@philipsalata.bsky.social
Investigative reporter covering environment, energy and public health for inewsource in Southern California and the borderlands.
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National City Council rejects biofuels project in pollution burdened neighborhood. From environment reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/11/05/n...
National City Council rejects biofuels project
USD Clean Fuels proposed planting trees and distributing air filters to residents near the project site to help offset pollution impacts.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
National City Council rejects biofuels project in pollution burdened neighborhood. From environment reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/11/05/n...
Back in 2020 Kumeyaay avctisits fought against a similar action when the federal government was building more barrier walls through ancestral burrying grounds. It’s not just environmental laws they are dodging but ones protecting culture and history.
Homeland Security waives environmental laws to build more border barriers in San Diego. From Environment and Energy Reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build more border wall
Border Patrol apprehensions at the border are at record lows. The Trump administration is still fast-tracking border wall construction.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Back in 2020 Kumeyaay avctisits fought against a similar action when the federal government was building more barrier walls through ancestral burrying grounds. It’s not just environmental laws they are dodging but ones protecting culture and history.
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EPA to scrap greenhouse gas reporting for companies, including many in San Diego region. From Environment and Energy reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social.
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EPA to end collecting greenhouse gas emissions data
Following Trump’s move away from the Paris climate agreement, EPA further deregulates environmental rules aimed at curbing climate change.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
EPA to scrap greenhouse gas reporting for companies, including many in San Diego region. From Environment and Energy reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social.
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‘Nanobubbles’: Why the fed’s experimental plan to clean the Tijuana River is sounding alarms. From Environment and Energy Reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/09/09/t...
Tijuana River pollution project faces concerns over experimental tech
Scientists are concerned that using a company’s “nanobubble technology” to capture contaminants could make matters worse.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
‘Nanobubbles’: Why the fed’s experimental plan to clean the Tijuana River is sounding alarms. From Environment and Energy Reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/09/09/t...
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The EPA promised Tijuana River pollution fix in 100 days. Where things stand. From environment reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/08/28/e...
Where EPA’s 100-day Tijuana River pollution promise stands
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin came to San Diego in May and promised action on the Tijuana River sewage crisis in 100 days.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The EPA promised Tijuana River pollution fix in 100 days. Where things stand. From environment reporter @philipsalata.bsky.social. inewsource.org/2025/08/28/e...
Trump’s EPA is calling the latest deal with Mexico on the sewage crisis a “massive win,” yet the agreement actually reaffirms old deadlines and projects set under the Biden administration…
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Trump EPA races to meet Biden’s timelines on sewage crisis
U.S.-Mexico sewage deal reaffirms Biden-era commitments and timelines that seemed out of reach.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump’s EPA is calling the latest deal with Mexico on the sewage crisis a “massive win,” yet the agreement actually reaffirms old deadlines and projects set under the Biden administration…
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This one is pretty trippy…
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NASA can see Tijuana River sewage from outer space
A new NASA study cites data from an instrument orbiting Earth to show how the Tijuana sewage overflows are spilling into the ocean.
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June 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This one is pretty trippy…
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NEW: UC San Diego scientists find ‘complicated soup’ of toxic chemicals in South Bay air, reporting from @philipsalata.bsky.social @inewsource.org
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Toxic chemicals found in South Bay San Diego air: UCSD scientists
New research from UC San Diego scientists shows how Tijuana River pollution becomes airborne through sea spray.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
NEW: UC San Diego scientists find ‘complicated soup’ of toxic chemicals in South Bay air, reporting from @philipsalata.bsky.social @inewsource.org
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Residents gathered at Lower Otay Lake to watch firefighters take on the Border 2 fire.
January 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Residents gathered at Lower Otay Lake to watch firefighters take on the Border 2 fire.
Advocacy groups say lithium companies should do more to mitigate community and environmental impacts despite judge clearing path for lithium extraction. inewsource.org/2025/01/10/c...
Courts deny challenge to California’s first lithium project
Advocacy groups say lithium companies should do more to mitigate community and environmental impacts despite judge clearing path for lithium extraction.
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January 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Advocacy groups say lithium companies should do more to mitigate community and environmental impacts despite judge clearing path for lithium extraction. inewsource.org/2025/01/10/c...
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Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens.
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens.
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
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Firefighters try to extinguish flames from the Eaton Fire engulfing an Altadena home. They kept saying they didn’t have enough water to do the job.
