Rebecca McCarthy
@rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social
fellow @grist.org // freelance elsewhere // interviews editor at fullstopmag.bsky.social // mccarthy.ree@gmail.com // rebeccamccarthy.net
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Stephen A. Smith and other ESPNers partner with obscenely scuzzy mobile casino: defector.com/stephen-a-sm...
Stephen A. Smith And Other ESPNers Partner With Obscenely Scuzzy Mobile Casino | Defector
Earlier this summer, ESPN made the confounding and ultimately disastrous choice to build its NBA Finals broadcasts around the stentorian yowling of Stephen A. Smith, a man who neither knows ball nor…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Stephen A. Smith and other ESPNers partner with obscenely scuzzy mobile casino: defector.com/stephen-a-sm...
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In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die.
Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach.
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#NY #NewYork #Oil #Gas #Politics
Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach.
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#NY #NewYork #Oil #Gas #Politics
In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die
Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons, shares The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship.
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Nuclear arms race tests aging Los Alamos lab - High Country News
Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons, shares The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship.
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📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. But a new report shows that they own less than 2% of renewable energy projects worldwide, @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports for @grist.org:
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. But a new report shows that they own less than 2% of renewable energy projects worldwide, @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports for @grist.org:
Stay tuned! For an updated piece on the deep sea mining landscape coming later this month I think
In August, the Trump administration entered talks with the Cook Islands to begin underwater mining in the area. From the Archives: @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports on the speculators looking to strike it rich on the seafloor.
Deep Sea Rush | Rebecca McCarthy
The question is whether Deep Sea mining, a new extractive industry on the seafloor, is an easy answer to the looming metals shortage, or an oceanic death march.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Stay tuned! For an updated piece on the deep sea mining landscape coming later this month I think
Wrote about the drama at the country's largest grid operator and the fact that even if data centers don't cause rolling blackouts, they're still likely to blow states' emission goals to hell
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As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials
A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.
grist.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wrote about the drama at the country's largest grid operator and the fact that even if data centers don't cause rolling blackouts, they're still likely to blow states' emission goals to hell
grist.org/climate-ener...
grist.org/climate-ener...
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As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials #Climate
As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials
A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.
grist.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials #Climate
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In August, the Trump administration entered talks with the Cook Islands to begin underwater mining in the area. From the Archives: @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports on the speculators looking to strike it rich on the seafloor.
Deep Sea Rush | Rebecca McCarthy
The question is whether Deep Sea mining, a new extractive industry on the seafloor, is an easy answer to the looming metals shortage, or an oceanic death march.
thebaffler.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In August, the Trump administration entered talks with the Cook Islands to begin underwater mining in the area. From the Archives: @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports on the speculators looking to strike it rich on the seafloor.
Pennsylvania really wants to become a tech hub and it’s using hypothetical data centers to keep an obsolete gas plant open
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Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open.
The Department of Energy says Trump's 'energy emergency' and voracious data centers warrant keeping the plant outside of Philadelphia running.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Pennsylvania really wants to become a tech hub and it’s using hypothetical data centers to keep an obsolete gas plant open
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The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the department of everything else". It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables.
How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy - High Country News
The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the department of everything else". It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables.
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Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
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#Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
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#Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans
Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
grist.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
grist.org/energy/can-o...
#Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans
Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.
grist.org/energy/can-o...
#Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans
I wrote about the Interior Department’s efforts to throttle wind and solar over the past two months:
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Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them
The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C. as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural resourc...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I wrote about the Interior Department’s efforts to throttle wind and solar over the past two months:
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Only @knibbs.bsky.social could bring you a story like this and that’s the highest compliment I got
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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August 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Only @knibbs.bsky.social could bring you a story like this and that’s the highest compliment I got
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A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...
What is the correct amount of pro-Palestine content?
The origins of the TikTok ban.
www.theverge.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...
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New and IMPT: Inside the chaotic, lucrative world of disaster recovery.
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#Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires
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#Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires
August 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New and IMPT: Inside the chaotic, lucrative world of disaster recovery.
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#Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires
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#Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires
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Natural hydrogen could be key for decarbonizing heavy industries like trucking, shipping, and aviation – if we can find enough of it. For the first time, researchers are starting to think that might be possible. grist.org/energy/natur...
A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.
Natural hydrogen could transform the clean energy sector — if we can find enough of it.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Natural hydrogen could be key for decarbonizing heavy industries like trucking, shipping, and aviation – if we can find enough of it. For the first time, researchers are starting to think that might be possible. grist.org/energy/natur...
I wrote about the rush to find natural hydrogen along the Midcontinent Rift
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A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.
Natural hydrogen could transform the clean energy sector — if we can find enough of it.
grist.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about the rush to find natural hydrogen along the Midcontinent Rift
grist.org/energy/natur...
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Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. www.wired.com/story/palant...
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.
www.wired.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. www.wired.com/story/palant...
So proud of my friends for naming their baby Lenny
August 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
So proud of my friends for naming their baby Lenny
New research shows that wildfire smoke is causing way more deaths than officially recorded
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As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer
The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New research shows that wildfire smoke is causing way more deaths than officially recorded
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