The inside story on how fossil fuel allies attacked a forthcoming NASEM report — & the experts producing it — on attribution science, a research field with big implications for climate lawsuits. With the great @corbinhiar.bsky.social and @lesleyclark.bsky.social 🔥 www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Good morning to everyone, especially this live crab in a Miami bike lane

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

✨ We’re excited to share a new publication by our colleague @altibel.bsky.social and other researchers from @unileiden.bsky.social and @solid-research.bsky.social on the links between Dutch universities and the tobacco industry. 🔗 Read more here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

Unlike most other rockets, the fuel used by Blue Origin is liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG can be pretty explosive, as this "anomaly" demonstrated www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Update on the chemical tank explosion in Washington: Two people were confirmed dead, according to a joint release from local officials. Seven other employees were injured and one firefighter was injured. Nine employees were missing as of May 27.

Academic studies with industry links are 16 (*sixteen!*) times more likely to draw positive conclusions about the health impacts of meat than independent research - according to a shocking new review by the University of Queensland @teimaui.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/21/i...

I can't stop thinking about this story: "No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first." www.kut.org/energy-envir...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Absolutely wild scoop: Australian gas company Santos demanded recipients of disaster funding help supply the company and the broader oil/gas industry with good PR in hilariously explicit terms Read the whole amazing story here: drilled.media/news/santos-...

I'm genuinely terrified for disaster season because much of the northeast/mid-Atlantic hasn't been that hot and it's easy to ignore the drought so federal lawmakers don't have to be worried yet that they've destroyed our national hazard response infrastructure.

@micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with Flora Lichtman, host of the @scifri.bsky.social, all about FEMA — and how the far-right militia movement has used climate disasters to gain a recruiting foothold.

Top story: Brownsville-area officials have ignored environmental risks along with hyperlocal opposition to liquid natural gas. Emails and documents obtained by the Observer reveal how this posture may have been influenced by an extensive and yearslong lobbying effort by the industry.

"The Washington law firm of Covington & Burling took the case pro bono. But expenses were also covered by a small group of bankers, oilmen and industrialists who appear in the archives of the lead plaintiff, Senator James L. Buckley of New York" gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Congrats to #Florida reporter @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, whose work blowing the lid off the Epstein scandal just won a special citation from this year's Pulitzer judges. www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...

NEW: Trump diverted >9,100 FBI personnel to work on immigration during the first 9 months of this term, per public records I obtained. He multiplied them by a factor of 23 - from 279 before he took office to >6500 by September. theintercept.com/2026/05/01/f...

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the Louisiana coast. MORE from @garretthazelwood.bsky.social, with @floodlightnews.org @typeinvestigations.org & @veritenews.org

People want to ride bikes

Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest: reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...

No matter how high the price of oil climbs, the actual price is far, far higher

Normal people: I hate to be the one to tell you this Reporters: I went to journalism school to be the one to tell you this

infuriating must-read piece by my colleague @alexcuadros.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.

Do you ever look at the edges of your chipped nail polish and think they look like tiny eroding coasts? The way the polish pulls back from the edges of the nail resembles how water eats away at land over time

Cutting 11 journalists and doing it in the style of your newsletters 😳

how are you even qualified to judge whether JAMA of all things is biased towards a particular therapy beyond the word of clinicians, who have arrived at a very firm consensus on this specific topic? appalling arrogance

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

""for the companies well-positioned to make the most of suddenly rising natural gas prices, “it’s a gold rush,” Williams-Derry said. “I’ve often described the oil and gas industry’s financial strategy as ‘pray for war,’” he said. “That is how they make money.”" insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week Here's our interview:

New data centers could double one utility’s electricity load – with power from coal. But key details are blacked out. Should ratepayers be worried?

Little debby cakes are also incredible if you need a fast sugar hit on like a long bike ride. They also taste much better and are way cheaper than gu

Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups. Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency. The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.

What can you do with a history degree?

I was not expecting Bad Bunny to celebrate the work of linemen during halftime but I'm here for it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure foreign investors.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature. This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities. Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee. ecori.org/the-usual-su...

No one told me how many WhatsApp groups it would take to have a social life in Miami

The Trump FBI raided the author's home today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.' drilled.media/news/Venezue...

You might want to sit down for this, but the panel that just idiotically told Americans to eat more beef and dairy, for their health, might have had conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

How is academia intertwined with the fossil industry? What does this mean for academic freedom and the climate transition? Browse the interactive report of the Dutch Mapping Fossil Ties Coalition. Search your favourite fossil company, university or just flip through! mappingfossilties.org/report

A new report from @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social documents oil spills, gas releases and climate pollution at Energy Transfer’s web of pipelines nationwide. The company and its affiliates have reported 300 spills & 126 gas releases since 2018. @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

Venture Global founders and co-chairs under scrutiny for buying millions in shares after meeting with senior Trump officials, who approved a key export license that will allow the LNG company's expansion in Europe to move forward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...