Aric Caplan
@aric-advocates.bsky.social
Purpose-driven communications leader, climate hawk, clean energy, civil rights & environmental justice, labor rights and humanitarian causes. Trusted partner to nonprofits & authors.
California is suing over a deal that lets a developer walk away from wind power in Morro Bay to pursue oil instead. #renewableenergy
California sues Trump administration, developer over deal to walk away from Morro Bay wind power
The Trump administration struck a $120-million agreement with Golden State Wind in April to abandon its wind lease and pursue oil instead.
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Just 11 days into Trump’s second term, the chemical industry’s two largest trade groups were already pressing newly installed #EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for regulatory changes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...
How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
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Methane is more than 80x as potent as CO₂ at trapping heat. White House wants to weaken #regulations from oil and gas. That’s not energy policy. It’s accelerating climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/c...
E.P.A. to Loosen Methane Rules for Oil Firms
The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.
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Hundreds of people have lost power and have been told to evacuate in the Four Corners area.
More rain is expected after bad flooding in the Four Corners region led to rescues and evacuations
Hundreds of people have lost power and have been told to evacuate in the Four Corners area. Emergency crews staged overnight rescues, and roads and bridges remained closed Saturday because of severe flooding in Colorado and New Mexico.
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In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.
Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds
In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.
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Our nation has 4.4 million miles of rivers, and they’re in crisis. Half are polluted. 80% have no protection. That puts our drinking water, nature, and our communities at risk. Life depends on rivers. Rivers depend on you. 🌊 Watch how: youtu.be/chcpJ-D7BLM
Life depends on rivers, and rivers depend on you
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When forests, rivers, and wildlife habitat are damaged, the public bears the loss. caplancommunications.com/blog/environ...
Environmental Stewardship as a Civic Value
Environmental stewardship is a decision about who pays when land, water, or wildlife are damaged. Aric Caplan on where that cost lands and who decides.
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President Trump pardoned two diesel mechanics who pleaded guilty to Clean Air Act violations during an Alaska campaign rally Tuesday. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Trump pardons diesel mechanics for Clean Air Act violations at Alaska rally
President Trump issued pardons at a campaign rally in Alaska on Tuesday for two diesel mechanics who were previously charged with and plead guilty to violating the Clean Air Act. The presiden…
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California's coastline is shifting as erosion and El Niño reshape many of our favorite beaches. #coastalerosion
California’s beaches are being eaten away. El Niño could redraw the coast as we know it
From Carlsbad to Malibu to Santa Cruz, erosion is already remaking the maps of popular beaches in dramatic ways.
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This season’s hurricane dynamic—an unruffled Atlantic and a frothing Pacific—has been right out of the El Niño playbook, @partlowjosh.bsky.social reports.
A Hurricane Season for the Books
Hurricane Isaias formed so late in the season that it set an Atlantic Ocean record. The Pacific is on a very different track.
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U.S. soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike tell the AP the military's medical system failed them: “I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that.”
Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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EPA chief Lee Zeldin claims reversing #methane rules could save $45B. Forget how wasteful #gas flaring is and that CH4 is 80x more #climate exacerbating than #CO2. thehill.com/policy/energ...
Trump to propose relaxing methane rules for oil and gas industry
The Trump administration will propose to loosen restrictions that rein in methane from oil and gas production, it announced Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a press rele…
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The 2001 Roadless Rule rested on a principle worth preserving: leaving land intact is an act of stewardship, not a failure to put it to some other use. caplancommunications.com/blog/roadles... #conservation
The Roadless Rule: Some Public Lands Do Not Need Another Use
The Roadless Rule covers about 44.7 million acres of national forest. Aric Caplan on why choosing not to build can itself be in the public interest.
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Due process is how you celebrate #America250. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Some lobbying firms represent both fossil fuel giants and the cities seeking funds to fix climate damage. #fossilfuels
US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages
Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants
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The Trump administration is fast-tracking lithium mines in Oregon and Nevada’s McDermitt Caldera, which one conservationist describes as America’s "forgotten wildlife corridor": insideclimatenews.org/news/2709202...
The Trump Administration’s Critical Minerals Agenda Comes for America’s ‘Forgotten Wildlife Corridor’ - Inside Climate News
Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
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NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in Suncor #Energy v. Boulder, a case that could determine whether states and cities can hold #BigOil accountable for #climate #pollution. www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/p...
Clarence Thomas is in the hot seat for Supreme Court’s biggest climate case in years | CNN Politics
As one of the Supreme Court’s most stalwart conservative and prolific justices, Clarence Thomas’ views on the biggest cases of the day — from guns to race to religion — are rarely in doubt.
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Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property. “It’s been 250 years of tumult,” Daniel Immerwahr writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why America Looks the Way It Does
From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.
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“This is a historic victory for Big Bend and everyone who loves this wild corner of Texas,” Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. thehill.com/policy/energ...
Judge halts contentious border construction in and near Texas’s Big Bend National Park
A federal judge on Friday halted contentious Trump administration border construction plans in Texas’s Big Bend region. Judge Kathleen Cardone, an appointee of former President George W. Bush…
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MLB won't consider game at Grand Teton National Park, says was only conducting initial due diligence apnews.com/article/wyom...
MLB won't consider game at Grand Teton National Park, says was only conducting initial due diligence
Major League Baseball has decided not to consider Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for a game. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to local officials and community leaders, stating tha...
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Making the U.S. less competitive and reversing gains in technology jobs, new fuel-economy standards would effectively end a federal effort to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Oil giant BP not only funded the research behind an influential climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point. (Published June w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social)
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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AI companies such as #Meta are building new gas plants as fast as they can – in the process subjecting our state #parks and #publiclands, and the poorest region of #Ohio, to toxic fossil fuel extraction and waste disposal.
Cathy Cowan Becker @ccbecker271.bsky.social · last mo.My op-ed on Meta's FOUR gas plants to power its data center in New Albany, Ohio. Meta is building so many gas plants that it left the RE100, a corporate renewable energy pact.
New Mexicans “are right to be concerned” about the rapid development of data centers. thehill.com/policy/techn...
Haaland backs data center moratorium in New Mexico
New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) on Thursday backed a moratorium on the construction of data centers in her state, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy…
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The Environmental Protection Agency #EPA has a legal responsibility to limit planet-warming #emissions, and that not doing so would have significant health consequences. thehill.com/policy/energ...
Environment, health groups sue over Trump move to wipe out climate rules for power plants
Environmental and public health-focused organizations are suing the Trump administration over its move to wipe out most climate regulations on coal and gas power plants. The Natural Resources …
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The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action the agency said would save industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” American energy.
The United States will no longer limit planet-warming pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c... #climateweek
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, current and former Associated Press journalists who witnessed them recall the day.
Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, current and former Associated Press journalists who witnessed them recall the day.
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EXCLUSIVE: I obtained a draft of the Trump administration plan to roll back the Biden EPA rules on methane pollution. I reported previously on the little-known oil-industry campaign to deregulate “stripper wells” — which is finally coming to fruition: www.propublica.org/article/meth...
EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...
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Alex Cuadros@alexcuadros.bsky.social · 4mo ago1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵
