Meg Duff
@megduff.com
Reporter for Chemical Watch News & Insights. Also a freelance climate journalist. Views and Bluesky nonsense my own.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”
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Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
More cities, NGOs, even HOAs are getting disaster insurance.
'Parametric' plans pay out at key triggers: hurricane hits cat 5, wildfire crosses line, etc.
Now, some of those plans are rewarding climate adaptation with big discounts.
with @jojofoshosho.bsky.social for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social !
'Parametric' plans pay out at key triggers: hurricane hits cat 5, wildfire crosses line, etc.
Now, some of those plans are rewarding climate adaptation with big discounts.
with @jojofoshosho.bsky.social for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social !
The insurance industry is broken, especially in wildfire-prone states like California that have been hit hard by climate change. Could a community-based risk reduction model be the solution? Proud to have gotten to co-write this story for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social with @megduff.com 🌎🧪
Insurance Innovations Reward Communities Reducing Climate Risk
Fires and floods are scaring insurance companies away from disaster zones, but communities are doing their part to improve outcomes.
www.kneedeeptimes.org
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
More cities, NGOs, even HOAs are getting disaster insurance.
'Parametric' plans pay out at key triggers: hurricane hits cat 5, wildfire crosses line, etc.
Now, some of those plans are rewarding climate adaptation with big discounts.
with @jojofoshosho.bsky.social for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social !
'Parametric' plans pay out at key triggers: hurricane hits cat 5, wildfire crosses line, etc.
Now, some of those plans are rewarding climate adaptation with big discounts.
with @jojofoshosho.bsky.social for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social !
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The insurance industry is broken, especially in wildfire-prone states like California that have been hit hard by climate change. Could a community-based risk reduction model be the solution? Proud to have gotten to co-write this story for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social with @megduff.com 🌎🧪
Insurance Innovations Reward Communities Reducing Climate Risk
Fires and floods are scaring insurance companies away from disaster zones, but communities are doing their part to improve outcomes.
www.kneedeeptimes.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The insurance industry is broken, especially in wildfire-prone states like California that have been hit hard by climate change. Could a community-based risk reduction model be the solution? Proud to have gotten to co-write this story for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social with @megduff.com 🌎🧪
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As global heating produces more wildfires, "Americans have increasingly been bombarded by toxic smoke." 41K people in the US now die from this smoke each year, "one of the most costly and important climate impacts.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
See where wildfire smoke is getting worse in the U.S.
The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As global heating produces more wildfires, "Americans have increasingly been bombarded by toxic smoke." 41K people in the US now die from this smoke each year, "one of the most costly and important climate impacts.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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#ColorADay | #RedWed
“Memories of Autumn Past” alternate title “Roll Out the Red Carpet”
#Photography 📸
#WestCoastKin #PNW #Oregon
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#BlueskyPhotography
#ArtistsOfBluesky
#BlueskyArt #Landscape #Nature
“Memories of Autumn Past” alternate title “Roll Out the Red Carpet”
#Photography 📸
#WestCoastKin #PNW #Oregon
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#BlueskyPhotography
#ArtistsOfBluesky
#BlueskyArt #Landscape #Nature
September 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#ColorADay | #RedWed
“Memories of Autumn Past” alternate title “Roll Out the Red Carpet”
#Photography 📸
#WestCoastKin #PNW #Oregon
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#BlueskyPhotography
#ArtistsOfBluesky
#BlueskyArt #Landscape #Nature
“Memories of Autumn Past” alternate title “Roll Out the Red Carpet”
#Photography 📸
#WestCoastKin #PNW #Oregon
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#BlueskyPhotography
#ArtistsOfBluesky
#BlueskyArt #Landscape #Nature
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reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue
deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice
Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show
deadline.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue
deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
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A bee is here
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A bee is here
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A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.
Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate News
Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.
insideclimatenews.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.
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hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible
One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers.
apnews.com/article/elec...
apnews.com/article/elec...
As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
apnews.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible
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It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Putin appears to have gained the upper hand...[He] was treated as an equal on U.S. soil, managed to sidestep any potential American sanctions for now and announced no battlefield concessions. Trump, who vowed...to end the war on his first day in office, failed to secure even a temporary cease-fire"
Pretty brutal coverage of the Trump / Putin thing. Gift article
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Putin. He Got Little in Return.
The meeting between the U.S. president and the Russian leader didn’t appear to yield any breakthroughs.
www.wsj.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Putin appears to have gained the upper hand...[He] was treated as an equal on U.S. soil, managed to sidestep any potential American sanctions for now and announced no battlefield concessions. Trump, who vowed...to end the war on his first day in office, failed to secure even a temporary cease-fire"
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Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
August 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
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Remarkably, NASA is looking for partners (wealthy individuals, philanthropic orgs, companies etc.) to keep crucial climate satellite missions like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory going. Whether they make such a deal before $$ runs out remains to be seen... www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...
The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry | CNN
NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside o...
www.cnn.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Remarkably, NASA is looking for partners (wealthy individuals, philanthropic orgs, companies etc.) to keep crucial climate satellite missions like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory going. Whether they make such a deal before $$ runs out remains to be seen... www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...
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"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents.
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
Donald Trump threatens to clear encampments in D.C.
With D.C.’s MPD now under federal control and the National Guard coming to D.C., the fate of people in encampments remains up in the air.
streetsensemedia.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents.
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"
streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
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This is a wonderful read.
This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is a wonderful read.
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Once again, if you know anything about who is behind the DHS or ICE social media accounts, particularly on X, I'm very interested in talking to you. hannahgais@proton.me or 334-315-8634 on Signal.
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Once again, if you know anything about who is behind the DHS or ICE social media accounts, particularly on X, I'm very interested in talking to you. hannahgais@proton.me or 334-315-8634 on Signal.
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Good Peter Baker article ⤴️ on Trump's brutish abuse of power in service of narrative. But words matter. When is a behavior an "echo" of something in the past, and when is it that thing incarnate?... 1/2
August 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good Peter Baker article ⤴️ on Trump's brutish abuse of power in service of narrative. But words matter. When is a behavior an "echo" of something in the past, and when is it that thing incarnate?... 1/2
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Well done, New York! The state's building code now requires most new buildings to be all-electric. This makes good economic sense: It's cheaper to install a two-way heat pump to both heat and cool, vs a one-way AC plus a one-way furnace. Outgrowing indoor combustion also benefits climate and health.
Electrifying news! New York is the first state to adopt an all-electric building code prohibiting fossil fuels in new construction. A federal district court judge recently upheld the law requiring the standard, slamming a prior judgement on gas bans. My latest: www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…
www.canarymedia.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well done, New York! The state's building code now requires most new buildings to be all-electric. This makes good economic sense: It's cheaper to install a two-way heat pump to both heat and cool, vs a one-way AC plus a one-way furnace. Outgrowing indoor combustion also benefits climate and health.
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In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
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Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
July 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”