Iliana Paul
@impcatpaul.bsky.social
industrial transformation | tired mom | pizza enthusiast
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“To really make America healthy, the administration should strengthen, not weaken, air quality protections."
Read more from @cece248.bsky.social, the National Campaign Director of Sierra Club ⬇️
Read more from @cece248.bsky.social, the National Campaign Director of Sierra Club ⬇️
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July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“To really make America healthy, the administration should strengthen, not weaken, air quality protections."
Read more from @cece248.bsky.social, the National Campaign Director of Sierra Club ⬇️
Read more from @cece248.bsky.social, the National Campaign Director of Sierra Club ⬇️
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The Department of Energy just canceled $3.7B in funding for clean energy projects, including green cement.
The Trump Administration is killing investments in U.S. competitiveness, good jobs & cleaner air to support tax cuts & line the pockets of billionaires.
The Trump Administration is killing investments in U.S. competitiveness, good jobs & cleaner air to support tax cuts & line the pockets of billionaires.
DOE Cancels $3.7B in Clean Energy Projects Through Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
Project cuts include funding for carbon capture, low-carbon cement
www.sierraclub.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Department of Energy just canceled $3.7B in funding for clean energy projects, including green cement.
The Trump Administration is killing investments in U.S. competitiveness, good jobs & cleaner air to support tax cuts & line the pockets of billionaires.
The Trump Administration is killing investments in U.S. competitiveness, good jobs & cleaner air to support tax cuts & line the pockets of billionaires.
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$14 billion investment sounds like a lot but consider that the current coal-based steelmaking inflicts between $7 and $13 billion in health-related costs every year in the U.S.
If Nippon extends coal-based steelmaking, then it will do more harm than good.
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If Nippon extends coal-based steelmaking, then it will do more harm than good.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
May 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
$14 billion investment sounds like a lot but consider that the current coal-based steelmaking inflicts between $7 and $13 billion in health-related costs every year in the U.S.
If Nippon extends coal-based steelmaking, then it will do more harm than good.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
If Nippon extends coal-based steelmaking, then it will do more harm than good.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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NEW REPORT: @sierraclub.org & @evergreenaction.bsky.social reveal a major opportunity to slash industrial pollution: boiler electrification. 🏭⚡
Industrial boilers are a massive, but often overlooked, contributor to air pollution & climate emissions in the U.S.
🔗 sc.org/43MLenn
Industrial boilers are a massive, but often overlooked, contributor to air pollution & climate emissions in the U.S.
🔗 sc.org/43MLenn
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
NEW REPORT: @sierraclub.org & @evergreenaction.bsky.social reveal a major opportunity to slash industrial pollution: boiler electrification. 🏭⚡
Industrial boilers are a massive, but often overlooked, contributor to air pollution & climate emissions in the U.S.
🔗 sc.org/43MLenn
Industrial boilers are a massive, but often overlooked, contributor to air pollution & climate emissions in the U.S.
🔗 sc.org/43MLenn
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The Trump administration reportedly has a new "template trade agreement" it is pushing with other countries. Use the link below to demand the right to review and comment on that template before any trade negotiations continue!
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-d...
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-d...
May 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Trump administration reportedly has a new "template trade agreement" it is pushing with other countries. Use the link below to demand the right to review and comment on that template before any trade negotiations continue!
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-d...
actionnetwork.org/letters/we-d...
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“Transitioning these coal-burning furnaces to cleaner alternatives reduces [health-harming] emissions. This is a key step that these communities can take toward getting off the worst-25 list and moving toward cleaner air.” #CleanSteel #CleanAir
by @alexckaufman.bsky.social via @canarymedia.com
by @alexckaufman.bsky.social via @canarymedia.com
Some of the most polluted US cities are home to coal-based steel…
Seven factories still use blast furnaces — and worsen pollution in the cities they are located, according to an analysis by climate research group…
www.canarymedia.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Transitioning these coal-burning furnaces to cleaner alternatives reduces [health-harming] emissions. This is a key step that these communities can take toward getting off the worst-25 list and moving toward cleaner air.” #CleanSteel #CleanAir
by @alexckaufman.bsky.social via @canarymedia.com
by @alexckaufman.bsky.social via @canarymedia.com
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Do you like paying more for energy while also getting sick from pollution while also being at risk from climate change and extreme weather? Then repeal the IRA.
We’ll have numbers on it next week. Raises everyone’s energy costs substantially
May 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Do you like paying more for energy while also getting sick from pollution while also being at risk from climate change and extreme weather? Then repeal the IRA.
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There are many horrible things in the Ways & Means draft, but let me alert you to this underappreciated horror: They want to expand the Treasury Secretary's power to unilaterally designate nonprofits as "terrorist supporting organizations."
