Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
177 followers · 3180 posts · Server sfba.social
#RegulatoryCapture: A bill that would have tripled the fines paid by oil refineries for emitting #toxicpollutants, like those released last year in Martinez stalled. Western States #Petroleum Association a powerful #corporate #fossilfuel #lobbying group has spent millions to influence #policy decisions by the #California #Legislature and state officials over the past half decade.
#regulatorycapture #toxicpollutants #petroleum #corporate #fossilfuel #lobbying #policy #california #Legislature #businessasusual #whatclimateemergency #healthybottomline
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3115 posts · Server sfba.social#RegulatoryCapture: wasting #IRA $ on continued #fossilfuels usage instead of #KeepItInTheGround
https://ieefa.org/events/webinar-blue-hydrogen-not-clean-not-low-carbon-not-solution
#regulatorycapture #ira #fossilfuels #keepitintheground
Cory Doctorow · @pluralistic
47372 followers · 44938 posts · Server mamot.fr
*Internet Con* is a "#BigTech disassembly manual." It explains how Big Tech got so big (lax anti-#monopoly enforcement, which led to #RegulatoryCapture, which let Big Tech abuse our privacy, #labor rights, and #consumer rights), and how we can use #interoperability so it's no longer #TooBigToFail, nor #TooBigToJail:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
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#bigtech #monopoly #regulatorycapture #labor #consumer #interoperability #toobigtofail #toobigtojail
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
167 followers · 2942 posts · Server sfba.social
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
167 followers · 2930 posts · Server sfba.socialWeiner and Newsom gutted #CEQA instead of solving the problem of private unaffordable housing: luxury units with amenities that students say they don’t need and increasing pressure on the cost of other #student #housing in the #private #rental market. In many cases #studentdebt load is as much about housing costs as it is about #tuition.
#regulatorycapture #SocialHousingNow #RightToHousing
#CEQA #student #housing #private #rental #studentdebt #tuition #regulatorycapture #SocialHousingNow #righttohousing
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
167 followers · 2911 posts · Server sfba.social#TakeBackOurAir from #RegulatoryCapture at #CARB which results in these laughable notices from the #AcceleratingKeelingCurve.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #NationalizeFossilFuels #PetroOligarchsAreRICO
#takebackourair #regulatorycapture #carb #acceleratingkeelingcurve #carfreecitycentersplease #nationalizefossilfuels #petrooligarchsarerico
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
165 followers · 2880 posts · Server sfba.social#regulatorycapture: #CohoSalmon devastated since the mid-20th century by a combination of human #development, #damming, #habitatloss and #changingclimate and #ocean conditions. #TribalNations from CA and WA submitted a #petition through the #Earthjustice environmental group calling on the #EPA to prohibit the production of #6PPD.
#AB756 #RemoveRoads #BigAgro ##CleanWaterAct
#regulatorycapture #cohosalmon #development #damming #habitatloss #changingclimate #ocean #tribalnations #petition #EarthJustice #EPA #6PPD #ab756 #removeroads #bigagro #CleanWaterAct
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
165 followers · 2843 posts · Server sfba.social
#InstitutionalFailure: globally, #carcrashes are a major cause of #death, killing more #people than #homicides and #suicides combined. #Cars killed 43,000 Americans in 2021, a number that has increased by nearly a third in the last decade while our peer countries have decreased their #carfatalities.
#RegulatoryCapture #MassDeath #VisionZero #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #RemoveRoads
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/25/23844717/america-safe-air-travel-car-safety-accidents
#institutionalFailure #carcrashes #death #people #homicides #suicides #cars #carfatalities #regulatorycapture #massdeath #visionzero #carfreecitycentersplease #removeroads
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
164 followers · 2782 posts · Server sfba.social
#RegulatoryCapture: Public Health Watch and its partner, The Texas Tribune, discovered that the #EPA and #Texas had ignored warning signs at ITC for nearly two decades prior to the 2019 #catastrophe. After the #fire was extinguished, dangerous levels of the #carcinogen benzene infused nearby #neighborhoods for weeks while residents unknowingly went about their daily lives.
From: @toussaint
https://newsie.social/@toussaint/110945094281851693
#regulatorycapture #EPA #texas #catastrophe #fire #carcinogen #neighborhoods
sfunk1x · @sfunk1x
53 followers · 1300 posts · Server tusk.sfunk1x.com
For-profit, corporate ISPs are a cancer on society: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/18/with-hr-3557-broadband-monopolies-are-pushing-a-bill-that-would-crush-your-towns-ability-to-stand-up-to-them/
#municipalbroadband #internet #isp #isps #regulatorycapture
Dave Heidt · @frazzledLoon
27 followers · 1831 posts · Server freeradical.zone@hn100 key point of the article: "[HR 3557] “Eliminates cable franchise renewals and eliminates the ability of local governments to require rules such as an ISP having to serve the whole community, the local government requiring PEG channels, or the local government requiring customer service standards.”
