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

One takeaway from the FEMA Review Council meeting today: the members backed off of some of their most controversial recommendations, including renaming the agency and halving the staff levels. My latest @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s task force for reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday recommended sweeping changes to how the federal government responds to natural disasters. Gift link for @bloomberg.com story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's FEMA Review Council day. Waiting for this meeting to commence any minute now and to hear the group's final recommendations on what to do with the nation's primary disaster response agency

Even if you don't live in a community near a commercial sterilizer or chemical facility that emits the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide, this is why everyone in the US should be paying close attention to EPA's latest proposed regulatory rollback tied to the gas: bsky.app/profile/zhir...

The public now has until May 15 to comment on EPA's proposal to rollback pollution limits on ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, for facilities using it to sterilize medical equipment. EPA changed the date from May 1 after multiple requests asking for more time. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Buried in a recent Trump EPA proposal to rollback air pollution limits for certain facilities is the argument that the Clean Air Act doesnt allow for updated risk assessments on a regulated pollutant, even if new data becomes available My story @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Abigail McIlraith + peers returned to FEMA today, after spending 8 months on admin leave for signing a whistleblower letter. The US "taxpayers are on the hook for us being locked out of our jobs that help disaster survivors in this country,” she told @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: FEMA this week officially called back staffers who have been on administrative leave for *8 months* after signing a whistleblower letter last August. Some of the disaster workers started back today. Story @bloomberg.com, with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New EV sale figures confirm buyers around the world are moving away from gas-powered cars in the wake of the Iran war.

The global climate finance landscape reached a milestone in 2025, but behind the headline growth is a big shift. My latest for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A few weeks ago, I published some analysis showing that the UK government had massively underestimated the emissions from the data centres driving the country's "AI revolution". Now, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published some new numbers and they are... a lot higher.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Hello, I wrote about Pete Hegseth’s anti-climate stance vs. the very real climate risks faced by the USM, which it is not ignoring, and how these things are in tension. Please check it out!

Battery recycling startup Ascend Elements will file for bankruptcy on Thursday, the latest among a growing list of climate startups that raised large amounts of capital before running into challenges over the past year. Scoop for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: The escalating cost of California's climate-driven wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for customers of the state's largest utility - nearly 20% of the bill. Such "climateflation" undermines electrification of the state economy. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.

The FBI ignored texts from Minnesota investigators for *days* following the killing of Renee Good: Scoop from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

My latest @bloomberg.com, with a gift link: Lee Zeldin Touts EPA Rollbacks at Climate Denial Conference www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

First unalloyed pushback from a Senate Republican is, unsurprisingly, from Lisa Murkowski.

Talk of deploying the US Constitution's 25th amendment to remove the president from office has erupted again, this time in response to Donald Trump’s handling of the war with Iran. Here's what to know.

NEWS: D.C. has released body-camera footage from the incident last October where D.C. resident Phillip Brown was shot by a federal agent during a traffic stop on Benning Road NE. The release comes after the D.C. Council passed an emergency bill requiring the disclosure.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

Senator Warren seeks answers from Vought on CFPB ‘zombie’ mortgage investigations following Bloomberg series detailing how thousands faced huge bills on old debts.

NPR, PBS and others demonstrated that President Donald Trump’s anti-media funding executive order is unlawful, a federal court in Washington said

BREAKING: Federal judge rules Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable.”

The Endangered Species Committee, a little-used panel of US senior federal agency leaders, on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from sweeping endangered species protections, citing reasons of national security. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s annoying to see the phrase “overlapping language” used to describe what is actually PLAGIARISM. The NY Times reviewer got AI to do his work for him. AI stole a real writer’s words, which the reviewer claimed as his own. “Overlapping language” is too mild a phrase. It's PLAGIARISM.

An NBA player was quoted on a podcast as saying if your kid is good enough to be competitive then they’re too competitive to pay to play. It was a comment on the pyramid scam of youth travel leagues. Parents lit him up in the comments. I was reminded that no one likes to know they’re being scammed.

One year on from "Liberation Day," Trump’s tariffs have altered supply chains — just not in the way he envisioned. Read more: bloom.bg/3PxxpES

Some may have seen that Trump and Narendra Modi had a call the other day about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. What they weren't told was that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who holds no official government position, was on the call with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

In SE Asia, buyers are flocking to Chinese EV giant BYD Co.’s stores, while electric rickshaws are selling out in Pakistan. A shortage of cooking oil in India is driving a run on electric stoves. From Germany to Nigeria, interest in rooftop solar is surging. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

FEMA said Wednesday it will fund up to $1 billion in disaster-resilient infrastructure under a grant program it had previously canceled and criticized as being wasteful. "Mitigation is back," said former FEMA National Advisory Council member Carrie Speranza. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A federal judge in Washington will allow a lawsuit to go forward that accuses billionaire Elon Musk of unconstitutionally exercising executive power during his time in the Trump administration last year as a presidential adviser

New from me & esteemed Bloomberg colleagues: It’s not how the program was supposed to work. But thanks to a structural quirk, Britain’s state-backed plan intended to help those most exposed to flooding now favors the country’s richest property owners. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Prominent climate researcher Kate Marvel is leaving NASA, citing US attacks on Science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...