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DoomsdaysCW<p>Trump taps <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilIndustry</span></a> insider to oversee drilling on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicLands</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BureauOfLandManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BureauOfLandManagement</span></a> nominee <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KathleenSgamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KathleenSgamma</span></a> heads a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservation</span></a> rule.</p><p>By Maxine Joselow</p><p>"President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> has nominated oil and gas advocate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KathleenSgamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KathleenSgamma</span></a> to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, the agency tasked with managing millions of acres of public lands and waters for the benefit of all Americans.</p><p>"The nomination of Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternEnergyAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternEnergyAlliance</span></a>, heralds a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.</p><p>"If confirmed by the Senate, she would be a key architect of Trump’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrillBabyDrill</span></a> agenda alongside Interior Secretary and '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyCzar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnergyCzar</span></a>' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DougBurgum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DougBurgum</span></a>. An MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, she has advocated for the BLM to prioritize oil and gas drilling, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HardrockMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HardrockMining</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>livestock</span></a> grazing on public lands nationwide.</p><p>"A spokesman for Sgamma did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>"During his first term, Trump tapped conservative lawyer William Perry Pendley to lead the BLM on an acting basis. But Trump never nominated Pendley, a vocal advocate of selling off public lands, to helm the agency on a permanent basis, prompting a rebuke from a federal judge.</p><p>"President Joe Biden in 2021 chose Tracy Stone-Manning, a prominent Montana-based <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmentalist</span></a>, to lead the BLM. Earlier in her career, Stone-Manning worked on conservation policy at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalWildlifeFederation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalWildlifeFederation</span></a> and led Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality.</p><p>"Under Biden, the BLM finalized a landmark rule that sought to put conservation, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/recreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>recreation</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> development on equal footing with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResourceExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResourceExtraction</span></a> on public lands. Sgamma’s Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging that rule, which the Trump administration is expected to overturn.</p><p>"In an interview with The Washington Post in April, Sgamma criticized the regulation for allowing ranchers, renewable-energy developers and other interests to lease federal lands for the purpose of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservation</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HabitatRestoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HabitatRestoration</span></a>.</p><p>"We have no choice but to litigate,' she said. 'These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.'</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Environmentalists</span></a> criticized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sgamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sgamma</span></a>’s nomination.</p><p>"'This choice shows that the new administration will leave no favor ungranted for the oil and gas industry and the wealthy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/executives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>executives</span></a> who funded Trump’s campaign,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlanZibel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlanZibel</span></a>, oil and gas research director with the liberal advocacy group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicCitizen</span></a>, said in an email.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffEshelman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JeffEshelman</span></a>, president and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CEO</span></a> of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents small oil producers, praised Sgamma’s selection while critiquing the Biden administration."</p><p>Original article:<br /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/12/trump-bureau-land-management-kathleen-sgamma/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/climate-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/2025/02/12/trump-bureau-land-management-kathleen-sgamma/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/tmTH6#selection-645.0-724.1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.ph/tmTH6#selection-645</span><span class="invisible">.0-724.1</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilCriminals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningOnConservationLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningOnConservationLands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrainTheSwamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrainTheSwamp</span></a>? More like, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilUpTheSwamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilUpTheSwamp</span></a>!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndepdendentPetroleumAssociationOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndepdendentPetroleumAssociationOfAmerica</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Supreme Court lets <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> sue <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilCompanies</span></a> over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> effects</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> won't answer 'recurring question of extraordinary importance' to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOil</span></a>. </p><p>by Ashley Belanger – Jan 13, 2025 </p><p>"On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether to block lawsuits that Honolulu filed to seek billions in damages from oil and gas companies over allegedly deceptive marketing campaigns that hid the effects of climate change.</p><p>"Now those lawsuits can proceed, surely frustrating the fossil fuel industry, which felt that SCOTUS should have weighed in on this key 'recurring question of extraordinary importance to the energy industry' raised in lawsuits seeking similarly high damages in several states, CBS News reported.</p><p>"Defendants <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sunoco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sunoco</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shell</span></a>, along with 15 other energy companies, had asked the court to intervene and stop the Hawaii lawsuits from proceeding. They had hoped to move the cases out of Hawaii state courts by arguing that interstate pollution is governed by federal law and the Clean Air Act.</p><p>"The oil and gas companies continue to argue that greenhouse gas emissions 'flow from billions of daily choices, over more than a century, by governments, companies, and individuals about what types of fuels to use, and how to use them.' Because of this, the companies believe Honolulu was wrong to demand damages based on the "cumulative effect of worldwide emissions leading to global climate change."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/supreme-court-lets-hawaii-sue-oil-companies-over-climate-change-effects/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/supreme-court-lets-hawaii-sue-oil-companies-over-climate-change-effects/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExxonKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShellOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lawsuits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilCriminals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
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