January 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Firefighters try to extinguish flames from the Eaton Fire engulfing an Altadena home. They kept saying they didn’t have enough water to do the job.
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Scientific research has shown climate change is a significant contributor to the increasing size, intensity and damage of wildfires in the western U.S., and to longer fire seasons. @realsciline.bsky.social www.sciline.org/climate/clim...
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January 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Scientific research has shown climate change is a significant contributor to the increasing size, intensity and damage of wildfires in the western U.S., and to longer fire seasons. @realsciline.bsky.social www.sciline.org/climate/clim...
Spent some time discussing some recent reporting on the Tijuana River sewage on @kpbssandiego.bsky.social , we need more discussion and more in-depth work! www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
Leaders propose toll to address Tijuana River pollution
An Otay Mesa toll would generate funds to address the ongoing Tijuana River sewage crisis, which threatens the health of South Bay residents.
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December 10, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Spent some time discussing some recent reporting on the Tijuana River sewage on @kpbssandiego.bsky.social , we need more discussion and more in-depth work! www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
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The Trump admin threats to end birthright citizenship should be a wake up call that we are post law. The 14th amendment is unambiguous. Everyone born in the United States is a citizen. If they can strip citizenship from newborns, they can do it to anyone.
November 18, 2024 at 10:59 PM
The Trump admin threats to end birthright citizenship should be a wake up call that we are post law. The 14th amendment is unambiguous. Everyone born in the United States is a citizen. If they can strip citizenship from newborns, they can do it to anyone.
LADWP still owns the water under Paiute Shoshone reservations along with the majority of land and water in Owens Valley. Michael Prather, former Inyo County Water Commission Chair leads a tour at Patsiata, Owens Lake, with Tribal Relations Manager for Inyo FS, Wilfred Nabahe.
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
LADWP still owns the water under Paiute Shoshone reservations along with the majority of land and water in Owens Valley. Michael Prather, former Inyo County Water Commission Chair leads a tour at Patsiata, Owens Lake, with Tribal Relations Manager for Inyo FS, Wilfred Nabahe.
Not an opus, but an update. On the other hand, pretty strong to keep learning about how much are estuaries suffer when we don’t update our infrastructure to take into account worsening storm systems. inewsource.org/2024/11/14/o...
Oceanside to pay $1.5 million for sewage spill
San Diego County’s aging sewage infrastructure is being challenged by intensifying weather events.
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November 15, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Not an opus, but an update. On the other hand, pretty strong to keep learning about how much are estuaries suffer when we don’t update our infrastructure to take into account worsening storm systems. inewsource.org/2024/11/14/o...
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Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social) brilliant and exacting as usual:
"Many of the same people behind technologies wreaking havoc today also brand themselves as humanity’s saviors...Just as in the past, the Eugenics 2.0 of the tech evangelists is swaddled in the language of betterment..."
"Many of the same people behind technologies wreaking havoc today also brand themselves as humanity’s saviors...Just as in the past, the Eugenics 2.0 of the tech evangelists is swaddled in the language of betterment..."
The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
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October 24, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social) brilliant and exacting as usual:
"Many of the same people behind technologies wreaking havoc today also brand themselves as humanity’s saviors...Just as in the past, the Eugenics 2.0 of the tech evangelists is swaddled in the language of betterment..."
"Many of the same people behind technologies wreaking havoc today also brand themselves as humanity’s saviors...Just as in the past, the Eugenics 2.0 of the tech evangelists is swaddled in the language of betterment..."
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Anyway the audience of news nerds hadn’t really been here in full force, but if that changes…
November 11, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Anyway the audience of news nerds hadn’t really been here in full force, but if that changes…
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In October, I reported on how the election would determine whether ACA subsidies would expire at the end of 2025. Republicans’ victory makes subsidy extensions incredibly unlikely. Health insurance will likely get more expensive for tens of millions as a result. capitalandmain.com/election-may...
Election May Decide Health Coverage Fate for Millions as Some Affordable Care Act Subsidies Are Set to Expire
Chrysa Ostenso — who operates the only optometry practice in Rusk County, Wisconsin — worries about keeping her doors open if Biden-era tax credits end.
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November 12, 2024 at 4:07 PM
In October, I reported on how the election would determine whether ACA subsidies would expire at the end of 2025. Republicans’ victory makes subsidy extensions incredibly unlikely. Health insurance will likely get more expensive for tens of millions as a result. capitalandmain.com/election-may...