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It’s a wrap: “Is Jeff Bezos more worried about an angry phone call from the White House than his paper’s journalistic duty?”…institutions we used to rely on to defend our democracy are dropping the ball.” @jonita_jonita @CJR www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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Study shows brake dust can be toxic too: “it suggests that policies solely targeting exhaust emissions will not fully mitigate the risks of traffic-related pollutants.” @rachelxkeenan @guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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SEJ joins over 40 groups protesting Trump administration #press attacks: “This is how authoritarian regimes operate — by crushing dissent, punishing those who expose inconvenient facts and replacing truth with propaganda” @sejorg www.sej.org/sej-signs-jo... #journalism

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Tesla’s global sales are down. A boycott could drive them down further: “The company’s global vehicle sales fell in 2024…its profit margins have been shrinking. The Cybertruck, Tesla’s first new product in years, has flopped” @DavidZipper @Slate slate.com/business/202...

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The rising pollution costs of big tech: “Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy needed to run data centres has been linked to treating cancers, asthma and other related issues” @CristinaCriddle @stephistacey @FT www.ft.com/content/d595...

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I worked on a 1990 PBS Frontline with Bill Moyers called Global Dumping Ground. Still true today: “The most insidious problem of the globalized trash trade is that it’s out of sight, out of mind…It’s the rest of the world’s problem now.” @SheilaMcClear www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Never forget: “Do not be indifferent when you hear lies, historical lies…Do not be indifferent when you see the past is stretched to fit the current political needs. Do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated against.” @harrisondsmith www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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A case of climate change denial: judge rules oil companies should face claims in Puerto Rico “accusing them of misleading the public about climate change and conspiring to suppress clean energy alternatives.” @MikeScarcella @reuters www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... #climatechange

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Follow the money: the incredible shrinking claims of waste, fraud and abuse. “More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money.” @WSJ

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Why investigative reporting is critical to revealing the dark secrets of the world we live in.

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Follow the money: deep dive into the misplaced cuts of DOGE. "They’re breaking the wrong things.” @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Meltdown: world’s glacier melt is speeding up as ice disappears. “Over the past decade or so, glacier losses were more than a third higher than during the period 2000-2011.” @MarkPoynting @BBCWorld www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Code pink: “As rates of aerial fire retardant application have grown, likely so too have loadings of toxic metals released into the environment…which may intensify if wildfire frequency and intensity continues to increase” @PomTerkins @Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Record heatwave in Western Australia decimates coral reefs: “It's [bleaching] just everywhere…We won't know the full extent until May, we're still going to have another couple of months of hot weather." @petedekruijff @abcnews www.abc.net.au/news/science...

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Strong speeches against unprecedented attacks on journalists by award-winning journalists tonight at the National Press Foundation awards dinner. Journalism is stronger when it works together to fight assaults on democracy and freedom of the press. @NatPress #media

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This is happening in full view of the public. Where is Congress? Oh yeah…

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US Energy Sec on #climate: “A warmer planet with more CO2 is better for growing plants…And we have far more people die of the cold than die of the heat. So everything has a trade-off…There’s pluses to global warming as well as negatives.” open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/t… @emorwee

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Cut now, pay later? “Deep cuts to staffing levels would make it harder for HUD to prevent fraud, waste and abuse…dictated by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, whose stated goal is to reduce fraud, waste and abuse.” @cflav @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...

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Don't look up: despite CA's devastating wildfires, few films last year focused on the world's greatest threat: "Hollywood is learning firsthand that it’s on the front lines of climate change”latimes.com/environment/ne… @Sammy_Roth @latimes www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Sharing American values: “We are proud that Donald Trump Jr….chose our Veneto region for a unique experience. This demonstrates the attractiveness of our region and the value of our traditions” @VivianHo @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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China use a battery technology that's cheaper, safer and longer-lasting. So why isn't it used in the US? "...there will be some homegrown LFP chemistries in the next couple years, and we’ll start to see it … grow quite rapidly" wapo.st/4hKizUx @nicolasfurivero www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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Trump's emphasis on drill baby drill stifles big clean energy #wind projects: “They’re pretty much shutting them down now...around the whole East Coast, they are pretty much dead.” wapo.st/4i14rpG @jakespring @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Lunacy: “Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has added to the alarm by launching an online database last week identifying more than 3,400 grants funded by the National Science Foundation that he said promote “advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.” @politico www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Woodstock for oil companies and conspiratorialists: "an effort to “re-lay the foundations of civilization,” the conference will feature panels about energy and environment that are filled with prominent deniers of the climate crisis" @DeSmog www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...

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New Kia compact EV4 should rock the #EV market. Where’s @Tesla? www.cars.com/articles/kia...

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Kashing in: “Patel reported income of over $2.1 million…through the firm Trishul, LLC, of which he is a managing member. He reported clients such as a Czech arms company…and a Russian filmmaker with ties to the Kremlin.” @OpenSecretsDC www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/02...

