Dave Scott
@davesc.bsky.social
Environmentalist. Past President, Sierra Club, current Secretary and 14-year board member. Interested in environment, politics, memoir, essay, literary fiction. Dog rescuer.
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My letter on the @financialtimes.com story on BP/Shell’s climate rollbacks is now published.
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
Letter: How climate goals skewed incentives for Shell and BP
From Ben Cushing, Director, The Sierra Club’s Sustainable Finance Campaign, Washington, DC, US
www.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 AM
My letter on the @financialtimes.com story on BP/Shell’s climate rollbacks is now published.
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
www.ft.com/content/e100...
204. Accountability After Minneapolis
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204. Accountability After Minneapolis
A short post explaining (1) why it's so hard to hold federal officers and/or the federal government liable for violating our rights; and (2) how a one-sentence statute could (and *SHOULD*) fix it.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
204. Accountability After Minneapolis
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Not surprising
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Unpacking the legal justification for Trump’s attack on the foundation of U.S. climate regulations
The 2009 "endangerment finding" has been used to justify key climate regs. Relying on recent SCOTUS decisions, Trump says the EPA has overstepped its authority.
www.landmark.earth
August 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Not surprising
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Trump is Getting Desperate
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Trump is Getting Desperate
We're in an extremely dangerous moment
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August 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trump is Getting Desperate
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Sierra Club filed the lawsuit that became Massachusetts vs EPA and led to the endangerment finding. Making climate science denial official US policy is a crime against humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sierra Club filed the lawsuit that became Massachusetts vs EPA and led to the endangerment finding. Making climate science denial official US policy is a crime against humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
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"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
July 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
Corporate polluter CEO in a Reagan-era "Doonesbury" strip: "So what will protect the public? Oh -- here it is! The goodness of our hearts."
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Corporate polluter CEO in a Reagan-era "Doonesbury" strip: "So what will protect the public? Oh -- here it is! The goodness of our hearts."
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
"What we have here is a form of looting." Nobel economist George Akerlof on 2003 tax cuts.
Of all the times in our history, why blow out the budget deficit now?
June 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"What we have here is a form of looting." Nobel economist George Akerlof on 2003 tax cuts.
Same was true of Bush 43
Of all the times in our history, why blow out the budget deficit now?
June 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Same was true of Bush 43
I can confidently say two things. This is sick, and it will work, if "work" means not spending money on people who will suffer and needlessly die because you didn't.
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I can confidently say two things. This is sick, and it will work, if "work" means not spending money on people who will suffer and needlessly die because you didn't.
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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A Piping Plover chick tries to squeeze in. Moms are so patient and amazing.
June 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A Piping Plover chick tries to squeeze in. Moms are so patient and amazing.
Woman kneeling next to a dead Kent State student. A child with napalm-burned flesh running towards a camera. A prisoner executed by a South Vietnames general in a Saigon street. 3 of the definining images of the Vietnam era -- as Susan Sontag wrote, photography changed how we think.
May 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Woman kneeling next to a dead Kent State student. A child with napalm-burned flesh running towards a camera. A prisoner executed by a South Vietnames general in a Saigon street. 3 of the definining images of the Vietnam era -- as Susan Sontag wrote, photography changed how we think.
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Trump wants to grant permits for deep sea mining in international waters, which, of course, don't belong to the U.S.
Donald Trump plans to stockpile deep sea critical metals to counter China
US drafting order to collect ‘nodules’ from Pacific seabed for minerals used in battery supply chains
www.ft.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Trump wants to grant permits for deep sea mining in international waters, which, of course, don't belong to the U.S.
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Not content simply to subvert U.S. environmental rules, Trump now wants to subvert international rules as well and, by fiat, open the oceans to deep sea mining. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Exclusive: White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say
The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.
www.reuters.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not content simply to subvert U.S. environmental rules, Trump now wants to subvert international rules as well and, by fiat, open the oceans to deep sea mining. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree
www.eenews.net
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
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The E.P.A. is planning to rescind a set of Biden-era rules aimed at curbing CO2 emissions. Undoing regulations of any sort is an arduous and time-consuming process. But the agency could squander years on the endeavor.
The E.P.A. vs. the Environment
With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.
www.newyorker.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The E.P.A. is planning to rescind a set of Biden-era rules aimed at curbing CO2 emissions. Undoing regulations of any sort is an arduous and time-consuming process. But the agency could squander years on the endeavor.
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BREAKING: @campaignlegal.org @ucsusa.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social & Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and DOGE's unlawful & devastating funding & staffing cuts to the U.S. National Park Service & Forest Service www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
March 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
BREAKING: @campaignlegal.org @ucsusa.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social & Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and DOGE's unlawful & devastating funding & staffing cuts to the U.S. National Park Service & Forest Service www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
The Sweet Spot www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/o...
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
Opinion | The Sweet Spot (Published 2003)
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says Bush administration's tax cuts are phony because government is now borrowing to make up for loss of revenue; says, however, that any Democratic candidate who proposes to...
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February 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Sweet Spot www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/o...
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
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Watching history being made turns out to be terrifying.
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Watching history being made turns out to be terrifying.
"Carter was by far the wisest President in seeing the need for an energy revolution away from fossil fuels .... He provided more leadership in protecting America’s landscape than any President since Teddy Roosevelt." -- Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director from 1992 to 2010
January 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Carter was by far the wisest President in seeing the need for an energy revolution away from fossil fuels .... He provided more leadership in protecting America’s landscape than any President since Teddy Roosevelt." -- Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director from 1992 to 2010
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I’m not convinced 2025 will be better.
December 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM
I’m not convinced 2025 will be better.
Jimmy Carter was a conservation hero for the ages. By signing ANILCA, "he created or added to 16 wildlife refuges, 13 national parks, 2 national forests, 2 national monuments, and 26 wild and scenic rivers. .... conservation on an unprecedented, ecosystem-sized scale. -- National Park Service
December 29, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Jimmy Carter was a conservation hero for the ages. By signing ANILCA, "he created or added to 16 wildlife refuges, 13 national parks, 2 national forests, 2 national monuments, and 26 wild and scenic rivers. .... conservation on an unprecedented, ecosystem-sized scale. -- National Park Service