Russia’s leaking shadow oil fleet now numbers 1300: “It seems shocking to me that these tankers, after having shown evidence of an oil spill and environmental damage … haven’t been detained” @POLITICOPro www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Bad news for federal workers and government agencies that depend on them: "Vought announced the layoffs on X, saying, "The RIFs have begun." https:// axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-officials-federal-layoffs @EmilyRPeck @josephine_walkr @axios

Standing up for free speech: “Journalism is not a crime. Speech is not a crime. Every American must loudly condemn the Trump administration’s assault on our First Amendment rights.” @ScottNover @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Great piece: How Trump’s gutting of EPA science hurts public health. “It feels like the efforts of a couple of generations of scientists who have worked extremely diligently…has been set aside with no path forward.” @propublica @fastlerner.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Killing science: “The 2026 budget would slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3 percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s science-research budget.” @nytimes @alanburdick messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Pope Leo to 1.5 billion Catholics: act on #climate. "Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most." www.ncronline.org/opinion/pope...

New from Money Trail: PragerU promotes a distorted view of history and partners with the Trump administration and school systems in 10 states. “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”https://themoneytrail.substack.com/p/prageru-may-soon-be-whitewashing @cmatthiessen.bsky.social

Why the government shutdown will not last: travelers are getting pissed off!

Scientists say the climate crisis is our greatest threat. Politicians fed by disinformation snooze. Time for that to stop!

Over its lifetime, offshore wind power is cheaper than new fossil fuel plants, as new clean energy technology makes wind and solar cheaper and cheaper. Why it will be hard for the Trump administration to stop it.

Bottom line, renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. The market can't stop that. “The IEA has, consistently over the last couple of decades, way underestimated how fast renewables are growing...I don’t see any reason to believe that renewables won’t double by 2030.”

The cost of Trump's USAID budget cuts: children screaming for food. "U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030." @KristenGelineau @AP apnews.com/article/myan...

Asthma inhalers linked to #climate warming: “it drives me crazy that the medication I use to address my symptoms drives climate change” @jechristensen @CNN www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/h...

As the planet burns Trump's team kills clean energy boosting oil and gas: "of 37 nominees to the Department of Energy (DOE), EPA and DOI who required Senate confirmation, 25 had ties to polluting industries, including oil and gas and mining." insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202... @insideclimatenews

New from Money Trail: Why did two ABC affiliate owners refuse to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel? themoneytrail.substack.com/p/abc-affili...

Dangerous liaison between anti-science propaganda and the media: the spread of dangerous #climate misinformation.

Earth on fire: “wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands” @borenbears @AP apnews.com/article/wild...

The world has many problems, but this is our greatest existential threat: “WMO is sounding the alarm that we will be exceeding the 1.5°C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.” @UNFCCC #climate news.un.org/en/story/202...

The relentless push for ‘clean beautiful coal:’ “the moves are unlikely to change the long-term trajectory for #coal, which is being displaced by cheaper and cleaner sources of energy including natural gas, #solar and #wind power.” @dgelles messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

“Wild, scenic, and toxic:” Climate change leaches acidic red discharges from melting Alaska permafrost, turning crystal clear rivers into toxic salmon-killing waterways. @YJRosen @AlaskaBeacon alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/29/w...

New from Money Trail. What Trump and the oil and gas industry don’t want you to know: clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels. “The cheapest and quickest way to get new energy online is now solar and wind, not new coal- or gas-fired power plants.” open.substack.com/pub/themoney...

A threat to hundreds of millions: “Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse” @TheStatesmanLtd www.thestatesman.com/opinion/gang...

Trump USAID cuts hurts millions and costs taxpayers: “the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development will cost taxpayers $6.4 billion over two years.” https:// www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opinion/trump-usaid-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare @NickKristof

SEJ board elections are coming up soon. Deadline to file is this Friday. Come join the board of the world’s biggest environmental journalism org, fighting for free speech and critical environmental reporting. Join us! @sejorg www.sej.org/sej-board-el...

New from me in Money Trail: Wind is a cash crop for red state farmers and ranchers. The Trump administration’s assault on renewable energy could undercut Republican prospects in the upcoming election. themoneytrail.substack.com/p/red-state-...

