The Texas AG's office has announced a sweeping "birth tourism" investigation, citing as evidence a website that redirects to a GoDaddy parking page
Clark Mindock
@clarkmindock.bsky.social
Climate law & insurance regs reporter. •Insurance writing is here: https://www.insuranceinsiderus.com/clark-mindock •My Substack “Landmark” covers climate law: www.landmark.earth Formerly Reuters, Law360, The Independent, etc.
Really nice motion here by State Farm to prohibit homeowners from showing a California jury pictures of their kids and baby deer at their home before it burned down
BREAKING: Trump orders supporting Ambler Road, Alaska mining gets court green light Environmentalists lost a bid to block a land transfer to Alaska that is seen as crucial for projects to access mining resources in the state’s pristine northwest, including the 211-mile Ambler Road.
President Donald Trump has drastically cut protections for two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalanate. In this morning’s Landmark, read about the brewing legal fight and history of the Antiquities Act — a 100-year-old law likely to be at the center of that dispute.
A friend sent me a link to this "AI news" site Prism today, and I can't get over that it has affiliated links bringing you to stuff like this Ebay listing for a reconditioned Ford E-450 shuttle bus I wonder what their small commission is if I buy this bad boy...
Breaking Supreme Court News: The high court has undermined a $745 million coastal land loss suit filed by a Louisiana Parish against fossil fuel companies, including Chevron.
Update: On Thursday, the Senate voted 50-49 to send a measure revoking mining prohibitions on U.S. forest land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to President Donald Trump for a signature.
Clark Mindock@clarkmindock.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday, the Senate is due to vote to strip legal protections from a pristine wilderness in Minnesota. I spoke to locals about it, and discovered the issue is about more than just jobs. It's also deeply rooted in American nostalgia. New in Landmark: www.landmark.earth/p/trump-boun...
Today, the Senate is due to vote to strip legal protections from a pristine wilderness in Minnesota. I spoke to locals about it, and discovered the issue is about more than just jobs. It's also deeply rooted in American nostalgia. New in Landmark: www.landmark.earth/p/trump-boun...
Update: On Thursday, the Senate voted 50-49 to send a measure revoking mining prohibitions on U.S. forest land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to President Donald Trump for a signature.
Clark Mindock@clarkmindock.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday, the Senate is due to vote to strip legal protections from a pristine wilderness in Minnesota. I spoke to locals about it, and discovered the issue is about more than just jobs. It's also deeply rooted in American nostalgia. New in Landmark: www.landmark.earth/p/trump-boun...
Today, the Senate is due to vote to strip legal protections from a pristine wilderness in Minnesota. I spoke to locals about it, and discovered the issue is about more than just jobs. It's also deeply rooted in American nostalgia. New in Landmark: www.landmark.earth/p/trump-boun...
This was my dog’s reaction when I told her about the new inflation numbers. Not fussed, I guess…
These sorts of graphs are just so rad to see
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4mo ago12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025. In 2010, the number was barely 10,000. In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric. The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.
New in Landmark: The fight over the Trump admin's repeal of rules that reduce the amount of mercury coming from coal-fired power plants has just begun. Read about it here: www.landmark.earth/p/epa-lawsui...
The fight over the Trump EPA’s mercury air pollution rollback has begun
States, local governments and environmental groups argue the rollback puts the health of kids and pregnant women at risk.
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BREAKING: Trump "God Squad" voted unanimously to exempt oil and gas activities in the Gulf from Endangered Species Act protections. The group (named for its power to effectively sentence species to extinction) said national security compelled the decision Decision risks whale, sea turtle lives.
Clark Mindock@clarkmindock.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew in Landmark: A judge just handed the Trump administration a big loss on the Endangered Species Act. But the ruling landed one day before the so-called "God Squad" convenes to potentially sentence Gulf wildlife to extinction in the name of oil and gas. www.landmark.earth/p/federal-ju...
New in Landmark: A judge just handed the Trump administration a big loss on the Endangered Species Act. But the ruling landed one day before the so-called "God Squad" convenes to potentially sentence Gulf wildlife to extinction in the name of oil and gas. www.landmark.earth/p/federal-ju...
Federal judge throws a wrench in Trump's plan to defang the Endangered Species Act
The decision comes as a federal group dubbed the ‘God Squad’ is set to discuss, on Tuesday, exempting oil and gas development in the Gulf from ESA restrictions.
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New in Landmark: A federal judge just handed the Trump administration a loss on the Endangered Species Act. But the ruling landed one day before the so-called "God Squad" convenes to potentially sentence Gulf wildlife to extinction in the name of oil and gas. www.landmark.earth/p/federal-ju...
Federal judge throws a wrench in Trump's plan to defang the Endangered Species Act
The decision comes as a federal group dubbed the ‘God Squad’ is set to discuss, on Tuesday, exempting oil and gas development in the Gulf from ESA restrictions.
landmark.earth
"I don't think they should be given any benefit of the doubt that what they’re doing here is a lawful approach, or that they have the authorization to do what they are doing," former BOEM head Liz Klein told me. heatmap.news/energy/trump...
What We Don’t Know About Trump’s $1 Billion Deal With Total Could Kill It
It’s not even clear where the money is coming from.
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Huge news on the DOGE front, a federal judge has allowed a lawsuit challenging the advisory commission's authority to proceed, rejecting the Trump administration's motion to dismiss the case. www.eenews.net/articles/cou...
Court advances lawsuit against DOGE
A federal judge said that while Elon Musk has left the administration, his project to break the federal government is still having an impact.
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New in Landmark today: Expect some tricky legal maneuvering behind the scenes as lawsuits challenging the Trump EPA’s endangerment finding repeal progress.
New in Landmark today: Expect some tricky legal maneuvering behind the scenes as lawsuits challenging the Trump EPA’s endangerment finding repeal progress.
I mean.. yikes. Would not want to be this attorney
Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social · 5mo agoCourt: "Are you here for moral support? Because you're not going to speak." Off to a great start!
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “What am I not asking you that I should be asking you?”
Peter Orlowicz@peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 5mo agoWithout naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “'We've always done it that way' is not an answer, you need to tell me WHY.”
One of my favourite guys on here are the ones who doesn’t get that newspapers employ people to write on a number of topics. They’re always like “good to see the NYT Cooking section focusing on a carbonara recipe instead of the war in the Middle East 🙄”
“Oil lobbyists have made the case to Trump officials in recent weeks that his attacks on wind farms off the U.S. coast risk derailing congressional efforts to speed up permits for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Big Oil Is Urging Trump to Stop Battle on Offshore Wind
The president’s assault on wind farms is stalling a legislative push to speed permitting for energy projects.
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As U.S. forces attack Iran, a dark-money network of anti-Muslim billionaires, fossil fuel empires, and arms dealers is suddenly far closer to its goal. www.levernews.com/the-shadow-c...
The Shadow Campaign Behind The Iran Strike
As U.S. forces attack Iran, a dark-money network of anti-Muslim billionaires, fossil fuel empires, and arms dealers is suddenly far closer to its goal.
levernews.com
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider an important appeal that could determine whether dozens of state & municipal climate lawsuits against Big Oil can stay viable. It raises some important questions: www.landmark.earth/p/supreme-co...
Quick Brief: Supreme Court takes up a big climate change question
The court took up a familiar question. Will it decide the issue once and for all?
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