EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Three bills pending in the CA legislature from Senator Josh Becker will lower utility costs, stabilize demand, & invest in renewables. Let's get them passed this week! See op-ed by Josh & Jigar Shah. www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/08/o...

DOE issued Order No. 5238-A, allowing Commonwealth LNG to export up to 9.5 million metric tons per year (equivalent to 1.21 billion cubic feet per day) from its planned facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/doe-...

Why China Is Trying to Tame Its Electric Car Frenzy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

China’s Xi rolls out the red carpet for Putin and Modi as Trump upends global relations - CNN

“...The plastics treaty is fundamentally a fossil fuel treaty,” said Holly Kaufman.“There is a wide chasm btwn petrostates & the countries who want to limit production of plastics--petrochemical products that are warming our planet & poisoning people & the environment.” trellis.net/article/glob...

Check out my interview on CCN International about the #UN #Plastic Treaty talks, plastics their climate & health impacts, and the problems with plastic recycling. #https://youtu.be/G4ucegnTdng

@grist.org cites The Plastic's & Climate Project's peer-reviewed paper again in another great article. grist.org/internationa...

Great short interview with Tracy Woodruf on the PBS NewsHour: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Reminder: Record heat is far outpacing cool. The enjoyable East Coast morning today? Climate change means there is likely to be fewer of them in early August. Climate Shift Index (attribution science) shows us these temperatures are 1.5x to 3x LESS likely to occur with future warming

“Trump has big plans for Pakistani oil. That’s news to Pakistanis.” Read past the headline. - The Washington Post -

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking. *Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB. *"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." *Cannot "promote anti-American values" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Thanks Grist.org for making the connection btw plastics & climate change, & featuring the work of @The Plastics & Climate Project in piece on the plastics treaty negotiations. #PlasticsTreaty #INC5.2 #plasticpollution grist.org/internationa...

📢 NEW PAPER on #Chemicals in #RecycledPlastics! 📢 We collected recycled polyethylene (PE) pellets from small scale mechanical #recycling facilities, measured chemicals leaching out of the plastics into water and impacts in zebrafish. #PlasticsTreaty #INC5-2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Given the limitations of applying a circular approach to plastic waste, there is a strong case for regulating plastic production under the Plastic Treaty” said Ieva Rucevska, principal expert at GRID-Arendal. stoppoisonplastic.org/blog/plastic...

🚨SCOOP: A "select" number of FEMA probationary employees have been involuntarily reassigned to ICE, effective immediately, to "assist with hiring and vetting." If the employees don't report to ICE within seven days, they are threatened with termination. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty's Trisia Farrelly @tris-sia.bsky.social on science-based priorities for negotiations:“Plastic pollution harms human/environmental health, confirmed by decades of intntl research.The science is undeniable.” www.youtube.com/live/c7gtsRs...

Despite plastics' climate impacts, climate not mentioned in plastics treaty text. To rectify, see/share brief by The Plastics and Climate Project, ELI, & collaborators.Treaty must reflect the significant & growing climate impacts of plastics. drive.google.com/file/d/1z0iv...

UCS recently released a report documenting the Trump administration’s attacks on and abuses of science. In her new blog, UCS @gretchentg.bsky.social describes how we’re fighting back—and fighting smart!—with the goal of minimizing the damage and continuing to make progress on our issues.

INC 5.2 negotiators - let's deal with this! grist.org/accountabili...

Speaking at Sun Valley Forum June 23-26 about plastics, climate, & health with Dianna Cohen. Join me there, with 20% discount! Connect with other great speakers & colleagues advancing solutions to restore the planet that we depend on. Use code SVF20. Please repost! tinyurl.com/355pw4a3

Climate impacts of plastics-more than we thought! See/share new report "Plastics: Exposing Their Climate Impacts" from The Plastics & Climate Project, Environmental Law Institute, Monterey Bay Aquarium, University of Wollongong. More info and resources at lnkd.in/g4zT6GCR.

Climate impacts of plastics: the @washingtonpost.com article about our report,"Plastics: Exposing Their Climate Impacts" was also just published in Environmental Health News (EHN) www.ehn.org/plastic-poll.... Check out the report at www.PlasticsAndClimate.com/publications.

Plastics+climate = more connected than you think. We’re diving into how plastics contribute to global warming: GHGs, carbon sinks & radiation interference. May 14: Timely webinar ahead of World Environment Day & the UN Plastics Treaty talks. Msg me to join in person in DC 🔗 Join us: bit.ly/3EGt8dc

"Plastics: Exposing their Climate Impacts." Here is link to May 14 webinar. See other post for link to in-person event in DC, hosted by World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social @AAAS. Register for either - you'll get our report and recording of event. www.wri.org/events/2025/...

"Plastics: Exposing their Climate Impacts." Here is link to in-person event hosted by World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social May 14, in DC @AAAS. See other post w/ link for virtual, too. Register for either and you'll get our report & the recording! www.eventbrite.com/e/plastics-e...

Time for protective flotilla protests at sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, NPR, State Department - POLITICO

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement - NBC News

Not just climate change & pesticides:DOGE, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/b....

ICF has supported the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC for nearly two decades with professionalism & integrity. Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies. There's no one left to work on NCA.

Much of this cannot be done by the federal government, due to state rights: but I’m not an expert on that. So here’s @govjayinslee.bsky.social’s take on how federal EOs do and don’t impact state climate action and the clean energy revolution.

"Hazardous chemicals in recycled and reusable plastic food packaging," just won Paper of the Year by Cambridge U Press's journal, "Cambridge Prisms: Plastics." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Circling back on this…

Trump’s crackdown on top law firms spreads to Congress - POLITICO

Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’ - The Guardian