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A brief history of self-regulation
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵@sylviachi.bsky.social |
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dog person and recovering attorney. i work on climate justice and public banking.
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Climate News
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A brief history of self-regulation
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
@sylviachi.bsky.social
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I bet you're wondering what footnote 41 says. It says, essentially nothing. What requirements of the Lautenberg Act are not being addressed by existing policies??
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Some fun background lore about me is that before I went to work on the Muslim Ban, I practiced chemicals law, specializing in the Toxic Substances Control Act. Here's an excerpt of what Project 2025 has to say about TSCA:
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Big Greens have gotten funded to strategize for a second Biden term. We're still trying to scrounge up some funding for EJ to prepare for the possibility of a second Trump term.
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isaac
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This is super powerful in my little corner of the world. Literally the entire bedrock of environmental tinkering with electricity rate design since the 1970s has been predicated on one theoretically simple goal: increase energy conservation & keep bills flat while doing it.
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Coach Finstock
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Fetal personhood is an outrage against bodily autonomy and religious freedom, but also: is the support for access to birth control new?
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Costa Samaras
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Maybe I missed it but I’ve never seen a NYT scoreboard for the number of governors opting out of taking federal money for feeding hungry kids (twelve) or even the number of states where a McRib is currently available (zero).
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Emily Grubert
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🤔 at the point that categories 1 & 2 are for actually reducing emissions (at oil wells, and from leaking equipment) but cat 3 -- the environmental justice-focused one -- is just about monitoring
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isaac
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I think this worker cooperative is doing some of the best energy data work around! Check them out!
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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It might seem like it at first blush, but this is really not one of those "gotcha" mistakes. As an environmental lawyer who is not even a Clean Air Act specialist, it's extremely obvious that nitrous oxide is not the substance at issue.
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isaac
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I like how PG&E put their watermark on these so when the photos of California fires are submitted in future court cases for utility negligence it's clear whose equipment was there.
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Moira Birss
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I'm thrilled to share my new LPE blog on insurance, where on take on the prevailing media & policy narrative that the answer to the US's home insurance crisis is protecting insurance companies. Instead, we must focus on ensuring housing safety & affordability.
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southpaw
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After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.
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southpaw
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As part of an official televised event to raise awareness for unhoused issues, sleep outside in public in Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Leah Stokes
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It's not just the Supreme Court that's corrupt. Today, in Louisiana, another radical Trump appointed judge decided that dirty LNG projects should go forward, even if they poison Americans.
A corrupt legal system benefits fossil fuel corporations.
www.nytimes.com/2024...
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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"Republics fall because most citizens are willing to give it away. Most people think that it won’t be *that bad* to lose the rule of law, and the people who stand to benefit from the ending of republican self-government tell everybody that it will be OK."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Democracy Forward is coordinating some planning on this with a lot of NGOs.
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David Noll
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There are few things in the U.S. Reports as offensive to the rule of law as John Roberts' reference to "congressional statutes." Those statutes are "the supreme Law of the Land" according to the fucking Supremacy Clause.
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Peter Sagal
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.
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Julia Kane
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Orphaned wells are a climate and public health nightmare. The oil industry continues to dump *billions* in cleanup costs onto taxpayers and is fighting reform efforts.
Fantastic reporting by Mark Olalde for @propublica.bsky.social on an issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves:
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James Fallows Tierney
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I guess I don’t need this baby anymore
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isaac
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Investor owned utilities should have to go back in front of the public utility commission and explain why their projections -- and their past demands for rate hikes -- are so wrong that they can "voluntarily" lower rates at their discretion.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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This writer wrote a similar article after IRA passed, and IMO it vastly overstates the impact of the language they're referring to. On their face, the greenhouse gas definitions referenced only apply to the new programs within the Clean Air Act.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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In terms of practicality, overturning Chevron will actually make the regulatory environment far more unstable and uncertain, which you would THINK would be against the interests of big corporations (especially multinationals), who OUGHT to do something about it.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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I need to refresh my memory but I assume the endangerment finding and Mass v. EPA?
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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My parents grew up in Taiwan when it was still under martial law and I remember when my dad learned about Che Guevara, when the movie came out, and his mind was blown.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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I wish this context was incorporated into all the mainstream media coverage about this.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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OK enviro/energy/EJ brain trust, in your judgment, which regs and other statutory interpretations are most vulnerable to attack by the right-wing extremists that we need to be strategizing to defend?
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Scott Crosson 🐟📈
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As someone who works at the agency (NOAA) that just lost Relentless, I would like to welcome the Justices to fisheries management 101. I have six pages of acronyms you will need to learn. I’m assuming you have already taken PhD level classes in Bayesian statistics and are a fluent R programmer.
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Brendan Nyhan
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"the Court has begun to implement the policy preferences of its conservative majority in a new and troubling way: by simultaneously stripping power from every political entity except the Supreme Court itself"
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David Weiskopf
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Agency staff: oh hey this statute that asks us to do something contains an ambiguity. Can someone sue me real quick so a judge who knows fuck all about the issue can decide how I should interpret it?
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Don Moynihan
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Combine these decisions alongside Citizens United and Snyder (facilitating bribery of public officials), brought to you by the Federalist Society, and it’s been an incredible era for translating money, rather than votes, into political power
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Joe Katz
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Seriously. Trump's answer to every question is "it's all because of immigrants!"
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Elizabeth Spiers
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I, not politically but personally, want Biden to look at him and say, what are you even talking about? You were asked a question about climate and you talked about police and then noted that we have h2o?
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Chris Geidner
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NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch made it more difficult for the federal government to operate on Thursday. Law Dork, on Thursday at SCOTUS —>
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David Weiskopf
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Oh hell yeah. Get fucked, losers!
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Sure.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Okay, my bad. I missed that, I just saw all the groups lobbying him to include it before his original proposal. I don't think that's in the May Revise or the negotiated budget deal.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Again, I'm aware. I used to lobby in the legislature. The governor plays a significant role in negotiating the budget. I have not seen him call to end the fossil fuel subsidies, but regardless, he didn't include repeals of these subsidies in his proposed budgets.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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It's a policy choice for the Governor to prioritize certain expenditures over others (for example, maintaining tax subsidies for fossil fuel companies), and I think he made the wrong choice in both delaying this rule and exempting prisons.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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I'm aware and do not dispute that.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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It's a great time for my therapist to go on vacation.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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This article covers most of the relevant points, I think. They ended up exempting correctional facilities from the rule entirely. www.kqed.org/news/1199131...
Some more context here: calmatters.org/politics/cap...
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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The most frightening place I've ever been was a confederate flag-displaying gas station in rural Tennessee after leaving Bonnaroo.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Before I went to law school, the Asian American attorney I was a paralegal for told me about how when she was working on a death penalty case, she was followed while traveling alone around rural Alabama, and that's when I knew that I was not cut out for that kind of legal work.
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Sylvia Chi 齐思涵
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Overall I think it's too early to really assess and it's not going to be trivial to determine what was enabled by tax credits because there's very little transparency about how they're used.
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Justin Mikulka
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As we watch insurance companies bail on more areas, it seems like a good time to start thinking about climate risk disclosures. John notes how "This cost-of-capital calculus creates a powerful incentive for carbon-intensive companies to conceal their transition risks. " And they do just that.
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isaac
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“Vulnerability to disasters is not something that’s innate to our communities. The problem is not the hurricanes… The problem is the political and economic and social systems that make certain communities vulnerable, that make hurricanes disastrous.” ~ Vanessa Raditz
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