First La Seine, then the Chicago River. Next up the Potomac!

The health cost of methane gas: “Infants born to pregnant women exposed to the massive Southern California gas leak were more likely to be underweight, a risk factor for serious long-term health conditions.” @lizabio @insideclimate insideclimatenews.org/news/2009202...

EPA science put on hold: “This represents millions of dollars of research, potentially, that’s now being stopped” @AmudalatAjasa @hannah_natanson @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Check out Randy Rieland’s wrap-up of last week’s highlights and lowlights on Money Trail: themoneytrail.substack.com/p/trail-note...

Beyond dispute: “the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, found that the evidence linking rising emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” @hclaire_brown @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Money Trail: The GOP (Gas and Oil Party) boosts fossil fuel subsidies that will exacerbate the climate crisis. "The federal government currently subsidizes coal, oil and gas production by at least $30.8 billion annually...that is soon going to grow." themoneytrail.substack.com/p/fossil-fue...

Award-winning investigation into the Texas fossil fuel industry: “a stellar series” that revealed how state agencies sidestep science, law and accountability.” @insideclimate @TexasTribune @psskow @sejorg.bsky.social www.sej.org/publications...

"Green" bonds fueling Brazil’s agribusiness often mask socio-environmental damage from land grabbing to threats against Indigenous territories. Here, the @pulitzercenter.org uncovers where finance and exploitation intersect:

"Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate. The Trump Administration has worked with congressional Republicans who are currently in power to defund climate and vaccine science, while staffing various agencies with climate and vaccine deniers." - Michael E. Mann

The true costs of climate change are unknown, but the ones we can document are bad enough. And they are getting worse as we spew more heat-trapping CO2 and methane pollution into the air.

Report: most heat deaths in Europe tied to climate change. “The causal chain from fossil fuel burning to rising heat and increased mortality is undeniable” @NiranjanAjit @guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rooting out the liberal network: "Mr. Miller said that a formal effort would be coming, with federal agencies rooting out what he referred to as a “domestic terror movement”... to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again" nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u... @nytimes

New from Money Trail: Economist Dean Baker fact-checks Donald Trump’s trumped-up charge against Fed member Lisa Cook, who he is trying to force off the board. themoneytrail.substack.com/p/on-the-mon...

The war on science is not the scientists' fault. We will all pay for it.

Anti-science insanity: “1 in 6 parents have delayed or skipped some vaccines for their children…Nine percent have skipped the polio or measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) shots, which public health experts say risks large outbreaks of potentially fatal diseases” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright "quietly arranged for five hand-picked skeptics of the effects of climate change" to compile the government's climate report and violated the law by creating the report in secret with authors "of only one point of view." www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n... @npr

Trump hates wind power. His fossil fuel buddies hate it even more. A climate scientist explains why these threats matter. "Trump and his associates...aren’t just talking down wind. They’re trying to break it." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/o... @michaelemann.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

Never been a more important time for a book like this.

New Orleans may be next: “New Orleans is in really bad shape, and the governor wants us to go in,” Trump said on Fox…”I can fix that up in a week and a half.” ⁦@washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Klobuchar is on the money. We have our heads in the sand when it comes to climate change if we stop reporting greenhouse gas emissions. Exactly what the fossil fuel industry wants.

Because who cares how much climate pollution we spew into the air? EPA: the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is nothing more than bureaucratic red tape that does nothing to improve air quality” @jakespring @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Unfortunately this is the only thing Trump understands: attack and blame people needlessly. It's what we will get for at least four more years.

Check out Randy Rieland’s wrap-up of last week’s highlights and lowlights on Money Trail: themoneytrail.substack.com/p/trail-note...

Despite drill baby drill, renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels and growing fast: "the tipping point has arrived. In the next few years, we can expect to see cheap, plentiful renewables outcompete more and more fossil fuels." @conversationUS theconversation.com/climate-acti...

Is your money fueling climate change? New from Money Trail: banks that fund climate-damaging projects and banks that don’t. It’s your choice. themoneytrail.substack.com/p/boycott-ba...