Shutting down the Energy Star program will raise your energy costs and make you sicker. There is no good policy reason to shut it down. None. It saves people lots of money and helps cut pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Global science is not going to end at the whims of some ideology. More than 17,000 Earth and space scientists are gathering at #EGU25, including many from the U.S. www.egu25.eu

I took advantage of the spring weather to sneak in a little hike in the Viennese Alps this morning before the start of #EGU25. Awesome to see this old smokestack being repurposed for solar energy. A nice metaphor for the change we need!

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NIH-supported Environmental Health Perspectives is the open-access flagship journal in environmental health. They have paused all new manuscript submissions "due to changes in operational resources". Is this the transparency and open discourse we were promised? ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

Most rail services in the US still use polluting diesel locomotives. Recently, our commuter rail system in San Francisco, @caltrain.com, was electrified. Good news: we found DRAMATIC air quality improvements once the electric trains replaced the diesels. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Hey everyone, nice to be back online here at Bluesky. I love how fresh and earnest this place feels - reminds me of the good old days.