Sophie Hartley
@hartleys.bsky.social
Covering the environment & natural resources for The Indianapolis Star 🌳 Tree identification enthusiast
Get in touch: sophie.hartley@indystar.com | Signal: hartleys.01
Get in touch: sophie.hartley@indystar.com | Signal: hartleys.01
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"Despite deep-red voting records and conservative dispositions, many of these counties have few regrets about allowing towering wind turbines and lines of solar panels to dot bits of their countryside." www.indystar.com/story/news/e... by @hartleys.bsky.social and @elizabethweise.bsky.social 🔌💡
Wind and solar aren't politically popular, but they've been profitable for 2 Indiana counties
Building wind and solar energy capacity in rural America isn’t about politics, and it isn’t about climate change. It’s about money.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Despite deep-red voting records and conservative dispositions, many of these counties have few regrets about allowing towering wind turbines and lines of solar panels to dot bits of their countryside." www.indystar.com/story/news/e... by @hartleys.bsky.social and @elizabethweise.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Hoosiers still have time to tell the EPA how they feel about the agency's efforts to revoke the endangerment finding. @hartleys.bsky.social has the details:
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The EPA wants to roll back climate regulations. Here’s how Hoosiers can have a say
Almost a quarter of Indiana's greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation — a sector EPA wants to deregulate. Here's how you can have a say.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hoosiers still have time to tell the EPA how they feel about the agency's efforts to revoke the endangerment finding. @hartleys.bsky.social has the details:
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EPA admin Zeldin announces his intent to repeal the pivotal finding in effort to align agency with Trump. For IndyStar w/ @hartleys.bsky.social
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EPA chief visits Indiana to announce repeal of landmark climate change policy
EPA chief Zeldin announced plans to rescind the country's biggest tool to fight climate change. Environmental advocates call it a direct assault.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
EPA admin Zeldin announces his intent to repeal the pivotal finding in effort to align agency with Trump. For IndyStar w/ @hartleys.bsky.social
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“It’s an issue of caring for the least among us, for those who are impacted by what we do but don’t have any power over it." - Madeline Hirschland, who helps distribute energy conservation grants to evangelical churches in Indiana.
Hoosier evangelicals slowly going solar, but they're not talking about climate change
Climate scientist says the wedge between evangelicals and environmentalism has less to do with theology and more to do with politics.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“It’s an issue of caring for the least among us, for those who are impacted by what we do but don’t have any power over it." - Madeline Hirschland, who helps distribute energy conservation grants to evangelical churches in Indiana.
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“If Congress chooses to get rid of these tax credits it will come at the detriment of both homeowners and small businesses like ours." - Bradley Stroot, who owns an AC company in Bloomington.
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'One Big Beautiful Bill' could end energy tax credits, jobs for thousands of Hoosiers
House version of federal budget bill would cut tax credits for Hoosiers who invest in solar, other residential energy-saving projects
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June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“If Congress chooses to get rid of these tax credits it will come at the detriment of both homeowners and small businesses like ours." - Bradley Stroot, who owns an AC company in Bloomington.
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“Dental decay is very preventable. It breaks your heart to see these young kids that aren’t able to eat.”
- a dentist who saw lots of kids with severe tooth decay after Calgary stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.
Great story by @alexviveros.bsky.social
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- a dentist who saw lots of kids with severe tooth decay after Calgary stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.
Great story by @alexviveros.bsky.social
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Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened
As calls to end fluoride in water get louder, changes to the dental health of children in Calgary, Canada, and Juneau, Alaska, may provide a cautionary tale.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Dental decay is very preventable. It breaks your heart to see these young kids that aren’t able to eat.”
- a dentist who saw lots of kids with severe tooth decay after Calgary stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.
Great story by @alexviveros.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/fluo...
- a dentist who saw lots of kids with severe tooth decay after Calgary stopped fluoridating its water in 2011.
Great story by @alexviveros.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/fluo...
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Minnesota's forests are changing fast. Development and climate change are pushing them to the brink. Scientists predict that the northern part of the state will soon feel like the southern part, which is why researchers are collecting seeds to reforest the region.
Planting Trees in Minnesota Is Harder Than It Sounds
As climate change threatens trees across the state, foresters have a plan. The missing piece? Seed collectors.
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April 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Minnesota's forests are changing fast. Development and climate change are pushing them to the brink. Scientists predict that the northern part of the state will soon feel like the southern part, which is why researchers are collecting seeds to reforest the region.
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Scientists who rely on snowfall to track and monitor wildlife—sometimes it literally just makes animals easier to see—are preparing for new methods, as climate change lessens annual snowfall. 🌎
Wildlife Management Gets Trickier as Climate Change Reconfigures Snowfall
Snow is becoming more unpredictable across North America, complicating research for scientists
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March 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Scientists who rely on snowfall to track and monitor wildlife—sometimes it literally just makes animals easier to see—are preparing for new methods, as climate change lessens annual snowfall. 🌎
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These people's jobs are "indirect costs" on NIH grants. Here's what science and medicine could lose without them.
@alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...
@alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...
Who are the indirect costs of NIH research? We talked to 3
The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.
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February 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
These people's jobs are "indirect costs" on NIH grants. Here's what science and medicine could lose without them.
@alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...
@alexviveros.bsky.social and I talked to a pre-award administrator, systems engineer and flow cytometry specialist for @sciencenews.bsky.social. www.sciencenews.org/article/indi...
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Did you miss our #SciWri24 national meeting this year? Read a recap of our ever-popular #SciWriPitchSlam session in Raleigh filed by NASW conference travel fellows, with story by Lily Stewart and photography by Sophie Hartley (@hartleys.bsky.social): www.nasw.org/article... 💚🧪📝
December 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Did you miss our #SciWri24 national meeting this year? Read a recap of our ever-popular #SciWriPitchSlam session in Raleigh filed by NASW conference travel fellows, with story by Lily Stewart and photography by Sophie Hartley (@hartleys.bsky.social): www.nasw.org/article... 💚🧪📝