Rowland Willets
@rowlandwillets.bsky.social
Software Engineer & Amateur Photographer. Interested in Nature, Conservation & Rewilding.
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Europe considers these pesticides too toxic for use at home - yet exports them to other countries✈️
This double standard is deadly and needs to end.
🌍 Watch civil society and farmer organisations around the world send them back to Brussels 👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports #StopEUMercosur
This double standard is deadly and needs to end.
🌍 Watch civil society and farmer organisations around the world send them back to Brussels 👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports #StopEUMercosur
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Europe considers these pesticides too toxic for use at home - yet exports them to other countries✈️
This double standard is deadly and needs to end.
🌍 Watch civil society and farmer organisations around the world send them back to Brussels 👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports #StopEUMercosur
This double standard is deadly and needs to end.
🌍 Watch civil society and farmer organisations around the world send them back to Brussels 👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports #StopEUMercosur
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
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A carbon capture project at Drax would blow the UK's entire carbon capture budget, and then some.
As the Chancellor is delivering her Budget, can the UK really afford £30 billion on Drax's tree burning?
www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
#CutCarbonNotForests
As the Chancellor is delivering her Budget, can the UK really afford £30 billion on Drax's tree burning?
www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
#CutCarbonNotForests
Drax carbon removal project could exceed entire carbon capture budget - Energy Live News
Drax’s BECCS project may cost £30 billion in subsidies, exceeding the UK’s full carbon capture budget
www.energylivenews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A carbon capture project at Drax would blow the UK's entire carbon capture budget, and then some.
As the Chancellor is delivering her Budget, can the UK really afford £30 billion on Drax's tree burning?
www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
#CutCarbonNotForests
As the Chancellor is delivering her Budget, can the UK really afford £30 billion on Drax's tree burning?
www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
#CutCarbonNotForests
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Absolute Units returns tomorrow! We're back again with the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, continuing our conversation about land use under capitalism, colonial agriculture, and divisions between town and country.
Listen to part 1 below or search Absolute Units on your podcast app of choice 👉
Listen to part 1 below or search Absolute Units on your podcast app of choice 👉
New Absolute Units is here!
Throughout history, people have pitted town & country against each other. Where does this dynamic come from? And how do we transcend it?
In this two-part episode, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social joins us to explore these questions & more.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Throughout history, people have pitted town & country against each other. Where does this dynamic come from? And how do we transcend it?
In this two-part episode, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social joins us to explore these questions & more.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Absolute Units returns tomorrow! We're back again with the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, continuing our conversation about land use under capitalism, colonial agriculture, and divisions between town and country.
Listen to part 1 below or search Absolute Units on your podcast app of choice 👉
Listen to part 1 below or search Absolute Units on your podcast app of choice 👉
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.
Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
Code UFB!!!
The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.
Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.
Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
Code UFB!!!
The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.
Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.
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🔴 NEW 🔴
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
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"The Trump administration's continued attack against renewable energy puts 510 solar and storage projects across the country at risk," according to new analysis from the Solar Energy Industries Association shared with Kelsey Tamborrino: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... 🔌💡
POLITICO Pro: Solar group tallies 500-plus projects at potential risk from Trump attacks
The projects represent a total 116 gigawatts of capacity.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"The Trump administration's continued attack against renewable energy puts 510 solar and storage projects across the country at risk," according to new analysis from the Solar Energy Industries Association shared with Kelsey Tamborrino: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... 🔌💡
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what’s funny is that billions in investments are being rejected every week by communities who don’t want this “economic growth”
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth. www.wired.com/story/data-c...
The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
what’s funny is that billions in investments are being rejected every week by communities who don’t want this “economic growth”
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere?
I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill ⬇️
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill ⬇️
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'Our government is about to sign a "license to kill" wildlife and no one is talking about it'
Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere?
www.bristol247.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere?
I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill ⬇️
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill ⬇️
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year.
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year.
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Starmer’s tariff pact with Trump back in May was lauded by MPs and the media. But now we get into the detail.
Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador
Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Starmer’s tariff pact with Trump back in May was lauded by MPs and the media. But now we get into the detail.
Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
Trump, like a mafia boss, is demanding we pay his Big Pharma mates prices which will put intolerable strain on the NHS and cost lives.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
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🚨🚨 #Starmer government has just made one more step in throwing away any climate credentials it had - it has just awarded #Drax a further four years subsidies as the UK's biggest carbon emitter
@dalevince.com
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
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@rupertread.bsky.social
Drax has signed a low-carbon contract for difference with the UK government covering its four biomass units, finalizing an agreement that analysts had expected to be delayed until next year
UK’s Drax Finalizes Deal For Government Biomass Subsidies
Drax Group Plc has signed a low-carbon contract for difference with the UK government covering its four biomass units, finalizing an agreement that analysts had expected to be delayed until next year.
bloom.bg
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨🚨 #Starmer government has just made one more step in throwing away any climate credentials it had - it has just awarded #Drax a further four years subsidies as the UK's biggest carbon emitter
@dalevince.com
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.
We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.
Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets
Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.
We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.
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And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠
UK Chancellor is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills
It would be **such** a foolish thing to do given the impact well-delivered efficiency has on energy bills, health & well being, fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It would be **such** a foolish thing to do given the impact well-delivered efficiency has on energy bills, health & well being, fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠
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The UK’s biggest carbon emitter & world’s biggest tree burner will be able to continue harming forests, the climate, wildlife & communities, with subsidies paid via our electricity bills.
It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests
It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests
GOVERNMENT SIGNS UP TO 4 MORE YEARS OF TREE BURNING AT DRAX read more here www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/governm...
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The UK’s biggest carbon emitter & world’s biggest tree burner will be able to continue harming forests, the climate, wildlife & communities, with subsidies paid via our electricity bills.
It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests
It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests
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UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
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The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.
The world took his theory as gospel.
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The world took his theory as gospel.
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Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds
Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that even advanced climate intervention strategies may not be enough to secure the future of wine grapes, coffee and cacao. These crops are vital to many economies and provide livelihoods for farmers worldwide. However, they are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Rising temperatures […]
The post Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds appeared first on IOP Publishing.
dlvr.it
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.
The world took his theory as gospel.
1/n
The world took his theory as gospel.
1/n
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The latest report from the RBBP, Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2023, is out now in British Birds. It reports on the 104 species and races of rare breeding birds recording breeding, or showing signs of breeding, in 2023. Read the summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #ornithology #ukbirds 🧵[1/15]
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The latest report from the RBBP, Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2023, is out now in British Birds. It reports on the 104 species and races of rare breeding birds recording breeding, or showing signs of breeding, in 2023. Read the summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #ornithology #ukbirds 🧵[1/15]
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The fall of the CBS News climate team
- David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
- David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
The fall of the CBS News climate team
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The fall of the CBS News climate team
- David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
- David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...