Yesterday, @GovernorShapiro announced two things:

1. A dubious and potentially dangerous partnership with CNX and
2. a very important directive to state agencies to enact some of the rules needed to protect #climate & health from fracking.

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governor.pa.gov/newsroom/shapi… The @CNXtweets agreement does not “fulfill the promises” made by Shapiro as AG – it certainly works as a good PR stunt for CNX. Here’s why:

1/ Is @POTUS breaking his promise to honor environmental justice and is instead positioning the U.S. as one of the world’s largest fossil fuel dealers? 🤔

🧵A thread on the cracks in Biden’s climate and environmental justice ambitions: 🧵 2/ Biden’s @EPA, @StateDept & @USACEGALVESTON say that Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT), a massive offshore oil export port, pipeline, and tank farm proposed through neighborhoods in Surfside, TX and in the Gulf Coast, would not impact low-income communities and communities of color.

~THREAD~ For nearly a decade @TXsharon and our field team have captured proof that #oilandgas is polluting more methane than they admit. Check the receipts below vvvv earthworks.org/the-power-of-b… Methane is a GHG 86x more potent than CO2 and it is polluted at every step of the oil and gas extraction process. But science shows that poor reporting (and the forces of vested interests) keep much of this pollution (as much as half) unreported /2 nature.com/articles/s4146…

~THREAD~ The @oversightdems hearing on #BigOilLies fueling the #ClimateCrisis brought in leading climate scientists and researchers in to discuss the ways #BigOil spread disinformation that delay climate action & what that delay costs us. Here is a 🧵 of some of the big moments: 2/ Big Takeaway - We have zero time left to wait yet a small handful of the largest #oilandgas companies are undertaking a new effort to keep fossil fuels burning: Climate Commitments

THREAD: Polluters (and their trade groups) are running a full fledged misinformation campaign to convince @POTUS and his @EPA to adopt new methane rules that would allow millions of wells to go unregulated. Here’s the scoop: 2) @POTUS Day 1 executive order called on the @EPA to create new rules to #cutmethane pollution from new and existing #oilandgas sources and the first draft of those rules are set to be released later this month. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

The new @IEA #WEO21 report sends a contradictory message: leave #fossilfuels in the ground, but increase extraction of minerals needed for #cleanenergy technologies. Can we avoid extracting both? A thread... #MakeCleanEnergyClean #fixtheWEO Metals #mining is the leading industrial toxic polluter in the US per @EPA reporting & @UNEP says it contributes 10% of global carbon emissions. We must transition to #cleanenergy AND reduce dependence on new mining. earthworks.org/publications/r…

TODAY @RollingStone & @JustinNobel expose two new damning instances in which the #oilandgas industry continues to contaminate communities across the US w/ radioactive waste--adding to a case against #frack waste made previously by @Earthworks.

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rollingstone.com/politics/polit… @RollingStone @JustinNobel First, while many contaminants in #oilandgas waste have not yet been identified and the risks of others are only partially understood. Radioactive elements are indisputably present in shale formations and are brought to the surface during development, such as in wastewater.

Buckle in for an #oilandgas & #fracking thread re: the importance of @CDPHE’s recent #publichealth study @CDPHE 1. Last week @CDPHE -- Colorado’s health agency -- confirmed what science, including @ColoradoSPH, has been telling us for years: living near #oilandgas production threatens #publichealth. colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/… #fracking

1. The #mining industry’s (and their advocates’) arguments against #miningreform proposed by @NRDems & @SenatorTomUdall are built on untruths. @NRDems @SenatorTomUdall 2. @NationalMining, and @CatoInstitute in @thehill, claim that onerous U.S. oversight obstructs #mining investment, never mind real #miningreform.

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