Taylor Kate Brown
@taylorkatebrown.bsky.social
Investigative and solutions climate journalism. Born the year of Star Trek IV and 347 ppm | taylorkatebrown.com | previously: ProPublica, SFChronicle and BBC. I can also make your emails not suck. Icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Parisienne_(fresco)
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In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working
Visiting Alaska is an emissions-heavy prospect. An innovative program has tourists ease that by helping buy heat pumps for locals.
grist.org
A year in publishing, kind of: (to be clear this thread is more for me than for you).
I started the year with a holdover for work done in 2023 - and it became one of my most talked about pieces. I got to talk about it on the radio and the weather channel(!) grist.org/energy/in-ju...
I started the year with a holdover for work done in 2023 - and it became one of my most talked about pieces. I got to talk about it on the radio and the weather channel(!) grist.org/energy/in-ju...
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slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
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I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
Somebody finally made a good climate regulator video
On bringing reporting to the world of short-form video.
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
What up New Jersey DEP (the one remaining state regulator with a say in this)
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What up New Jersey DEP (the one remaining state regulator with a say in this)
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thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
I hated reading this combination of words this but I had to know which pipeline it was. Full @truth.bsky.social investigation here (also Hunterbrook got "Truth" @ bsky? geez) hntrbrk.com/sable-2/
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I hated reading this combination of words this but I had to know which pipeline it was. Full @truth.bsky.social investigation here (also Hunterbrook got "Truth" @ bsky? geez) hntrbrk.com/sable-2/
It's about to get very cold in parts of the east coast early next week... (via @themainemonitor.org ) www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
Heating aid to move forward in Maine as shutdown stalls federal funding
“Borrowing funds from one program to pay for another is certainly not ideal and is not a long-term solution,” MaineHousing Director Dan Brennan said.
www.newscentermaine.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's about to get very cold in parts of the east coast early next week... (via @themainemonitor.org ) www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
Somebody finally made a good climate regulator video
On bringing reporting to the world of short-form video.
buttondown.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Gracie, a 23-year-old student and parent in Maryland, stressed that many peers are dealing with not being able to feed themselves or their children due to delays to SNAP benefits. She said uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?'
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gracie, a 23-year-old student and parent in Maryland, stressed that many peers are dealing with not being able to feed themselves or their children due to delays to SNAP benefits. She said uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?'
Real ones know.
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Real ones know.
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there are many layers to this year's #GaPSC election, as we've reported in the @ajc.com
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
How two obscure races became a referendum on Georgia Power bills
Georgia Power customers have seen bills rise. Now they get to vote for two members on the state regulatory commission for the first time since 2020.
www.ajc.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
there are many layers to this year's #GaPSC election, as we've reported in the @ajc.com
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
For many Georgians, this race is about their power bills.
My story with Drew Kann:
www.ajc.com/business/202...
Potential to be the greatest voir dire of DC's already-excellent voir-dire history www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Potential to be the greatest voir dire of DC's already-excellent voir-dire history www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Excellent autumn scenes in the Morning Walk feed.
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excellent autumn scenes in the Morning Walk feed.
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If you believe that within every person is a whole world, then within every community is a universe. So what happens to a neighborhood when it loses one of its stars?
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
Mount Pleasant’s sidewalk astronomer might have to leave his home
But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
51st.news
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you believe that within every person is a whole world, then within every community is a universe. So what happens to a neighborhood when it loses one of its stars?
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
For Mt Pleasant, it means losing Gael Gomez, a 19 year-old who helped bring the cosmos to the people.
51st.news/mount-pleasa...
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If there are any other British reporters trying to parachute into NYC City Hall coverage, let me warn you that you might want to search for Eric Adams in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Also, after the new year, he will no longer be able to use his royal lease or titles.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If there are any other British reporters trying to parachute into NYC City Hall coverage, let me warn you that you might want to search for Eric Adams in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Also, after the new year, he will no longer be able to use his royal lease or titles.
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Super critical. Also an important time to remind people that primary care docs and other community health workers in many states can provide utility shutoff protection letters if you have a qualifying medical condition, an infant <12 months old, or are 65+
Another big problem is that LIHEAP is being (paused? cut?) on November 1st too, so some people are gonna have to unexpectedly choose how to apportion their income between heat/electricity and food.
