@lesleyclark.bsky.social's 🔥 profile of Roger Worthington, one of the most fascinating figures in climate litigation. Latest in our series on conservative efforts to undermine climate lawsuits/discredit the science informing them (see Pt. 1 by @corbinhiar.bsky.social👇) www.eenews.net/articles/he-...

Tremendously important project by @tbartelme.bsky.social and my hometown paper, highlighting the value of local accountability reporting: www.postandcourier.com/news/special...

"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Super excited to announce that @karlmathiesen.bsky.social and I won an award from @spj-posts.bsky.social for our coverage of solar geoengineering. www.spj.org/sdx25/#print... The judges said we had “important impact and compelling writing with each story.” youtu.be/793dRna5st4?...

A few months ago, I wrote about how the West’s record-breaking first quarter was setting the region up for more extremes this summer. My story today shows how it’s all unfolding: water shortages, crop failures and raging wildfires, just as scientists predicted. www.eenews.net/articles/wat...

The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Last week's blistering heat wave toppled records across the eastern U.S. -- and not just in terms of temperatures. Tom Frank and I found that heat illness rates hit all-time highs (since the first available data in 2018) in three regions of the country: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Happy six-year anniversary, Lucky 🥹 A little grayer in the muzzle, but still a cuddler.

It’s 12:30am, raining, cabs are holiday surge-pricing like a m’fer, and a small crowd has been waiting for a late bus for 30 minutes. But everyone’s chill, guys on my left blasting Nelly & dancing, ladies on my right cracking jokes & telling stories, and god do I love this city some nights. 🗽🎆

I’ve been thinking about the America I’m proud of and that I want to celebrate tomorrow, and it’s things like hip-hop and blue jeans and sending a man to the moon and this.

Came home from a day at the beach in this heat, accidentally passed out for two hours, woke up to this game already in extra time and 🤯🤯🤯

And also on heat: just walked past two guys cracking eggs onto the sidewalk to see if they would fry. (Not this time.) But a good reminder to test surfaces before walking dogs or letting kids run around barefoot in the driveway. Heat waves are often associated with an uptick in pavement burns. 😬

Also on heat: got to chat about heat waves and international politics on POLITICO Energy this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjJ...

The great @saraschonhardt.bsky.social and I on the collision of extreme heat with the World Cup: www.politico.com/live-updates...

On Tuesday, Scientific American was sold by international publisher Springer Nature. Large numbers of staff were immediately laid off, and salaries of remaining workers were cut by as much as 30% SciAm staff had just voted to unionize. We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting.

See thread—and you should also hire the amazing @tanyalewis.bsky.social, whose thoughtful writing and sharp editing on the health+medicine beat has been hugely important through the past several years of chaotic medical news.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

Sad to see this news. I've admired James Bruggers' coverage of environmental issues in my beloved Southeast for years. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Tom Frank's excellent deep dive on Cameron Hamilton, FEMA administrator nominee: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

New on The Climate Brink: How fossil-fuel interests are attacking Extreme Event Attribution science www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...

The second half of this Japan Netherlands game, y'all!!

Dude I was just in a crowd that was blocking a bus and the girl behind me started chanting “MTA, MTA” and then the crowd parted to let the bus thru 😭 Greatest city in the world baby

I ❤️ New York

It’s almost 1am and Scaffolding-Sky is more lit than the rooftop party I just got home from 🔥

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...

In other words: we are not actually in a better position than we were a decade ago, as much of the commentary around RCP8.5 suggests. Both the best and worst case scenarios were always pretty implausible — the difference is that we were actively striving for the best case, and we missed it.

The retirement of RCP8.5 — former worst-case climate scenario has been in the news recently, and I’ve seen a lot of good explainers about this very misunderstood modeling tool. But an angle I think has been missing: the former best-case scenario is also out. My story: www.eenews.net/articles/the...

Big news: Capital Weather is now independent at CapitalWeather.com. We’re building a new home for trusted DC-area weather coverage — with around-the-clock forecasts, live updates and deeper local weather and climate coverage. 1/4

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace failed to advance in South Carolina’s gubernatorial primary, derailing one of the strangest political careers in recent memory

Weather experts say the agency’s latest moves — which include hundreds of new hires, changes to its forecasting operations and a reorganization — are a rapid experiment in reinvention. Whether it will succeed, they say, is unclear. My story today: www.eenews.net/articles/nat...

Here’s our union’s official response to today’s news

Gonna share a powerful “holding power to account” article in E&E news by @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social a few years ago, when we were trying to get the word out about widespread discrimination & abuse at NSF Polar (that continues today, sadly). Really bummed to see them shuttering this outlet. ☹️

“anyone who lives in new york city and wants to say they’re a new yorker counts as a new yorker whether they’ve lived here for 30 yrs or 30 min” is, unfortunately, a hill I will die on, this is and always has been the one truly good and genuinely meaningful defining quality of this place

Second half marathon in the books. Met my goal time (slow as it was) at 6,000 feet elevation. Cried happy tears at the finish line. 🥹 I am often hard on my body, and she is sometimes hard on me in return, but days like this remind me never to take her for granted.

The full statement on Pelley’s Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DZHlWAoG3_...

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...

“Real journalism aspires to be the opposite of bullshit. You can be a great journalist without being attractive, friendly, likeable, charismatic, as long as you possess a determination to root out and expose bullshit wherever it is found. Indeed, many… are unlikeable because [we] have this quality.”

My 86-year-old grandmother has always been the biggest cheerleader of my writing career, but I didn’t realize it was such a short fall from the tree. This week she dug out some high school newspapers she used to write for. Here’s her “senior prophecy” - big dreams from tiny Holly Hill, SC c.1956.

ICYMI yesterday -- good walk-through of the whole process to date: www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...

My boyfriend has done an experiment and if you want a bar full of bros eating out of your hand at karaoke: do Teenage Dirtbag

Big big news on #AI from my colleagues @pen-guild.bsky.social representing @eenews.bsky.social @politico.com

At the grocery store, innocently shopping, when “Sweetness” by Jimmy Eat World comes on over the speakers. I and the two other millennial strangers in my aisle, simultaneously activating like sleeper agents: “WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OHHH”

Short-lived victory for SC Dems. "While Senate lawmakers May 12 required a two-thirds majority to amend the sine die agreement, supporters would need just a simple majority to redraw legislative maps during a special session." www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Anyway I came back from a reporting trip with a cold as a souvenir, went out to buy ice cream to supplement my sad Friday night in, and am very cheered up by this Japanese ice cream peach I found at my local grocery store 😍🍑

Appreciate that many of these responses are reminders to prioritize ordinary people, not access to power. Get out on the streets. Talk to regular folks. Dive into neglected topics. Venerate local news. Punch up. Makes me want to weep that any of it even needs saying. www.notus.org/perspectives...

Words fail me; Alabama Senate is meeting as the building is being vacated.

I try to book quirky boutique hotels/bnbs as often as they fit my travel budgets, journo’s impulse to roll the dice on cute/weird/amusing experiences. On a work trip atm, check in at my hotel & clerk hits me with “OK your room is gonna be hard to find so please pay attention.” Success