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with the end of the shutdown looming, here's my look for @wired.com into what life has been like for EPA employees over the past five weeks: little to no heads up about who was getting furloughed next, important projects getting put on the back burner while deregulation moves forward:
The EPA Is in Chaos
“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
with the end of the shutdown looming, here's my look for @wired.com into what life has been like for EPA employees over the past five weeks: little to no heads up about who was getting furloughed next, important projects getting put on the back burner while deregulation moves forward:
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This administration seems determined to threaten the most basic of human rights, including food access. Join us for this month’s Livable Future Live on November 19, where our team will share how these policies endanger people’s lives. RSVP now: http://fwwat.ch/4qrgIJe
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This administration seems determined to threaten the most basic of human rights, including food access. Join us for this month’s Livable Future Live on November 19, where our team will share how these policies endanger people’s lives. RSVP now: http://fwwat.ch/4qrgIJe
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Fossil fuels are bad for the planet and health. Our new report shows how coal, oil & methane gas harm every system of the body at every stage of life. Learn more: psr.org/fuelingsickness
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fossil fuels are bad for the planet and health. Our new report shows how coal, oil & methane gas harm every system of the body at every stage of life. Learn more: psr.org/fuelingsickness
NEW! Updated gas appliance section of the 9th ed #fracking science Compendium, w/ nearly 3x the number of studies we had 2 yrs ago. More data on carcinogenic & respiratory-harming emissions, and health & economic benefits of converting gas appliances to #electric.
W/ @psr.org
tinyurl.com/2s4v7pmn
W/ @psr.org
tinyurl.com/2s4v7pmn
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NEW! Updated gas appliance section of the 9th ed #fracking science Compendium, w/ nearly 3x the number of studies we had 2 yrs ago. More data on carcinogenic & respiratory-harming emissions, and health & economic benefits of converting gas appliances to #electric.
W/ @psr.org
tinyurl.com/2s4v7pmn
W/ @psr.org
tinyurl.com/2s4v7pmn
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Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
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Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it?
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now
Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...
coveringclimatenow.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it?
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
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NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
“We need to do the right thing for the next generation.”
— home energy fair volunteer Rachel Kutzley
— home energy fair volunteer Rachel Kutzley
How to keep going at a time of great challenge for climate and clean energy? @dangearino.bsky.social went to a home energy fair in his hometown and found an antidote to cynicism.
A Home Energy Fair Offers a Counter Narrative to Cynicism About Climate Change - Inside Climate News
There are opportunities for local progress on climate, even when the federal government abdicates its role.
insideclimatenews.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“We need to do the right thing for the next generation.”
— home energy fair volunteer Rachel Kutzley
— home energy fair volunteer Rachel Kutzley
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
New UCLA data on #AlisoCanyon disaster: #Methane plumes from the Aliso Canyon #GasStorage blowout reached at least 6.2 miles downwind, into #PorterRanch.
Also confirmed earlier estimates of total emissions: nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Also confirmed earlier estimates of total emissions: nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Remote sensing helps confirm Aliso Canyon methane plumes traveled at least 6.2 miles downwind during blowout
Using a mix of airborne and satellite images as well as data from ground sensors, a UCLA-led research team has reconstructed how the shape and reach of the methane plumes from the 2015–16 Aliso Canyon...
phys.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New UCLA data on #AlisoCanyon disaster: #Methane plumes from the Aliso Canyon #GasStorage blowout reached at least 6.2 miles downwind, into #PorterRanch.
Also confirmed earlier estimates of total emissions: nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Also confirmed earlier estimates of total emissions: nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer
Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage
always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage
always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer
Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage
always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage
always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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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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More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden.
The Trump administration is rolling them back
By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
The Trump administration is rolling them back
By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden.
The Trump administration is rolling them back
By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
The Trump administration is rolling them back
By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Let's talk about the dangers that fracking poses to human health.
Attend the webinar, Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm
bit.ly/frackinghealthharms
Attend the webinar, Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm
bit.ly/frackinghealthharms
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Truth about Fracking’s Harms to Human Health. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a webinar with Dr. Kathy Nolan, a Compendium author The Delaware River Frack Ban and Climate Action Coalition invites you to join us for a deep dive into how the development of fracking…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Let's talk about the dangers that fracking poses to human health.
Attend the webinar, Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm
bit.ly/frackinghealthharms
Attend the webinar, Thursday, October 30th, 7:00pm
bit.ly/frackinghealthharms
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🆕 #LancetClimate25 health threads of climate change at record-high levels:
+23% heat-related deaths/1990
📈Air pollution from wildfires; dengue
🤢#fossilfuels taking lives &💲public money
❤️🩹But, life-saving impact of action are reals: 160,000 lives saved yearly from shift away from coal
t.co/tqZFF18GwJ
+23% heat-related deaths/1990
📈Air pollution from wildfires; dengue
🤢#fossilfuels taking lives &💲public money
❤️🩹But, life-saving impact of action are reals: 160,000 lives saved yearly from shift away from coal
t.co/tqZFF18GwJ
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🆕 #LancetClimate25 health threads of climate change at record-high levels:
+23% heat-related deaths/1990
📈Air pollution from wildfires; dengue
🤢#fossilfuels taking lives &💲public money
❤️🩹But, life-saving impact of action are reals: 160,000 lives saved yearly from shift away from coal
t.co/tqZFF18GwJ
+23% heat-related deaths/1990
📈Air pollution from wildfires; dengue
🤢#fossilfuels taking lives &💲public money
❤️🩹But, life-saving impact of action are reals: 160,000 lives saved yearly from shift away from coal
t.co/tqZFF18GwJ
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Experts say the continued use of atrazine, known as the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S. after glyphosate, will likely harm hundreds of endangered species, rendering some extinct.