May 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There are many horrible things in the Ways & Means draft, but let me alert you to this underappreciated horror: They want to expand the Treasury Secretary's power to unilaterally designate nonprofits as "terrorist supporting organizations."
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“It is deeply concerning to see the biggest potential investment in moving toward clean iron and steelmaking in the U.S. falter. We will not relent in advocating for an industry-leading transformation in Middletown and throughout the coal-based steelmaking industry.”
Low-carbon steel project scales back on hydrogen
Cleveland-Cliffs won a $500 million DOE grant intended to decarbonize heavy industry. Now, it's planning to rely more on fossil fuels.
www.eenews.net
May 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“It is deeply concerning to see the biggest potential investment in moving toward clean iron and steelmaking in the U.S. falter. We will not relent in advocating for an industry-leading transformation in Middletown and throughout the coal-based steelmaking industry.”
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House Republicans waited until the middle of the night to pass a measure that gives away millions of acres of public lands to private developers and oil and gas, mining, and logging corporations.
May 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
House Republicans waited until the middle of the night to pass a measure that gives away millions of acres of public lands to private developers and oil and gas, mining, and logging corporations.
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Pending #CriticalMinerals trade deals are likely to accelerate dirty, exploitative models of resource extraction if negotiated in the shadows.
Let's work together for a just & sustainable clean energy transition.
Learn how at: CriticalMineralsJustice.org
Let's work together for a just & sustainable clean energy transition.
Learn how at: CriticalMineralsJustice.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Pending #CriticalMinerals trade deals are likely to accelerate dirty, exploitative models of resource extraction if negotiated in the shadows.
Let's work together for a just & sustainable clean energy transition.
Learn how at: CriticalMineralsJustice.org
Let's work together for a just & sustainable clean energy transition.
Learn how at: CriticalMineralsJustice.org
Come listen to me say things about stuff! Tomorrow at 3pm ET.
Join the Sierra Club & the Trade Justice Ed Fund on Thurs, April 17th, to learn what the environmental movement is pushing for in the USMCA (i.e. NAFTA 2.0) renegotiation to protect the climate. RSVP below!
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April 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Come listen to me say things about stuff! Tomorrow at 3pm ET.
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Important update! In addition to the Sierra Club, we will also be joined by our Executive Director, Arthur Stamoulis, to give everyone a quick update on tariffs at the end of the meeting. We hope to see you on Thursday!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Important update! In addition to the Sierra Club, we will also be joined by our Executive Director, Arthur Stamoulis, to give everyone a quick update on tariffs at the end of the meeting. We hope to see you on Thursday!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Tariffs and trade are all over the news, but how exactly did we get here? Decades of bad trade deals that prioritized corporate profits led to an outsourcing of good manufacturing jobs in the US and an increase in pollution and human rights concerns at factories overseas.
We Need a Trade Deal that Works for People and the Planet
Trade agreements have long shaped economies and environments worldwide. But unfortunately, they’ve also prioritized corporate profits over people and the planet. The North American Free Trade Agreemen...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tariffs and trade are all over the news, but how exactly did we get here? Decades of bad trade deals that prioritized corporate profits led to an outsourcing of good manufacturing jobs in the US and an increase in pollution and human rights concerns at factories overseas.
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"This really reads like a bunch of 24-year-olds at DOGE are working through this.”
"This really reads like a bunch of 24-year-olds at DOGE are working through this.”
New: The Trump Energy Dept plans to terminate $575 million Biden-era grants to upgrade Cleveland-Cliffs coal blast furnaces, per internal documents. One of the factories whose grant is at risk is in JD Vance's hometown. “There’s no political logic to it,” a source said. www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/c...
Major steel mill project in JD Vance’s hometown on a list of Trump administration cuts to manufacturing industry | CNN
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry. But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests in some o...
www.cnn.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"This really reads like a bunch of 24-year-olds at DOGE are working through this.”
"This really reads like a bunch of 24-year-olds at DOGE are working through this.”
Again, 10/10 for buffoonery. No notes.
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Again, 10/10 for buffoonery. No notes.
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
You can’t make this shit up. Well, they literally made it up, but the buffoonery is next level.
The Trump tariff formula is the bilateral trade deficit divided by the US imports from the foreign country.
www.perplexity.ai/search/for-e...
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April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You can’t make this shit up. Well, they literally made it up, but the buffoonery is next level.
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Tariffs and trade are all over the news, but Trump's chaotic strategy jeopardizes green jobs and threatens our pocketbooks. So how do we push for a climate-friendly trade policy that benefits people and the planet?
sc.org/tradewebinar...
sc.org/tradewebinar...
