Author: Cassidy DiPaola
Posts by Cassidy DiPaola
Big Oil’s Last Ditch Effort: Immunity for Climate Destruction
The Storm After the Storm: Climate Accountability in an Era of Escalating Disasters
The Environmental Polluters Agency: Trump’s Giveaway to Big Oil Takes Shape
It’s Time to Make the Polluters Pay the Price for Climate Change
Senate Democrats Step Up: Now They Need to Stay on Offense
This week, Senate Democrats took a stand against Trump’s manufactured “energy emergency” by pushing a resolution to repeal it. Republicans predictably sided with the fossil fuel industry, but this move by Senate Democrats is exactly the kind of strategic push we need more of. […]
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The Empty Threats of an Industry Avoiding Accountability
Altadena, my neighborhood, has burned. Make fossil-fuel companies pay
Devastating LA Wildfires Highlight Urgent Need for California Climate Superfund as New York Leads the Way
As multiple wildfires rage across Los Angeles County today, destroying homes, businesses and cultural landmarks while forcing over 80,000 residents to evacuate, climate advocates are calling for urgent passage of California’s Polluter Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act (SB 1497) to ensure fossil fuel companies – not taxpayers – bear the mounting costs of climate disasters. […]
New York Passes Climate Change Superfund Act
Today, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, making New York the second state in the nation to require fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damages. The law will raise $75 billion over 25 years from the oil and gas companies most responsible for the climate crisis, funding vital climate adaptation and resilience projects across the state. […]
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