Tom Owens
@tomowens1.bsky.social
Center for Oil and Gas Organizing taking on fossil fuels. Formerly in climate, energy and water philanthropy
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
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In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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New @dataforprogress.org polling shows a majority of US voters (55%) SUPPORT the phaseout of fossil fuels, including a majority of Dems (74%), voters under 45 (69%), and Independents (57%).
@governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
@governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New @dataforprogress.org polling shows a majority of US voters (55%) SUPPORT the phaseout of fossil fuels, including a majority of Dems (74%), voters under 45 (69%), and Independents (57%).
@governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
@governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
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Hochul's husband's law-firm client, "Tulsa-based Williams Companies, is planning to build a $1 billion underwater gas pipeline off [NYC]. The pipeline project had previously been rejected three times by [NYS] regulators over environmental concerns. But on Monday, Ms. Hochul said she would allow it"
Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hochul's husband's law-firm client, "Tulsa-based Williams Companies, is planning to build a $1 billion underwater gas pipeline off [NYC]. The pipeline project had previously been rejected three times by [NYS] regulators over environmental concerns. But on Monday, Ms. Hochul said she would allow it"
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"More than 6,500 jobs and $2.5 billion in investments have been lost in New York due to the Trump administration’s energy policies." An self-made American tragedy:
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
Thousands of New York jobs lost to federal energy policies
More than 150,000 jobs have been lost or delayed nationwide due to the Trump administration's hostility toward clean energy, according to a new report from
www.eenews.net
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"More than 6,500 jobs and $2.5 billion in investments have been lost in New York due to the Trump administration’s energy policies." An self-made American tragedy:
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
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It is widely agreed that robust LNG exports from the US will have the effect of globalizing the price of NG, which will in turn have the effect of *raising the price of domestic NG*.
So why aren't all the "focus on affordability" people fighting LNG exports?
So why aren't all the "focus on affordability" people fighting LNG exports?
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It is widely agreed that robust LNG exports from the US will have the effect of globalizing the price of NG, which will in turn have the effect of *raising the price of domestic NG*.
So why aren't all the "focus on affordability" people fighting LNG exports?
So why aren't all the "focus on affordability" people fighting LNG exports?
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BREAKING: Activists are at the #USOpen to call out one of its major sponsors – Chubb – and demand it stop insuring Freeport LNG, a toxic fossil fuel project threatening our climate, and the health & safety of local communities.
📸: Erik McGregor
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org
📸: Erik McGregor
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
BREAKING: Activists are at the #USOpen to call out one of its major sponsors – Chubb – and demand it stop insuring Freeport LNG, a toxic fossil fuel project threatening our climate, and the health & safety of local communities.
📸: Erik McGregor
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org
📸: Erik McGregor
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
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Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years
Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
The state that canceled your bus is wasting $1.6B on a polluting boondoggle | Will Bunch
Pa. officials promised a Shell plastics plant was the future, awarding a $1.6B tax break to an economic dud and pollution nightmare.
www.inquirer.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years
Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
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Softbank buying an electric vehicle factory to turn it into an AI server factory.
Ping @ketanjoshi.co
Ping @ketanjoshi.co
SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce AI servers at the plant as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
August 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Softbank buying an electric vehicle factory to turn it into an AI server factory.
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Exactly right. At a time when demand is rising, the Administration is restricting and raising taxes on the main sources of capacity being added to the grid: clean energy. The result: hiring electric bills, greater risk of blackouts, and more pollution.
I want the American people to know that this is not an accident. This administration is choosing to take actions that are raising people's electric bills.
August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Exactly right. At a time when demand is rising, the Administration is restricting and raising taxes on the main sources of capacity being added to the grid: clean energy. The result: hiring electric bills, greater risk of blackouts, and more pollution.
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...
Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.
Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...
So just hear me out .. we could feed kids, or offer low-middle income affordable housing, or maybe build renewable energy that is already the cheapest for developers and consumers, or cut off aid to Israel's military occupation. Nah how about nuclear in space?
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So just hear me out .. we could feed kids, or offer low-middle income affordable housing, or maybe build renewable energy that is already the cheapest for developers and consumers, or cut off aid to Israel's military occupation. Nah how about nuclear in space?
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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This is actually a strategy to “deregulate” as chaotically as possible, and then let the courts sort it out.
July 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is actually a strategy to “deregulate” as chaotically as possible, and then let the courts sort it out.
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Global additions of capacity in 2025
698 GW of solar (BNEF)
138 GW of wind (GWEC)
W&S will grow ~838 GW in 2025.
What about gas?
~45-60 GW of gas may be added. With gas retirements, the net additions will be less!
World moves to clean energy as US embraces coal & gas.
#energysky
698 GW of solar (BNEF)
138 GW of wind (GWEC)
W&S will grow ~838 GW in 2025.
What about gas?
~45-60 GW of gas may be added. With gas retirements, the net additions will be less!
World moves to clean energy as US embraces coal & gas.
#energysky
July 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Global additions of capacity in 2025
698 GW of solar (BNEF)
138 GW of wind (GWEC)
W&S will grow ~838 GW in 2025.
What about gas?
~45-60 GW of gas may be added. With gas retirements, the net additions will be less!
World moves to clean energy as US embraces coal & gas.
#energysky
698 GW of solar (BNEF)
138 GW of wind (GWEC)
W&S will grow ~838 GW in 2025.
What about gas?
~45-60 GW of gas may be added. With gas retirements, the net additions will be less!
World moves to clean energy as US embraces coal & gas.
#energysky
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Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating
July 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating
Every minute matters youtu.be/BOzsASyXdyI?...
Deadly Texas floods highlight impact of climate change
YouTube video by CNN
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July 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Every minute matters youtu.be/BOzsASyXdyI?...
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Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Washington State will have higher electrical bills of $ 115 per year, and lose 21,000 jobs in the next five years due to Trump’s disastrous reconciliation bill. Heckuva job Mr. President. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/11/m...
Megabill’s elimination of tax credits for clean energy projects could cost WA $8.7 billion • Washington State Standard
Officials are warning that the megabill passed last week will likely raise Washington households’ electricity costs and eliminate thousands of jobs in Washington’s clean energy and manufacturing secto...
washingtonstatestandard.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Washington State will have higher electrical bills of $ 115 per year, and lose 21,000 jobs in the next five years due to Trump’s disastrous reconciliation bill. Heckuva job Mr. President. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/11/m...
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Today, 188 U.S. groups called on EU Commissioners to refuse to bow to the Trump administration's pressure to increase reliance on U.S. #LNG & other fossil fuel imports.
The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG.
oilchange.org/news/letter-...
The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG.
oilchange.org/news/letter-...
Letter from 188 U.S. Environmental Groups Urges EU Commissioners to Reject Trump’s Pressure to Purchase U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) - Oil Change International
Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S.
oilchange.org
June 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today, 188 U.S. groups called on EU Commissioners to refuse to bow to the Trump administration's pressure to increase reliance on U.S. #LNG & other fossil fuel imports.
The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG.
oilchange.org/news/letter-...
The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG.
oilchange.org/news/letter-...
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
So poor people get poorer. Rich get richer. Clean energy manufacturing and jobs halt. States are prevented from regulating AI for ten years. Call your Senators and stop the bill
Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper.
Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, CBO predicts
The nonpartisan analysis is based on the House-passed GOP legislation.
www.politico.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So poor people get poorer. Rich get richer. Clean energy manufacturing and jobs halt. States are prevented from regulating AI for ten years. Call your Senators and stop the bill
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The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
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Nothing to see here.
‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo
World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.
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February 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nothing to see here.