This is incredible content: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

“To shutter this facility is, frankly, a national security risk,” Kim Cobb told @bloomberg.com about NCAR, given its cutting-edge work on extreme weather and across fields including machine learning and AI. Story w/ @eroston.bsky.social @willwwade.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New @bloomberg.com: The US plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a key climate-science hub in Boulder, Colorado, which the Trump administration says strayed from its mission decades ago by taking up climate change research. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Brown Daily Herald providing the best updates on the evolving active shooter situation at Brown right now: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

ICYMI Here’s your Friday long read: My in-depth profile story of David Stevenson, the man who crushed America’s offshore wind industry. Thanks to @motherjones.com for republishing. 🙏

New: My essay on living in the beautiful but sure-to-burn Berkeley Hills and how denial in the face of certain catastrophe remains deeply embedded in the California psyche. But the LA fires are forcing a reckoning over how we pursue the California Dream. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Cajun Navy groups may raise a few million dollars in a good year, collectively. As President Trump weighs major changes to FEMA - like shutting it down - some leaders say they wouldn't be able to replace it. Or simply aren't interested. As one put it: "We don't want to end up sucking like them."

Update: As it turns out, the meeting is not currently happening bsky.app/profile/did:...

Getting ready to watch the FEMA Review Council meeting where there will be a presentation on their recommendations for the agency's fate, some discussion, and a vote on the final report. Meeting is slated for 1-3 pm, per the Federal Register

This might be the wildest "pivot to data center" story I've seen. A supersonic aircraft startup that hasn't delivered a single plane raised $300 million to make natural gas turbines to power data centers techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/b...

“When companies don’t do the right thing to support everyone in the workforce, they’re causing women to lean out,” Sandberg said in an interview. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Prime ministers including Itlay's Giorgia Meloni & Poland’s Donald Tusk demanded that an upcoming revision of EU rules for new cars allow plug-in hybrids, range extenders & fuel-cell technology even after 2035, according to a letter seen by @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data Highly recommend reading @eroston.bsky.social's latest story @bloomberg.com on the Zillow/climate drama, available here with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lost in the Stock Figuring out what’s actually in a box of chicken stock shouldn’t be that hard. Right? www.eater.com/23552129/wha... --> A wonderful look at the reality of reporting, as well as a insightful plunge into the abyss of Big Food. Answers all your questions about canned broth.

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

New. Lengthy permitting times are jeopardizing homeowners' ability to claim a 30% federal tax credit for installing solar and battery systems that'll be eliminated by the Trump administration's tax bill as of Jan. 1. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hello on this mildly snowy Friday from the DC federal courthouse, where the Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, election certification is set to make his first court appearance. Stay tuned. Prev: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US oil refiners and biofuel producers, which have at times been at odds on biofuel policy, are finding some common ground.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive @bloomberg.com: Refiners, Biofuel Producers Ask Trump For Year Round E15 Sales Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I guess I’m not surprised but the characterization of people re: Zillow as being either “for” or “against” climate transparency is so simplistic. You can be all for climate data and also questioning whether products like First Street are appropriate for property level risk assessment.

Thailand’s government set out plans for new carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under the country’s first formal climate change legislation

A DHS spokesperson said workers who publicly signed the Katrina Declaration "were wrongly and without authorization reinstated by bureaucrats acting outside their authority." As one whistleblower lawyer put it: "I've never seen a retraction on a retraction like this." Story w/ @zhirji.bsky.social

In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The legal fight over Trump's global tariffs has largely been driven by small/mid-size businesses, but households names are cropping up on the growing list of businesses filing lawsuits to secure refunds if SCOTUS strikes them down. One of the latest to hit the docket? Costco buff.ly/qe80lke

FEMA has ordered a group of employees to return to work after placing them on leave in August — and later dismissing one — for publicly raising concerns about the agency’s disaster-response capabilities.

“I am very glad that I’m officially cleared of wrongdoing and that I get to be back at work and see my co-workers after three months,” said Abby McIlraith, a FEMA emergency management specialist who handles individual assistance cases & returns to work on Monday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New this AM: FEMA has ordered a group of employees to return to work after placing them on leave in August — and later dismissing one — for publicly raising concerns about the agency’s disaster-response capabilities. Story w/@laurenthal.bsky.social, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

It was the evening before Thanksgiving...and EPA dropped a final rule granting oil & gas companies more than a year to comply with some Biden-era mandates to replace leaky equipment & routinely monitor for escaped methane. Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

New: As the Trump administration eliminates incentives for energy-efficient appliances, California is joining New York and Boston to spur a market for affordable electric window heat pumps and battery-equipped induction stoves to decarbonize housing. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the cases had been illegally appointed. Latest from Chris Strohm: buff.ly/ts6mEOa

On Friday, Washington reported that the person hospitalized with the bird flu H5N5 has died. The CDC's bird flu tracker hasn't updated to include the death. I haven't seen a press release. Last year, that would have at least been scheduled by now. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...

“We’re facing the reality of a no deal scenario,” said Wopke Hoekstra, the EU’s climate commissioner. “How can anyone who is reading that across the world not be deeply disappointed?” Story @bloomberg.com, sharing w/gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell

NEW: A federal judge ruled that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in DC was likely unlawful, the latest setback to the president’s military mobilizations in Democrat-led cities. She delayed the order taking effect for 21 days to avoid disruption pending any appeal buff.ly/50Q2LeM

👀 Roughly a quarter of advertisers reviewed "promoted the 'Make America Healthy Again' agenda or pushed health and wellness products that they framed as natural or an alternative to conventional medicine," per the story. bsky.app/profile/did:...

NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w

New: California Governor Gavin Newsom seized the mantle of US climate leadership at COP30 in Brazil in the face of Trump hostility to climate action. Here's the data on how the world's fourth-largest economy is decarbonizing and slashing emissions. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules. Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Outgoing FEMA leader David Richardson told @bloomberg.com he "agreed to be the acting administrator through hurricane season when others wouldn’t." As season ends, "I can now leave for other opportunities." From @zhirji.bsky.social, Myles Miller + me: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another Trump FEMA head is out: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Around 150 countries will gather in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit. What are the key results negotiators are aiming for — and how could talks break down? Bloomberg journalists answer your questions today at 1 p.m. EST. Stream: bloom.bg/3Ji78rn

I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump said he was going to make the Kennedy Center “hot." Occupied seats are down 36% since last fall. Sales are the worst they’ve been in years. Trump's "actions have been worse for business at the Kennedy Center than the aftermath of a global pandemic." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...