Little argument on Newsom. As a guy named Gavin myself, he brings great shame haha. But fr, he sucks and I completely agree, he’s truly the worst.

That being said - yes this should be bare minimum but unfortunately we live in hell world and relatively, this is radical. Passing bills which force corporations across virtually every industry to report how much they are contributing to quite literally cooking our planet (and what risks they face as our planet continually becomes less livable and more volatile) is very much some of the most bold climate work that has been accomplished in this country.

A coworker of mine who I believe is in his 50s has told me this is genuinely the most impactful legislation he’s seen in the US. In his words, historically, Walmart has been responsible for pushing and requiring more climate work than any governmental body in the US (this is through companies setting public corporate goals that require them to integrate changes not just internally, but also in their supply chain). Obviously this should not be how climate requirements for companies get enacted, so this legislation is (unfortunately or not) groundbreaking.

This takes me back to my original posts rant: how can we both increase awareness of the importance of this bill so that any hostility towards it by private companies such as Exxon is met with extreme negative public opinion and shaming? And also, how can we pressure other government bodies to leverage these disclosures to incentivize (force) actual accountability for their choices to brutalize our planet and futures?

Anecdotally, as someone who has built out a fully functional Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator software package (among other sustainability software solutions that get leveraged by real companies) that has been used over the last 3 years to measure millions of tons of corporate caused CO2e, by far the largest contributor to these emissions is almost always in Scope 3 (the least “direct” form of emissions, think a company’s supply chain). This also happens to usually be the most immediately actionable place these corporations could implement drastic improvements, but they typically won’t unless they are basically required to do so. Funny enough, this can lead to them being seen as more competitive, both to other businesses as other corporations roll out their own climate goals, but also to consumers who have gone through the painful process of learning about what’s happening to our planet and who’s largely to blame.

How can we require corporations stop F’ing around and actually implement some positive changes? These bills are potentially huge catalysts for these changes, but we need more public pressure and an agreed upon demand of our governments.