With the Trump administration calling to eliminate EPA's ORD, it’s worth revisiting this piece by @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social on how cuts would impact our EPA lab in Narragansett, threatening local jobs & vital environmental research. Rhode Islanders, this isn't abstract, it's incredibly local. 🌊

NEW: Massachusetts moves to nearly double black bear hunting to curb population www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/s...

Climate change has led to a rise in tick-borne illness in New England. For one family, the impact was deadly.

Really compelling, sad, informative story from @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social about a rare, but increasingly less so, tick-borne disease and a life lost to it www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/12/s...

Last week I was playing around with a new "tree ring plot" to visualize daily global temperature anomalies from ERA5. I thought it would be neat to make a version of the plot for daily global absolute temperatures (rather than anomalies):

Climate change indicator: Worse air quality in New England. Drought, wildfires, and heat are degrading air quality here, the American Lung Association's annual report card shows. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/23/s... #climate #climatechange #greensky #climateimpact

Moakley Park in South Boston and Tenean Beach in Dorchester are among the coastal resilience projects impacted by the end of FEMA's BRIC grant program: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/s... #climate #climateresilience #coastalresilience #slr #sealevelrise #trump #FEMA #federalfunds

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back. grist.org/solutions/th... #Forest #trees #Climate #environment #GreenSky

Being able to afford heat in New England is a matter of life and death. That's why low-income households who rely on federal assistance to help pay their bills, and the groups that administer that aid, are worried about the implications of this week's firing of the entire federal LIHEAP staff.

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding. grist.org/politics/den... #Mosquito #Health #Disease #Bugs #Climate

Boston Common this morning. Thousands of protestors rolling in with more expected. #mapoli #mass

A year ago, I wrote about a family in Central Massachusetts struggling to recover from devastating flash flooding. This year, they celebrated what they now call their "climate-proof" house, which they spent a year upgrading to protect the home against water. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/s...

The number of measles cases has risen to 400 as the historical outbreak continues to rage on in West Texas, with two additional counties reporting their first cases, according to state officials on Friday. Of those, 41 patients have been hospitalized.

“Science in Woods Hole is most definitely under threat,” said Max Holmes, president and CEO of Woodwell Climate Research Center.

“As the Trump administration looks to shrink the agency, will similar cleanups of today languish?” By @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

Woods Hole has been a company town for #ocean and #climate science for 150 years. Now, it may be one of the most extreme examples of a community vulnerable to federal spending cuts. The centers here rely heavily on government $$ to support research. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/s...

Bloomberg added AI written summaries at the top of stories. Big problem today for a story that's moving the entire stock market: (An AI summary previously at the top of the story was removed because it misstated when the broader tariff action was to take place.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For the first time, Boston will have targets for heat pumps and energy efficiency in small/mid-sized buildings — 5K heat pumps and 10K weatherizations over the next three years. Those goals are part of a new program being announced by @mayorwu.boston.gov at tonight's State of the City.

NEW: Just a few generations ago, Boston Harbor was known as the dirtiest harbor in the nation. Now, we swim and fish in it. The #EPA was key to that cleanup— a reminder of what the agency can accomplish when it's well-funded and politically powerful. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/s...

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Michigan DNR: "First cougar cubs verified in Michigan in more than a century." !!!! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MID...

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

NEW: The lead plaintiff appealing mass federal firings is a New Hampshire-based wildlife biologist named Allison. She’s representing thousands in a class action for #DOI employees. This is her story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/s... #usfws

Every the summer, residents of Housatonic get brown water from the tap. Sometimes it’s like tea, other days, coffee. Clothes come out of the wash with stains. How long do residents have to wait for a solution? My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/06/s...

