Kate Merlin
@kmerlin.bsky.social
Lover of Life, books, everything small and magic.
WildEarth Guardians Climate & Health attorney in Colorado.
WildEarth Guardians Climate & Health attorney in Colorado.
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Kate Merlin
@kmerlin.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I’m Kate. I’m an environmental attorney and advocate in Colorado, focusing on climate, fossil fuels, and related health and environmental justice. I also love books. I’ll probably post about these things.
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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NEW PIECE. I'm on Odd Lots. Paul Krugman endorsed my work this week yesterday. & more on Treasury's lying about read & write privileges "Treasury has been denying that they gave Marko write access, but I am looking at his access request right now" www.crisesnotes.com/day-six-of-t...
Day Six of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Treasury has been denying that they gave Marko write access, but I am looking at his access request right now”
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW PIECE. I'm on Odd Lots. Paul Krugman endorsed my work this week yesterday. & more on Treasury's lying about read & write privileges "Treasury has been denying that they gave Marko write access, but I am looking at his access request right now" www.crisesnotes.com/day-six-of-t...
Elon Musk gave the Nazi salute (two, actually) at the inauguration. Media is dead silent.
January 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Elon Musk gave the Nazi salute (two, actually) at the inauguration. Media is dead silent.
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✅ NEW by me:
Apple and Costco are not alone in taking a strong stand on diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). The list of corporate giants pushing back on the 'anti-woke' #DEI backlash is growing in 2025.
www.thequeenzone.com/dei-isnt-dyi... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social
Apple and Costco are not alone in taking a strong stand on diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). The list of corporate giants pushing back on the 'anti-woke' #DEI backlash is growing in 2025.
www.thequeenzone.com/dei-isnt-dyi... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social
DEI Isn’t Dying: These Companies Are Standing Strong Against 'Anti-Woke' Backlash in 2025
Despite pressure, many companies remain steadfast in their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
www.thequeenzone.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
✅ NEW by me:
Apple and Costco are not alone in taking a strong stand on diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). The list of corporate giants pushing back on the 'anti-woke' #DEI backlash is growing in 2025.
www.thequeenzone.com/dei-isnt-dyi... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social
Apple and Costco are not alone in taking a strong stand on diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). The list of corporate giants pushing back on the 'anti-woke' #DEI backlash is growing in 2025.
www.thequeenzone.com/dei-isnt-dyi... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social
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Whatever direct air capture is meant to be, or could be, this is unambiguously what it is becoming: a fossil fuel industry run factory creating single units of greenwashing to sell to the worst emitters
maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...
maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...
January 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Whatever direct air capture is meant to be, or could be, this is unambiguously what it is becoming: a fossil fuel industry run factory creating single units of greenwashing to sell to the worst emitters
maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...
maritime-executive.com/article/nyk-...
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The worst problem with politicians demanding a 95% confidence on climate science is that they didn’t consider what the 50/50 was, let alone “worst case”
January 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The worst problem with politicians demanding a 95% confidence on climate science is that they didn’t consider what the 50/50 was, let alone “worst case”
Fossil fuels & climate.
We are all inside a passenger plane that is almost out of fuel, and our pilots are not even looking for a runway to land on.
God help us all.
We are all inside a passenger plane that is almost out of fuel, and our pilots are not even looking for a runway to land on.
God help us all.
January 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Fossil fuels & climate.
We are all inside a passenger plane that is almost out of fuel, and our pilots are not even looking for a runway to land on.
God help us all.
We are all inside a passenger plane that is almost out of fuel, and our pilots are not even looking for a runway to land on.
God help us all.
The right has become very effective at weaponizing progressive ideals against actual progress. Beware.
fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The right has become very effective at weaponizing progressive ideals against actual progress. Beware.
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The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research
A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
January 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
I wanted to remember the 2012 derecho which hit DC + surrounding areas really hard. As I see evidence of warming all around me, this was the storm which actually almost killed me.
December 24, 2024 at 4:24 AM
I wanted to remember the 2012 derecho which hit DC + surrounding areas really hard. As I see evidence of warming all around me, this was the storm which actually almost killed me.
Thank you to people who take the two seconds to hit “return early” when you finish your audiobook. You could have waited three weeks for it to lapse, but you did a little thing so I didn’t have to wait. You’re the best kind of people.
December 21, 2024 at 5:56 AM
Thank you to people who take the two seconds to hit “return early” when you finish your audiobook. You could have waited three weeks for it to lapse, but you did a little thing so I didn’t have to wait. You’re the best kind of people.
