Keith Schneider
@keithschneider69.bsky.social
Journalist reporting on global trends in water, energy, and agriculture. Writer for the New York Times, Circle of Blue, The New Lede, the Guardian.
It’s useful to know that the dreadful leadership and debilitating governance that is trying to wreck the American experience is an outlier among the nations of the world. I spent time in Barcelona this month.
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Clean Water Is a Virtue in Helping Cities Be ‘Livable and Lovable’
Uncover insights on Barcelona water infrastructure and its role in supporting sustainable and secure urban environments.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It’s useful to know that the dreadful leadership and debilitating governance that is trying to wreck the American experience is an outlier among the nations of the world. I spent time in Barcelona this month.
www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Chris Jones, former University of Iowa water quality researcher and farm pollution activist may run for Iowa Sec. of Agriculture. If he does, and looks like he will, it would be most significant race for crucial agriculture post since Jim Hightower ran and won Texas Ag Commissioner race in 1982.
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Chris Jones, former University of Iowa water quality researcher and farm pollution activist may run for Iowa Sec. of Agriculture. If he does, and looks like he will, it would be most significant race for crucial agriculture post since Jim Hightower ran and won Texas Ag Commissioner race in 1982.
Times reports that $1.2 billion in Food For Peace program, dropped by DOGE wrecking crew that took out USAID, will be restored in ‘end shutdown’ proposal. Reflects not weakening of anti “woke” view of Whitehouse. Rather power of Corn Belt agriculture.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Times reports that $1.2 billion in Food For Peace program, dropped by DOGE wrecking crew that took out USAID, will be restored in ‘end shutdown’ proposal. Reflects not weakening of anti “woke” view of Whitehouse. Rather power of Corn Belt agriculture.
Why is SNAP so crucial to people that need help? Because the $9 billion SNAP costs per month to feed 42 million low income Americans amounts to an average $214 per person per month. It’s a big help and so many families receiving benefits include working adults.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Why is SNAP so crucial to people that need help? Because the $9 billion SNAP costs per month to feed 42 million low income Americans amounts to an average $214 per person per month. It’s a big help and so many families receiving benefits include working adults.
Here’s another crucial, despicable, dangerous detail about the White House assault on health and environment. The Trump administration doesn’t want Americans to know about trace farm chemicals in water.
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Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S.
Explore the impact of USGS cuts on water monitoring and the potential loss of vital contaminant data for millions.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Here’s another crucial, despicable, dangerous detail about the White House assault on health and environment. The Trump administration doesn’t want Americans to know about trace farm chemicals in water.
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See: www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
The world paused for more than a moment to mourn and honor Jane Goodall. For just one mournful yet brilliant day — the first day of October 2025, the day Jane Goodall died — the deepening menace of our era was eased by the shining example of her life.
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Jane Goodall’s Legacy Included Protecting Clean Water
Explore Jane Goodall's legacy in protecting watersheds and promoting clean water initiatives around the world.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The world paused for more than a moment to mourn and honor Jane Goodall. For just one mournful yet brilliant day — the first day of October 2025, the day Jane Goodall died — the deepening menace of our era was eased by the shining example of her life.
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Jane Goodall’s death is a blessed reminder of how intelligence, grace, and courage changes the world. She displayed all the essential virtues of an activist intent on assuring Mother Earth's safety. I wrote her obituary published this morning in the Times. static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10…
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October 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Jane Goodall’s death is a blessed reminder of how intelligence, grace, and courage changes the world. She displayed all the essential virtues of an activist intent on assuring Mother Earth's safety. I wrote her obituary published this morning in the Times. static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10…
A shameful retreat is occurring in the global work to secure clean water and safe sanitation for millions of people.The end of U.S.A.I.D. is wrecking business plans four thousands of American grain producers who are perilously close to losing their farms.
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“America First” Puts Big Hurt on International Water Programs
Explore the devastating implications of the USAID closure on the global water crisis and its impact on clean water access.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A shameful retreat is occurring in the global work to secure clean water and safe sanitation for millions of people.The end of U.S.A.I.D. is wrecking business plans four thousands of American grain producers who are perilously close to losing their farms.
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Whatever Congress decides on the EPA budget, state environment departments next year will receive much less federal support. The consequence is erosion in the quality of natural abundance and the condition of the economy. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
Slashing Federal Budget Is Big Problem for State Environment Agencies
Explore how EPA funding cuts impact the Great Lakes and the vital resources they support in our latest analysis.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Whatever Congress decides on the EPA budget, state environment departments next year will receive much less federal support. The consequence is erosion in the quality of natural abundance and the condition of the economy. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
More impediments to facing up to Iowa’s worst in nation water pollution.
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A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared
Roughly $400,000 in the $1m budget was for public awareness – but those funds were recently ‘zeroed out’
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September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
More impediments to facing up to Iowa’s worst in nation water pollution.
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Wake up America. Trump’s assault on environmental statutes and agencies is for real. Goal: MAPA. Make America Polluted Again. See Iowa for what’s coming for every state:
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Make America Polluted Again Starts in Iowa
Des Moines faces record nitrate levels in drinking water. Iowa’s pollution crisis is a warning of how deregulation and industrial agriculture threaten public health.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wake up America. Trump’s assault on environmental statutes and agencies is for real. Goal: MAPA. Make America Polluted Again. See Iowa for what’s coming for every state:
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Changing definition of “harm” in Endangered Species Act renders the most powerful conservation law essentially useless in protecting species.
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Changing Crucial Definition In Endangered Species Act Undermines Purpose Of Klamath Dam Removal
Explore the Klamath River's transformation as salmon return home following the historic removal of four dams.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Changing definition of “harm” in Endangered Species Act renders the most powerful conservation law essentially useless in protecting species.
