Doug Norlen
@dougba.bsky.social
Veteran environmental organizer specializing in public and private finance campaigns at policy and project levels. Otherwise, I'd rather be outdoors.
"Don't just follow the money, chase it down and beat it with a stick"
"Don't just follow the money, chase it down and beat it with a stick"
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There are legal procedures and processes in place to ensure the U.S. Export-Import Bank does not waste taxpayer dollars on risky projects plagued by violent insurgencies. Yet EXIM Bank – like the rest of the Trump admin – believes that it can operate outside the law.
www.eenews.net/articles/gre...
www.eenews.net/articles/gre...
Greens challenge Trump’s $4.7B loan for Mozambique LNG project
The project’s opponents argue the Export-Import Bank lacked a quorum to approve the loan and failed to consider environmental or security risks.
www.eenews.net
July 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
There are legal procedures and processes in place to ensure the U.S. Export-Import Bank does not waste taxpayer dollars on risky projects plagued by violent insurgencies. Yet EXIM Bank – like the rest of the Trump admin – believes that it can operate outside the law.
www.eenews.net/articles/gre...
www.eenews.net/articles/gre...
New digs for a few days
April 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New digs for a few days
Under Trump, the US Government's EXIM Bank wants to provide over $1bn for the massive Reko Diq gold and copper mine in Pakistan, in the volatile region bordering Afghanistan and Iran. What could possibly go wrong?https://tribune.com.pk/story/2535906/rs179-billion-approved-for-reko-diq-security
Rs1.79 billion approved for Reko Diq security | The Express Tribune
The funds are intended to ensure the smooth operation of the Reko Diq project.
tribune.com.pk
March 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Under Trump, the US Government's EXIM Bank wants to provide over $1bn for the massive Reko Diq gold and copper mine in Pakistan, in the volatile region bordering Afghanistan and Iran. What could possibly go wrong?https://tribune.com.pk/story/2535906/rs179-billion-approved-for-reko-diq-security
Could the Trump Administration's move to exempt 99% of entities reporting under the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act be a smoke screen to hide their own money laundering? thefactcoalition.org/fentanyl-tra...
Fentanyl Traffickers, U.S. Adversaries Biggest Winners in New Treasury Proposal
Treasury’s proposal contradicts decades of evidence that sanctions evaders, tax cheats, and fentanyl traffickers rely on anonymous U.S. companies to stash dirty money in the U.S.
thefactcoalition.org
March 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Could the Trump Administration's move to exempt 99% of entities reporting under the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act be a smoke screen to hide their own money laundering? thefactcoalition.org/fentanyl-tra...
While Trump/Musk slash domestic environmental protections and threaten Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, the federal EXIM Bank just approved nearly $5 billion for an environmentally disastrous human rights debacle LNG project in Mozambique
www.ft.com/content/b440...
www.ft.com/content/b440...
US swings behind TotalEnergies’ vast Mozambique gas project
Trump administration frees up $4.7bn loan to French company that was frozen since 2021
www.ft.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
While Trump/Musk slash domestic environmental protections and threaten Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, the federal EXIM Bank just approved nearly $5 billion for an environmentally disastrous human rights debacle LNG project in Mozambique
www.ft.com/content/b440...
www.ft.com/content/b440...
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Big rowdy crowd at the Tesla dealership in Berkeley California saying NO to fascism and oligarchy #PeoplePower #TeslaTakedown #StopTheCoup
March 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Big rowdy crowd at the Tesla dealership in Berkeley California saying NO to fascism and oligarchy #PeoplePower #TeslaTakedown #StopTheCoup
Protesting the Musk Rat
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Protesting the Musk Rat
Excellent article linking DOGE's assault on USAID to the likely benefit to the US Development Finance Corporation
@danielagabor.bsky.social on the revamped wallstreet consensus under Trump 2.0
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...
How to DOGE USAID | Daniela Gabor
The Wall Street Consensus and development financing under Trump
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Excellent article linking DOGE's assault on USAID to the likely benefit to the US Development Finance Corporation
Half the desulphurization units don't work on the US EXIM Bank financed Kusile coal plant in South Africa. The Centre for Environmental Rights estimates this will result in 670 excess deaths, 3,000 asthma emergency room visits, and 1,400 pre-term births.
mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/...
mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/...
Bad news for repairs at major Eskom power station
Between March and June 2025, Eskom will have to make do without some of the Kusile units that contributed significantly to the end of load-shedding.
mybroadband.co.za
January 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Half the desulphurization units don't work on the US EXIM Bank financed Kusile coal plant in South Africa. The Centre for Environmental Rights estimates this will result in 670 excess deaths, 3,000 asthma emergency room visits, and 1,400 pre-term births.
mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/...
mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/...
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Another great post by @reddmonitor.bsky.social showing the tight web of links between pro-offsetting conservationists, big finance & big polluters: a timber company owned by a bank founded by a Conservation Int'l board member is selling Microsoft offsets from covering savanna with eucalypts
Big Tech’s false solution to ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions? You guessed it, carbon credits
“It’s problematic to trade forest carbon for fossil fuel emissions.”
reddmonitor.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Another great post by @reddmonitor.bsky.social showing the tight web of links between pro-offsetting conservationists, big finance & big polluters: a timber company owned by a bank founded by a Conservation Int'l board member is selling Microsoft offsets from covering savanna with eucalypts
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Well would you look at that.
December 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Well would you look at that.
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"An October analysis from U.K.-based Carbon Tracker found global markets for #LNG are likely to be oversupplied by the end of the decade, and B.C. LNG production is expected to ramp up at precisely the same time global production plateaus"
LNG exports will cost consumers and the climate: U.S. Department of Energy
If the U.S. allows its liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to grow, unrestrained, there will be significant costs to both consumers and the climate, according to a new government report.
buff.ly
December 19, 2024 at 4:30 PM
"An October analysis from U.K.-based Carbon Tracker found global markets for #LNG are likely to be oversupplied by the end of the decade, and B.C. LNG production is expected to ramp up at precisely the same time global production plateaus"
I'm usually meh on the latest medical treatment breakthrough but I'm willing to take a chance on this:
"Scientists have claimed eating a few pieces of dark chocolate five times a week while avoiding milk chocolate has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes."
www.msn.com/en-ca/health...
"Scientists have claimed eating a few pieces of dark chocolate five times a week while avoiding milk chocolate has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes."
www.msn.com/en-ca/health...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:33 AM
I'm usually meh on the latest medical treatment breakthrough but I'm willing to take a chance on this:
"Scientists have claimed eating a few pieces of dark chocolate five times a week while avoiding milk chocolate has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes."
www.msn.com/en-ca/health...
"Scientists have claimed eating a few pieces of dark chocolate five times a week while avoiding milk chocolate has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes."
www.msn.com/en-ca/health...
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It's TIME, Biden- #PardonDonziger! 34 MOCs incl Sens Whitehouse & Sanders join letter led by McGovern & endorsed by leading #humanrights orgs incl@amnesty.org Greenpeace @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ran-org.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social. Chevron poisoned the Amazon mcgovern.house.gov/news/documen...
Led by Rep. Jim McGovern, 34 Congressional Leaders Urge President Biden: Pardon Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger
mcgovern.house.gov
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM
It's TIME, Biden- #PardonDonziger! 34 MOCs incl Sens Whitehouse & Sanders join letter led by McGovern & endorsed by leading #humanrights orgs incl@amnesty.org Greenpeace @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ran-org.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social. Chevron poisoned the Amazon mcgovern.house.gov/news/documen...
"In the coming years...[G]overnments could face hundreds of billions of dollars in ISDS claims over phaseouts of oil, gas and coal projects, according to one estimate. Disputes over wind and solar projects are sure to rise, too. "
A.K.A. "How to Buy a Piece of a Lawsuit and Impoverish a Country"
Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign companies to sue governments for billions of dollars, even when companies run afoul of environmental protections. Wall Street is profiting.
@insideclimatenews.org investigates:
Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign companies to sue governments for billions of dollars, even when companies run afoul of environmental protections. Wall Street is profiting.
@insideclimatenews.org investigates:
How Wall Street Gets Rich Off Lawsuits Against Governments
Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.
insideclimatenews.org
December 9, 2024 at 12:41 AM
"In the coming years...[G]overnments could face hundreds of billions of dollars in ISDS claims over phaseouts of oil, gas and coal projects, according to one estimate. Disputes over wind and solar projects are sure to rise, too. "
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We must protect Social Security!!!
Pass it on…
Pass it on…
December 8, 2024 at 4:06 AM
We must protect Social Security!!!
Pass it on…
Pass it on…
This winter there are at least two migratory burrowing owls in the "protected" NE corner of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. One is rather reclusive, while this one comes out most evenings. She/he doesn't seem to be bothered by the squirrel.
December 7, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This winter there are at least two migratory burrowing owls in the "protected" NE corner of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. One is rather reclusive, while this one comes out most evenings. She/he doesn't seem to be bothered by the squirrel.
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Paul Atkins, nominated today to serve as SEC chair, was a key voice (along with the Chamber, API and others) for the "materiality" loophole in the climate risk disclosure rule. corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/07/01/t...
December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Paul Atkins, nominated today to serve as SEC chair, was a key voice (along with the Chamber, API and others) for the "materiality" loophole in the climate risk disclosure rule. corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/07/01/t...
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Tomorrow, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will begin historic hearings on the legal obligations of governments under international law for #climate action. #Vanuatu is leading a group of states and NGOs seeking the #ICJ opinion.
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now? - Climate Law Blog
Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the Inte...
blogs.law.columbia.edu
December 1, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Tomorrow, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will begin historic hearings on the legal obligations of governments under international law for #climate action. #Vanuatu is leading a group of states and NGOs seeking the #ICJ opinion.
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
Yeah, but the price of eggs!
November 30, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Yeah, but the price of eggs!
Some kind soul apparently knit these to welcome the migratory burrowing owls. Typically, less than a handful spend the winter in this corner of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. It's too soon to know what this year's count will be, but last year, sadly, it was zero. Bring back the #owls!
November 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Some kind soul apparently knit these to welcome the migratory burrowing owls. Typically, less than a handful spend the winter in this corner of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. It's too soon to know what this year's count will be, but last year, sadly, it was zero. Bring back the #owls!
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I joined @kqedforum.bsky.social today to talk about plastics and why they really shouldn't be in your kitchen (black spatulas and otherwise). Episode here: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
How Freaked Out Should We Be About Black Plastic? | KQED
We’ll talk about how concerned we should be about the plastics in our kitchen and how to evaluate the risks.
www.kqed.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:53 PM
I joined @kqedforum.bsky.social today to talk about plastics and why they really shouldn't be in your kitchen (black spatulas and otherwise). Episode here: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Today we joined our Indigenous allies Apib to file a complaint against BlackRock — the world's largest asset manager — for directly contributing to environmental and human rights abuses through its investments in big agribusiness
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses
OECD complaint alleges top firm has increased investments in companies implicated in environmental devastation
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Today we joined our Indigenous allies Apib to file a complaint against BlackRock — the world's largest asset manager — for directly contributing to environmental and human rights abuses through its investments in big agribusiness
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Who made this? Ahahaha
November 15, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Who made this? Ahahaha