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They say “We can’t do that. We’re not Amsterdam.” You reply “Amsterdam wasn’t always like that either” and show before & after transformations illustrating how the cities we admire made CHOICES, and changed. They try new excuses. You don’t accept them either. (1e van der Helststraat, 1978 & 2005)
December 18, 2024 at 3:25 AM
They say “We can’t do that. We’re not Amsterdam.” You reply “Amsterdam wasn’t always like that either” and show before & after transformations illustrating how the cities we admire made CHOICES, and changed. They try new excuses. You don’t accept them either. (1e van der Helststraat, 1978 & 2005)
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Montana supreme court upholds right to ‘stable climate system’ for youngsters #Climate
Montana supreme court upholds right to ‘stable climate system’ for youngsters
Court rules in favor of 16 young people who said their health and prospects were being imperiled by climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Montana supreme court upholds right to ‘stable climate system’ for youngsters #Climate
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Does anyone else suspect they only want to get rid of the post office because it’s actually very popular?
December 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Does anyone else suspect they only want to get rid of the post office because it’s actually very popular?
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December 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM
I apologize to the artists I keep blocking. I just can’t deal with a feed that is 1/2 anime sketches, and I don’t know how else to deal
December 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I apologize to the artists I keep blocking. I just can’t deal with a feed that is 1/2 anime sketches, and I don’t know how else to deal
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Who desperately wants EPRA-styled “permitting reform”?
O&G.
Undercuts argument that fossil fuels will just get what they want under Trump anyway, so might as well pass EPRA, eh?
People keep assuming O&G is getting fooled by EPRA.
That’s a poor bet, esp. since EPRA authors = Manchin & Barrasso.
O&G.
Undercuts argument that fossil fuels will just get what they want under Trump anyway, so might as well pass EPRA, eh?
People keep assuming O&G is getting fooled by EPRA.
That’s a poor bet, esp. since EPRA authors = Manchin & Barrasso.
Oil and gas industry coalition issues urgent call for permitting reform
The coalition’s letter advocates for the passage of the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024.
www.offshore-mag.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Who desperately wants EPRA-styled “permitting reform”?
O&G.
Undercuts argument that fossil fuels will just get what they want under Trump anyway, so might as well pass EPRA, eh?
People keep assuming O&G is getting fooled by EPRA.
That’s a poor bet, esp. since EPRA authors = Manchin & Barrasso.
O&G.
Undercuts argument that fossil fuels will just get what they want under Trump anyway, so might as well pass EPRA, eh?
People keep assuming O&G is getting fooled by EPRA.
That’s a poor bet, esp. since EPRA authors = Manchin & Barrasso.
Federal employees: go ahead, take the loyalty oath. No one needs to know it was sarcastic.
December 12, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Federal employees: go ahead, take the loyalty oath. No one needs to know it was sarcastic.
Colorado regulators will weigh the (negative) social cost of carbon when determining whether to approve sequestration projects in low income & minority communities, but has no intention of looking at the cost of carbon when approving new oil and gas permits
December 12, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Colorado regulators will weigh the (negative) social cost of carbon when determining whether to approve sequestration projects in low income & minority communities, but has no intention of looking at the cost of carbon when approving new oil and gas permits
Happy Wednesday
Rising Appalachia - Resilient (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rising Appalachia
youtu.be
December 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Happy Wednesday
I’m Kate. I’m an environmental attorney and advocate in Colorado, focusing on climate, fossil fuels, and related health and environmental justice. I also love books. I’ll probably post about these things.
December 11, 2024 at 1:50 PM
I’m Kate. I’m an environmental attorney and advocate in Colorado, focusing on climate, fossil fuels, and related health and environmental justice. I also love books. I’ll probably post about these things.
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Colorado is adopting CCS regulations as we speak. Does the state plan to stop approving new O&G permits? No, it’s planning on tripling them. Marketing as “cleaner” or even “net neutral” fuels.
December 11, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Colorado is adopting CCS regulations as we speak. Does the state plan to stop approving new O&G permits? No, it’s planning on tripling them. Marketing as “cleaner” or even “net neutral” fuels.
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This is the work of the wonderful @johnfocook.bsky.social from Skeptic Science.
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December 10, 2024 at 9:37 PM
This is the work of the wonderful @johnfocook.bsky.social from Skeptic Science.
skepticalscience.com/history-flic...
skepticalscience.com/history-flic...