Trump Administration Dismisses Risks of Atrazine, a Farm Herbicide
Experts say the chemical’s continued use will likely harm hundreds of endangered species, rendering some extinct.
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Experts say the continued use of atrazine, known as the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S. after glyphosate, will likely harm hundreds of endangered species, rendering some extinct.
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Friday's decision was a HUGE win for the climate movement, Citizen Action of NY, and our allies.
"We are glad to see Judge Schreibman decisively reject Governor Hochul and DEC’s excuses for delay and their ongoing attempts to derail climate action."
"We are glad to see Judge Schreibman decisively reject Governor Hochul and DEC’s excuses for delay and their ongoing attempts to derail climate action."
BREAKING: New York is violating its flagship climate law, a judge ruled Friday.
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules
The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found.
nysfocus.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Friday's decision was a HUGE win for the climate movement, Citizen Action of NY, and our allies.
"We are glad to see Judge Schreibman decisively reject Governor Hochul and DEC’s excuses for delay and their ongoing attempts to derail climate action."
"We are glad to see Judge Schreibman decisively reject Governor Hochul and DEC’s excuses for delay and their ongoing attempts to derail climate action."
"It’s necessary to bring the data to politicians so that they can make the right decisions. If science is combined with legislation, we can build a better world for all."
#Fracking #Mexico
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#Fracking #Mexico
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Sandra Steingraber, environmentalist: ‘Fracking is one of the worst US technologies since the atomic bomb’
As the Mexican government considers using this process again to increase dwindling oil reserves, the activist and scientist warns of the social and environmental consequences
english.elpais.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"It’s necessary to bring the data to politicians so that they can make the right decisions. If science is combined with legislation, we can build a better world for all."
#Fracking #Mexico
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
#Fracking #Mexico
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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The onslaught is constant - but this is a helpful data point in the generational impact of the war on academia. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The onslaught is constant - but this is a helpful data point in the generational impact of the war on academia. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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To the artists, scholars, advocates, journalists, writers, historians, lawyers, entrepreneurs, policy folks, thank you for your good work. To address plastics is to work for human rights, climate stability, human health, environmental justice, global unity, & the rights of future generations. 🙏🙏🙏
Plastics have woven their way into the fabric of every ecosystem, into everything & everyone, into strata & time, but it has also woven a web of us, & introduced me to people who also work for change, whose presence in the world makes the work all the more meaningful. W/ thx #plasticstreaty #envhist
October 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
To the artists, scholars, advocates, journalists, writers, historians, lawyers, entrepreneurs, policy folks, thank you for your good work. To address plastics is to work for human rights, climate stability, human health, environmental justice, global unity, & the rights of future generations. 🙏🙏🙏
"If we are to develop moral maturity as a culture we will have to evolve beyond our technophilia and develop principles for covenants with the natural world and with each other.
"We can do this."
Don't miss this new essay from SEHN ED @carolynraff.bsky.social:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
"We can do this."
Don't miss this new essay from SEHN ED @carolynraff.bsky.social:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
A Morally Mature Culture — The Science and Environmental Health Network
By Carolyn Raffensperger, SEHN executive director In 2009, I wrote an essay about a morally mature culture. I am revisiting the concept (and the essay) because of the looming environmental disasters...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"If we are to develop moral maturity as a culture we will have to evolve beyond our technophilia and develop principles for covenants with the natural world and with each other.
"We can do this."
Don't miss this new essay from SEHN ED @carolynraff.bsky.social:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
"We can do this."
Don't miss this new essay from SEHN ED @carolynraff.bsky.social:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
"A new #DataCenter has been proposed for your town. What do you think? What do your neighbors think?
A lot of communities doubt the benefits of data centers, and many are opposing them outright."
Don't miss SEHN fellow Peter Montague's new essay on what to ask and do:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
A lot of communities doubt the benefits of data centers, and many are opposing them outright."
Don't miss SEHN fellow Peter Montague's new essay on what to ask and do:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
When a Data Center Proposal Comes to Your Town — The Science and Environmental Health Network
By Peter Montague, SEHN fellow A new data center has been proposed for your town. What do you think? What do your neighbors think? A lot of communities doubt the benefits of data centers, and many ...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"A new #DataCenter has been proposed for your town. What do you think? What do your neighbors think?
A lot of communities doubt the benefits of data centers, and many are opposing them outright."
Don't miss SEHN fellow Peter Montague's new essay on what to ask and do:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
A lot of communities doubt the benefits of data centers, and many are opposing them outright."
Don't miss SEHN fellow Peter Montague's new essay on what to ask and do:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
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The Trump administration just skirted normal channels for hiring directors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences—during a hiring freeze—to appoint a scientist who calls JD Vance one of his “closest friends.”
Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News
Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.
insideclimatenews.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Trump administration just skirted normal channels for hiring directors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences—during a hiring freeze—to appoint a scientist who calls JD Vance one of his “closest friends.”
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BREAKING: New York is violating its flagship climate law, a judge ruled Friday.
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules
The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found.
nysfocus.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: New York is violating its flagship climate law, a judge ruled Friday.
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
The Hochul administration now has until February 6 to issue major regulations to cap emissions.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...