Sandy Emerson

Climate finance geek; warrior against fossil fuel investments; slow but stubborn cyclist; addicted to word games.

[Sandy Emerson @climate_sandy]

In October, Rio Grande Valley community members met with MUFG bank to demand they divest from #RioGrandeLNG. But the companies are still pushing to save it. This gas facility CAN'T be built. @mufgbk_official @NextDecade LNG: WE DON’T #StandWithRGLNG https://t.co/fZaYhP99De

[Sandy Emerson @climate_sandy]

@NYCComptroller does the right thing - again!

[Richard Brooks ☀️ @R_BrooksStand]

Breaking: @NYCComptroller announces proposal to ban future investments in any fossil fuel exposed private equity funds, covering up, mid, downstream companies. No more pipelines, terminals, refineries in the NYC pension funds.

First in North America!

https://t.co/yBaXEIvvDf

[Sandy Emerson @climate_sandy]

The #MakePollutersPay bill package gives Californians a chance to take power back from the oil  industry, who have left a toxic legacy of pollution and idle wells. #CALeg @Ilike_Mike @CaSenCaballero, protect Californians and pass #AB3233 #AB1866 #AB2716

https://t.co/fD2Io0NWCu

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Memes are getting very naughty!

[Mari Manoogian @MariManoogian]

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff in Stevens Point, WI: “Mr. Trump, I know you seem to have a hard time pronouncing @KamalaHarris’ name. Don’t worry—after November, you can just call her ‘Madam President.’” 🔥✨

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 2023 Summary Report: Renewables 10 times more efficient than nuclear at climate mitigation. Case closed.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Whenever reproductive rights—in red states or blue states—have been on the ballot post-Dobbs, the American people voted for freedom.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

If @GovKathyHochul is really concerned about costs for New Yorkers, then she’ll quickly sign the Climate Superfund Bill.

New Yorkers are expected to pay $4,000 per person over the next 25 yrs to deal with climate impacts.

Superfund would shift those costs to Big Oil.

[Antonia Juhasz @AntoniaJuhasz]

Under intense pressure from protests, organizers, and frontline Indigenous communities, a profound policy win.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

I’ve seen a few people make comments such as “It sounds impressive but this is just 1% of the total amount of plastic flowing into the ocean.”

It’s a cliché to point out that exponential growth is non-intuitive. 

But what surprised me is that those that had a lukewarm response to my previous post don’t just assume a linear trend, but assume stasis - no further growth at all!

No wonder some people are pessimistic about the future.

[Last Chance Alliance @LastChance_CA]

Big Oil lost their deceptive ballot campaign to overturn the ban on neighborhood oil drilling, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to get oil wells approved within the health and safety buffer zone. 

(🧵/4) #ChaosAtCalGEM

[Yurok Tribe @TheYurokTribe]

This winter, Yurok crews, under contract w/ RES, planted 8.7 tons of native seed, 76k trees & 28k acorns in the Klamath reservoir footprints. The crew is now removing noxious weeds from the replanted sites. Even more native vegetation will be planted in the coming months & years.

[Sandy Emerson @climate_sandy]

@KamalaHarris @KamalaHarris for Co-President!

[Sandy Emerson @climate_sandy]

@JoeBiden We should be saying Thanks, and Farewell! Instead, our entire country and our way of life is held hostage to Joe Biden’s ego. I feel despair.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Canadian oil companies & fossil fuel lobbyists are scrubbing their websites of content related to carbon capture in wake of potential fines up to $10 million for greenwashing since they cannot provide evidence of any benefit of carbon capture

https://t.co/7GGaTUT5hN @DeSmog

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

6000 hauls like this is all it takes to make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch history.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

The 2024 U.S. Presidential election will be a choice between two old men. One believes in Democracy and stewardship of the planet. The other will end Democracy and destroy the planet.
Choose wisely.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

“[Climate disasters] were knowingly caused by fossil fuel companies that chose to inflict this suffering to maintain their profits, while regular people, like the victims of the July 2023 heat wave, and of so many other climate disasters, pay the price.”