New preprint up assessing the air quality and health benefits that could have been possible under the Inflation Reduction Act. Huge effort here with Erin Mayfield, Jamil Farbes, @jessedjenkins.com, Ryan Jones, Tracey Holloway, and @jonathanpatz.bsky.social.

NCAR is one of the most important research facilities in the US. NCAR provides key weather and climate data that help predict severe storms, allows for farmers to prepare for long-term weather patterns, and airlines to fly safely. Call congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

“The Trump administration wants to destroy it. Why? Because NCAR attempts to understand the inequitable impacts of human-caused climate change on the poorest and most vulnerable.”

Proud to be part of the Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health that just put together a report summarizing the evidence of health harms of climate change to date. Report is here: zenodo.org/records/1728... 🛟 #climatesky

The path between here and a just and livable future is not a smooth curve of managed transition any more (if it ever was). It's white water, surprises, confusion, advance, retreat, learning, messing up, grieving, celebrating, experimenting, truth telling, pausing in the beauty.

Another expert review of the science behind the endangerment finding, this time from health professionals. they conclude that CO2 emissions "pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being." drive.google.com/fil...

The end of soot-laden windows. The arrival of broadband internet. Cheaper and more reliable electricity. Rhode Island’s first electricity co-op. The return of birdsong. Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

Beyond frustrating and disappointing that CBS got a rare exclusive sitdown interview with Musk and didn’t ask him a single question about his reckless and ignorant cuts to USAID and all the lives that are being lost across the world as a result of it:

These regulations might produce acute costs for producers from plant retrofits and retirements, but they provide diffuse benefits to all of society from improved air quality and lowered greenhouse gas emissions. It’s little surprise which group’s interests matter to EPA administrator Lee Zeldin.

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

Researchers at Microsoft just introduced Aurora, their new AI earth system model. It can produce global air quality forecasts that match or beat the performance of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service — at 100,000 times the speed.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Such deft political maneuvering here by Sen. Slotkin, who opposed the process Republicans used to revoke California's vehicle emissions waivers and then ... joined Republicans in revoking California's vehicle emissions waivers. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

Whenever Trump announces some new authoritarian policy, like the ban on Harvard international students, the first two questions should always be: 1) Can he do that? 2) If he can't, will he get away with it? More often that not, the answers are no. And I think this case will fit the pattern.

Breaking News: Harvard University sued the Trump administration less than a day after the government said it would block international students from attending.

"The decision represents the first time since the creation of the [Clean Air Act] that Congress has rolled back its environmental protections." This means some facilities will no longer need to use maximum achievable emission controls for hazardous air pollutants such as mercury, lead, and benzene.

What does the GOP Megabill passed by the House this morning mean for the US energy transition, energy prices, emissions and the economy? REPEAT Project's new analysis has you covered. Read the new report or listen to our recent SHIFT KEY episode diving into the details. 🔗 ⤵️ 🔌💡

We're getting closer by the day to "Chain-Gang All Stars" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

NEW: The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil. By @peterelkind.bsky.social

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵

Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

The average friend sits unused 99% of the time. We are creating new synergies and efficiencies in the friend marketplace by matching demand with supply. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Friendcero. It’s Uber but for friends.

Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m

During graduate school, studies published in Environmental Health Perspectives regularly offered models of robust and compelling science that helped guide my work. Some of the best research on air quality and public health graces EHP's pages. The journal's discontinuation would be a real shame.

AGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce. buff.ly/3U56ooz

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles. The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, on the eve of the first Earth Day 55 years ago:

"The battle to restore a proper relationship between man and the environment ... will require a long, sustained political, moral, ethical, and financial commitment far beyond any commitment ever made ... in the history of man. Are we able? Yes. Are we willing? That's the unanswered question."

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

An anticipated data-center boom is driving utility plans for massive natural gas investments in Wisconsin, raising objections from customer and climate advocates:

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Large crowd gathered in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol #StandUpForScience

Groups tied to Elon Musk have already spent more than $4.2 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race—a clear sign that his plans for oligarchy extend well beyond Washington.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

From Q3 2022-Q4 2024, there was $289 billion invested in construction & installation of US facilities that manufacture or deploy clean technologies. Based on announced projects, $524 billion remains to be spent. Explore a breakdown of investment by congressional district: cleaninvestmentmonitor.org

At a time when the Environmental Protection Agency is coping with increasing threats to health, life and property because of climate change, President Trump's administration is poised to cut the agency back to 1970s-era staff levels.

Repeal of the endangerment finding would not only undermine climate mitigation efforts. Rules primarily aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions also provide co-benefits for air quality and health by driving down concomitant emissions of criteria air pollutants.

This is truly pathetic reaching on Zeldin's part. The ~revelation~ of Power Forward Communities being selected from a competitive application process was announced by EPA in April. The announcement is still on EPA's website! Way to crack the case wide open, DOGE. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Even wilder is that more than two-thirds of the monetized benefits of *all* major federal regulations from 2007 to 2016 came from EPA rules aimed at improving air quality.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“The 1.5-degree threshold was never the difference between safety and ruin, between hope and despair.”