Things are bad at FEMA grist.org/politics/tru...

NYC pledged to raise the bayside shoreline in Edgemere, Queens, after the community was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The project was planned, funded — and then dropped. We spoke to residents still living with the risks: “They’re fortifying Manhattan. So where’s the investment for us?”

Join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end. You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Stephen A. Smith and other ESPNers partner with obscenely scuzzy mobile casino: defector.com/stephen-a-sm...

In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die. Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach. grist.org/politics/new... #NY #NewYork #Oil #Gas #Politics

damn Brace's baffler essay is very good thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...

Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons, shares The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship. buff.ly/OmZQS20

📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. But a new report shows that they own less than 2% of renewable energy projects worldwide, @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports for @grist.org:

Went on the radio to talk about PJM and data centers www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Stay tuned! For an updated piece on the deep sea mining landscape coming later this month I think

Wrote about the drama at the country's largest grid operator and the fact that even if data centers don't cause rolling blackouts, they're still likely to blow states' emission goals to hell grist.org/climate-ener...

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials #Climate

In August, the Trump administration entered talks with the Cook Islands to begin underwater mining in the area. From the Archives: @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social reports on the speculators looking to strike it rich on the seafloor.

Pennsylvania really wants to become a tech hub and it’s using hypothetical data centers to keep an obsolete gas plant open grist.org/justice/nobo...

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the department of everything else". It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables.

I wrote about how bad things are getting for offshore wind: grist.org/energy/can-o...

Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration? Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades. grist.org/energy/can-o... #Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans

I wrote about the Interior Department’s efforts to throttle wind and solar over the past two months: grist.org/energy/trump...

Only @knibbs.bsky.social could bring you a story like this and that’s the highest compliment I got

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

I went back on NPR to talk about hydrogen www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

New and IMPT: Inside the chaotic, lucrative world of disaster recovery. grist.org/series/the-d... #Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires

Natural hydrogen could be key for decarbonizing heavy industries like trucking, shipping, and aviation – if we can find enough of it. For the first time, researchers are starting to think that might be possible. grist.org/energy/natur...

I wrote about the rush to find natural hydrogen along the Midcontinent Rift grist.org/energy/natur...

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. www.wired.com/story/palant...

So proud of my friends for naming their baby Lenny

New research shows that wildfire smoke is causing way more deaths than officially recorded grist.org/health/calif...

I went on Here and Now to talk about disappearing groundwater www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Groundwater (!!) is contributing more to sea level rise than melting in Greenland and Antartica grist.org/science/grou...

Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how. The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it. grist.org/politics/tru... #Politics #Policy #Food #Climate #Water #Health

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart. A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars. grist.org/food-and-agr... #CultureWars #Seaweed #Climate #Fishermen #USDA

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

The lawfare & bad-deal politics used by Trump & allies to destroy media outlets like ‪‪@mmfa.bsky.social are also used by the fossil fuel industry to destroy critics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u... More on that that here for @grist.org + @drilledmedia.bsky.social grist.org/project/indi...

I wrote about the administration's latest attempt to throttle wind and solar grist.org/energy/inter...

Thought this said Pianos on first read

The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.

Why flash flood warnings will continue to go unheeded. Experts say local education and community support are key to conveying risk. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Floods #Climate #Environment #Disaster #Policy #Politics

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

stephen miller disclosed a six figure stock holding in palantir, a tech company significantly involved in ICE enforcement per @pogo.org

New York’s mayoral race could decide the city’s climate future #Climate

I’m here covering the arrest of comptroller Brad Lander while he was escorting migrants at 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday morning. @hellgatenyc.com’s continuing coverage here: hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask. New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought. grist.org/oceans/amoc-... #Oceans #Ocean #Climate #Environment #Politics

Hannah Lee has a solo show opening on Saturday — go see it if you are in LA!! privateviews.artlogic.net/2/a8a23e0e12...

“Essentially, we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing a private sewer system for oil and gas.” SEHN's @ssteingraber1.bsky.social + @carolynraff.bsky.social in new piece on #CCS. "It’s really a budget buster with no guardrails at all.” @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social, @motherjones.com tinyurl.com/2jn9f7sf

Last week, President Trump signed four executive orders “aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States,” @bradplumer.bsky.social‬ reported in @nytimes.com, which, one order said, would “generate American-led prosperity.” buff.ly/drcMKak

Hi, if you want to read about all the lousy "green" energy stuff that made it through the House budget bill at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday, I've got you covered grist.org/climate-ener...

New for @grist.org with @hurwitz.bsky.social - As the Trump admin cuts already-stretched National Weather Service offices, the past weekend’s tornadoes in the Midwest and South spurred anxiety about the nation’s warning systems. grist.org/extreme-weat...

ah ok

1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