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Super critical. Also an important time to remind people that primary care docs and other community health workers in many states can provide utility shutoff protection letters if you have a qualifying medical condition, an infant <12 months old, or are 65+
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Yesterday marked the first formal opportunity the D.C. Council has given residents and activists to sound off on increased cooperation between MPD and ICE since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in mid-August.
More than 50 people signed up to speak, the maximum allowed.
More than 50 people signed up to speak, the maximum allowed.
D.C. residents speak out against MPD’s work with ICE at D.C. Council
Local cooperation with immigration enforcement has become a flash point since the federal surge in D.C.
51st.news
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Yesterday marked the first formal opportunity the D.C. Council has given residents and activists to sound off on increased cooperation between MPD and ICE since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in mid-August.
More than 50 people signed up to speak, the maximum allowed.
More than 50 people signed up to speak, the maximum allowed.
new heights of service journalism from @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
new heights of service journalism from @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
From top to bottom, this story has it all:
- A reporter not suspicious of a response to a cold, blind email to a former mayor?
- an interview done (by a different reporter) via a Ring doorbell
- a chatGPT-developed tax critique
- " He assumed the reporter would “have all his people check it out.”
- A reporter not suspicious of a response to a cold, blind email to a former mayor?
- an interview done (by a different reporter) via a Ring doorbell
- a chatGPT-developed tax critique
- " He assumed the reporter would “have all his people check it out.”
Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
www.semafor.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
From top to bottom, this story has it all:
- A reporter not suspicious of a response to a cold, blind email to a former mayor?
- an interview done (by a different reporter) via a Ring doorbell
- a chatGPT-developed tax critique
- " He assumed the reporter would “have all his people check it out.”
- A reporter not suspicious of a response to a cold, blind email to a former mayor?
- an interview done (by a different reporter) via a Ring doorbell
- a chatGPT-developed tax critique
- " He assumed the reporter would “have all his people check it out.”
the Bay Area desperately needs every square foot of marshland it can restore, and its making progress.
#ICYMI The Bay Area is more than halfway toward its goal of restoring 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands. “That’s really tremendous progress, especially compared to other areas of the country.” www.kqed.org/science/1998... via @kqedscience.bsky.social @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social
Rising Tides Drive a Bay Area Push to Bring Back Vanished Marshlands | KQED
The region has restored nearly 58,000 acres of tidal wetlands, bringing new life to the Bay’s edge and fresh hope for flood protection.
www.kqed.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the Bay Area desperately needs every square foot of marshland it can restore, and its making progress.
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this amtrak has it all. congressmen. tiktok rappers. beltway reporters. punk rockers. what a wild train
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
this amtrak has it all. congressmen. tiktok rappers. beltway reporters. punk rockers. what a wild train
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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally.
The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.
The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.
![This document is scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register on 10/30/2025 and available online at
https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-19702, and on https://govinfo.gov
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ACTION: Interim final rule (“IFR”) with request for comments. ______________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY: This IFR amends DHS regulations to end the practice of automatically extending the validity of employment authorization documents (Forms I-766 or EADs) for aliens who have timely filed an application to renew their EAD in certain employment authorization categories. The purpose of this change is to prioritize the proper vetting and screening of aliens before granting a new period of employment authorization and/or a new EAD. This IFR does not impact the validity of EADs that were automatically extended prior to [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] or which are otherwise automatically extended by law or Federal Register notice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreicxgrb4jgjk3455qn4mjcjyz24ysxwf3ri2j5gzlqe4uuq67m746a@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally.
The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.
The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.
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Hello All -- Do you, or did you, work at the VA? We'd like to hear from you -- especially those who work directly in health care. @propublica.org @tophersanders.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs?
ProPublica wants to hear from doctors, nurses and other front-line medical providers who recently left positions at a VA hospital or clinic.
www.propublica.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hello All -- Do you, or did you, work at the VA? We'd like to hear from you -- especially those who work directly in health care. @propublica.org @tophersanders.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...