"two data centers... in Ozaukee and Racine counties will consume enough energy to power 4.3 million homes... the Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant was already at the center of a controversial plan to divert 7 million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan." wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/09/16/e...

Nice tuba

It will be really great to hear Clay on the radio during the afternoons during 'All Things Considered'.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Way at the very bottom they mention "To reduce environmental impact and improve crop efficiency elsewhere, the MDA reminds farmers to apply NH3 only when soil temperatures average 50°F or cooler." Nothing about not applying in the fall or limit application. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNM...

Well, this is good news! "After four straight months of testing raw milk samples from Minnesota cow dairy farms for the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus without any detections, the USDA has changed Minnesota’s status from Affected to Unaffected..." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNM...

This house is a proud heat pump supporter! We are almost a year into owning a heat pump, & it has been great! It is much quieter than the old AC, & much more efficient). In the winter, we use it for all our heating needs until it gets really cold. Then it supplements the gas furnace.

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations. Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics. Check out our website and join the effort today.

This is a great piece by @kennytorrella.bsky.social - and not just because I am quoted and my work is mentioned! It’s critical to dismantle the false narratives that big ag puts out with great fanfare to hide the reality of consolidation. The “small farm” is a central deception in that narrative.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

"Like much of agricultural rural America, Remsen is saturated with pollution from pesticides, hanging in the air as aerosolized particulates or lurking in the dust kicked up by thundering combines. Many, such as glyphosate... the active ingredient in Roundup, are suspected of causing cancer"

A very nice thread on why Iowa has really bad water quality.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

In this updraft segment form @mprnews.org Sven tells us that though the recent cold feels cold, it is actually a few weeks late as compared to 50 years ago. 50 years ago the first 40 degree night in the Twin Cities was August 21st! The culprit? A warming climate. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

"Minnesota has issued wakeboat regulations at only one of its 10,000 lakes. The environmental issues at stake arise in shallow water, where powerboats can stir up obvious trails of sediment [which absorbs sunlight,] heats the water column, [reduces fish feeding rates, and triggers algal blooms]."

If you're in the Twin Cities and have been meaning to switch to solar, now's the time. Federal tax credits expire at the end of the year plus there's a @solarunitedneighbors.org group buy program that reduces upfront costs and guides you through the process: www.mobilize.us/solarunitedn...

"For babies, the two causes of death with the biggest gaps between the U.S. and the other countries were prematurity — being born too early — and sudden unexpected infant death. For children and teens, the biggest gaps were in firearm-related incidents and car crashes." Are we great yet?

My second day at the Minnesota State Fair was even better than the first day.

Don't worry though, I am sure that the use of AI in academia, at the behest of industry, will lead only to improved student learning outcomes... publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Congrats Polk County! You win the “We All Want Clean Water” award for 2025 for zeroing out the CISWRA budget after funding a report and holding a community event that energized Iowans to take action on our water quality. Way to sustain the momentum! www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/iowa...

The TA is a sleep on the job, AGAIN!

This proposed change on PFAS would be a disaster for the environment and for public health. Why make the polluters pay? "If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...

I am sure there is a good, non pollution related, reason why there is an orange shark off the coast of Costa Rica...

It's the first week of the semester. So, an oldie, but a goodie.

"The lawsuit argued that having to comply with the “time-consuming, costly process” of obtaining a permit that imposes “substantial costs and regulatory burdens” on the farms, is against the law..." Many in Big Ag view paperwork & regulations as too burdensome and not applicable to farms. Big win

Microplastic from drain tile?

A first-time crop artist, MPR News senior arts reporter and critic Alex V. Cipolle chronicles her exhausting but joyful journey of creating a whimsical, Magritte-inspired seed art piece for the Minnesota State Fair, discovering both the beauty and madness of gluing millet one seed at a time.

E30 (30% ethano) in the gas tank? FAFO

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires animation from from NASA’s GEOS "the concentration and movement of wildfire smoke from July 30 to August 3, 2025. It shows black carbon particles" earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15464...

There was a hint in 2024 that China's Carbon emissions had peaked due to their massive roll out of renewables, which continues. Now the data from the first half of 2025 confirms that CO2 emissions in China are decreasing. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

"Montana Is Paying a Climate Denier to Give Expert Testimony in Upcoming Trial" via @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2023/05/15/j...

In California, batteries allow the sun to shine at night. Solar power stored in batteries now provides ~20% of the evening peak demand. That's power that used to be provided by fossil fuels. The future will be electric. That's good news for climate health, environment, & economics. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Day 3 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding will begin shortly.🧪 As before, we’ll be following along: 👇🧵

I *might* be a @mprnews.org (and The Current and MPR Classical) fan... MPR mosquito hat, MPR tote bag, and a MPR nature print shirt. Even the MPR booth staff commented on my swag. The MPR News fan is sadly at home.

In an exclusive interview, environmental whistleblower Scott Smith discusses documents about suspected surveillance while he gathered soil and water samples after the BioLab fire in Conyers, Ga., in the fall of 2024. via Georgia Public Broadcasting

🚨It's happening🚨 Crop Art time!

EOS out here doing great work.

If we all wanted clean water, we would have clean water. Short of implementing real and meaningful water quality regulations on agriculture and the pollution it generates, we will not get clean water. Voluntary regulations do next to nothing (i.e., nutrient "reduction" strategy)

Extremely important research from @profsecchi.bsky.social on how USDA's definition of a farmer is misleading. The ag industry uses the bad definition to confuse the public. I have talked to many journalists in my time at EWG about needing to be skeptical of the definition.

Here's my open access paper "Who is an American farmer? Who counts in American agriculture?"! I show that using $1,000 sales value as the threshold to be considered a farmer in the Census of Agriculture + increasing the # of operators per farm results in vast overestimates of "farms" & "farmers" 1/

Vertiente mediterránea/cuencas fluviales de la cuenca atlántica.

"It’s difficult to tell precisely how many towns in MN have unsafe levels of manganese in their drinking water. 5 years ago, after new health research prompted state officials to release updated manganese recommendations, some cities [voluntarily] test for it." www.startribune.com/mound-mangan...

#OnThisDay Aug 18, 1862: Angry over broken treaties and faced with starvation, bands of the Dakota attack the Lower Sioux Agency and white settlements along the Minnesota River Valley. The "Dakota War" would last 6 weeks and end in the darkest hours of Minnesota History.

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

Here are four images of the Berman Buckskin Building (originally the Home Insurance Building) from the Historic American Building Survey (HABS). Demolition started #OTD in 1994, 100 years after construction started. HABS: www.loc.gov/item/mn0325/ More: www.historic-structures.com/mn/minneapol...