April 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Tariffs and trade are all over the news, but Trump's chaotic strategy jeopardizes green jobs and threatens our pocketbooks. So how do we push for a climate-friendly trade policy that benefits people and the planet?
sc.org/tradewebinar...
sc.org/tradewebinar...
Global trade influence how we make goods around the world. Trade agreements have long been used to maximize private profits to the detriment of workers and the environment. We need to rewrite the rules of trade to work for people and the planet.
Join @sierraclub.org today @ 6pm ET to learn more👇
Join @sierraclub.org today @ 6pm ET to learn more👇
If you're tired of seeing bonkers headlines on trade and tariffs and not knowing what the climate movement can do about Trump's chaotic trade actions, join @sierraclub.org on 4/1 at 6pm ET for a 101 on climate-friendly trade!
RSVP here: sc.org/TradeWebinar
RSVP here: sc.org/TradeWebinar
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Using Trade to Fight Climate Change 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the Sierra Club’s Industrial Transformation campaign on April 1 at 6pm ET to learn about our work and the opportunities we have this year to change the rules of global trade to benefit people and...
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April 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Global trade influence how we make goods around the world. Trade agreements have long been used to maximize private profits to the detriment of workers and the environment. We need to rewrite the rules of trade to work for people and the planet.
Join @sierraclub.org today @ 6pm ET to learn more👇
Join @sierraclub.org today @ 6pm ET to learn more👇
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SEC voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rule, which required companies to report climate-related financial risks.
@sierraclub.org's @bmcushing.bsky.social calls the move "a dangerous retreat from investor protection" at a time it is needed most.
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@sierraclub.org's @bmcushing.bsky.social calls the move "a dangerous retreat from investor protection" at a time it is needed most.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
SEC Votes to Abandon Defense of Climate Risk Disclosure Rule
Sierra Club Calls Move a ‘Dangerous Retreat From Investor Protection’
www.sierraclub.org
March 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
SEC voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rule, which required companies to report climate-related financial risks.
@sierraclub.org's @bmcushing.bsky.social calls the move "a dangerous retreat from investor protection" at a time it is needed most.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
@sierraclub.org's @bmcushing.bsky.social calls the move "a dangerous retreat from investor protection" at a time it is needed most.
www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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The road to good jobs is investment in new tech. Deregulation will just paper over the problems that these facilities are facing, kill more Americans, and we will wake up in 10 years with fewer jobs.
This is lethal foolishness from people who never looked seriously at our industrial sector. (end)
This is lethal foolishness from people who never looked seriously at our industrial sector. (end)
March 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The road to good jobs is investment in new tech. Deregulation will just paper over the problems that these facilities are facing, kill more Americans, and we will wake up in 10 years with fewer jobs.
This is lethal foolishness from people who never looked seriously at our industrial sector. (end)
This is lethal foolishness from people who never looked seriously at our industrial sector. (end)
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Trump is dead wrong here. Regulation is not holding back US steel facilities. They are under performing because they are falling apart.
Ex. See the 2018 fire that tore through the Mon Valley Works after persistent underinvestment. This is what is holding us back.
www.wesa.fm/environment-...
Ex. See the 2018 fire that tore through the Mon Valley Works after persistent underinvestment. This is what is holding us back.
www.wesa.fm/environment-...
U.S. Steel reaches landmark deal with county, environmental groups over 2018 fire
U.S. Steel says it has settled a federal lawsuit over a 2018 fire at its Clairton Coke Works that knocked out pollution controls at the plant for months.
www.wesa.fm
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Trump is dead wrong here. Regulation is not holding back US steel facilities. They are under performing because they are falling apart.
Ex. See the 2018 fire that tore through the Mon Valley Works after persistent underinvestment. This is what is holding us back.
www.wesa.fm/environment-...
Ex. See the 2018 fire that tore through the Mon Valley Works after persistent underinvestment. This is what is holding us back.
www.wesa.fm/environment-...
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Trump plans to allow industries to seek exemptions from enviro regulations, including integrated iron & steel facilities and coke ovens.
This will kill more Americans without creating a competitive manufacturing sector or long-term employment.🧵
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This will kill more Americans without creating a competitive manufacturing sector or long-term employment.🧵
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POLITICO Pro: EPA alerts companies to possible ‘presidential exemption’ from air rules
It would be an "unprecedented" use of an obscure Clean Air Act provision, experts said.
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March 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Trump plans to allow industries to seek exemptions from enviro regulations, including integrated iron & steel facilities and coke ovens.
This will kill more Americans without creating a competitive manufacturing sector or long-term employment.🧵
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This will kill more Americans without creating a competitive manufacturing sector or long-term employment.🧵
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