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Great reporting by @allyjar.bsky.social And also, ew gross. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

EPA officials say the furloughs are "intentional." But the employees we spoke to called them "chaotic." One employee, a veteran of multiple shutdowns, told me: "It makes me nostalgic for Trump 1.0." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social

The artist was a cornerstone of Boston’s Black arts community, welcoming mentees into his South End home and offering unwavering support. He helped shape careers, leaving a legacy defined not only by his art, but by the vibrant community he nurtured.

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Employees at the New England office of the Environmental Protection Agency began receiving furlough notices Monday in a rollout that some called chaotic and confusing.

A spokesperson for the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the guard, said agents arrived on the property "without prior notice and without permission."

EPA officials say the furloughs are "intentional." But the employees we spoke to called them "chaotic." One employee, a veteran of multiple shutdowns, told me: "It makes me nostalgic for Trump 1.0." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

40% of New England EPA workers are furloughed amid the gov't shutdown @wbur.org @vivianla.bsky.social @moranwriter.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Great reporting by @allyjar.bsky.social And also, ew gross. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Thousands of demonstrators in Boston and around the country took to the streets to decry what they described as "abuses of power, cruelty and corruption" in the Trump administration.

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MIT says "Nope! to Trump "college compact" plan. Here's MIT prez Sally Kornbluth: "fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." Full statement here 👇 orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Really important reporting www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

I feel for these street trees! City living gets me stressed out, too. Fascinating piece by @vivianla.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

So much for those clean energy grants...In Massachusetts, $466 million to support more than two dozen projects is being rescinded. Gov Healey calls the Trump administration move "vindictive." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

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For everyone with a love/hate/love/hate/dammit! Why?!/ relationship with the Sox, this essay by my friend @bertoscalese.bsky.social is for you: ⚾️ www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

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Researchers documented 95 large whales entangled in fishing gear in the United States in 2024. That’s an increase from 2023 and higher than the historical average, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

New from @miriamwasser.bsky.social: A federal judge ruled on Monday that work can resume on Revolution Wind, a large and nearly complete offshore wind farm near Rhode Island. Construction on the project had been halted since Aug. 22, when the Trump administration issued a stop-work order.

Heard this report this morning on WBUR. Great journalism.

ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past spring and summer.

Both Jimmy Kimmel AND offshore wind get a reprieve. (Though @miriamwasser.bsky.social is only following offshore wind for now...) www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Big offshore wind news out of New England

Big congrats to @miriamwasser.bsky.social who just won a national award from @coveringclimatenow.org. Please read her marvelous reporting 👇👇👇 on a fisherman’s nonprofit in Maine turbocharged with funding from a prominent rightwing billionaire. www.wbur.org/news/2024/12...

Less than two weeks before those EV bucks go bye-bye... www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Big congrats to @miriamwasser.bsky.social who just won a national award from @coveringclimatenow.org. Please read her marvelous reporting 👇👇👇 on a fisherman’s nonprofit in Maine turbocharged with funding from a prominent rightwing billionaire. www.wbur.org/news/2024/12...

Yesterday my colleague @miriamwasser.bsky.social won a big award (more on that in another post), then she was up before dawn reporting on this 👇https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/19/southcoast-wind-permit-seek-to-revoked-trump

www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... my colleague @twallack.bsky.social is playing the long game! Go Todd! 💪💪

dogged reporting by my colleague @vivianla.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Great reporting by Walt Wuthmann www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Two important stories from my colleague @vivianla.bsky.social on Trump grant cuts hitting home. Here's the first, about vanishing environmental data 👇 www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Researchers and nonprofit leaders warn the pullback of federal data collection and reporting could harm efforts to help areas exposed to the greatest risks from pollution and climate change, and address historical inequities in environmental conditions.

Today on @wbur.org: One of our state's most remarkable #ConservationSuccess stories—the comeback of the piping plover! 🐣 Read all about it in what reporter @moranwriter.bsky.social calls "the bird version of the Massachusetts miracle" > www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

Federal funding is gone. But we're not going anywhere.

We got this 💪

Burying climate change reports isn't going to make climate change go away. Just sayin. www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Outdoor Afro, a national nonprofit, is helping families develop water skills and overcome historical barriers. capitalbnews.org/drowning-dis...

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Congrats on 1st place Public Service Radio Journalism to the great @simonfrios.bsky.social @wbur.org from @spj-posts.bsky.social - for his series on Haitian migrants trying to make their way in Boston. And congrats to @moranwriter.bsky.social - 1st place science reporting on Cape Cod Septic Systems

Solutions! www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

Boston beach report! www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...