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Smart: “In a similar way to how we use monitoring stations to detect and warn for tsunamis, we’re aiming to establish networks of climate monitoring systems to detect early signs of critical shifts in our climate” @dpcarrington @guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climate

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Our team’s phones are blowing up with accounts from DRC “We are not just individuals caught in the chaos, but we are wildlife defenders, advocates for peace, allies of the community — each carrying a deep sense of responsibility to our families & our work I fear something catastrophic is coming.”

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Critics: payback for the fossil fuel industry. “Climate-related risk is among the most significant financial risks…Simply ignoring the risk won’t make it go away for investors, nor for the economy and our financial system.” @PeterWhoriskey www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Trump & DOGE to nation’s nuclear weapons workers: You’re fired! Just kidding. Please come back! “Cutting the federal workforce responsible for these functions may be seen as reckless at best and adversarily opportunistic at worst.” @TaraCopp @AP apnews.com/article/nuclea…

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KY flooding disaster is part of an increasing climate threat: the 13th disaster declaration in 5 years killed at least 11 with a record 340 roads closed; worst flooding event in 2022, killed 45 people; worst tornado outbreak in 2021 killed 81 people. Sense a pattern here? x.com/pamelabrownc... @CNN

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Tesla’s fast supercharging network opens to more car makers: “The German brand has been officially listed among eight NACS partners on Tesla’s website, while five more EV manufacturers are “coming soon” — BMW, Genesis, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, and Kia.” evchargingstations.com/chargingnews... #EV

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Scientists find massive leak of #methane in Antarctica: “We have estimated that in this area there are some 24 gigatons of carbon accumulated in methane hydrates, an amount equivalent to what all of humanity emits in two years” @manuelansede @el_pais english.elpais.com/climate/2025...

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Drill baby drill trumps a clean energy future.

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Atoning for #slavery: “We know that in the landscape of social justice that a billion dollars is a drop in the bucket…but it shows a moral response to a very sinful past that we hope and pray is a model for thousands of organizations” @typewriterninja @USAToday www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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You’re fired: Ooops wrong guy. Not a lot of confidence in who’s managing US nuclear weapons: “Congress is freaking out because it appears DOE didn’t really realize NNSA oversees the nuclear stockpile” @CNN @Rene_MarshCNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Fired then rehired: not a way to manage the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. “I intend to keep looking for work…I will go back, but as soon as I find another role, I’ll be leaving.” @NBCNews @PeterAlexander @alexandramrqz www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Just in time for bid flu: "Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the CDC -- roughly one-tenth of the agency's workforce -- are being forced out..." @AP www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

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Uh oh: Trump ordered federal agencies “to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection — potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.” @AP apnews.com/article/trum...

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If a reporter did this he/she would be fired! "Over half (51%) of the AI answers had contained “significant issues of some form,” 19% of answers “introduced factual errors — incorrect factual statements, numbers, and dates" niemanlab.org/2025/02/bbc-... @NiemanLab @laurahazardowen

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Climate and environment funding threatened: "The E.P.A. has also “temporarily paused” grants to help schools buy electric buses, ports clean up air pollution and states monitor air quality in low-income areas" messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend... @nytimes

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The latest on The Money Trail. The Fire Aid concert supported victims of wildfires fueled by #climatechange. But its sponsors were part of the problem: "The four banks that sponsored FireAid were among the world’s largest fossil fuel industry financiers" @ElliottNegin themoneytrail.substack.com

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For peats sake, experts say protect swamps and peatlands to fight #climate change. “Though peatlands constitute only 3 percent of Earth’s surface, they store more carbon than all of the world’s forests combined.” @dino_grandoni @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Good piece on the ways sports teams can cut pollution and shine a light on #climate change: “If teams start taking climate change seriously, others might follow along.” @Sammy_Roth @latimes www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Are Generative AI platforms guilty of greenwashing? This report says yes: “it is essential that they are designed and safeguarded in ways that prevent their capture by fossil fuel companies’ own misleading narratives.” @Global_Witness www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

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Clean energy is increasingly cheaper than fossil fuels. For businesses that’s a winning message: “In the great horserace of life ... ‘always back self-interest ... what’s in it for me.’ ” @borenbears @alexa_stjohn @AP apnews.com/article/clim...

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SEJ joins groups to protest the Trump administration’s removal of public data: “we object strenuously to the removal of public data and information about science, health and the environment from more than a dozen U.S. government websites.” @sejorg www.sej.org/protecting-p...

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The more the merrier. #climate

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Where are the billionaires’ voices on climate now? “The muted response marks an about face for these billionaires.” @dgelles @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/c...

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Case of the disappearing data: “the most glaring deletions from the current administration has been the removal of the White House pages on the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)” @NSArchive nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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