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Articles by Ortal Ullman
Colorado’s Fossil Fuel Industry Wants to Buy Your Friendship. Don’t Be Fooled.
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is releasing a report on the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics over the past decade in Colorado.
ExxonMobil Shareholders Must Vote for New Leadership-Here’s Why
This week, ExxonMobil holds its virtual annual shareholders’ meeting—in the spotlight, because the company is in a proxy fight! As I have every year since 2016, I’ll be attending ExxonMobil’s annual meeting as a representative of a climate-conscious shareholder. And the Union of Concerned Scientists is urging BlackRock, Vanguard, state treasurers, and other major investors to vote for climate-critical shareholder proposals and against laggard corporate leadership at ExxonMobil.
When Slowing Global Warming Means Cutting Down Trees: Hard Choices in the Climate Crisis
President Biden recently announced that the US would cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 50–52 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. While there are many reasons why even this level of ambition isn’t sufficient, it’s still an enormous shift from where we are today, and an important milestone toward where we need to be.
Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Cultural Heritage
Africa Daycelebrates independence, freedom from colonialism, and looking forwards to a peacful and thriving future inthe 55AfricanUnionnations. This year’sthemeis“Arts, Culture and Heritage”and UCSishelping toraise upclimate change in that context.
What Does My State Treasurer Have to Do with Climate Change?
State treasurers can be the forgotten children of public office. They don’t tend to have the name recognition of a governor or congressperson, and many of their own constituents don’t even have a clear sense of their job description. So how have state treasurers entered the spotlight in climate advocacy? And why are they banding together to change the ways corporations like ExxonMobil respond to the climate crisis?
Challenging BP, ConocoPhillips, Shell to Accelerate Climate Action at their Annual Meetings
Annual general meetings (AGMs, also known as annual shareholders’ meetings) of major oil and gas companies targeted by UCS’s campaign begin with ConocoPhillips and BP this week and Royal Dutch Shell next week. ExxonMobil and Chevron follow at the end of the month. After the last year of Big Oil companies grabbing pandemic bailouts, publicizing dubious “net-zero” pledges, and getting hit with even more climate lawsuits, we’ve got some questions about how they’re conducting their business.
Clean Cars Minnesota: A win for public health, innovation, and the environment
This blog post was written with substantial input from Alyssa Tsuchiya. On Friday, a Minnesota administrative law judge ruled the state can proceed with finalizing new clean car standards that will give Minnesotans more control over air quality improvements and progress toward the state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals, as well as increase vehicle model choices for Minnesota car buyers and save drivers money at the pump. I usually write about electric vehicle (EV) charging programs.
Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Long a joke in federal policy circles, Infrastructure Week is actually upon us. Since President Biden revealed his infrastructure plan (aka the American Jobs Plan) earlier this spring, we’ve heard a lot of opinions about what is, and isn’t, infrastructure. Now I’ll add my hot take: Soil is infrastructure. That’s right, soil. Most of us rarely give it a thought, although it is the literal foundation of agriculture and makes the majority of our food supply possible.
Four Things to Know-and a Word of Caution-about EPA’s Climate Change Indicators Website Reboot
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first updates to its Climate Change Indicators website since 2016, when the previous administration halted the regular updates that had been a feature of the site for years.
What Does My State Treasurer Have to Do with Climate Change?
Ortal Ullman, Senior Outreach Coordinator | May 25, 2021, 10:59 am EDT State treasurers can be the forgotten children of public office. They don’t tend to have the name recognition of a governor or congressperson, and many of their own constituents don’t even have a clear sense of their job description. So how have state treasurers entered the spotlight in climate advocacy? And why are they banding together to change the ways corporations like ExxonMobil respond to the climate crisis?
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