#broadband #regulatorycapture
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
156 followers · 2564 posts · Server sfba.social
#RegulatoryCapture: instead of using a settlement to #electrify homes impacted by a massive #gasleak, SoCalGas will get a break, the CEC will extend the license to operate turbines whose #EnvironmentalJustice health impacts are in #lowincome #communities, and everyone will wait for Federal Inflation Reduction Act to replace methane appliances.
#regulatorycapture #electrify #gasleak #environmentaljustice #lowincome #communities #parisunaligned #deterioratingcarbonsinks #disposablepeople
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
156 followers · 2534 posts · Server sfba.social
#incrementalism: #EnergyPolicy template hanging on #CitizensUnited #regulatorycapture by #IOU of the mayor: Create a limited purpose #MunicipalUtility designed to specifically support city community #microgrids within targeted regions like #Diridon.
Leverage Direct Access.
Acquire new #transmission.
Leverage shared capabilities of #LSE and #MUNI within a new #citydepartment.
Paywalled.
#Transition
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/12/goodbye-pge-hello-san-jose-power/
#incrementalism #energypolicy #citizensunited #regulatorycapture #IOU #municipalutility #microgrids #diridon #transmission #lse #muni #citydepartment #transition
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
156 followers · 2534 posts · Server sfba.social
#NationalizeFossilFuels #ParisAligned #CigaretteScience #regulatorycapture #environmentalracism #ClimateRefugees #FarRightWinningElections
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: The solution to our predicament: We need to stop burning #fossilfuel. The only way forward is without the most #powerful and #destructive #companies in #history committed to #profiting from #pollution.
#nationalizefossilfuels #parisaligned #cigarettescience #regulatorycapture #ClimateRefugees #farrightwinningelections #acceleratingkeelingcurve #fossilfuel #powerful #destructive #companies #history #profiting #pollution #environmentalracism
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
156 followers · 2524 posts · Server sfba.social#RegulatoryCapture: Combined these three plants alone emit close to a thousand pounds of #mercury per year, out of a U.S. total of six thousand pounds & unknown amounts of other #toxicmetals. impacts include neurological damages to #children and #developingfetuses & #cardiovasculardamage, #endocrinedisruption, #diabetesrisk, and weakened #immunesystems.
#regulatorycapture #mercury #toxicmetals #children #developingfetuses #cardiovasculardamage #endocrinedisruption #diabetesrisk #immunesystems #favoredtreatment
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
158 followers · 2473 posts · Server sfba.social#Advocacy group #FoodAndWaterWatch noted that one #oilcompany, Occidental, stands to benefit directly. "Direct #aircapture is expensive, unproven, and will ultimately make almost no difference in reducing climate pollution... Capturing just a quarter of our annual carbon emissions would require all of the power currently generated in the country."
#Advocacy #foodandwaterwatch #oilcompany #aircapture #Kleptocracy #regulatorycapture #greenwashing
Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
45938 followers · 43733 posts · Server mamot.frAdmittedly, that doesn't always work, but one of the major predictors of whether it will work is how big and concentrated the private sector is. #RegulatoryCapture isn't automatic: it's what you get when companies are bigger than governments.
If you want small governments, in other words, you need small companies. Even if you think the only role for the state is in enforcing contracts, the state needs to be more powerful than the companies issuing those contracts.
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Christy Ó Ceallaigh-Bisson · @GarlicBreath
79 followers · 44 posts · Server blackrocks.socialTo me, the selection of MacCaulay was the liberals scraping the bottom of the barrel to reappoint an ineffective minister, indicating that they intend to continue allowing agribusiness run the ministry. #cdnpoli #agribusiness #agriculture #cdnag #regulatorycapture
https://www.ipolitics.ca//news/re-appointment-of-macaulay-sends-message-of-stability-to-farmers-frustrates-opposition
#cdnpoli #agribusiness #agriculture #cdnag #regulatorycapture
Noel Kelly · @gnoll110
192 followers · 1896 posts · Server ruby.socialThey're all evil.
Heard a story on ABC(?) radio today. Seems the Minerals Council (MCA Victoria) is writing the state's new mining approvals laws. Self-assessment.
Christy Ó Ceallaigh-Bisson · @GarlicBreath
1 followers · 3 posts · Server blackrocks.social“The resignation of a scientific adviser from the federal pesticide regulator is yet another example of industry having too much influence at Health Canada, the NDP's health critic is alleging.”
#cdnpoli #CDNag #agriculture #regulatorycapture
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/recent-resignations-suggest-industry-has-too-much-sway-with-health-canada-ndp/article_da0c4467-c287-54b0-a920-dfedf3557367.html
#cdnpoli #cdnag #agriculture #regulatorycapture