Ari Phillips
@re-ari.bsky.social
Editor of environmental news and investigations. Communications professional. Fiction writer under pen name Philip Reari.
My latest: How “Unleashing American Energy" includes lifting a long sought after drilling ban in historically treasured lands of northern New Mexico to, possibly, drill a few dozen wells. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-w...
Trump wants to revoke a drilling ban around a cherished World Heritage Site
The Trump Administration recently announced that it plans to abolish a Biden-era federal ban on oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northern New Mexic...
news.oilandgaswatch.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My latest: How “Unleashing American Energy" includes lifting a long sought after drilling ban in historically treasured lands of northern New Mexico to, possibly, drill a few dozen wells. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-w...
FIFA wins prize for biggest ass kissing
Trump Pal Makes Up New FIFA Peace Prize After President‘s Nobel Snub
The FIFA boss has unveiled a “Peace Prize” to be handed out at the World Cup draw, weeks after Trump’s Nobel humiliation.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
FIFA wins prize for biggest ass kissing
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NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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The operation of a coal plant in Michigan that the Trump Administration has ordered to remain open is costing taxpayers $615,000 — a day — and harming public health & air quality thru the Midwest.
With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2
With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The operation of a coal plant in Michigan that the Trump Administration has ordered to remain open is costing taxpayers $615,000 — a day — and harming public health & air quality thru the Midwest.
With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2
With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2
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The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff
The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
I need to devote a week to long reads.
October 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I need to devote a week to long reads.
My latest: Trump's free market hypocrisy when it comes to energy. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-c...
Trump cancels billions in clean energy grants while increasing subsidies for oil and gas
On Oct. 2, the Trump Department of Energy announced it was cancelling over $7.5 billion in federal funding for 223 clean energy projects that the administration argues would be a waste of taxpayer dol...
news.oilandgaswatch.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My latest: Trump's free market hypocrisy when it comes to energy. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-c...
Libraries! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
With Roles as Civic Hubs, Libraries Turn Over a New Page
Cities looking to revive downtowns are increasingly leveraging the ability of public libraries to draw crowds and encourage economic development.
www.bloomberg.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Libraries! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I would like to cancel the standard spelling of 'cancellation' with a double L.
October 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I would like to cancel the standard spelling of 'cancellation' with a double L.
California just opened up more oil drilling in response to pressure related to the fear of rising gas prices and closing refineries. My latest for Oil & Gas Watch. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/deep-bl...
Deep blue California ‘panics’ about refinery closures by allowing more drilling
As recently as a few years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was calling on the state to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas by 2024 and to consider phasing out all oil production statewide by 20...
news.oilandgaswatch.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
California just opened up more oil drilling in response to pressure related to the fear of rising gas prices and closing refineries. My latest for Oil & Gas Watch. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/deep-bl...
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One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪
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I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard - Literary Heist
How Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work stacks up against his greatest hits. I fell under the spell of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard...
www.literaryheist.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪
www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...
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My first literary criticism/book review in a long time, published in Literary Heist. It's been nearly a decade since I went through the Knausgaardian looking glass. His newest novel spurred me to write about the experience. www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...
I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard - Literary Heist
How Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work stacks up against his greatest hits. I fell under the spell of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard...
www.literaryheist.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My first literary criticism/book review in a long time, published in Literary Heist. It's been nearly a decade since I went through the Knausgaardian looking glass. His newest novel spurred me to write about the experience. www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...
Hivemind - is there anywhere to do a pull up on the national mall?
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hivemind - is there anywhere to do a pull up on the national mall?
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My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
Delisted for all the wrong reasons. sourcenm.com/2025/08/21/c...
Conservationists: Ending lesser prairie chicken protections could set a troubling precedent • Source New Mexico
Conservationists worry about other species in Permian Basin after the lesser prairie chicken lost Endangered Species protection
sourcenm.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Delisted for all the wrong reasons. sourcenm.com/2025/08/21/c...
It's happened. Rick Perry has become sympathetic. The goal posts keep moving. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's happened. Rick Perry has become sympathetic. The goal posts keep moving. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
EPA chief Lee Zeldin says he's not enforcing the laws to help “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”
How's that going?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
How's that going?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EPA chief Lee Zeldin says he's not enforcing the laws to help “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”
How's that going?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
How's that going?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...
I am weirdly moved by this tomato evolving into potato story.
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I am weirdly moved by this tomato evolving into potato story.
I think maybe the EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones, but hey...Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...
www.epa.gov
July 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think maybe the EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones, but hey...Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
I think maybe the Trump EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones...but hey, Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
July 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I think maybe the Trump EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones...but hey, Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
Seriously?
U.S. Interior Department officials laud Sable Offshore for resuming oil and gas production without necessary state permits from platforms off California’s coast that were involved in a 2015 spill, calling it a “comeback story for Pacific production.”
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
U.S. Interior Department officials laud Sable Offshore for resuming oil and gas production without necessary state permits from platforms off California’s coast that were involved in a 2015 spill, calling it a “comeback story for Pacific production.”
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Interior touts resurrection of California oil rigs
Sable Offshore is restarting three platforms, even as California regulators pursue cease-and-desist orders against the developer's related pipeline work.
www.eenews.net
July 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Seriously?
U.S. Interior Department officials laud Sable Offshore for resuming oil and gas production without necessary state permits from platforms off California’s coast that were involved in a 2015 spill, calling it a “comeback story for Pacific production.”
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
U.S. Interior Department officials laud Sable Offshore for resuming oil and gas production without necessary state permits from platforms off California’s coast that were involved in a 2015 spill, calling it a “comeback story for Pacific production.”
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
What's a recent news story that might make a good short story if fictionalized?
July 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What's a recent news story that might make a good short story if fictionalized?
Happy Gilmore 2 might not just be the movie we deserve this year, but also the one we need. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKzR...
Happy Gilmore 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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July 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Gilmore 2 might not just be the movie we deserve this year, but also the one we need. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKzR...