Carolyn Raffensperger
@carolynraff.bsky.social
Environmental lawyer, director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. Former archaeologist. Lawyer at Standing Rock during the Dakota Access struggle. Keenly interested in protecting water, future generations and the night world.
Ha! I work with amazing colleagues! Here's an essay I wrote about living in place during the poly-crisis. I hope it provides a way to manifest Keith Basso's statement that "Wisdom sits in Places."
I have the most amazing boss in the whole world, @carolynraff.bsky.social
Here is my evidence* 👇
(*and what she calls a “note” is really a “profoundly moving meditation on matters of existential concern”)
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/4/...
Here is my evidence* 👇
(*and what she calls a “note” is really a “profoundly moving meditation on matters of existential concern”)
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/4/...
Executive Director’s Note for April 2025 Networker — The Science and Environmental Health Network
Some years ago, I convened a conference in Montana on the precautionary principle and conservation using grizzly bears, meso-carnivores, and salmon as case studies. Salmon are anadromous fish: they sp...
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May 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Ha! I work with amazing colleagues! Here's an essay I wrote about living in place during the poly-crisis. I hope it provides a way to manifest Keith Basso's statement that "Wisdom sits in Places."
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"A comprehensive 2023 review by New York public health groups found 2,500 papers with evidence that #fracking had negative impacts on human health." Our Compendium linked in this @thehill.com & @pulitzercenter.bsky.social piece on #OilandGas in the Permian Basin.
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"A comprehensive 2023 review by New York public health groups found 2,500 papers with evidence that #fracking had negative impacts on human health." Our Compendium linked in this @thehill.com & @pulitzercenter.bsky.social piece on #OilandGas in the Permian Basin.
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com/policy/energ...
Industry is finally telling the truth: carbon capture and storage is a scheme to use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery--getting the last drop of oil out of near-depleted wells.
"Carbon capture incentives are 'another subsidy for oil.'" Our ED @carolynraff.bsky.social quoted in NEW piece by @pradtke.bsky.social in the @lailluminator.com: lailluminator.com/2025/02/28/c...
Links to our report (first comment) on the false promises and health harms of #EOR.
#CSS #pipelines #45Q
Links to our report (first comment) on the false promises and health harms of #EOR.
#CSS #pipelines #45Q
Capturing carbon dioxide, sold as climate solution, rebranded as oil industry boost • Louisiana Illuminator
Billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing capture and storage of carbon dioxide may instead go to fossil fuel companies to help boost production of oil.
lailluminator.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Industry is finally telling the truth: carbon capture and storage is a scheme to use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery--getting the last drop of oil out of near-depleted wells.
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47 pulled the regulations for CO2 pipelines--the ones that explode and carry quantities of CO2 that can kill you. We have opinions about this and fortunately the press is reporting on the threats posed by carbon capture and storage in the absence of strong regulations.
➡️ Two of our staff quoted in this important piece on #CCS. Our ED @carolynraff.bsky.social: “If [companies] go forward with carbon dioxide pipelines that do not follow the safety standards established in that draft rule, it seems to me they are putting the public at unwarranted risk.” 1/2
The administration has withdrawn carbon dioxide pipeline regulations inspired by a horrific gas leak, and a former industry lobbyist is now overseeing such matters.
February 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
47 pulled the regulations for CO2 pipelines--the ones that explode and carry quantities of CO2 that can kill you. We have opinions about this and fortunately the press is reporting on the threats posed by carbon capture and storage in the absence of strong regulations.
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Ooh, standing ovation to climate journalist Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle on your @selc_org Reed Environmental Writing Award for your outstanding book GASLIGHT!
To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.
To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.
Gaslight
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February 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ooh, standing ovation to climate journalist Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle on your @selc_org Reed Environmental Writing Award for your outstanding book GASLIGHT!
To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.
To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.
Useful commentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgh...
"American Circus" by Chad Elliott
YouTube video by Chad Elliott
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February 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Useful commentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgh...
