Clark Mindock

Reporter covering climate, environment & energy law. Also cover insurance industry regulations.

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

Today, the Senate is due to vote to strip legal protections from a pristine wilderness in Minnesota.

I spoke to locals about it, and discovered the issue is about more than just jobs. It's also deeply rooted in American nostalgia.

New in Landmark: https://t.co/kMU2Q1kTHZ

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

New in Landmark: The fight over the Trump admin's repeal of rules that reduce the amount of mercury coming from coal-fired power plants has just begun.

Read about it here: https://t.co/VKMYQl4Vf9

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Read more here: https://t.co/qCBLGXmsjT

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BREAKING: Trump "God Squad" voted unanimously to exempt oil and gas activities in the Gulf from Endangered Species Act protections.

The group (named for its power to effectively sentence species to extinction) said national security compelled the decision.

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

New in Landmark: A federal judge just handed the Trump administration a loss on the Endangered Species Act.

Ruling landed one day before the so-called "God Squad" convenes to potentially sentence Gulf wildlife to extinction in the name of oil and gas.

https://t.co/NLnPTE4TOE

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider an important appeal that could determine whether dozens of state & municipal climate lawsuits against Big Oil can stay viable.

It raises some important questions: https://t.co/nyTpDysLbs

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BREAKING: A coalition of over a dozen environmental groups sued the Trump EPA this morning, challenging the recent repeal of the endangerment finding.

“The EPA’s rollbacks are based on political poppycock, not science or law, and the courts should see it that way."

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

New just now: The EPA will formally revoke the 2009 endangerment finding, a foundational rule for climate change regulations.

Expect a big courthouse fight.

https://t.co/a19khx0FC5

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

New in Landmark: One of the Trump administration's most *unusual* efforts to shield major oil and gas companies from legal liability for climate change has failed.

A previous Trump Supreme Court win ended up sealing the effort’s fate.
https://t.co/iWQ3rEnqNw

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

My latest in Landmark: A lawsuit filed by Michigan accuses Big Oil of quietly buying up battery and solar patents over decades — not to build them, but to bury them.

https://t.co/8IMUf4bZPI

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

The Forest Service and Utah last week announced a new deal for shared management of U.S. forests, expanding an earlier wildfire program.

Activists see it as a huge gift to the timber industry, delivered by a former industry lobbyist.

https://t.co/keCq2pw4YC

[Clark Mindock @ClarkMindock]

Organizers let me sit in on a strategy meeting they had shortly after Zohran Mamdani's election last month.

They're excited. But the progressive mayor-elect will undoubtedly face friction with Albany, whether on climate change or housing.

My latest:
https://t.co/0sAgKBwRvY

[Alexander C. Kaufman @AlexCKaufman]

Lots of attention on the Texas YIMBY lawsuit to ease nuclear regulation, not a lot on the Texas NIMBY lawsuit to block nuclear waste storage in the state.

In a 6-3 decision made on procedural grounds, SCOTUS ruled against the Lone Star State's attempt to halt a federal plan for a storage facility the NRC licensed in 2021.

Good reporting here from @ClarkMindock's excellent newsletter:

[Energy and Policy Institute @EnergyandPolicy]

"I think this case is probably going to be the start of a trend of new litigation that more closely targets misinformation from utilities and then also the damages caused by electric and gas utilities," @cleantechfacts told @ClarkMindock on utility industry's climate deception.

[Dave Anderson @cleantechfacts]

The year ahead: climate change deception, plastics and youth-led cases https://t.co/X1qGA6Jyvr

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

A California federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by 18 young people who claim the US Environmental Protection Agency discriminates against children by issuing permits for fossil fuel projects that release too many climate-warming pollutants https://t.co/FLyUHHz0Ll @ClarkMindock

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A non-profit dedicated to protecting stray cats on Wednesday sued the U.S. National Park Service seeking to stop a plan that would remove, and in some cases kill, famed felines from a national historic site in Puerto Rico @ClarkMindock https://t.co/THtzzdCxom

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

A non-profit dedicated to protecting stray cats sued the US National Park Service seeking to stop a plan that would remove, and in some cases kill, famed felines from a national historic site in Puerto Rico https://t.co/THtzzdCxom @ClarkMindock