Vermont's getting plenty of snow this winter...which hasn't been as common in recent years. In a warming climate, our winters just aren't the same anymore, says Gund Fellow Gillian Galford. Read the story by @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social & @weatherken.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com: go.uvm.edu/orlqp

Climate Groups Were Counting on $20 Billion. Trump Won’t Let Them Access It. The DOJ and FBI are investigating $20 billion in climate funds, despite a top prosecutor’s decision that there was not sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. w/ Lisa Friedman and Claire Brown www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled that it will reverse the agency's 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health. Grist.org reporter @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social spoke with us today about the implications of this move. www.wnyc.org/story/trumps...

The Supreme Court's first and only opinion today is San Francisco v. EPA. The majority substantially weakens the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge. It is 5–4 in relevant part, with Barrett, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissenting. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Baby Boomers grew up with 2 more weeks of frozen ponds and lakes than Gen Z is growing up with now. by me + @weatherken.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/s... #climate #winter

NEW: Slashing #EPA by 65%, as Trump suggested, would mean stalling river cleanups, a halting efforts to prevent PFAS in drinking water, and increased pollution into Boston Harbor, former regulators told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/28/s...

Some EPA employees who were laid off last week learned their jobs had been reinstated via email: "On behalf of EPA, we apologize for this inconvenience.” The email included a link to the agency’s mental health referral service. w/ @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/s...

Like other agencies, #EPA is reinstating some of the employees they fired just last week... Here's what we know: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/s...

Hi, I'm a climate journalist for the Boston Globe. If you're a federal employee working in New England for EPA or the Forest Service (or you were, until last week..) I'd love to hear from you. My colleagues and I at @bostonglobe.com are dedicated to protecting our sources. Signal: erinmdouglas.23

Tell us: Have you departed a job in the federal government since the Trump administration began? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/b...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/15/s... @shankman.bsky.social @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social

Many states' clean energy targets rely on offshore wind. Trump is destroying the wind industry. You do the math. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We spent the week having anonymous conversations with EPA staff who feared for their jobs and described paranoia, uncertainty, and chaos as they sought to figure out what's next. Then, late yesterday, the layoffs came. w/ @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/15/s...

Region 1 EPA employees spoke anonymously to @shankman.bsky.social & me to describe fear paralyzing agency work amid mass layoffs and Trump directives. “All I wanted was to use my brain and my degree to help my neighbors,” one employee w/ probationary status said www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/15/s...

Sen. Markey said in a Friday press conference that $316M in climate funds slated to come to Massachusetts via EPA are still frozen. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/07/s... #energysky #greensky #newengland #fundingfreeze

A little bit of ocean #geoengineering news: An ocean acidification enhancement experiment planned near Martha's Vineyard has been called off due to wind turbine construction in the area. It'll instead take place in a deep ocean basin in the Gulf of Maine. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/06/s...

I spent years covering industrial air pollution and the incremental EPA reforms to clean up the air in places like Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi. Some of those changes were anticipated to make a real difference soon. Here's what's at stake under Trump's EPA: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Now *3* judges have told the Trump administration they can't freeze federal grants. But New England states told me and @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social that they can't access funds for Solar for All, a $7 billion program to bring solar to disadvantaged communities. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/s...

In New England, my colleagues and I are hearing from states that some clean energy programs are *still* effectively on pause, despite multiple judicial restraining orders on the Trump funding freeze. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/s... #solar #solarforall #fundingfreeze #climate #climatenews

The @bostonglobe.com front page today.

Efforts to rebuild LA quickly may conflict with efforts to rebuild LA safely. 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New: Boston clinches more than $35 million in federal climate funds days before Biden leaves office $35M to buy 125 electric school buses and $3M for projects to protect the coastline from sea level rise. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/17/s... #boston #IRA

Reducing carbon emissions takes money. Not doing so takes more money.

TY @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social for interviewing me for this important article. “The flooding incidents are only going to increase, and responsible public policy would be getting ahead of that, not building in the same locations and hoping for the best" www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/29/s...

NEW: More than 300 schools in Massachusetts are located in a floodplain— despite guidance from the state to avoid building schools in flood prone areas. We also found several instances of schools that are currently rebuilding or being built in a floodplain. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/29/s...