Tim Donaghy

@timdonaghy.bsky.social

Research Director for Greenpeace USA. Lapsed astrophysicist, previously UCS. Focused on climate, energy, environmental justice, science policy. Views are my own. I'm @quinn43 on the birdsite. Also on Mastodon @[email protected]. he/him

@frontiertony.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

I appreciate @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social linking to our analysis of the recent surge in proposed gas power plants, but current permitting laws aren’t the cause of it.

Three years ago, under these same laws, the U.S. was ramping down fossil fuel generation and now we're ramping up. What changed?

@timdonaghy.bsky.social

it's been a long time, so I might be mis-remembering. But I feel like when Ossoff first came on the scene, Rs used to mock him as being a soyboy. He's definitely hit the gym / grown up.

@kostyack.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

The Senate will take up permitting reform in early November, so it's time to grapple w what Dem negotiators gave up to streamline permitting for clean energy. @jeremysymons.bsky.social finds that the provisions won by the fossil & tech lobbies would cause lasting damage to our climate & clean air.

@greenpeaceca.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

1/8 🚨 NEW: We found a network of 30+ pro-oil front groups coordinating, tracking progress, and reporting back to their funders about how they are shaping energy conversations in Canada. It looks like that was supposed to stay under the radar, except they left their platform completely public 👇

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme. Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
@riogranderift.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

“At least 26 senators, more than a quarter of the chamber, hold data center-linked investments … Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose data center investments total between $2.1 million and $8.6 million, takes the number one spot.” 👀

@ucs.orgReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2026/2027 are here.

The new report distills the latest climate research into ten critical insights for science, policy, and society ahead of COP31.

Explore the insights and read the report:

🔗 10insightsclimate.science

@qjurecic.bsky.socialReposted by @timdonaghy.bsky.social

this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud

North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

DOJ is already using "Super Intelligence" instead of Artificial Intelligence and it reads ridiculous. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

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@timdonaghy.bsky.social

Yeah, I saw that thread as well, thanks. Really hard not to see this as a poison pill blocking future climate action. I appreciate that this bill has some good parts, but it feels like there is a TON of downside risk.

@timdonaghy.bsky.social

Thanks for a very useful article! Per the last section, would a "tacit freeze" on fossil fuel permits also become challenge-able? Because that seems like a very very bad outcome for climate policy.

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