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This would have been shocking a year ago. Now it just seems par for the course in a landscape of billionaires showing their true colors. It's the speed of normalization that's most astounding. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Let me distract you with some good news for weekend reading: I have a story in the March @sciam.bsky.social, which I've been working on for a year, about a local US movement that wants to make a major agricultural crop safer and healthier — and is succeeding. That crop is: Flowers.

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"Microsoft, which arguably has more data than anybody else about the health of the generative AI industry and its potential for growth, has decided that it needs to dramatically slow down its [data center] expansion."

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If CA keeps developing offshore wind energy, "there needs to be some kind of structural accountability," says CEJA's Energy Justice Mgr @heenasayshey.bsky.social. She calls out the pattern of the "black box" where community feedback is collected but never addressed. www.newsdata.com/california_e...

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I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

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"Most of E.P.A.’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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Why did it take me 3 weeks to do this?

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“When the EPA made a grant to us and grants to other awardees, there’s an official contract that the government enters into,” said Tim Mayopoulos, the CEO of Power Forward Communities. “The agreement has not been terminated, and we have an obligation to fulfill it.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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If this trojan horse, anti-science, timber-industry-wishlist bill passes the Senate, you can kiss our federal forests goodbye. Please take action to stop the 'Fix Our Forests' Act -- here's one easy way to do this, but any way is better than not acting. 🌏

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"Some days the grants are there. On others, some disappear. 'It seems to change every day or even every few hours. So trying to operate these big, consequential programs under that much uncertainty is really an enormous challenge.'" www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

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Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer known for hit songs like “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” and "Killing Me Softly with His Song", has passed away at the age of 88.

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An important story on wildland firefighter health that I've been working on for months: 19thnews.org/2025/02/canc...

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

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"It appears that the homeland security spending would pay for more border wall construction & a large detention & deportation operation. The scale of resources committed goes well beyond any narrow effort related to people convicted of crimes." www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

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"Industry consolidation makes both the risks of avian flu and egg price hikes worse." www.foodandpower.net/latest/egg-p...

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I'll be telling more about Abigail's story soon.

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"[California's high speed rail] currently has $4.3 billion in unspent federal dollars; it's unclear if the Trump administration can actually take the money away. But any lack of support jeopardizes the future of the project." www.torched.la/trump-derail...

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New EO includes plan to try to eliminate the Presidio Trust.

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A few people have kindly lobbed this into the tl, but here's my own gift link: Me, in NYT Opinion, arguing we're not failing to handle H5N1 flu in cattle because the response is based on plans for bird flu in poultry and doesn't match dairy farming structures. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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Helene was the deadliest storm to hit the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina and yet the reporting on its aftermath has been minimal by comparison. This piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social is worth your time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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We enjoyed talking with @awoenam.com about getting around LA without a car, micromobility, the link between affordable housing and safe streets, and how to prevent bike lanes from spurring gentrification. caclimateequity.substack.com/p/what-will-...

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Interesting: Canada is buying 500,000 doses of #GSK 's #H5N1 vaccine "as part of ... contingency planning to protect people who may be at increased risk of being exposed to the virus through [infected] animals." Wonder what would trigger a decision to use it? www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Thousands of Black families moved into the middle class through government employment. The Trump administration is upending that sense of stability. capitalbnews.org/black-federa...

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The UK uses almost its entire land area overseas again to feed itself. That’s just food—not other resources. You don’t have to be a scientist to know that’s not sustainable. You can feed 4x more people per hectare on a plant-based diet. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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Avian flu isn’t a threat to the general public — yet! Right now, it’s a huge threat to farm workers. They are a firewall protecting the rest of the country. If we don’t protect farm workers, we can’t protect the public.

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“They were buying down future risk,” said Erin Sikorsky, director of the Center for Climate and Security and a former U.S. intelligence official. “Invest a little today so we don’t have to spend a lot in the future when things metastasize.” Thanks to Somini Sengupta for this important piece.

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The reversals of changes that took the longest fights are stinging the most right now.

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👋 Were you already cutting back the number of work flights you take per year out of concern for the climate? Has the mess at the FAA hastened the decision? I'd like to hear about it for a potential article.

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I’m proud of the work I’ve done to help small farmers, both here in Maine and across the country. That’s what makes the indiscriminate cuts happening right now at the USDA so heartbreaking (and enraging). People don’t realize the impacts this will have on our country’s farmers—and on all of us.

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Woman hospitalized in Wyoming with #Birdflu she likely had contact with infected flock at her home abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...

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"The layoffs included hundreds of workers at the Bonneville Power Administration, a self-funded entity in the Pacific Northwest that controls more than 75% of the region’s high-voltage transmission lines, as well as the flow of electricity from 31 federal dams and one nuclear power plant."

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They’re glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed! No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed.

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Looking to hear the voices behind California climate stories? We’ve created a starter pack of journalists and media professionals across the state who are just that.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it won’t order soil testing at properties charred by the fires. This breaks with a long-standing safeguard to ensure no lingering contamination is left behind after fires, my colleague Tony Briscoe reports: www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

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"The largest California award at risk is a nearly $500 million grant for the South Coast AQMD ... [the region engulfed in pollution from the shipping/warehouse industry] for charging stations and electric trucks, freight-carrying vehicles, cargo-handling equipment and trains to deliver goods."

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As someone who grew up in a dictatorship in which the president is essentially a monarch to whom the rule of law does not apply, I am stunned by how many among my American friends are not alarmed by everything that is unfolding right now. Democracy is precious and surprisingly fragile.

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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This piece by Susan Freinkel serves as an antidote to so much of the simplistic, dehumanizing writing about homelessness in San Francisco. sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...

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NEW: Trump is freezing money for clean energy — batteries, EVs, renewables, heat pumps, and more. Nearly 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act have flowed to Republican congressional districts. w/ Lisa Friedman & @bradplumer.bsky.social 👇 Gift link in reply

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"Reparations and landback should be multi-pronged approaches, where people can access resources and assets in the form that works for them. Even more importantly, there is a need for both groups to be in solidarity." civileats.com/2025/02/03/b...

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This is a good long read on the carbon capture and storage plans in CA's Central Valley. When the Dolores Huerta Foundation & UC Merced surveyed 100s of disadvantaged Kern residents re where they wanted to see more jobs, top answers = solar, wind, and oil well abandonment. grist.org/energy/taft-...

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That's good but "ordering" them how? Who is going to make sure they comply? The answer, we're seeing with all these court orders, is no one. And Musk has plainly said he doesn't give a shit. So now what?

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Farmers who signed USDA contracts under the Inflation Reduction Act paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems. Now, with that money frozen, they’re on the hook. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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I don’t only care about climate change because I’m a scientist. I care about climate change because I’m a mom. Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love? Read more:

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"I’ve trained my kids to win the “moral high ground” & defend it at all costs. Those, however, are strategies for another era ... Ruthlessness. Cunning. Guile. These are the skills the Thinkers of the future need." - The amazing @elienyc.bsky.social 🎯 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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