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People will die. DOGE cuts weakened Weather Service role as primary warning system. First public evidence emerges of Trump-backed program of forcing valuable federal workers out of their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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July 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
People will die. DOGE cuts weakened Weather Service role as primary warning system. First public evidence emerges of Trump-backed program of forcing valuable federal workers out of their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
Are we really going to attack another country in Middle East on pretense of stopping a weapon of mass destruction. This is same playbook used to attack Iraq! Bio weapons then. Nuclear bomb now. Stop this craziness.
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Are we really going to attack another country in Middle East on pretense of stopping a weapon of mass destruction. This is same playbook used to attack Iraq! Bio weapons then. Nuclear bomb now. Stop this craziness.
This should be easy for President Trump. It’s the same playbook he’s already dismantled in 2016 election. Iraq and Iran. Destroy the weapon of mass destruction. Bio weapon in first. Nuclear bomb in second. Why are we even considering this dangerous joke?
June 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This should be easy for President Trump. It’s the same playbook he’s already dismantled in 2016 election. Iraq and Iran. Destroy the weapon of mass destruction. Bio weapon in first. Nuclear bomb in second. Why are we even considering this dangerous joke?
Thoughtless in the White House. Trump wants to wreck Great Lakes restoration.
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Trump Wants to Wreck Progress on Restoring Great Lakes
Explore the beauty of the Great Lakes, where breathtaking sand dunes meet the crystal-clear waters of Lake Michigan.
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June 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thoughtless in the White House. Trump wants to wreck Great Lakes restoration.
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The President is on a rampage to wreck America’s best values and principles. The environment is a feature of the purge. Circle of Blue www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
Trump’s Earth Day Purge
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Schools closed where I was rais...
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April 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The President is on a rampage to wreck America’s best values and principles. The environment is a feature of the purge. Circle of Blue www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
Is water the unmentioned resource in Trump’s campaign to control Greenland? There’s a lot of it there, ready to monetize for a fiercely thirsty planet.
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Is Water the Unmentioned Reason for Trump’s Interest in Greenland?
Say this much, President Trump’s vow to “go as far as we have to” to control Greenland is pernicious, consistent, and ironic. Though he’s obscured his reasons for bringing the world’s largest island...
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April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Is water the unmentioned resource in Trump’s campaign to control Greenland? There’s a lot of it there, ready to monetize for a fiercely thirsty planet.
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When Trump/MAGA talk about a “hoax” watch out. Trump called the virus “the Democrats’ new hoax” in Feb. 2020. Over a million Americans died from the virus. Trump/MAGA call climate change a “hoax.” Thousands of Americans have died in recent years from climate-supercharged fire, flood, storms.
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
When Trump/MAGA talk about a “hoax” watch out. Trump called the virus “the Democrats’ new hoax” in Feb. 2020. Over a million Americans died from the virus. Trump/MAGA call climate change a “hoax.” Thousands of Americans have died in recent years from climate-supercharged fire, flood, storms.
Dirtier communities, degraded air and water, more exposures to hazardous compounds will grievously injure the economic advantage America has gained from its cleaner environment.
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‘Most Momentous Day’ in EPA History? Spare Me.
Overview: EPA Rollbacks Endanger Public Health & Environment: Under Lee Zeldin, the EPA is slashing regulations, cutting its budget by 65%, and dismantling its scientific research office, increasing p...
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March 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Dirtier communities, degraded air and water, more exposures to hazardous compounds will grievously injure the economic advantage America has gained from its cleaner environment.
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Bet that MAGA world is paying close attention to Stephen A. Smith. Dude is talking politics with same poise and polish that he brings to sports commentary. Without running for anything he’s polling. Is Stephen A. The man…of the moment? Stay tuned.
March 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Bet that MAGA world is paying close attention to Stephen A. Smith. Dude is talking politics with same poise and polish that he brings to sports commentary. Without running for anything he’s polling. Is Stephen A. The man…of the moment? Stay tuned.
Never before has the United States confronted an attack on science like the one President Trump launched in January 2025. For the first time in U.S. history, raw ideological menace is blocking federal funding that supports scientific advance. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion....
Opinion: Trump’s Attack on Science Drowns Common Sense
Blocking research funds challenges president’s promise of a “proud, prosperous, and free” nation.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Never before has the United States confronted an attack on science like the one President Trump launched in January 2025. For the first time in U.S. history, raw ideological menace is blocking federal funding that supports scientific advance. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion....
My prayer is that this moment in our national life produces a figure like Ali, capable of surpassing courage and love and instinct, a leader who can guide the country away from its contemporary path of menace, and incompetence.
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Muhammad Ali’s Courage and Compassion | ModeShift
The memories and the message are everywhere inside the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. That’s the point of a museum dedicated to honor the life and achievements of the greatest American a...
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February 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My prayer is that this moment in our national life produces a figure like Ali, capable of surpassing courage and love and instinct, a leader who can guide the country away from its contemporary path of menace, and incompetence.
modeshift.org/419/muhammad...
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Trump’s effort to change the market for straws – like efforts to influence the sale of clean cars or charging stations or solar panels or any of the other equipment intended to make the planet safer – have nothing to do with “symbolism over science.”
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Opinion: The President’s Plastic Trigger
President Trump delights in alarming opponents and aiding friends in polluting industries
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February 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump’s effort to change the market for straws – like efforts to influence the sale of clean cars or charging stations or solar panels or any of the other equipment intended to make the planet safer – have nothing to do with “symbolism over science.”
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