Allyn West
@allynwest.bsky.social
Professional describer. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
In January 2024, President Trump visited Asheville to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. He said, "I’ll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support you need to quickly recover and rebuild.” But his actions have kept all but a fraction of the support they need from arriving.
“Has everyone been fed?’’ North Carolina, one year after Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene ravaged proudly independent mountain towns in North Carolina in September 2024. While local heroes work to exhaustion to make their families and communities whole, aid promised by Pre...
vitalsigns.edf.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In January 2024, President Trump visited Asheville to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. He said, "I’ll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support you need to quickly recover and rebuild.” But his actions have kept all but a fraction of the support they need from arriving.
I don't post here very much but that doesn't mean I don't want to
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I don't post here very much but that doesn't mean I don't want to
You know it’s bad when they let you cuss in the headline
Houston’s gone through hell. Why is Trump’s EPA denying climate change danger?
The Trump administration’s proposal to revoke EPA’s endangerment finding is going to make everyday life along the Gulf Coast more expensive, more dangerous
www.houstonchronicle.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You know it’s bad when they let you cuss in the headline
The Trump administration can try to hide the science and move to rescind the EPA's foundational Endangerment Finding, but @envdefensefund.bsky.social's new map shows them exactly where the danger from climate change can be found: everywhere.
July 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Trump administration can try to hide the science and move to rescind the EPA's foundational Endangerment Finding, but @envdefensefund.bsky.social's new map shows them exactly where the danger from climate change can be found: everywhere.
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Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
trib.al
July 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Interesting public health strategy for this administration to stop putting fake dyes in candy and then let more toxic chemicals into the air
First it was 68 coal plants. Now President Trump wants to exempt even more toxic polluters, from more coal plants to petrochemical facilities. This will result in more cancer-causing pollution. More communities at risk. EDF will vigorously oppose this damaging action. www.edf.org/media/presid...
July 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Interesting public health strategy for this administration to stop putting fake dyes in candy and then let more toxic chemicals into the air
Reposted by Allyn West
First it was 68 coal plants. Now President Trump wants to exempt even more toxic polluters, from more coal plants to petrochemical facilities. This will result in more cancer-causing pollution. More communities at risk. EDF will vigorously oppose this damaging action. www.edf.org/media/presid...
July 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
First it was 68 coal plants. Now President Trump wants to exempt even more toxic polluters, from more coal plants to petrochemical facilities. This will result in more cancer-causing pollution. More communities at risk. EDF will vigorously oppose this damaging action. www.edf.org/media/presid...
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The insurance industry knows risk — and climate change is changing it, @whitehouse.senate.gov says.
July 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The insurance industry knows risk — and climate change is changing it, @whitehouse.senate.gov says.
Happy Pride Month!
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...
June 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Happy Pride Month!
Even after the budget and program cuts, layoffs, and misinformation, it was reassuring to see FEMA at the farmers market this morning offering to coordinate help for anyone who’d suffered damages from the latest swarm of tornadoes
May 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Even after the budget and program cuts, layoffs, and misinformation, it was reassuring to see FEMA at the farmers market this morning offering to coordinate help for anyone who’d suffered damages from the latest swarm of tornadoes
This is a good bike lane
May 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is a good bike lane
The Astrodome has been sitting and waiting so long that my credit score is finally good enough that I might just buy it and live there
Saving the Astrodome: The Journey Continues - AIA Houston
Photo Credit: Astrodome Conservancy Want to know more about what is happening to the Astrodome? Join us for a presentation by Beth Wiedower Jackson Executive Director of the Astrodome Conservancy. […...
architecturehouston.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Astrodome has been sitting and waiting so long that my credit score is finally good enough that I might just buy it and live there
It’s been like this for so many years I’m convinced now it *is* the fix, it’s not waiting to be fixed
May 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It’s been like this for so many years I’m convinced now it *is* the fix, it’s not waiting to be fixed
Help! I Learned the Wrong Lesson After My Post About Wanting to Die Got Almost 300 Likes
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Help! I Learned the Wrong Lesson After My Post About Wanting to Die Got Almost 300 Likes
Congestion Pricing: 💯
Lazy Journalists: “But not everyone was happy.”
Lazy Journalists: “But not everyone was happy.”
Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass.
It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.
It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Congestion Pricing: 💯
Lazy Journalists: “But not everyone was happy.”
Lazy Journalists: “But not everyone was happy.”
Someone at work compliments others by calling them "rising stars" but I like to think of myself as a black hole that has been taught how to sing
NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue - NASA
Three new sonifications — each with a connection to black holes — have been released using data from NASA’s Chandra, Webb, IXPE, and other telescopes.
www.nasa.gov
May 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Someone at work compliments others by calling them "rising stars" but I like to think of myself as a black hole that has been taught how to sing
Reposted by Allyn West
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
What are the odds the Mavs trade Cooper Flagg in 2032 for the exclusive rights to try to persuade Anthony Davis to come out of retirement
May 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
What are the odds the Mavs trade Cooper Flagg in 2032 for the exclusive rights to try to persuade Anthony Davis to come out of retirement
Whenever I try wearing capris I feel like the queer giraffe Mark Twain knew America wasn’t ready for and ended up writing out of the final draft of “Huck Finn”
May 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Whenever I try wearing capris I feel like the queer giraffe Mark Twain knew America wasn’t ready for and ended up writing out of the final draft of “Huck Finn”
Help! My 9-Year-Old’s Unboxing Videos Aren’t Turning Out Nearly As Funny As She Knows I Expect
May 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Help! My 9-Year-Old’s Unboxing Videos Aren’t Turning Out Nearly As Funny As She Knows I Expect
America remains a land of contrasts
May 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
America remains a land of contrasts
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Vickie Patton, General Counsel at EDF, discussed the chaotic flurry of attacks on environmental protections over the last several months — “The costs come in the form of more pollution, adverse health effects” while also “hitting our pocketbooks.” cnn.it/4k9zb91
‘The chaos hurts everyday Americans’: Climate activist on Trump research rollback | CNN
Trump climate cuts deprive people of essential information on floods, fires and other potential risks, putting millions of families in harm’s way, says Vickie Patton, General Counsel at the Environmen...
cnn.it
May 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vickie Patton, General Counsel at EDF, discussed the chaotic flurry of attacks on environmental protections over the last several months — “The costs come in the form of more pollution, adverse health effects” while also “hitting our pocketbooks.” cnn.it/4k9zb91
BLACK-EYED SUSANS AT SCALE
May 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
BLACK-EYED SUSANS AT SCALE
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We have a moral imperative to address climate change, which will have enormous impacts on the future we leave behind for our kids and beyond.
Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.
Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.
May 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We have a moral imperative to address climate change, which will have enormous impacts on the future we leave behind for our kids and beyond.
Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.
Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.
SEO is a hell of a drug
May 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
SEO is a hell of a drug