Retro Report does great work and provides timely lessons for teachers...here's an excellent example: the secret CIA operation that haunts US-Iran relations. (And by a super producer: Matthew Spolar ;). ) @retroreport.org retroreport.org/video/the-se...

That faraway attack in Iran. Your utility bills. @kiley.bsky.social digs in. insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Alligator Alcatraz: A state-commissioned assessment on the Everglades site (set in a watershed providing drinking water for millions of Floridians) point to pollutants from the center's always-on generators. Emissions exceed regulatory threshold, report says. insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

The EPA lost more than 4,000 employees in the first year of Trump’s 2nd term, bringing its staff to 12,849—a level not seen since the Reagan administration. That's a 24% drop, double the rate of losses across the entire federal workforce. @mlavelle.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

Catching up with coverage from my @insideclimatenews.org colleagues on affordability, energy ... and war insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202... insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Texas has no regulations to protect workers from the state’s blistering heat and overturned city ordinances that required rest breaks. What does that mean for workers in one of the hottest parts of the country? @keertigopal.bsky.social and I spent months investigating for @insideclimatenews.org (1)

This: a hothouse future ? 😮https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/earth-unprecedented-shift-from-warm-to-hot/

More than half a century ago, at Queen’s University Belfast, Michael McElroy’s classmates finished an exceptionally difficult math exam and vented. They wanted to hear from the class's star pupil. (So do you...he became a pioneering atmospheric scientist) insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...

Here's @texastribune.org with our @insideclimatenews.org story on flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River Basin. w/ @dylanbaddour.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/02/09/t...

You gotta appreciate a reporter who gets a tip from ... a nun. Hear @dylanbaddour.bsky.social explain his tipster and his latest data-rich investigation about the effect on fracking on Texas floodplains. He and @peteraldhous.com are on ICN's Sunday Morning: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

“It’s been the best-kept secret in all of western Colorado"...a former oil and gas developer worked with Colorado Mesa University on a geothermal heating/cooling network. The school saved millions$$$ and set a new standard for energy-efficient buildings. insideclimatenews.org/news/0702202...

The Guadalupe River basin in Texas has seen a fracking boom over the last 20 years. Inside Climate News scoured satellite imagery on Google Maps to identify oil tanks and other oilfield infrastructure, all in the floodplains. This is what ICN found: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff ft.trib.al/cPjBd1p

Philippe Morillon, General Who Made Fateful Protection Promise, Dies at 90 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

If you're wondering what potential litigation strategies in both basins could look like, check out my latest with @wyattmyskow.bsky.social. The basin's deadline is Valentines Day.

Four days of icy weather in Texas = oil, gas and petrochemical facilities released 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants. Companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, because of "enforcement discretion" during the big freeze. ICN did the data: insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

What's killing onshore wind power? I went to the state where I was born and raised to try to figure out why onshore wind development, once a point of pride, has slowed almost to a stop. With @ajbeamer.bsky.social in Shenandoah, Iowa: insideclimatenews.org/news/2501202... #energysky

This. What happened this week and what affects our future…https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012026/economic-interests-drive-chinese-climate-leadership-amid-u-s-retreat/

Such a smart and timely story on the ecological nightmare that is Iran, and its human toll. I don’t think you’ll read the story anywhere except at Inside Climate News. From @katiesurma.bsky.social … insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...

🧵Context/analysis on Venezuela and Greenland from @insideclimatenews.org colleagues: 1/ Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

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 insideclimatenews.org/news/0501202...

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...

I'm in Germany this week and v glad to be reading @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...

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. insideclimatenews.org/news/2312202...

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...

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. insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...

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...

Oh New York…

Pittsburgh…

"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. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Read every word.... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

After Deadly Fire, Hong Kong Ominously Warns Grieving Citizens to Stay in Line www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan? For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

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...

Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

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...

Good morning...:) youtu.be/GFTHzzFA-TQ?...

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 :)

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

This…. fascinating www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...