Remember when CBS News laid off its whole climate reporting team last fall?
Good news: I've scooped up their former senior climate producer, and now she's making a podcast with me.
Sucks to suck, David Ellison!
Listen/watch/subscribe here:
The GOP learned to lie--shamelessly and obviously--from three decades of climate denial.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...
The Sierra Club is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its rollback of key climate protections, arguing the move is illegal, unscientific, and harmful to public health.
New @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social & NYC pension trustees are weighing a $40B+ move from BlackRock over its climate failures — which could set a key national precedent, writes Sierra Club ED Loren Blackford in @crainsnewyork.bsky.social:
The new @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social & NYC pension trustees are weighing moving $40B+ out of BlackRock over its climate failures.
This step could set a key national precedent, writes @sierraclub.org Executive Director Loren Blackford: www.crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/op-ed-...
🚨 BREAKING: Trump is moving to eliminate the EPA’s Endangerment Finding — one of the strongest legal tools we have to fight climate pollution.
We will fight this. Polluters should pay — not the public. Read more at our statement bit.ly/4aNcAwb
Rejection of Texas law blacklisting 'woke' BlackRock could challenge anti-ESG laws in other states reut.rs/4bG88kO
Huge. Laws like this were designed to punish investors for taking basic steps to address climate risk.
@sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
(Also worth noting: the firms targeted were never actually “boycotting” fossil fuels—that was political misinformation all along.)
For those of you who:
* Feel enraged to watch billionaires destroy important newsrooms
and
* Recall vaguely that Jeff Bezos was once considered a courageous owner who fortified the Washington Post
I recommend this piece by the Post's former fact-checker
glennkessler.substack.com/p/a-billiona...
Short-term investor pressure is driving companies to ditch climate plans, even though climate risk threatens long-term portfolios and the entire economy.
Great letter from @bmcushing.bsky.social @ @sierraclub.org:
www.ft.com/content/e100...
TODAY: The Senate is expected to hold its first procedural vote on the DHS funding bill — and it can’t pass without Democratic votes.
We need to flood the Senate with calls demanding Democrats hold the line and vote NO on giving more money to the regime’s death squads.
Small clarification: the headline that appears was written by the FT, not me. My submitted headline was "Investors should not conflate polluters’ interests with their own" — which better reflects the argument in the letter itself. Grateful nonetheless to have it published.
My letter on the @financialtimes.com story on BP/Shell’s climate rollbacks is now published.
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.
i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.
thank you. thank you.
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
California pension @calpers.bsky.social invested $60B in 'climate solutions'. So why does that include fossil fuels?
As the largest U.S. public pension, what CalPERS does matters, writes Allie Lindstrom & Jakob Evans for @calmatters.org.
calmatters.org/commentary/2...
🚨 Our new scorecard reveals U.S. public pensions are lagging on investing in climate solutions like clean energy & resilience infrastructure, despite knowing that climate change massively threatens millions of public sector workers' retirement savings.
Sierra Club report highlights 5 public pensions in US with climate-related investment targets.
@bmcushing.bsky.social: “Climate change is undermining the financial security of workers and retirees, and threatening the long-term performance of the diversified portfolios that pensions depend on." New @sierraclub.org report highlights the handful of US pensions taking climate seriously.
How are public pension managers addressing climate risks in their investments? New @sierraclub.org report rates different funds on their approaches to these critical issues. @jessyewaxman.bsky.social @bmcushing.bsky.social
📊🌍 NEW Sierra Club report: How are U.S. public pensions managing climate risk through their investments—and are they directing capital to credible #climate solutions? This thread breaks down the key findings. 🧵👇
Read: www.sierraclub.org/reports/sust...
Coverage from Responsible Investor of the new scorecard: www.responsible-investor.com/us-public-pe...
Coverage from @greencb.bsky.social of the new scorecard: greencentralbanking.com/2026/01/22/r...
Coverage from @sustainableviews.bsky.social of the new scorecard: www.sustainableviews.com/us-pensions-...
Coverage from @netzeroinvestor.net of the new scorecard: www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...
Early coverage of the new @sierraclub.org scorecard, starting with @bloomberg.com—which includes commentary from the New York City Comptroller, the New York State Comptroller, and the Oregon State Treasurer: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"While some US public pensions are beginning to address how climate change impacts portfolio performance, most still rely on high-level commitments or inadequate metrics that do little to drive emissions reductions in the real world" -@jessyewaxman.bsky.social www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
