Andres Chang
@ndreschang.bsky.social
Views on climate and energy system transitions, global environmental governance, and civic space | Masters student at the School of the Environment, University of Toronto | Formerly Greenpeace USA and Science Based Targets initiative
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
[1/5] There's a loophole in most banks' fossil fuel policies. It's like "saying they would never directly invest in cigarettes, but are happy to provide billions to tobacco companies” (h/t @makemymoneymatter.bsky.social for the quote)
August 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
[1/5] There's a loophole in most banks' fossil fuel policies. It's like "saying they would never directly invest in cigarettes, but are happy to provide billions to tobacco companies” (h/t @makemymoneymatter.bsky.social for the quote)
NEW: We use the US gov's own analytical tools to show that LNG expansion is set to drive up global GHG emissions by displacing renewable energy and increasing fossil fuel consumption in importing markets (1/2)
@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social
@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social
Failing the climate test: LNG projects awaiting final investment decision do not stand up to U.S. Government analysis - Greenpeace - Greenpeace
Read the report: Download "Failing the “Climate Test.” The multi-volume analysis, termed the 2024 LNG Export Study, represents the most comprehensive government assessment to-date of the energy, econo...
greenpeace.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NEW: We use the US gov's own analytical tools to show that LNG expansion is set to drive up global GHG emissions by displacing renewable energy and increasing fossil fuel consumption in importing markets (1/2)
@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social
@greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social
Let’s get this 💪💪💪
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Let’s get this 💪💪💪
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Anti-ICE organizing in New York City:
People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.
People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.
June 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Anti-ICE organizing in New York City:
People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.
People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.
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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”
Us at the protest:
Us at the protest:
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”
Us at the protest:
Us at the protest:
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At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
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ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited).
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.
dailyprogress.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited).
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
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Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
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A direct strike on her home.
Palestinian photog Fatima Hassouna killed in an Israeli air strike with nine family members 24 hours after the announcement that a documentary about her work in Gaza would premiere at Cannes.
deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...
Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike
deadline.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A direct strike on her home.
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Migrant Justice = Climate Justice
🦋🌎🦋
JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand:
✊ ICE Out of NYC
✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC
✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil
✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
🦋🌎🦋
JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand:
✊ ICE Out of NYC
✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC
✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil
✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
April 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Migrant Justice = Climate Justice
🦋🌎🦋
JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand:
✊ ICE Out of NYC
✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC
✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil
✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
🦋🌎🦋
JOIN US this Saturday in NYC as we march to demand:
✊ ICE Out of NYC
✊ Fossil Fuels Out of NYC
✊ Free Mahmoud Khalil
✊ Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Baffling! @nytimes.com story about the energy security risks of global gas dependence has zero mentions of renewable energy... in sunny Mexico, no less 🥴
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel
Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas are surging, kindling fears that the Trump administration could weaponize this trade.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Baffling! @nytimes.com story about the energy security risks of global gas dependence has zero mentions of renewable energy... in sunny Mexico, no less 🥴
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk
The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
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Not seeing much coverage of this, and it seems like it might deliberately introduce the most damage and chaos yet. At the very least, it targets a significant power of Congress as well as Judicial resolve:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Not seeing much coverage of this, and it seems like it might deliberately introduce the most damage and chaos yet. At the very least, it targets a significant power of Congress as well as Judicial resolve:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This has been bouncing around the back of my head for a while. Seems highly dependent on whether global economic fortunes stay coupled to the US, and whether the "China effect" Akshat and Amy describe can offset the chaos initiated by Trump 🤔 Better hope so
Challenge accepted, Amy. So here's one bull case for the energy transition.
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This has been bouncing around the back of my head for a while. Seems highly dependent on whether global economic fortunes stay coupled to the US, and whether the "China effect" Akshat and Amy describe can offset the chaos initiated by Trump 🤔 Better hope so
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Challenge accepted, Amy. So here's one bull case for the energy transition.
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Challenge accepted, Amy. So here's one bull case for the energy transition.
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
Chinese economic growth will fall as a result of Trump's tariffs. Its leadership is already discussing injecting a stimulus. Now typically stimulus in a carbon-heavy economy is more emissions, but... 🧵
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I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
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The Kentucky labor movement is coalescing around defending all workers from the volley of attacks Trump has unleashed on the working class. labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...
labornotes.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Kentucky labor movement is coalescing around defending all workers from the volley of attacks Trump has unleashed on the working class. labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
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The mass execution of paramedics in Gaza is a Nazi-like atrocity that should shock the conscience of the US and force Democrats who have continued to support Israel to face up to the fact that they have been complicit in a horrific evil. End all US aid to Israel.
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The mass execution of paramedics in Gaza is a Nazi-like atrocity that should shock the conscience of the US and force Democrats who have continued to support Israel to face up to the fact that they have been complicit in a horrific evil. End all US aid to Israel.