Lauren Rosenthal
@laurenthal.bsky.social
Weather Reporter for Bloomberg News.
Previously at APM Reports, ProPublica/Electionland, North Country Public Radio, KUCB in Unalaska, AK (pictured above).
Views my own.
Email: lrosenthal21@bloomberg.net
Signal: lgrosen.03
Previously at APM Reports, ProPublica/Electionland, North Country Public Radio, KUCB in Unalaska, AK (pictured above).
Views my own.
Email: lrosenthal21@bloomberg.net
Signal: lgrosen.03
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What Trump’s FEMA Cuts Mean for Hurricane Season
The nation’s top agency for response and recovery work has endured significant upheaval since Trump’s return to the White House, and now Atlantic hurricane season is underway.
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FEMA has lost staff + cut back on grants. Its current top boss lacks emergency management experience. As hurricane season opens, "it is a disaster waiting to happen," one expert told @bloomberg.com. Story w/ the excellent @zhirji.bsky.social (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules.
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Trump EPA's Rewrite of US Water Definitions Would Affect Climate Change
The agency wants to change the definitions of waterways protected under the Clean Water Act.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules.
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Outgoing FEMA leader David Richardson told @bloomberg.com he "agreed to be the acting administrator through hurricane season when others wouldn’t." As season ends, "I can now leave for other opportunities." From @zhirji.bsky.social, Myles Miller + me: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA Chief Resigns After Six Months, Criticism Over Floods
The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, resigned on Monday after about six months on the job.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Outgoing FEMA leader David Richardson told @bloomberg.com he "agreed to be the acting administrator through hurricane season when others wouldn’t." As season ends, "I can now leave for other opportunities." From @zhirji.bsky.social, Myles Miller + me: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Battery recycling firm Redwood Materials has begun producing critical minerals at its $3.5 bn South Carolina facility, amid a chill in the US EV market. CEO JB Straubel told me most of its customers today are outside of the EV sector.
More on the company's pivot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
More on the company's pivot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Co-Founder's Critical Minerals Plant Starts Production
As the Tesla co-founder’s battery recycler opens a new facility, it’s also selling critical minerals to a wider set of buyers as the EV market is set to decline.
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Battery recycling firm Redwood Materials has begun producing critical minerals at its $3.5 bn South Carolina facility, amid a chill in the US EV market. CEO JB Straubel told me most of its customers today are outside of the EV sector.
More on the company's pivot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
More on the company's pivot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Biggest Arctic Carbon Sink Is Increasingly Unstable
Scientists at the top of the world are racing to uncover how rapidly the Arctic’s permafrost is thawing.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Astonishing, tragic devastation in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa. Satellite imagery, maps and accounts by @krishnakarra.bsky.social Christopher Cannon @laurenthal.bsky.social and Josh Saul
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Satellite Images Reveal Scale of Melissa Destruction in Jamaica
In one of the hardest-hit areas, at least three-quarters of buildings sustained severe damage.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Astonishing, tragic devastation in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa. Satellite imagery, maps and accounts by @krishnakarra.bsky.social Christopher Cannon @laurenthal.bsky.social and Josh Saul
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Happy to have provided input for this well-written story by @laurenthal.bsky.social, highlighting some of the reasons to be concerned about #Melissa, and some of the ways that storms like this are becoming more dangerous in a warmer climate:
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Storm Melissa's Slow Pace Is What Makes It Risky for Caribbean
The slowness of the storm means it is likely to increase rainfall, dumping several feet of water in some areas.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Happy to have provided input for this well-written story by @laurenthal.bsky.social, highlighting some of the reasons to be concerned about #Melissa, and some of the ways that storms like this are becoming more dangerous in a warmer climate:
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Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why Big Oil Is Asking EPA Not to Cut its Polluter Reporting Program
The oil and gas industry says it needs the program’s data to conduct business.
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
@laurenthal.bsky.social talked to me, @alaskawx.bsky.social and other scientists about the likelihood NWS upper air data issues contributed to forecasting challenges for Halong. I talk today about what she found as well as several weather risk this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Hundreds of Alaskan flooding victims evacuated from impacted region
Stateside, severe weather risk ramps up next 24 hours
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@laurenthal.bsky.social talked to me, @alaskawx.bsky.social and other scientists about the likelihood NWS upper air data issues contributed to forecasting challenges for Halong. I talk today about what she found as well as several weather risk this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.
This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.
This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
NEW: Weather models were performing worse ahead of a devastating storm in Alaska compared to a year ago. As one scientist @ecmwf.int put it, "the fact that all the models mis-captured this event tells us something." From me + @joewertz.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deadly Alaska Storm Hit After a Month of Wider Forecast Errors
Scientists say outages at federal monitoring sites in the state may have contributed to confusion over the storm’s predicted track.
www.bloomberg.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: Weather models were performing worse ahead of a devastating storm in Alaska compared to a year ago. As one scientist @ecmwf.int put it, "the fact that all the models mis-captured this event tells us something." From me + @joewertz.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Until the National Flood Insurance Program kicks back on, up to 1,400 home sales a day could stall or fall through by some estimates. Story for @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Shutdown Cuts Off Flood Insurance Program During Storm Season
A lapse in the National Flood Insurance Program because of the US government shutdown threatens to snarl home sales in the nation’s riskiest floodplains and leave some homeowners without coverage in t...
www.bloomberg.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Until the National Flood Insurance Program kicks back on, up to 1,400 home sales a day could stall or fall through by some estimates. Story for @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
DHS is moving hundreds of people focused stopping mass shooters, curbing Russian hacks + counter-terrorism work into immigration roles.
