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Dana Drugmand
@danad1012.bsky.social
Climate/enviro journalist covering climate accountability & litigation. New England native & citizen of 🌎
This petitioning is part of a broader "full-court press" by #BigOil & its allies to shut down #climateliability laws & lawsuits, as I reported here

API is already lobbying Congress on draft legislation re. "state efforts to impose liability" on the industry

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Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts - Inside Climate News
Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for dam...
insideclimatenews.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
3. Fossil fuels must be phased out, period.

@joellegergis.bsky.social, climate scientist & a lead author of IPCC's AR6, emphasizes the "scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels"

The fossil fuel era must end. There is no other way around it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
2. Every fraction of a degree matters

"Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, displacement and loss – especially for those least responsible. This is moral failure – and deadly negligence" - UN SG António Guterres

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
1. There is no negotiating with physics

"We cannot defy the laws of physics. Science does not lie… Concentrations of heat-trapping GHGs are their highest in 800,000 years, thus committing our planet to a warmer and more dangerous future" says @wmo-global.bsky.social's head
wmo.int/news/media-c...
2025 set to be second or third warmest year on record, continuing exceptionally high warming trend
wmo.int
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM