Roger Hodge
@hedtk.com
Power and politics editor, Climate & Environment, The Washington Post. Author of Texas Blood and The Mendacity of Hope. Former editor of The Intercept, Oxford American, and Harper's Magazine.
White House plan would open California to offshore oil drilling www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration plan would open California to offshore oil drilling
A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
White House plan would open California to offshore oil drilling www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Democrats have stopped talking about climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Climate change is out. Energy affordability is in.
A Washington Post analysis of Democratic lawmakers’ appearances and social media posts show they are going quiet on climate.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Democrats have stopped talking about climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump officials have reshaped the EPA to weaken enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement
An analysis of environmental enforcement cases, together with targeted furloughs during the federal shutdown, shows the EPA’s shift towards deregulation.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How Trump officials have reshaped the EPA to weaken enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Post’s analysis, based on state-of-the-art weather data and computer models of the climate system, reveals how rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Post’s analysis, based on state-of-the-art weather data and computer models of the climate system, reveals how rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
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October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
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Crushing rocks for the climate. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth
Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Crushing rocks for the climate. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
White House puts on white gloves for fossil fuel concierge service.
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White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
White House puts on white gloves for fossil fuel concierge service.
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The scientists asked agriculture workers to swallow a pill-sized thermometer. What they found can help prevent heat strokes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why.
Nearly half of Florida farmworkers’ bodies reached dangerous temperatures in one study — but short breaks pulled them back from the danger zone.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The scientists asked agriculture workers to swallow a pill-sized thermometer. What they found can help prevent heat strokes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Nico Rivero asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about his puzzling pronouncements on solar energy. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Trump administration picks a fight with the sun
President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nico Rivero asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about his puzzling pronouncements on solar energy. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
And the Park Service has taken down signs mentioning climate change, slavery and Japanese internment www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment
The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And the Park Service has taken down signs mentioning climate change, slavery and Japanese internment www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Couple of scoops this morning. One on EPA political appointees telling scientists to hit pause on publishing research, pending review: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA orders scientists to stop publishing research, officials say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Couple of scoops this morning. One on EPA political appointees telling scientists to hit pause on publishing research, pending review: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Locked up in the unfinished facility, migrants were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss
As the Trump Administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, one former official called the list of violations at Fort Bliss among the worst she’s ever seen.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Locked up in the unfinished facility, migrants were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Scoop: Trump officials have ordered the removal of this iconic image from a national park www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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September 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Scoop: Trump officials have ordered the removal of this iconic image from a national park www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no.
Brazil brought the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference to the Amazon. Then the price frenzy began.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
More than half the apples grown in the US depend on water from a leaky canal that's in the process of failing. “This is an unfolding emergency. This is a train wreck in motion right now.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
On the brink of a devastating canal collapse, a GOP district waits for Trump’s help
After a fire burned nearly all of the Yakima Tieton Canal’s 12-mile route, a team documented more than 2,000 leaks spurting and gurgling from the concrete.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
More than half the apples grown in the US depend on water from a leaky canal that's in the process of failing. “This is an unfolding emergency. This is a train wreck in motion right now.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How chemicals in plastics affect male fertility www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about
Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
How chemicals in plastics affect male fertility www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
In moving to block New England Wind, the Trump administration is seeking to block a third offshore wind project in less than two weeks.
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Trump’s war on wind just got much bigger
In moving to block New England Wind, the administration is seeking to block a third offshore wind project in less than two weeks.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
In moving to block New England Wind, the Trump administration is seeking to block a third offshore wind project in less than two weeks.
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Why simply burying our CO2 won't solve climate change www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
This is how much we can cool the planet by burying carbon underground
Carbon storage is becoming a more mainstream climate solution. A new study says that we won’t have enough room to bury all our CO2.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Why simply burying our CO2 won't solve climate change www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
The immigration raid by Border Patrol agents on an active fire scene shocked many veteran wildland firefighters.
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Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire
Veteran firefighters worried a DHS raid on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington could make it more difficult to find contractor crews.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The immigration raid by Border Patrol agents on an active fire scene shocked many veteran wildland firefighters.
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On the world’s biggest bug farm, roughly 10 billion maggots squirm toward the day they’ll be crushed, dried and sold as an alternative form of protein powder. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
At the world’s biggest bug farm, 10 billion maggots recycle food waste
An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On the world’s biggest bug farm, roughly 10 billion maggots squirm toward the day they’ll be crushed, dried and sold as an alternative form of protein powder. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of toxic dust blow into growing Utah communities.
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As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of dangerous dust blow into boomtowns
Dozens of dust events probably happen each year across the 120-square-mile playa once covered by the Great Salt Lake. But there are no comprehensive state or federal records of them.
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August 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of toxic dust blow into growing Utah communities.
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Negotiations on a landmark international plastics treaty collapsed after the U.S. opposed any explicit limits on plastic production and objected to any potential restrictions on plastic additives or productions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Landmark plastic talks collapse with the U.S. opposing key production limits
The multiyear attempt to curb global plastic pollution is at an impasse, with the U.S. set against the production limits that many nations see as the main solution.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Negotiations on a landmark international plastics treaty collapsed after the U.S. opposed any explicit limits on plastic production and objected to any potential restrictions on plastic additives or productions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump's war on inconvenient government data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s answer to numbers he doesn’t like: Change them or throw them away
From D.C. crime rates to census collection to labor statistics, the administration has suppressed inconvenient data and conjured inaccurate statistics to bolster policy objectives.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Trump's war on inconvenient government data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.
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Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.
Residents of Elkton, Maryland, worry about the “forever chemicals” in their water but say W.L. Gore & Associates has always been a good neighbor.
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August 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.
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Trump plan for domestic "reaction force" calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest
Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trump plan for domestic "reaction force" calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...