
Richard Schrader
@richardschrader
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enviro, former Commissioner NYC Consumer Affairs, @NYSTLA, postal carrier, married/2 sons, #ExxonKnew, #ClimateCrisis,#SeditionHasConsequences
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Joined April 2009
Some thoughts on Earth Day 1970, NYC, when you could taste pollution. Reflections on the First Earth Day and What's Ahead for New York https://t.co/tTEmuaaR2v via @nrdc
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Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
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Bullshit. Not only did the NSA intercept communications but Mueller laid out numerous meetings and deals forged while Trump, Kushner and Flynn tried to work out a deal to drop sanctions for a major nuke deal. https://t.co/sqnIPJwF6j via @NYTimes
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But the new review of the earlier assessment does not dispute the conclusion that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump.
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17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance. And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit. All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors. The ultimate betrayal.
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Advocates of the amendment argue forever chemicals potentially linked to cancer, hormone disruption, reduced immunity & vaccine response, thyroid disorders should not be in school uniform: https://t.co/8Ix5Wwzd2e
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Amendments to children’s wellbeing and schools bill call for ban on Pfas and synthetic fibres over health concerns
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Honored to endorse my dear friend and colleague, @ZohranKMamdani, for mayor of NYC! In the @NYSA_Majority, Zohran successfully pushed for a pilot program to make NYC buses 🚍free, got debt relief for taxi 🚕 medallion owners, and pushed more policies to benefit New Yorkers.
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Nets fans pretending to be Knicks fan ranking you. Last optimistic NYK fan died in 1999. These are two weakest teams left in playoffs.
Walking through NYC. Love the optimism Knicks fans have. Makes it more fun to break them. #paulieplayoffs
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'Fossil fuel + other petrochemical companies have used "the false promise of plastic recycling" to increase virgin-plastic production exponentially over the past six decades.' 99% of plastics are made from chemicals sources from fossil fuels.🧵1/7 https://t.co/jts7Cedx4y
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Scientists cannot explain the recent spike in global temperatures. "It’s still pretty much amateur hour in terms of assessing what actually happened," says NASA's top climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt. Read his conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert: https://t.co/QY4GXeIlZJ
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North Carolina farms face depleted, toxic soil after historic Helene flooding
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In the mountainous area near Asheville, affected growers must now replenish water-logged and often tainted land
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Talking about the loathsome piece of shit and Elon Musk, this is one of the most powerful, on point speeches I've ever hear from AOC — who just keeps getting better and better at this. 🎯🎯🎯👇
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Electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps cut UK's oil and gas consumption by 14 million barrels of oil in 2023. 1.5 million EVs and 430,000 residential heat pumps operating in the UK in 2023. https://t.co/wA1Ij11JvL
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Think tank calls for 'joined-up thinking' to accelerate electrification and ensure it delivers promised efficiency, cost, and energy security benefits
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Trump is scared. Elon is scared. JD Vance is scared. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a couple of coward billionaires calling the shots in America. I want someone who is going to fight for a $15 minimum wage, take on income inequality, and fight for working people.
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80% of greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to just 57 companies: https://t.co/ECKfx9gklx We know who's responsible for this crisis. Time to phase out fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #voteclimate
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In 2022, Norway increased their wealth tax to 1.1%. In response, some high profile billionaires moved out of the country. According to a viral claim, this resulted in a net loss of revenue. Is this true? No. Over the next two years, wealth tax revenue soared to all time highs.
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Docs obtained by the @washingtonpost reveal a "comprehensive [fossil fuel] industry effort to reverse climate initiatives," which "contrasts with the public pledges...members have made to their investors and customers to support aggressive regulation of methane." 1/n
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This is a great illustration (Helene) of how systems that are strengthening (or atleast not weakening) at landfall produce MUCH more wind damage than weakening storms. Milton barely produced cat 1 winds at landfall.
The inland wind swath accompanying Helene was probably one of the most severe seen with any modern weather event. I've plotted the swath of ERA5 modeled 10m wind gusts (in the https://t.co/ld88DeQQWW format) contouring at 75 and 100mph. This stuff just doesn't happen!
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Honored to be part of #BestAmerican2024's Science and Nature Writing volume, edited by the great @billmckibben! Out today!
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The Heritage Foundation doesn't just write policy: They commit fraud and manufacture evidence used by Republicans in Congress, in courts, briefs to SCOTUS, and by right-wing media. The scam is sloppy, and they often leave their names on it.👇 (This hasn't been reported on.) /🧵
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Which is more amazing: the fact that America has vastly outperformed other advanced economies without higher inflation, or the fact that Biden gets no credit?
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