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@cspolar.bsky.social
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Stuff I read: facts. Former FT, NYT, WashPost, Bloomberg, KFF Health
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Peter Aldhous
about 16 hours ago
🧵Context/analysis on Venezuela and Greenland from
@insideclimatenews.org
colleagues: 1/ Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
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Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Given Venezuela’s murky political future, few analysts expect a rush to invest the billions needed to pump more oil from the world’s largest reserves.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07012026/billions-needed-to-pump-more-venezuela-oil/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-post-gazette-closing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Arizona's AG: “More and more people are finding themselves harmed by big corporations and by the consolidation of power...not very many politicians seem willing to get in there and lead the fight. I don’t have any problem doing that."
@wyattmyskow.bsky.social
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Arizona’s AG Is Clear-Eyed About the State’s Energy Costs and Water Scarcity—but Can It Help Her Win Reelection? - Inside Climate News
Kris Mayes, the only Arizona politician to win a statewide office as both a Republican and a Democrat, is fighting utilities, industrial ag, the mining industry and the Trump administration in a polit...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05012026/arizona-attorney-general-kris-mayes-energy-costs-water-scarcity/
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Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant. The Yale New Haven Health System changed that and now relies primarily on sevoflurane--and saves $1.2 million a year. Read more w/
@mckennapr.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/0501202...
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Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant - Inside Climate News
Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use during most procedures.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05012026/health-care-providers-are-dropping-a-common-anesthesia-drug-thats-also-a-climate-super-pollutant/
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I'm in Germany this week and v glad to be reading
@isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/german-militarism-european-security/684951/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
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The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
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The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/venezuela-oil-industry-trump.html?smid=bs-share
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Monuments in Texas say her tribe went extinct. But Donnel Point offers evidence of a people who lived then and now, say historians and resident Love Sanchez. The land--and @dylanbaddour.bsky.social--offer facts at odds with a narrative taught in Texas schools.
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Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas - Inside Climate News
Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122025/texas-indigenous-groups-fight-to-save-site-on-industrial-waterfront/
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Fracking once was seen as an energy gift to Pennsylvania consumers. But companies now are exporting the gas. People in PA are paying big electric bills.
@kiley.bsky.social
asks: why aren’t residents benefiting more from the resource beneath their feet?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...
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Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News
Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21092025/pennsylvania-gas-fracking-electric-bills/
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Inside Climate News looks back on 2025: The United States largely ceded its leadership role in global climate policy, and helped solidify China as the ascendant power...and there is growing market, absent the US, for solar power and electric vehicles.
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The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty - Inside Climate News
Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise of data centers were just a few of the consequential stories that Inside Cli...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28122025/2025-year-in-climate/
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Fracking and oil and gas waste? “There are no national regulations. There are only state regulations and they vary a lot,” said Sheldon Landsberger, an engineering professor at University of Texas at Austin. Read what Inside Climate News saw in Pennsylvania...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...
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Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’ - Inside Climate News
More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19122025/pennsylvania-oil-and-gas-waste-tracking-logistical-mess/
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Oh New York…
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"American Canto is Nuzzi’s attempt to elevate a grubby affair to the status of the mythic, to transmute the base metal of Page Six sexting stories into the gold of literary reflections on the political moment." YES.
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Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-memoir/685106/?gift=YCyn5y81d-mwEDw0Ly1NkACB-mb1Nozh0zKyW8ngAUw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/german-militarism-european-security/684951/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
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After Deadly Fire, Hong Kong Ominously Warns Grieving Citizens to Stay in Line
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
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After Deadly Fire, Hong Kong Ominously Warns Grieving Citizens to Stay in Line
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/business/hong-kong-fire-china.html?smid=bs-share
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/music/pittsburgh-symphony-manfred-honeck.html?smid=bs-share
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Christine Spolar
ProPublica
about 1 month ago
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan? For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1764470100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
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Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/miroslaw-chojecki-dead.html?smid=bs-share
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Christine Spolar
Edward Luce
about 2 months ago
Fully agree with my paper's editorial on Trump. Ukraine needs Europe to stop flattering Trump the conman and take a clear stand for its own survival and values.
www.ft.com/content/8ccf...
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Trump’s world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing
Latest Ukraine peace plan presented by the US would be a capitulation to Moscow
https://www.ft.com/content/8ccf437f-4551-474c-b09d-8057d616e7b1
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Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
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Opinion | Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/epstein-files-victims.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Step by Step, How China Seized Control of Critical Minerals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/business/china-rare-earth-export-controls.html
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AH! "Kyoto" has opened at Lincoln Center...timely play for these climate times (and before the
#COP
in November...) Here's my interview with the playwrights (during its London run)
insideclimatenews.org/news/2903202...
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Climate Change Is Must-See Theater in London. Meet the Playwrights Behind “Kyoto” - Inside Climate News
The 1997 U.N. climate agreement in Japan has been turned into a play that explores the politics and personalities behind the first global deal to limit greenhouse gases.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29032025/kyoto-climate-change-meets-theater-in-london/
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Good morning...:)
youtu.be/GFTHzzFA-TQ?...
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ERIC LU – final round (19th Chopin Competition, Warsaw)
YouTube video by Chopin Institute
https://youtu.be/GFTHzzFA-TQ?si=xz9SVpdiyNucJDoU
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What the Founders Would Say Now
They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence-legacy/684329/
3 months ago
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On this day....1960, The Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees⚾⚾⚾ in Game 7, 10-9....remember my dad coming home from that :)
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html?smid=bs-share
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This…. fascinating
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler
The impact Norman Ebbutt had had became clear soon after his departure from Berlin. Goebbels gave him a back-handed...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n18/patrick-cockburn/diary
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Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News
Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01102025/climate-science-available-online/
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kffhealthnews on Instagram: "In a highly unusual White House news conference this week, President Donald Trump — without evidence — boldly blamed the painkiller…"
In a highly unusual White House news conference this week, President Donald Trump — without evidence — boldly blamed the painkiller Tylenol and a string of childhood vaccines for causing a recent rise in autism. That came just days after the newly reconstituted ACIP voted to change long-standing recommendations.In June, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the 17-member ACIP panel and has so far restocked it with 12 people, including outspoken critics of vaccination. #WTHealth host Julie Rovner interviewed Demetre Daskalakis, who until last month was the head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, about the reaction to these unprecedented actions.Click the link in our bio to listen to the full episode.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPJ4HmijL5N/?igsh=dHNjM24xZW5pdDJ6
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America’s Zombie Democracy
Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/america-authoritarian-regime-ai-suicide/684350/
4 months ago
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Windmills in Scotland and green ‘cons’: Trump’s UN rant for the ages
The US president’s speech to the General Assembly was memorable — and weird
https://www.ft.com/content/5e3f79d3-19fd-41b4-a369-4cf1c5c1a132?emailId=57c28ae6-f92e-4a45-b324-eb7f089d401f&segmentId=22011ee7-896a-8c4c-22a0-7603348b7f22
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‘America Is Not a Safe Place to Work’: Koreans Describe Georgia Raid
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‘America Is Not a Safe Place to Work’: Koreans Describe Georgia Raid
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/world/asia/south-korea-georgia-hyundai-ice-raid.html?smid=bs-share
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This headline...good question!
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Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened? - Inside Climate News
Natural gas was pitched as a stopgap between fossil fuels and renewables. Instead, it has derailed Pennsylvania’s energy transition.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22092025/pennsylvania-derailed-renewable-energy-transitio
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Christine Spolar
The New York Times
4 months ago
Breaking News: The Pentagon said it would require journalists to pledge not to use unauthorized information or risk losing credentials to cover the military.
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Pentagon Introduces New Restrictions on Reporter Access
The Department of Defense will force reporters to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release, or risk losing their credential to cover the military.
https://nyti.ms/46sYOwt
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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/kennedy-health-vaccines-cdc.html?smid=bs-share
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More than 85 climate scientists call the US Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review. DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors wrote.
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Dozens of Scientists Call DOE Climate Report ‘Fundamentally Incorrect’ - Inside Climate News
The review comes as the Trump administration is leaning on the report as part of its justification to end EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02092025/scientists-respond-to-trump-energy-climate-report/
4 months ago
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We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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Confused about the future energy needs in the US for all these planned data centers? Listen to
@dangearino.bsky.social
, who is the best on explaining the US energy, economics and AI landscape...an
@insideclimatenews.org
Sunday Morning explainer here:
insideclimatenews.org/news/3108202...
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AI’s Massive Energy Demands - Inside Climate News
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and clean energy reporter Dan Gearino as they discuss the mounting demand for electricity to power AI.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082025/icn-sunday-morning-ai-massive-energy-demand/
4 months ago
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html?smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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This is the kind of long/thoughtful read that the
@financialtimes.com
is so good at providing:
www.ft.com/content/d871...
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The battle for the soul of Israel
The country’s moderates are not giving up the struggle against their rogue government — and progressives elsewhere must not give up on them, writes historian Fania Oz-Salzberger
https://www.ft.com/content/d8718bbc-a946-45b5-90a7-e07cd4107b9f
4 months ago
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html?smid=bs-share
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How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers - Inside Climate News
The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted ...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082025/trump-anti-environment-crusade-enriches-drug-traffickers-amazon/
4 months ago
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reposted by
Christine Spolar
Peter Aldhous
4 months ago
ICYMI: Chicago Has a Huge Lead Pipe Problem—and We Mapped It. Collaboration
@insideclimatenews.org
@grist.org
@wbez.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...
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Christine Spolar
Liza Gross
5 months ago
We ran a story this week about the long-festering
#ChiquitaCanyon
#Landfill
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The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door - Inside Climate News
L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help from state officials remain unanswered.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18082025/la-county-chiquita-canyon-landfill-toxic-waste-pollution/
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insideclimatenews.org/news/1808202...
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The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door - Inside Climate News
L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help from state officials remain unanswered.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18082025/la-county-chiquita-canyon-landfill-toxic-waste-pollution/
4 months ago
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A chemical industry insider is now in a senior role at the EPA. And he decides who pays big $$$ to clean up forever chemicals. This story says: he appears ready to shift cleanup costs away from polluters and onto taxpayers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
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An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/climate/steven-cook-epa-pfas-forever-chemicals.html?smid=bs-share
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