Anybody know a Dire/Doodle breeder?

Government lawyers thinking about the legal academy. Please join us on March 20.

My clinic is hiring a new fellow! Come work with my excellent colleagues @andrewmergen.bsky.social, @sengels.bsky.social, and @shannonenelson.bsky.social on climate, environmental, and natural resources law issues. Posting: clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/...

On our 100th CleanLaw 🎧, @jodyfreeman.bsky.social talks with Richard Lazarus, @andrewmergen.bsky.social, and Carrie Jenks about the Trump administration’s actions to date on energy & the environment and why the practice and study of law matter now more than ever. eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-tru...

The Trump administration’s rules for how White House staff can interact with the Justice Department is a departure from Biden-era guidance, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

Come work with us and our amazing students.

I do not have any words adequate to describe my outrage.

Grateful for this discussion with Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker on the significance of the Trump EOs. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

SEJ has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to strengthen climate journalism across North America! This grant is part of MacArthur’s $6 million investment in independent newsrooms and organizations dedicated to environmental reporting. www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Great job!

in August, i went to two meetings in Iowa—one headed by the Sierra Club, one emceed by disgraced congressman Steve King—both in opposition to the same project: a proposed carbon-capture pipeline. for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:

The DC Circuit will hear argument in an important Clean Air Act case on Friday.

#EPA just announced a new draft framework on #cumulativeimpacts "based on the best available science on how pollution and other burdens interact to affect individuals’ and communities’ health and well-being." Available for public comment til 2/19/25 www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #environmentaljustice

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honored that this essay for Outside magazine won gold at this year's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Thanks to then editor Alex Heard for the assignment. www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. www.propublica.org/article/segr...