Some are forcibly moved across the country. And anyone who declines risks losing their job.
exclusive with @patrickhowelloneill.com
gift link:
Some are forcibly moved across the country. And anyone who declines risks losing their job.
exclusive with @patrickhowelloneill.com
gift link:
Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push
The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
DHS is moving hundreds of people focused stopping mass shooters, curbing Russian hacks + counter-terrorism work into immigration roles.
Some are forcibly moved across the country. And anyone who declines risks losing their job.
exclusive with @patrickhowelloneill.com
gift link:
Some are forcibly moved across the country. And anyone who declines risks losing their job.
exclusive with @patrickhowelloneill.com
gift link:
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
News:
FEMA is interrogating staffers -- denying union or legal representation -- about a whistleblower letter warning that Trump administration cuts are undercutting disaster response.
via @margimurphy.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social @zhirji.bsky.social
FEMA is interrogating staffers -- denying union or legal representation -- about a whistleblower letter warning that Trump administration cuts are undercutting disaster response.
via @margimurphy.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social @zhirji.bsky.social
FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
Investigators are looking for staffers who anonymously endorsed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to disaster funding.
www.bloomberg.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
News:
FEMA is interrogating staffers -- denying union or legal representation -- about a whistleblower letter warning that Trump administration cuts are undercutting disaster response.
via @margimurphy.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social @zhirji.bsky.social
FEMA is interrogating staffers -- denying union or legal representation -- about a whistleblower letter warning that Trump administration cuts are undercutting disaster response.
via @margimurphy.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social @zhirji.bsky.social
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Exclusive: FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
Investigators are looking for staffers who anonymously endorsed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to disaster funding.
www.bloomberg.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Exclusive: FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Senate has confirmed Trump's pick to run NOAA. Neil Jacobs will lead an agency that's lost ~2,000 staff in a year and could lose most of its research division.
I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to a Shrinking Agency
Trump’s appointee to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has vowed to support the president's massive cuts.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Senate has confirmed Trump's pick to run NOAA. Neil Jacobs will lead an agency that's lost ~2,000 staff in a year and could lose most of its research division.
I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Send your EPA tips to the great @zhirji.bsky.social, who's covering the agency + rulemaking @bloomberg.com. Signal: zhirji.51 | Email: zhirji@bloomberg.net
Some personal news: I'm now @bloomberg.com's lead EPA reporter, tracking everything climate -- and so much more. So if you're following a particular rule or proposal, program office or anything else EPA related (biofuels, PFAS, coal ash, etc), I want to know.
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Trump's EPA is looking to extend deadlines to comply with rules to switch to cleaner refrigerants. The proposal applies to everything from residential air conditioning to retail food refrigeration and semiconductor manufacturing.
Story @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Send your EPA tips to the great @zhirji.bsky.social, who's covering the agency + rulemaking @bloomberg.com. Signal: zhirji.51 | Email: zhirji@bloomberg.net
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Hurricane season's ramping up - so is fire risk in Southern California. Private companies like @brightharbor.bsky.social are eager to fill gaps in the disaster recovery system (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
America’s Private Disaster-Recovery Industry Faces Weather Stress Test
Uncertainty around FEMA – layered on top of a surge in extreme events – has led to something of a vacuum that entrepreneurs are eager to fill.
www.bloomberg.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hurricane season's ramping up - so is fire risk in Southern California. Private companies like @brightharbor.bsky.social are eager to fill gaps in the disaster recovery system (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Utilities + traders are "craving" more detailed forecasts as power demand gets harder and harder to predict. Using AI, a tech firm is pushing to predict swings in weather - down to the hour - months in advance.
Story with @naurtorious.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story with @naurtorious.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI-Powered Model Gives Energy Traders Hourly Forecasts Seven Months Out
The tool from tech firm Amperon provides a more granular look at the weather and its impact on power markets.
www.bloomberg.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Utilities + traders are "craving" more detailed forecasts as power demand gets harder and harder to predict. Using AI, a tech firm is pushing to predict swings in weather - down to the hour - months in advance.
Story with @naurtorious.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story with @naurtorious.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It's officially fall! And more than 80% of the Northeast is in drought or teetering on the edge of it. Why that's cause for concern: (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Drought Gripping the US Northeast, NYC Raises Fears of Autumn Wildfires
Waterways and wells are running dry in parts of New England and trees in New York City are already shedding their leaves as a late-summer drought engulfs the US Northeast, raising the risk of wildfire...
www.bloomberg.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's officially fall! And more than 80% of the Northeast is in drought or teetering on the edge of it. Why that's cause for concern: (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk.
with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk.
with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...