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Mandolin player & environmental lawyer. Most of my favorite trails are portages.

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U.S. EPA sued over illegal repeal of climate protections Health, environmental groups challenge the Trump EPA’s harmful, unscientific, and illegal repeal of the endangerment finding and elimination of clean vehicle standards.

CATF joined a broad coalition of health and environmental groups in suing the U.S. EPA today over its illegal repeal of climate protections – holding the agency accountable to protect public health and welfare from air pollutants that endanger them.
www.catf.us/2026/02/us-e...

18.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...

18.02.2026 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eliminating the endangerment finding disregards the consequences of pollution – despite the mountain of scientific evidence that greenhouse gas emissions harm public health and the environment.

13.02.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Greenhouse gases threaten human health. Yesterday's dangerous denial of scientific findings by the Trump administration-led EPA "will exacerbate the health threats we are already seeing from climate change," APHA says. Read more: bit.ly/epaendanger

13.02.2026 15:11 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Health Leaders: Endangerment Finding Repeal Fundamentally Disregards Health Harms EPA’s action will result in more air pollution, and increased risk of disease across America

www.lung.org/media/press-...

12.02.2026 18:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Gray Wolf’s Visit to Los Angeles County Is a First in Nearly a Century The wolf, known as BEY03F, roamed more than 500 miles from Northern California, signaling that the species continues to rebound after being wiped out in the 1920s.

She roamed more than 500 miles from Northern California and arrived in Los Angeles County on Saturday, the first time a gray wolf had been documented in the Los Angeles region in nearly a century.

10.02.2026 02:00 👍 215 🔁 31 💬 8 📌 3
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Court Rules Trump Administration’s Secret “Climate Working Group” Violated Federal Law Court declared today that the Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed the “Climate Working Group” and tasked it with writing a dangerously slanted report used as the basis fo...

A big win today: a federal court found that the Trump administration’s sham report attacking climate science was created in secret by a hand-picked set of climate policy opponents, violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Read our statement here:

30.01.2026 22:27 👍 108 🔁 58 💬 3 📌 6
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Trump administration freezes offshore wind projects, undermining affordability, reliability, and permitting certainty The Trump administration yesterday ordered an immediate halt to the construction of five major offshore wind projects.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows www.catf.us/2025/12/trum...

23.12.2025 20:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You absolutely love to see it

23.12.2025 17:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EPA is siding with polluters by illegally delaying methane rules for oil and gas.

EPA’s own data shows that a 1-year delay results in the emissions of 3.8M tons of methane and 36K tons of toxic air pollution – at the expense of public health and the climate.

www.catf.us/2025/11/us-e...

26.11.2025 21:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
E&E DAILY

Dead skunks in the middle of the road? Not if this bill can help it.
Bipartisan legislation would permanently establish the Transportation Department's Wildlife Crossings Program.
BY: MICHAEL DOYLE ||
11/19/2025 06:14 AM EST

E&E DAILY Dead skunks in the middle of the road? Not if this bill can help it. Bipartisan legislation would permanently establish the Transportation Department's Wildlife Crossings Program. BY: MICHAEL DOYLE || 11/19/2025 06:14 AM EST

Nod to Loudon Wainwright III

19.11.2025 16:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CFTC withdrawal of carbon market guidance will weaken market integrity and undermine climate mitigation, warns CATF Washington, D.C. – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the withdrawal of its “Guidance Regarding the Listing of Voluntary Carbon Credit Derivative Contracts,” reversing a d...

www.catf.us/2025/09/cftc... CFTC withdrawal of carbon market guidance will weaken market integrity and undermine climate mitigation, warns CATF  – Clean Air Task Force

11.09.2025 20:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Clean air is essential to Wyoming’s outdoor recreation and tourism industry EPA's proposed reversal of the “endangerment finding” threatens Wyoming's way of life and economy, writes guest columnist Shana Tarter.

OPINION: The EPA's proposed reversal of the "endangerment finding" threatens Wyoming's way of life and economy, writes guest columnist Shana Tarter.

11.09.2025 18:04 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

... But the law and science cannot be politicized – EPA has the statutory duty to regulate industries that significantly contribute to air pollution, and the standards currently in place are achievable. There is only one thing EPA can do to comply with the law – withdraw the proposed repeal.”

08.08.2025 17:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Now hellbent on advancing a deregulatory agenda on political grounds, EPA completely ignores its own factual findings, disregards scientific evidence, and relies on unreasonable assumptions. ...

08.08.2025 17:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CATF to EPA: Strong technical record and legal foundation require EPA to regulate carbon pollution from power plants under the Clean Air Act WASHINGTON – Clean Air Task Force (CATF), along with partner organizations, submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to its proposed repeal of the carbon pollut...

www.catf.us/2025/08/catf...

