn—it doesn’t exist. Yet this is the peg the oil & gas industry hangs its hat on. This is how @exxonmobil@Shell@bp_plc justify growth when humanity needs them to STOP. 2/
Mar 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/ A Legacy Lost: The Biden Administration is fumbling its biggest opportunity into its biggest liability. On afternoon cable news, Sec. @ENERGY@JenGranholm said we have to rapidly EXPAND oil and gas production to increase supply as we turn off the taps to Putin.
2/ To imbed new fossil infrastructure in 2022 is totally backasswards. Where is the vision? To aid Europe start by implementing @billmckibben#HeatPumps4Peace. To keep drivers’ heads from popping off here at home, give everyone a few gas coupons alongside a significant EV subsidy
Mar 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
What an agonizingly backwards + disastrous foreign policy proposal from the cool pol I met at the airport in the 90s: @JohnKerry & I bonded over snowarding + the need for urgent #ClimateAction. A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LATER, he’s peddling the “gas as transition” narrative 🧵
This is the same lie pushed by @exxonmobil@Chevron@bp_plc et al. to justify their continued existence during a #ClimateCrisis that demands immediate transition away from ALL fossil fuels. Building a vast and dirty fossil fuel system to power emerging economies is sheer madness.
