Carolyn Raffensperger
@carolynraff.bsky.social
Environmental lawyer, director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. Former archaeologist. Lawyer at Standing Rock during the Dakota Access struggle. Keenly interested in protecting water, future generations and the night world.
Ha! I work with amazing colleagues! Here's an essay I wrote about living in place during the poly-crisis. I hope it provides a way to manifest Keith Basso's statement that "Wisdom sits in Places."
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2y agoI have the most amazing boss in the whole world, @carolynraff.bsky.social Here is my evidence* 👇 (*and what she calls a “note” is really a “profoundly moving meditation on matters of existential concern”) www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/4/...
"A comprehensive 2023 review by New York public health groups found 2,500 papers with evidence that #fracking had negative impacts on human health." Our Compendium linked in this @thehill.com & @pulitzercenter.bsky.social piece on #OilandGas in the Permian Basin. thehill.com/policy/energ...
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Industry is finally telling the truth: carbon capture and storage is a scheme to use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery--getting the last drop of oil out of near-depleted wells.
Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 2y ago"Carbon capture incentives are 'another subsidy for oil.'" Our ED @carolynraff.bsky.social quoted in NEW piece by @pradtke.bsky.social in the @lailluminator.com: lailluminator.com/2025/02/28/c... Links to our report (first comment) on the false promises and health harms of #EOR. #CSS #pipelines #45Q
47 pulled the regulations for CO2 pipelines--the ones that explode and carry quantities of CO2 that can kill you. We have opinions about this and fortunately the press is reporting on the threats posed by carbon capture and storage in the absence of strong regulations.
Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 2y ago➡️ Two of our staff quoted in this important piece on #CCS. Our ED @carolynraff.bsky.social: “If [companies] go forward with carbon dioxide pipelines that do not follow the safety standards established in that draft rule, it seems to me they are putting the public at unwarranted risk.” 1/2
Ooh, standing ovation to climate journalist Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle on your @selc_org Reed Environmental Writing Award for your outstanding book GASLIGHT! To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.
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It appears that 47 and Musk are following the basic business precept: "if you break it, you own it."
Elon Musk is the malware in the software of democracy. We all know who the hacker is.
My volunteer work is migrant defense. With the new president, the hardest part is sorting fact from rumor and fiction. When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate. Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.
Oh man, the beauty of a chess metaphor well-played.
Eric Champnella@echamp.bsky.social · 2y agoThis week's Internet winner goes to...
While we’re debating whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute (twice), ICE has already arrested 538 people.
Check this out: our SEHN newsletter on plastics with the incomparable team of Sandra Steingraber, Rebecca Altman and Ted Schettler. Writers and scientists all.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote a thing about plastic pollution and the climate crisis—sibling psychopaths both fathered by fossil fuels. Read it and tell me what you think.
What a pathetic, cruel administration. My DACA friends are being terrorized. Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed. Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?) I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.
We could write a biography of the US through its most notable fires. The Shirtwaist factory fire in Lowell Mass that changed labor law, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the fact that Aldo Leopold died fighting a grass fire, Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire" documenting the Mann Gulch fire.
My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
Not only is ADM’s CO2 storage project in central IL (where I grew up) leaking near the drinking water source for 1 million ppl, it turns out this project captures just a tiny wisp of ADM’s total CO2 emissions. #CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting: cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon - CleanTechnica
Carbon capture holds tremendous promise -- if it works. But in the real world, it doesn't and is costing taxpayers billions.
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This is our friendly reminder that standing up to the fossil fuel industry is necessary, effective and usually more fun than doing other stuff like, oh, doom scrolling.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2y agoHere’s me, ten years ago today, announcing to civil disobedients as they get out of jail that Governor Cuomo had just banned fracking in New York. Dancing commences. Happy ten-year anniversary to New York’s fracking ban! We are unfractured! youtube.com/watch?v=RLTs...
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
This poem!
Rebecca Altman, PhD@rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 2y ago“And that was when the end began.” If you haven’t yet read Jorie Graham’s poem, The World, in the latest @newyorker.com, might I recommend doing so? h/t to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for introducing me to her poetry in the first place. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This is the best overview I’ve seen of Summit’s proposed carbon capture and storage scheme—the weird politics, the unusual public health threats and the twisted ethics. And yeah, I am quoted!
Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · 2y agoAbsolutely incredible #longread from @mollytaft.com on the Summit Pipeline, a mammoth CCS project that aims to take carbon from corn ethanol plants in the midwest to be stored near the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. So excited for folks to read this! drilled.media/news/summit-...
This is a useful analysis of what we need to do in the face of our newly elected autocrat.
Industry made the meme — “cover the Earth”— in oil, then paint & plastics — then they made it reality— now, as scientists document their reach, the planetary boundaries breached — they say: it’s bad waste management, it’s hyperbole; when max production, endless growth was the point. #plasticstreaty
I have to say that being able to use two sticks and a piece of string to make whole cloth is still one of those miraculous things.
Debbie T Knits 🧶@debbietknits.bsky.social · 2y ago👍🏼 🧶 #knit