08.08.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Clean Air Task Force and Partner Organizations' Comments to EPA on Proposed Repeal of the Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Coal-fired and New Gas-fired Power Plants CATF, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Sierra Club submitted comments strongly urging EPA to maintain the ...

Sent a few thoughts to EPA yesterday about its proposal to scrap carbon pollution standards for power plants www.catf.us/resource/cle...

08.08.2025 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Contributor: Trump's EPA proposes to end the U.S. fight against climate change How much damage will Americans suffer as climate-denial politics masquerade as good policy?

Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

05.08.2025 10:50 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Today's proposal from the U.S. EPA to repeal the greenhouse gas endangerment finding is a drastic step in its attack on clean air regulations – putting the health of millions of Americans at risk.

29.07.2025 17:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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it would be great if, on the day the EPA decides to rescind a massive decision allowing it to regulate greenhouse gasses, it could make sure the website is updated so i dont get a 404 PAGE NOT FOUND when attempting to access info about said rollback

29.07.2025 18:40 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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The Scale of Contribution: Vehicles The Trump Administration is expected to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s fifteen-year-old finding that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to climate change and harm p...

New issue brief 🚗 EPA is expected to scrap a 15-year-old finding that emissions from vehicles contribute to climate change and harm public heath and welfare.

Policy Integrity authors show that EPA's expected proposal is contradicted by clear and vast evidence.

policyintegrity.org/publications...

28.07.2025 15:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
KAGAN, J., dissenting
"Truly, this is 'turtles all the way down." Rapanos v. United States, 547 U. S. 715, 754 (2006) (plurality opinion). The majority rejects Congress's design of a whole class of agencies (except, as Wilcox somehow has it, the Federal Reserve) by layering nothing on nothing.

KAGAN, J., dissenting "Truly, this is 'turtles all the way down." Rapanos v. United States, 547 U. S. 715, 754 (2006) (plurality opinion). The majority rejects Congress's design of a whole class of agencies (except, as Wilcox somehow has it, the Federal Reserve) by layering nothing on nothing.

Single cover art for Turtles All the Way Down by Sturgill Simpson

Single cover art for Turtles All the Way Down by Sturgill Simpson

Needed Justice Kagan to throw in a “see also” to Sturgill Simpson here

23.07.2025 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

23.07.2025 04:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

Today NASA backtracked on its statement earlier this month that the National Climate Assessments would be hosted on their website.

“NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,” a spokeswoman said today. “We never did and will not host the data.”www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/c...re

15.07.2025 02:22 👍 266 🔁 121 💬 10 📌 8
Excerpt of DC Circuit opinion saying “In the early 1990s, many phones had cords, the Chicago Bulls were NBA champions,
and vertically integrated monopolies controlled power generation, transmission, and distribution in a system of localized supremacy that wasn't conducive to competition or grid efficiency.
But times changed. Smart phones largely replaced land lines. The Bulls' dominance declined.”

Excerpt of DC Circuit opinion saying “In the early 1990s, many phones had cords, the Chicago Bulls were NBA champions, and vertically integrated monopolies controlled power generation, transmission, and distribution in a system of localized supremacy that wasn't conducive to competition or grid efficiency. But times changed. Smart phones largely replaced land lines. The Bulls' dominance declined.”

Jordan “and I took that personally” meme

Jordan “and I took that personally” meme

MJ gonna start filing amicus briefs in FERC cases after this

11.07.2025 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Rolling back clean energy incentives undermines U.S. innovation and energy leadership, warns CATF The Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to strictly enforce sections of the One Big Beautiful Bill that roll back tax credits for solar and wind energy projects.

"Erecting new policy barriers for clean energy sources will only harm domestic industry and deter investment."

Read CATF's statement on the Trump administration's executive order to roll back tax credits for solar and wind energy projects: www.catf.us/2025/07/roll...

09.07.2025 15:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dude calls for withdrawal of proposed repeal from his basement, where he at least put a tie on

08.07.2025 20:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"EPA's proposed repeal of power plant carbon pollution standards would be devastating for public health."

Today, CATF Attorney @franksturges.bsky.social provided testimony on EPA's proposed repeal of carbon pollution standards for power plants.

08.07.2025 19:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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It’s public hearing day for the fundamentally flawed proposed repeal of EPA’s carbon pollution standards for power plants—tune in here as yours truly and so many others call for the proposal to be withdrawn www.youtube.com/live/-OJFfXD...

08.07.2025 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shortchanging the Environment While Making NEPA More Chaotic - Legal Planet Trump's agencies are each issuing their own rules for doing environmental reviews, with no clear benefit over the previous unified approach.

Trump has replaced oherent, all-of-government rules for environmental impact statements with a welter of agency-specific rules and guidance. The resulting chaos is to no one's benefit. You won't be surprised that the new rules limit public participation.
legal-planet.org/2025/07/07/a...

07.07.2025 16:12 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0