It appears that 47 and Musk are following the basic business precept: "if you break it, you own it."
February 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It appears that 47 and Musk are following the basic business precept: "if you break it, you own it."
Elon Musk is the malware in the software of democracy. We all know who the hacker is.
February 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Elon Musk is the malware in the software of democracy. We all know who the hacker is.
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My volunteer work is migrant defense. With the new president, the hardest part is sorting fact from rumor and fiction.
When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate.
Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.
When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate.
Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.
January 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My volunteer work is migrant defense. With the new president, the hardest part is sorting fact from rumor and fiction.
When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate.
Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.
When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate.
Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.
Oh man, the beauty of a chess metaphor well-played.
January 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Oh man, the beauty of a chess metaphor well-played.
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While we’re debating whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute (twice), ICE has already arrested 538 people.
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
While we’re debating whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute (twice), ICE has already arrested 538 people.
Check this out: our SEHN newsletter on plastics with the incomparable team of Sandra Steingraber, Rebecca Altman and Ted Schettler. Writers and scientists all.
I wrote a thing about plastic pollution and the climate crisis—sibling psychopaths both fathered by fossil fuels.
Read it and tell me what you think.
Read it and tell me what you think.
“If the climate crisis is an aloof serial killer, the plastics crisis is the stalker with boundary issues who knows way too much about you.” —@ssteingraber1.bsky.social via www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/1/...
January 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Check this out: our SEHN newsletter on plastics with the incomparable team of Sandra Steingraber, Rebecca Altman and Ted Schettler. Writers and scientists all.
What a pathetic, cruel administration.
My DACA friends are being terrorized.
Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed.
Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?)
I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.
My DACA friends are being terrorized.
Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed.
Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?)
I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.
January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What a pathetic, cruel administration.
My DACA friends are being terrorized.
Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed.
Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?)
I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.
My DACA friends are being terrorized.
Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed.
Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?)
I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We could write a biography of the US through its most notable fires. The Shirtwaist factory fire in Lowell Mass that changed labor law, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the fact that Aldo Leopold died fighting a grass fire, Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire" documenting the Mann Gulch fire.
January 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We could write a biography of the US through its most notable fires. The Shirtwaist factory fire in Lowell Mass that changed labor law, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the fact that Aldo Leopold died fighting a grass fire, Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire" documenting the Mann Gulch fire.
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My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
January 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
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Not only is ADM’s CO2 storage project in central IL (where I grew up) leaking near the drinking water source for 1 million ppl, it turns out this project captures just a tiny wisp of ADM’s total CO2 emissions.
#CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting:
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
#CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting:
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon - CleanTechnica
Carbon capture holds tremendous promise -- if it works. But in the real world, it doesn't and is costing taxpayers billions.
cleantechnica.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Not only is ADM’s CO2 storage project in central IL (where I grew up) leaking near the drinking water source for 1 million ppl, it turns out this project captures just a tiny wisp of ADM’s total CO2 emissions.
#CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting:
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
#CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting:
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
This is our friendly reminder that standing up to the fossil fuel industry is necessary, effective and usually more fun than doing other stuff like, oh, doom scrolling.
Here’s me, ten years ago today, announcing to civil disobedients as they get out of jail that Governor Cuomo had just banned fracking in New York. Dancing commences.
Happy ten-year anniversary to New York’s fracking ban! We are unfractured!
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Happy ten-year anniversary to New York’s fracking ban! We are unfractured!
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December 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This is our friendly reminder that standing up to the fossil fuel industry is necessary, effective and usually more fun than doing other stuff like, oh, doom scrolling.
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imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
This poem!
“And that was when the end began.”
If you haven’t yet read Jorie Graham’s poem, The World, in the latest @newyorker.com, might I recommend doing so?
h/t to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for introducing me to her poetry in the first place.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
If you haven’t yet read Jorie Graham’s poem, The World, in the latest @newyorker.com, might I recommend doing so?
h/t to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for introducing me to her poetry in the first place.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 12, 2024 at 6:52 PM
This poem!