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Andres Chang

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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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Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · 26d

Denali Sai, Mariah-Rose Marie @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social, Matteo Farinella @matteofarinella.bsky.social !! 🎨

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 12

"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

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Aug 5

[5/5] There's a strong tension between the theory of voluntary corporate mobilization & the pace of decarbonization we need. Hybrid initiatives like #sbti continue to have a role but their impact depends on how they're leveraged (and influenced) by different political actors w competing goals.

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Aug 5

[4/5] The SBTi helps shape norms that are broadly adopted across the private sector. They face immense pressure to compromise on science in the name of "feasibility." But, with the exodus of most large banks from programs like the NZBA, is SBTi catering to an increasingly hollowed out middle?

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Aug 5

[3/5] So it's notable that @sciencebasedtargets.org's new #netzero standard requires FIs to cease both project AND corporate-level finance/insurance activities linked to FF expansion. However, while project finance must be immediately addressed, corporate-level finance must only be ceased by 2030.

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Aug 5

[2/5] Most ESG commitments from the financial sector address "project finance" (such as loans) to new fossil fuel projects. But over 90% of banks' financing to the FF industry is channeled through "corporate-level" activities, multiple analyses show. bit.ly/4l5L6op bit.ly/45dNXWn

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Aug 5

[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)

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Jul 9

This strongly challenges the gas industry's greenwashing and raises the possibility that future U.S. administrations could rescind LNG export authorizations in defense of the public interest. Check out full details at the report link above (2/2)

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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...

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Jun 13

Let’s get this 💪💪💪

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · Jun 8

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection”

Us at the protest:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 19

At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · May 19

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.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 19

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

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Apr 27

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.

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · Apr 27

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

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

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

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Apr 23

☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz9b...

Holy Wave - Father's Prayer (OFFICIAL AUDIO)

YouTube video by Suicide Squeeze Records

www.youtube.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Apr 17

A direct strike on her home.

🐸 Helen Kennedy 🐸 @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

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

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Planet Over Profit @planetoverprofit.org · Apr 17

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

Andres Chang @ndreschang.bsky.social · Apr 16

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...

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

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 15

"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

A brief guide for Americans

snyder.substack.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · Apr 14

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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StrictlyChristo 🐸❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Apr 12

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...

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

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Troy Bouffard, Ph.D. @arctictroy.bsky.social · Apr 12

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...

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