NYS just committed to violating its own climate law to permit this pipeline instead of investing in clean infrastructure to meet energy demand & reliability. In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible. insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...

the type of thing that makes you question the integrity of the journalism

Social science is so cool

Every family dinner as someone who studies policy is like:

INSANE to write about keystone xl as diplomacy without a mention of why the pipeline was cancelled in the first place: worsening climate impacts of gas. No, keystone XL won't fix trade. WTF E&E news stop using the admin/industry framing and do some real journalism www.eenews.net/articles/can...

Disturbing & insightful

it's wild that the GOP keeps introducing "permitting reform" because headlines don't explicitly say "we're blocking affordable clean energy + building outdated fossil fuels that cost taxpayers $$" but sure the left is the problem in climate & energy policy

“As [universities] vie for rankings, grant dollars, and tuition-paying applicants, larger concerns such as the future of higher education* go unaddressed.” *let us not forget climate change, humanitarian crises, etc Utterly damning

It’s the “will of the people” to overturn the 22nd amendment for the “divinely providential” president I do think it’s interesting that as soon as bannon receives any pushback on his self-image as mastermind, he immediately reveals the plan. Like a child.

Billionaires are like “the money I leeched out of the economy can only go to social issues if priorities are undemocratically determined to meet my tax evasion and pro-abuse goals”

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I loved listening in on this convo. A discussion about trump’s hold on the south —> analysis that explains why grassroots-oriented progressive candidates who campaign w/ community-building on hyperlocal econ & social issues are so compelling, eg Wu, Mamdani, Abugazaleh

Death cult

@governor.ny.gov GHGs in gas pipelines cannot be removed from the atmosphere and will cause enormous health, safety, and financial costs to NYers & the world. This is not a good deal for the public (as per usual for trump “deals”)

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

@massgovernor.bsky.social why are MA police abetting kidnapping across state lines?

More than 100 top Trump administration officials in charge of energy and environmental policy have ties to the fossil fuel industry. One of them described her job as as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies.

Jarring that @harvardkennedy.bsky.social is platforming Total's CEO given the @natsustain.nature.com paper out today showing clearly that oil & gas lies about commitments to green transition (not to mention decades of other research suggesting the same) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've been desperate to hear discussions of what building a US gov looks like after this admin and @beaubaumann.bsky.social 's piece was thought-provoking in a parallel direction. Genuinely though, can we do post-trump with current political parties? lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear. We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Notably mothers are known to not have to make important decisions

you just can't understand modern US policy processes without obstruction: willful denial & delay of science/narratives/policies that reduce harm to instead increase short-term profits for the ultra wealthy so disingenuous to place blame for bad politics but not talk about who's materially gaining

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

So, this is awesome. A new interactive map and database lets you track the largest polluters where you live, including the biggest sources of fossil fuel-climate-destroying emissions. @climatetrace.org www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

🔌💡 This slide from the Electrotech deck is analogous to a point that @georgemonbiot.bsky.social makes: if alt proteins can displace the low-value parts of a cow used as ingredients, that raises the price at which meatpackers needs to sell high-value parts of cow in order to break even.

Question: What do Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries, Vito Fossella, AOC and the Adams administration agree on? Answer: Stopping the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline project, which would raise utility bills & super pollutes. Hey @governor.ny.gov Hochul, are you paying attention? #NoTrumpPipelines

JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“We’re just constantly exposed to a soup of chemicals." Amazing reporting by @shannonosaka.bsky.social & co. on the plastic pollutants that are almost impossible to avoid -- and whose potential harms we're just beginning to understand. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

No money to complete ongoing pediatric cancer research but $40B to prop up the dying fossil fuel industry is 👍

If only there was a document that said that people have a right not to be discriminated against based on their race etc. It would be so nice to have a document like that that could guide our legal decisions!

New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them." resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least political and financial power.” 🧵

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So embarrassing for NY, used to be an environmental leader next to CA/MA but now Hochul is working with the White House on bringing back fracked gas against NY climate policy. Shame @governor.ny.gov www.ehn.org/new-yorks-bl...

clear line of attack, no begging or pleading for the good republican. approve.

INCARCERATING NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS PRE-TRIAL BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR WAS UNJUST AND BAD PUBLIC POLICY AND THE DATA SHOWS IT.

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For when you’ve tried telling men that brains and fetuses and remote lands are full of plastic and it just isn’t getting through… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forcing a pregnant woman to sleep on the floor, denying a child with a brain tumor treatment — these are just some of the damning allegations about ICE detention made in a new report from Senator Ossoff. This report adds to what we've long known: ICE detention is dangerous and puts lives at risk.

WITHOUT our consent? So much for HIPAA.

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

Reads like a shitty undergrad group project by those guys who came to class once, late, and then interrupted the instructor to ask “but warming + SLR means we’ll have a beach here? Sick” Embarrassing for everyone involved in their having PhDs

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year: