Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

Reflecting on Charlie Kirk's assassination, the hosts of "Hard Fork" discuss freedom of speech and the terrifying new reality of extremely online violence. nyti.ms/4nknwq8

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is really great news on the COP front! As confirmation for COP starts, non-gov participants will be required to 👉 disclose who is funding them and 👉 confirm that their individual objectives are in full alignment with global climate goals kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

This is really great news on the COP front! As confirmation for COP starts, non-gov participants will be required to 👉 disclose who is funding them and 👉 confirm that their individual objectives are in full alignment with global climate goals kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...

Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."

“The BBC has documented at least half a dozen first-hand, devastating accounts in areas where USAID-supported clinics have shut down.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

EPA decides not to defend federal drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals in court - CBS Albany cbs6albany.com/news/local/e...

"The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth.".....great review @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social from @trevor-jackson.bsky.social‬. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"Of the extreme heat events the researchers focused on, as many as a quarter of them would have been “virtually impossible” without the climate pollution from any of the 14 biggest “carbon majors”' www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

"Of the extreme heat events the researchers focused on, as many as a quarter of them would have been “virtually impossible” without the climate pollution from any of the 14 biggest “carbon majors”' www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Lots more on the climate working group and report on #sustainwhat: Facing Lawsuits, Team Trump has Dissolved its "Climate Working Group," But What Happens to Its Climate Science Critique? revkin.substack.com/p/facing-law...

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

Incredibly disturbing findings.

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definitely one on my go-to newsletters for conservation/climate issues!

"It was a bit like thanking the school bully for setting the tone such that you can give him your lunch money." -in which @brbarrett.bsky.social chronicles the single worst nightmare blunt rotation of all time www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

Critics say carbon trading & offsets are merely a means for companies to keep polluting But what if there was a way to pay communities to preserve forests that didn’t involve the carbon market? Ireland is funding a #climate project in Liberia to find out, @shokes.bsky.social reports:

Irfaan Ali, of the People’s Progressive party (PPP), has secured a second term as Guyana’s president. The voters have endorsed Ali’s approach, dominated by promises to use oil-related revenue to alleviate poverty and support further social and economic development theconversation.com/guyanas-pres...

Today is the Amazon Day! To celebrate it, I just published this piece at Global Citizen on G9, an Amazon Indigenous Coalition of 9 different countries demanding their voices are heard at #COP30 www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

Residents of Pari Island in Indonesia (the highest point is just 3 meters above sea level) are suing Holcim, the Swiss cement giant, for climate damages. The courts are deciding whether to hear the case, but could be another precedent setting case to follow! callforclimatejustice.org/en/webreport/

I wrote about how the the brain drain of emergency managers from FEMA and HUD is flowing directly into disaster consulting companies. It's probably time to talk about the privatization of American disaster response. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products. The result is this story. I hope you'll take the time to read. wapo.st/4g3ZoFc

Hey #polisci: we need more work like Gilman’s new FP piece: plausible scenarios of how world order is reorganized by climate, or more accurately, the shift from fossil to green assets. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

🚨The WHO has issued an alert on a potential Ebola outbreak in the Kasai Province of Congo. I really hope the outbreak doesn't spread bc of how difficult this will be to control without US funds -- plus the harm of travel bans, which are little more than security theatre.

There was a time when US soft power was the fuel of the global climate movement Now it’s all China, all the time

Wise words from Prof Andrew Dressler www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...

Unsurprisingly, deforestation contributes much, much more to drought and rainfall changes in the Amazon than previously thought www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

grist.org/accountabili... poisoned everywhere being tolerated

📨NEW TEMPLATE COMMENT LETTER: EPA’s proposed Endangerment Finding rollback is a critical moment for local governments to voice concerns about the impacts of GHGs in their communities and to build the administrative record for future litigation.

📣 New report by the #UN SR on #ClimateChange that deals with the importance of a #HumanRights approach to a just energy transition, focusing on renewables and transitional minerals, is out 👇 www.ohchr.org/en/documents... 📅 Stay tuned for the debate in the UN GA on October 17‼️

These odds would be spectacularly unacceptable in any other risk scenario — all because the horrific costs fall on those without a voice in today's decisions. We need to start seeing this is not as a scientific scenario to manage, but a moral breach we still - barely - have time to prevent.

These odds would be spectacularly unacceptable in any other risk scenario — all because the horrific costs fall on those without a voice in today's decisions. We need to start seeing this is not as a scientific scenario to manage, but a moral breach we still - barely - have time to prevent.

NEW: A shadowy legal tool called ISDS is allowing foreign corporations to sue Honduras — one of the region's poorest countries — for a total of $19.4 billion, roughly 53% of the country’s 2024 GDP. The public good must be put over this corporate greed. @aimeegabay.bsky.social in @mongabay.com:

Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong

Scientists have for the first time mapped how far different regions have moved beyond “functional biosphere integrity” – the ability of plants to keep the planet’s life-support systems running. 60% of land areas is under significant environmental strain. www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

"I raised my family here, so it would take a fair amount to uproot me, but these days, it’s really hard to make predictions now. I was not thinking about moving at all. This wasn’t even on the radar, and now, for better or for worse, every possibility has to be considered." - @teorth.bsky.social

animal cultures can help species adapt to rapidly changing habitats. but now, they're being threatened like they've never been before @katarinazimmer.bsky.social with a good one for @atmosmag.bsky.social 🧪🌎

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address. Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Climate #FEMA #Disaster #Policy #Politics

As climate change pushes summer heat into the school year, many schools are facing massive costs to install, upgrade, operate, and maintain HVAC systems. Big Oil knew extreme heat was coming, but lied to protect their profits — they need to pay their fair share to keep students safe.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, has pledged to enact a system of free child care for all New York families, regardless of income. Here's how he could do it.