Jeff Brady
@jeffbradynews.bsky.social
@NPR.org Climate Correspondent
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
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Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes. n.pr/3JTlyyg
Countries are gathering for climate negotiations. Here's where the U.S. stands
Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes. n.pr/3JTlyyg
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A coalition of 15 states including Washington and Oregon says a Trump administration proposal to turn a blind eye to greenhouse gas pollution is illegal.
See no emissions? State attorneys say Trump plan to stop tracking climate pollution is illegal
A coalition of 15 states including Washington and Oregon says a Trump administration proposal to turn a blind eye to greenhouse gas pollution is illegal.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A coalition of 15 states including Washington and Oregon says a Trump administration proposal to turn a blind eye to greenhouse gas pollution is illegal.
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A federal judge said the Trump administration can reevaluate a finalized federal permit for an offshore wind project near MA, raising questions about whether any energy developer can trust that a final permit issued by the federal gov is, in fact, actually final
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Judge rules Trump administration can review finalized permit for offshore wind project near Mass.
A federal judge has given the Trump administration the green light to revoke a key permit for SouthCoast Wind, a large proposed offshore wind project near Massachusetts.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A federal judge said the Trump administration can reevaluate a finalized federal permit for an offshore wind project near MA, raising questions about whether any energy developer can trust that a final permit issued by the federal gov is, in fact, actually final
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Bend, Oregon is considering a fee to discourage new gas appliances, to meet its climate goals. The city wants to cut fossil fuel use 70% by 2050. Story from reporter Nic Moye at The Source.
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Bend Considers Adding a Fee to Discourage Natural Gas in New Homes - The Source - Bend, Oregon
The Bend City Council is struggling to define a policy to encourage all electric appliances and heating/cooling systems in new construction. The City is working toward a goal of cutting fossil fuel ...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Bend, Oregon is considering a fee to discourage new gas appliances, to meet its climate goals. The city wants to cut fossil fuel use 70% by 2050. Story from reporter Nic Moye at The Source.
www.bendsource.com/news/localne...
www.bendsource.com/news/localne...
“According to Vail School District… claims that the costumes mocked Kirk’s death were untrue. The shirts… were a joke about solving math problems — worn to school both this year and for Halloween in 2024.” @camrynsanchez.bsky.social @kjzz.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“According to Vail School District… claims that the costumes mocked Kirk’s death were untrue. The shirts… were a joke about solving math problems — worn to school both this year and for Halloween in 2024.” @camrynsanchez.bsky.social @kjzz.org
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Wrote about the history of villages in Alaska and policies spanning centuries inform the deep impact caused by Halong alongside the thawing permafrost
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
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#AK #Alaska #Weather
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about the history of villages in Alaska and policies spanning centuries inform the deep impact caused by Halong alongside the thawing permafrost
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Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
"Judge James Gion reduced the award after finding some of the jury’s damages had no legal basis, were duplicative or had exceeded statutory caps on punitive damages."
Greenpeace was one of many activist groups that backed a movement to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as DAPL.
Judge slashes jury damages in Greenpeace case to $345 million • North Dakota Monitor
A North Dakota judge has nearly halved the $660 million sum Greenpeace was ordered to pay the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Judge James Gion reduced the award after finding some of the jury’s damages had no legal basis, were duplicative or had exceeded statutory caps on punitive damages."
Natural gas prices are relatively low, thanks to a frac'ing-fueled drilling boom... So why are gas utility prices reaching record highs? Answers are in my @npr.org Climate Desk story: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here's why
Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Natural gas prices are relatively low, thanks to a frac'ing-fueled drilling boom... So why are gas utility prices reaching record highs? Answers are in my @npr.org Climate Desk story: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
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"Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine...
Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets
Since the start of summer, "Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine...
"Oregon and Washington are falling so far behind on upgrades to the electrical grid that the states could start seeing rolling blackouts during extreme weather as soon as next year" - Monica Samayoa @opb.org www.opb.org/article/2025...
As NW faces rolling blackouts, study says renewable energy may not be enough
The greater Northwest region could experience a 9-gigawatt energy gap by 2030, or about the same amount of power consumed by Oregon. That could lead to rolling blackouts during extreme weather events ...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Oregon and Washington are falling so far behind on upgrades to the electrical grid that the states could start seeing rolling blackouts during extreme weather as soon as next year" - Monica Samayoa @opb.org www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the air less stable and more conducive to turbulence.
Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
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Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.
“Margarita Simonyan, the editor of Russia Today, celebrated V.O.A.’s closure as ‘a holiday for me and my colleagues.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
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Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out
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October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Margarita Simonyan, the editor of Russia Today, celebrated V.O.A.’s closure as ‘a holiday for me and my colleagues.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
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great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social
For more than a decade, Massachusetts and several other New England states have been banking on a large expansion of offshore wind. Here's what's at stake if President Trump succeeds in halting the industry.
7 numbers that explain offshore wind's impact in New England
For more than a decade, Massachusetts and several other New England states have been banking on a large expansion of offshore wind. Here's what's at stake if President Trump succeeds in halting the in...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social
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The Center’s CEO sent CPR News surveillance imagery and tells me they kept the rock as evidence.
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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From The (LGBTQ) Center on Colfax:
Saturday morning, an individual threw a large rock and attempted to shatter three of our front windows. The incident triggered our alarm system, and the person fled before police arrived. Security footage captured video and images of the attack. It was purposeful.
Saturday morning, an individual threw a large rock and attempted to shatter three of our front windows. The incident triggered our alarm system, and the person fled before police arrived. Security footage captured video and images of the attack. It was purposeful.
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
From The (LGBTQ) Center on Colfax:
Saturday morning, an individual threw a large rock and attempted to shatter three of our front windows. The incident triggered our alarm system, and the person fled before police arrived. Security footage captured video and images of the attack. It was purposeful.
Saturday morning, an individual threw a large rock and attempted to shatter three of our front windows. The incident triggered our alarm system, and the person fled before police arrived. Security footage captured video and images of the attack. It was purposeful.
"Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday." @heyjohnryan.bsky.social @kuow.org @npr.org kuow.org/stories/furl...
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday." @heyjohnryan.bsky.social @kuow.org @npr.org kuow.org/stories/furl...
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
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Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.
Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here's why
Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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"The only publication that has said it will sign the agreement is the right-wing One America News."
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Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"The only publication that has said it will sign the agreement is the right-wing One America News."
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“The Port of Portland, which operates Portland International Airport, said it has declined to display the video, saying it could violate state and federal laws that prohibit using public assets and employees to disseminate an explicitly partisan message.”
A video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Noem blames congressional Democrats for travel delays during the federal government shutdown is expected to play at airport security checkpoints across the country — but not at PDX.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“The Port of Portland, which operates Portland International Airport, said it has declined to display the video, saying it could violate state and federal laws that prohibit using public assets and employees to disseminate an explicitly partisan message.”
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Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to some Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.
Live updates: A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to some Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.