Dang hallmark is really going for it these days

Big court ruling today: A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to roll back stricter soot pollution standards set in 2024. Story @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.

If the US government decides to allow a company to pollute by forgoing enforcement, DOJ argues in a recent legal filing that local communities can’t sue over the resulting pollution. Here's what you need to know (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The US Supreme Court shielded Bayer AG from tens of thousands of claims that its Roundup herbicide should have been labeled as a cancer risk in a ruling that will help end a decade-long flood of lawsuits that have cost the company more than $10 billion www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Public comments are integral to the functioning of democracy. They have been since ancient Athens,” said disinfo expert Samuel Woolley. Now AI-linked platforms generating mass public comments are invading the process, warping local climate politics (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Still thinking about how SoCal officials quickly recognized "an aggressive campaign" was sending 1000s of public comments opposing climate proposals, but verifying the campaign proved inconclusive. 172 ppl contacted, 5 responded: 2 confirmed emails, 3 didnt www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Venezuela was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in its history, toppling buildings in Caracas, knocking down power lines and triggering a tsunami warning in the Caribbean. Read here: bloom.bg/4vtpSqp 📷: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

New: AI-powered advocacy campaigns, often on behalf of fossil fuel interests, are flooding officials with thousands of emails to influence policy. We took a deep dive, including trying out creating an AI-personalized message. With @zhirji.bsky.social Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

AI-powered email campaigns on hot-button issues have fueled fears the technology could be used to misrepresent public opinion.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

After DOJ said nope to judge's invitation to have officials certify under penalty of perjury that the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund plan won't happen, judge makes good on her vow to set a schedule (with evergreen caveat that nothing is set in stone pending motions) Prev: buff.ly/tx6nYQX

It is a three-box day at SCOTUS, meaning up to six opinions could be coming at 10a.

Despite years of pledges by industries and governments to reduce flaring, the harmful practice increased again in 2025.

Each of these billionaires bought a media firm and 1) made it more rightwing, which 2) drove away audience and advertisers. They're not idiots. They're doing this because it ingratiates them to Trump and, as a consequence, gets their businesses favorable treatment & avoids regulatory punishment

Kenyan McDuffie has conceded to Janeese Lewis George in the D.C. Democratic mayoral primary

NEW: The US residential solar industry is cratering after President Donald Trump eliminated a key tax credit for homeowners to install solar panels last year — and it’s dragging down residential battery additions, according to a new BloombergNEF report. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is it carbon monoxide

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

Friday night news: A federal judge blocked the Trump admin from taking down signs on slavery, climate change and other topics at national parks across the country. @nytimes.com gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/u...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

Big news: Capital Weather is now independent at CapitalWeather.com. We’re building a new home for trusted DC-area weather coverage — with around-the-clock forecasts, live updates and deeper local weather and climate coverage. 1/4

This is more money than all annual Department of Energy geothermal power, solar power, and wind power research and development spending, combined.

Still thinking about how Trump EPA's economic analysis for its final rule delaying the phasedown of super polluting refrigerants monetized potential savings but *not* potential costs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

A+ headline: grist.org/cities/world...

Trump EPA's estimated prices for super polluting refrigerants (HFCs) were already set to rise up to 55% by 2029 before new deregulation. With new rule delaying compliance, EPA estimates HFC prices could further increase by 12% - 24% by 2029. Story @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump's EPA says its latest climate rollback — delaying the phasedown of highly polluting greenhouse gases used in refrigeration — will save Americans millions of dollars on groceries. Its own economic analysis for the final rule tells a different story. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🧵 Here are a few interesting facts I learned yesterday from the latest occasional Pew Research Center poll on Americans's feelings about climate change (also, 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... )

BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings, even in light of Callais, that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map cannot be used because it is “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination” and that the court-ordered map is, again, to be used in the 2026 elections.

wait, the FBI Director has a personal merch website???

Friday afternoon scoop 👇 About $50 billion in wind investments and 150,000 jobs are imperiled by the Trump administration’s effective halt to approvals for new onshore projects, according to a trade group report reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Berkeley is the first US city to require home sellers and buyers to replace gas furnaces/water heaters with heat pumps or make other green upgrades as a condition of sale. It's changing the local real estate market as sellers tout electrification. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: The Trump administration on Thursday plans to announce it will delay a planned phasedown of refrigerants as it looks for ways to cut consumers’ costs and lay blame for high prices on former President Joe Biden. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Police who responded to the US Capitol riots involving President Donald Trump’s supporters in 2021 are suing to block the creation of a government “anti-weaponization” fund, alleging that it’s “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump has called climate change a hoax, con job and scam. Then Saturday he posted about an obscure tool climate modelers use to standardize the configuration of their simulation runs. Here's what it is and why. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senate votes 50-47 to advance an Iran War Powers Resolution after newly unfettered CASSIDY, joins COLLINS, MURKOWSKI and RAND PAUL. FETTERMAN voted to continue the war. Final passage vote, however, is uncertain. Cornyn, Tillis and Tuberville did not vote. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My latest @bloomberg.com story: The Trump administration is formally proposing to roll back wastewater limits for coal-fired power plants. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

doug burgum just confirmed in comments to the house natural resources committee that the trump admin will appeal the court ruling striking down its anti-solar and anti-wind permitting actions @heatmap.news

Trump's new pick to lead FEMA is a familiar name: Cameron Hamilton. He's the former acting chief who got pushed out last year after telling Congress he didn't think FEMA should be abolished. Instead? He'd favored downsizing it "pretty radically," he later told me and @zhirji.bsky.social 🧵

“It’s pretty easy for people to imagine what happens when you have an inexperienced, uneducated, untrained emergency manager leading FEMA, because that is what happened during Katrina,” @samlmontano.bsky.social told @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cameron Hamilton, Trump's new FEMA pick, has been on both sides of the question over whether the disaster agency should exist. With a rare second chance in Trump's admin, the question is whether the former NAVY seal will defend the agency or further weaken it: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration on Monday afternoon formally nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is grappling with reduced staffing levels ahead of hurricane season in the Atlantic. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Thorough reporting from @danvergano.bsky.social on the latest organized pushback from scientists against the Trump administration's termination of the National Science Board:

ICYMI: A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s DOGE project for relying on artificial intelligence tools as it orchestrated roughly $100 million in cuts to federal funding for humanities programs last year buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

A tentative state budget deal in New York includes an agreement with lawmakers to soften a landmark climate law that had called for steep and immediate cuts to planet-warming emissions, Governor Kathy Hochul's office said on Thursday. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"A transformed" FEMA: Trump's task force advises huge changes to everything from flood insurance to housing relief to reimbursing states for destroyed infrastructure. But much of it can't happen without Congress. Free to read from me + @zhirji.bsky.social