The objective is rush forward to get the majority-right Supreme Count to overturn its previous ruling that EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions if they caused harm (as they undeniably do) without specific Congressional legislation.

Trump morons preparing to roll back the endangerment finding that underpins Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gasses. Will be a big legal fight over this. apnews.com/article/trum...

He’s going to try to re-rename it the Gulf of Trump, isn’t he.

Back story of Trump administration push to rescind climate change endangerment finding. It's an ideological vendetta by Vought, Clark et al., not corporate interests. They know the case is legally & scientifically weak, but are bound and determined. Resist! Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

More disturbing news today about the removal of scientific evidence from decision-making processes in our federal government. Censoring educational materials about the climate crisis will not make it go away - it will just make our public institutions less equipped to deal with it.

Study may also look at ways to reduce use of Bonnet Carre Spillway during high river periods to reduce freshwater flowing into Mississippi Sound and killing oysters and causing algae blooms that hurt beach tourism www.nola.com/news/environ...

I know they're referring to the physical act of removing coal from the ground, which is awful enough, but "Mine, Baby, Mine" should be this sociopathic administration's official slogan. And Coalie can be its planet-destroying mascot. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

This is an excellent depiction of air mass modification over the NE Gulf of Mexico. Cold, continental air moving over a much warmer ocean basin, resulting in strong latent heat fluxes (rising air moving down-gradient), and hence cloud street formation.

Researchers used high resolution imagery and machine learning to identify area with many dead trees to locate coastal ghost forest hot spots from SC to ME. Picture is from Ycloskey in coastal LA. This was forest when I went fishing there as a kid. wapo.st/3ZHTRNb

It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

Kudos to @andrewdessler.com and the 83 scientists who joined us in critiquing DOE’s July climate report: it turns out that, with the weakness of that report exposed, OIRA staff concerned that maybe the science does show that climate change harms health and welfare archive.ph/d8xEG

🌊🧪 At the 2026 State of Science, Steve Murawski of the University of South Florida College of Marine Science shared insights from the Tampa Bay Surveillance Project, which is studying contaminants in local waters and their impacts on ecosystems and community health.

"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming." Gift link.

I worked to help inform landmark legislation that set goal of 60% reduction in Maryland's greenhouse gas emissions by 2031. But meeting such goals requires actions. Trump Administration, data centers and reactions to energy costs have made this harder. marylandmatters.org/2026/01/30/m...

Free my fellow Louisianan Don Lemon!

Washington Post reports this morning that OMB has held up EPA's final rule rescinding its 2009 Endangerment Finding on climate change because its scientific analysis is too flawed to withstand court challenge. Evidence of the impacts on human health and welfare is now undeniable. wapo.st/4riopkl

I've been an avid reader of @washingtonpost.com during my 48 years in Maryland or Virginia, 34 as a subscriber. Just canceled as I can no longer abide the shift in editorial direction of this once great newspaper. Last straw was editorial justifying Trump withdrawal from UNFCCC & IPCC. Shameful!

Although I don't agree with the writer's call for codification of environmental deregulation of the oil industry, he's right that Trump's push for more drilling and production is really screw, baby, screw to that industry. Gift link. wapo.st/4t2ZV0g

Uh guys, "The NYT's Pro-Big Ag Pundit" who "fervently champions industrial agriculture" just wrote a column about Big Ag using its political clout to turn rivers into sewers. Get me rewrite! nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html

Proposed Congressional redistricting in Maryland could lead to a Chesapeake Bay-centered district with more marine shoreline than any other in the U.S. House. @elfreth.house.gov not intimidated by challenge of knocking off chair of Freedom Caucus.

Documents obtained by EDF and UCS show the objective of DOE Climate Working Group was to call into question EPA endangerment determination. It injected political not scientific considerations, was secrete, purposefully misleading and slap-dash. www.edf.org/media/newly-...

What happens in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't stay in the Gulf! Moisture from exceptionally warm surface waters will fuel heavy snowfall from Texas to New England this weekend. Climate change is real, y'all. Gift link wapo.st/4pQ3xjl

Contractions to @njlcv.bsky.social director @edpotosnak.bsky.social on nomination for commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection!

I just had an alert that a paper I published 52 years ago was cited in a recently published paper— on mangroves in the Niger Delta, of all things. I know this means I am very old, but I am not sure if it means that my work is evergreen.

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

DELTA DOWN: A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t disappearing just because of rising seas, but also because the land itself is sinking as fast or faster. @eplunk.bsky.social reports @agwaterdesk.bsky.social @reportforamerica.bsky.social lailluminator.com/2026/01/15/w...

First NY Times veteran @jswartz.bsky.social transitions to teach journalism at the University of Texas, now former Washington Post Pulitzer winning climate reporter @chriscmooney.bsky.social moves to teach at the other UT, the one on Rocky Top. Both grew up on Gulf Coast. cci.utk.edu/blog/2026/01...

Completely unsurprising, but still a very big deal! Global warming is fundamentally ocean warming.

One of my old friends from my benthic ecologist days. Diverse arrays of amazing animals live in the mud and sand not only along shores but to the deepest part of the oceans.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind The ruling means that construction can continue on Orsted's Revolution Wind, a 704-MW, $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Renewable energy is saving Texans. “If not for the growth in solar and (battery) storage, we would have seen numerous conservation alerts or probably even blackouts,” Rice’s Daniel Cohan said. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

For years it has been argued by Chesapeake Bay oyster fishers that power dredging is necessary to leave shell on the bottom to recruit more oysters. Turns out there is no evidence of that and that dredging reduces shell volume beyond that harvested. bioone.org/journals/jou...

It appears there is no withdraw process for @ipcc.bsky.social, participation in which is voluntary, free and open to all UN and WMO members. So the Trump administration’s supposed withdraw means less than their June firing of all the staff of the State Dept’s Office of Global Change

First bill this year passed by Republican House is likely allow high-flow showerheads again. That's a top priority! Meanwhile, DHHS has also deemed three-martini steak lunches healthy. Up is down, down is up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I had the great pleasure of working with @hoyer.house.gov both as a Member of Congress and Regent of the University System of Maryland. He spent his long career as smart, thoughtful, compassionate, skillful & effective public servant and will be missed. wapo.st/45woj02 @hoyer.house.gov

Welcome to the American petrostate By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024 @BulletinAtomic The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests. thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...

Do tides change under climate change? Here's a global study which uses numerical tidal modelling to quantify the effects of 3 specific drivers which modulate the future tides

Libby Jewett was one of the truly great people at NOAA, now forced into retirement by the Trump Administration. She also happens to be a University of Maryland alum.

Veteran Pulitzer-winning columnist Bob Marshall takes ultra-MAGA Governor (and US Greenland Envoy) Jeff Landry to task for retreating both from science and from the Louisiana coast. www.nola.com/opinions/lan...

The U.S. has to take action to stop the flow of illegal drugs from . . . wait for it . . . Greenland! (But we like Denmark‘s vaccination policy.)

Forty years ago, Californians stopped an ill-conceived federal plan to open our coast to offshore oil and gas drilling. In the decades since, we’ve taken remarkable steps to safeguard our coastal waters. Now the Trump administration is pushing to undo all we’ve accomplished. bit.ly/3Lo2hWp

R/V Glibert Mason is the new regional class vessel next in line after the Narragansett Dawn. It will serve the Gulf of MEXICO and Caribbean. lumcon.edu/rv-gilbert-m...

I'll take it 😎

This is a must read from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social.

Beautiful graphics. Unpleasant message.

I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.

Over the years, my experience has been that when they say "it's not about the oil," it's really about the oil.