Fantastic documentary that I somehow have never seen - familiar faces too :) Bob Marshall

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Finally reading through the new financial assurance rule, and I'm so happy for whoever got to write some of these sassy responses. boem.gov/sites/default/…

Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, just spoke to the victorious Tennessee VW workers:

'The talking heads and the pundits said to me repeatedly before we announced this campaign, you can't win in the South, and Southern workers aren't ready for it.'

Next up, Mercedes in Alabama.

And GOOD news: BOEM increases financial assurance requirements for offshore energy work. offshore-mag.com/regional-repor…

folks on the coast have been knowing this is the plan. “They don’t want any residents, they want camps and plants. They want us gone.” This is what Plaquemines Parish residents told me in 2020.

Listen to Megan and rebuild the national dredge fleet, you bastards.

Y’all. I have an idea. And statutory language that can be tucked into a defense bill. truetransition.org/_files/ugd/0ad…

'Each man had a family waiting for him at home, and my ultimate responsibility was to them.' - Justin

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Wonderful essay that I will sit with for a while. There is so much work to do, and really, my job is to figure out how to wrench that work from the shackles of neoliberal constraints (benefit cost analysis etc.) and to negotiate the conditions of that work.

“The way that the oil gas system operates is that it’s predicated on companies never having to really plug their entire inventory of wells. The whole system is based on never really having to pay for those costs,” Boettner of Ohio River Valley Institute said.

Great questions budsoffshoreenergy.com/2024/01/08/cox…

.Martha Pskowski rode around with us in the Permian recently. The dense cloud cover obscured satellite views and gas prices at WAHA were negative. It was a good week to catch industry dumping methane gas into our atmosphere.

Video is Energy Transfer

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Just spoke to Jesus Campos (left), who works for Brawner Builders, the company employing the crew of workers who were filling potholes on the Key Bridge when it collapsed. When I asked if he knew if the crew was notified of the 'mayday' call from the ship, he said, 'no.'

Over a century later, an immigrant garment worker in LA who I interviewed for my book told me about how her bosses lock the doors of the factory where she and her coworkers are paid by the piece.

COMMENTARY: The fossil fuel industry is breaking the law, leaving taxpayers to pay the cost. From Megan Milliken Biven🖖💫🐊 w/True Transition lailluminator.com/2024/03/22/fos… #environment #oilandgas #fossilfuels

W/ billions in incentives, taxpayers in Louisiana & other states have supported dozens of plastics manufacturing facilities. Many have repeatedly exceeded legal limits on air pollution release into surrounding communities. Sara Sneath w/DeSmog reports lailluminator.com/2024/03/18/pla…