Case in point: Alaska’s LNG project. In case you missed it grist.org/energy/alask...

In this article republished by the @alaskabeacon.com, @grist.org writer Lois Parshley takes a hard look at Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas alaskabeacon.com/2025/12/22/a...

The best story you'll read all day www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u... [gift link]

"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few." Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.

Weekend read: I spent months reporting on Alaska’s LNG pipeline, a $44 or $70 billion dollar project, depending on who’s counting. The reporting included dog teams north of the Arctic Circle, pricey Italian loafers, one of the world’s most endangered whales, and asks who energy policy is for.

🧵 No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and billions on the line: This investigation details the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die. A pillar of the Trump administration's “energy dominance” agenda, the President hails it as “truly spectacular.” So is its price tag.

The US has already lost 12% of its current income due to climate change. Most studies project future losses, but new research from the University of Arizona has calculated the costs to date. news.arizona.edu/news/climate... #climatechange #economy #income #impacts #supplychains

This story is hilarious (and a much better use in newsrooms than Reuters’ chatbot-authored pieces.) It’s also why AI shouldn’t be making decisions about what healthcare your insurance covers. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Here's why yesterday's @nytimes.com article on rusting rivers misses the boat. For Nat Geo earlier this fall, I reported on how thawing permafrost is exposing bedrock, releasing sulfuric acid and oxidizing iron into a toxic cocktail remarkably similar to acid rock drainage.

The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued them key regulatory permit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is really good, nuanced reporting about pricing climate risks - and the groups who do it - that gets at why Zillow removing its climate scores is a complicated story.

This gift season buy books! For example! Mobility is about oil & human frailty! It has scenic locations & a polarizing protagonist loved ones can argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/mobi.... The Golden State has scenic rural CA & a frazzled mom they can also argue about! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Reuters has a new story on state insurer-of-last-resort programs being stretched to their limits, using data from @cplusc.bsky.social's recent report. What I would add to this coverage is more analysis of WHY these programs are in trouble & whether it's the right... www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Fossil fuel companies have been doing this for years. grist.org/internationa...

From @advaitarun.bsky.social's phenomenal data center report. Two interdependent factors decide which firms survive a bust: 1. Anticipated revenues are *deemed by investors* as insufficient to collateralize debt 2. Who seizes market share when the worst happens publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.

"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."

Trump's dream of an Alaskan oil boom is feeling more like a bust

An excellent articulation of media criticism here that applies much more broadly than to New York’s mayoral race lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Medicare is about to start using AI to help determine prior authorization, even as companies like UnitedHealthcare face lawsuits about similar AI use. Last year, I spoke to multiple families who had been wrongfully denied social services they qualified for because of algorithmic decisionmaking.

Ecologist Patrick Sullivan was studying the slow advance of trees into what had been tundra, a sign of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate, when he discovered something far more surprising: Rivers across northern Alaska were turning a bright, toxic orange.

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org

The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling last week. After drilling there drew little interest, the state’s own development agency has stepped in to buy leases and fund road projects to support private industry profits — spending $110 million of public funds.

The financial crisis these guys building towards is going to make 2008 look like a lawn party with the Queen Mum. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million. Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections — vaccines, milk safety and fluoride — have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year. www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/a...

I’m honored and excited to have my work included by @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org. It's a hard time to be a freelance science journalist, and yet the stakes couldn’t be higher.

SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown -- Jay O'Brien / ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/sta...

Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s. Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬

Sees your frogs, raises to Alaska’s megafauna.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Just imagining Romans hitting the gym. It’s not as if lead accelerates the collapse of empires… www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

This precedent-setting policy to dismantle land management plans across the country just passed the Senate today. Read more about what that means for the public lands you care about @grist.org.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is 1) Not Portland 2) Not 2025 It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992. Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

(1/3) Trump promised cheaper energy. But today his DOE is pulling $8B from projects that would lower costs and strengthen the grid, just as AI data center demand soars. That chills investment, slows construction, and leaves families & small businesses facing higher power bills and weaker reliability

GAO: Forest Service upgrades to wildfire communications and tracking imperiled by Trump’s workforce downsizing www.govexec.com/oversight/20... via @GovExec

Thrilled to have my reporting on how fossil fuel companies are starting to be tried for murder in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing "Notables." It's wonderful to be included with writers I’ve looked up to for years, and still learn from all the time!