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The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. (Robert Swan)
Dec 3, 2022 42 tweets 13 min read
#AbbottFailedTexas #FixTheGrid #RoeVsWade #GunSafety #VotingRights @GovAbbott Texas leads the country for most weather-related major power outages, data shows.
A major power outage is defined as an event impacting more than 50,000 customers. #AbbottFailedTexas #FixTheDamnGrid @GovAbbott @ERCOT_ISO @DanPatrick @TexasGOP kvue.com/amp/article/we…
Dec 22, 2019 15 tweets 115 min read
TRAVESTY: @NOAA’s new turtle excluder rule is a ~dangerous departure~ from the path it had been on toward saving sea turtles from nets al.com/news/2019/12/p… @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas
@realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici @NOAA @SecretaryRoss @CommerceGov @RepEBJ @HouseScience @RepFrankLucas @realDonaldTrump @ZoeLofgren @DanLipinski @RepBonamici A plan to make more shrimpers include sea turtle escape hatches (turtle excluder devices) in their nets has been vastly scaled back, federal regulators announced Thursday, potentially contributing to the deaths of more than 1,000 endangered sea turtles each year. @RepBera @USFWS
Aug 15, 2019 14 tweets 76 min read
@realdonaldtrump, who promised to protect our #publiclands, nominated William Perry Pendley, who hates our public land, as head of
@BLMNational. He has argued loudly that the federal govt shouldn’t own public lands. @senatemajldr @Johncornyn @tedcruz
seattletimes.com/opinion/strang… @realDonaldTrump @BLMNational @senatemajldr @JohnCornyn @tedcruz Pendley has spent decades trying to sue the fed govt for protecting endangered species, fought against designating natl monuments, & stood up for lawbreaking cattlemen who held an armed standoff with BLM employees. @lisamurkowski @SenatorCollins @LindseyGrahamSC @tomudall @GOP