New statement from WHO: "The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy." www.who.int/news/item/24...

Your electricity bill is going to give the price of gas at the pump a run for its money in 2026 as the most politically important election-year number.

Trump's unexpected contribution (carbon emissions trajectory forecast?) to Climate Week in NYC: "Your countries are going to hell." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"Outspoken business leaders have suddenly lost their tongues. Since they have the most to lose, those with power and wealth are among the softest targets."

Happy Climate Week to those who celebrate. "Governments say they will cut their own climate-warming pollution, yet they plan to continue producing the fossil fuels that are driving that pollution far beyond what their climate targets would allow." insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Widespread confusion about natural gas convinced me to, uh, write a book on the subject. And to devote its first two pages to tackling that confusion head-on. Most Americans don't think natural gas is a fossil fuel. Most also don't know that it is primarily *methane.* That's not an accident.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

"They’re taking the technologies that have added 85% of everything that was added to the grid last year and predicted to be added over the next 3 years and saying, 'We are going to have a high-profile war against these technologies.'" —@jigarshahdc.bsky.social www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

“With this move, they’re taking away the practical and material capacity of the federal government to do the basic elements of climate policymaking”

25 days since the Alaska summit: “Just before 11 am, as a group of elderly Ukrainians lined up at a post office to receive their pensions, a quarter-ton Russian glide bomb slammed into the heart of their village. “The blast killed at least 23 people.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science. I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

"The two satellites provide precise global measurements of carbon dioxide...Now the Trump administration wants to scrap them as a money-saving measure. It's like buying a car 'and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

The the United States Department of Energy does not understand renewable energy or how batteries work.

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Happy 30th birthday to @sevendaysvt.bsky.social — a Vermont icon and the best damn weekly paper in these United States! I'm amazed by the quality and breadth of the features, arts, food and political coverage that Seven Days staff put out every week.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

In the richest country in the world people are baking to death at home. Richard Chamblee died in Arizona two days after the central AC broke and the family couldn’t afford to repair it. His core temp was 108F/42C. He was just 52 years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not sure that most Americans realize: A) just what a remarkable achievement (ie, historic own-goal) this is for US diplomacy, pushing India closer to China and B) how this will reverberate for decades, reshaping global alliances, flows of investment and energy, climate adaptation, you name it

The Trump Effect: In 2020 Chinese and Indian soldiers were *clubbing each other to death* with rocks and spiked clubs on their disputed border. 20 Indians killed. Nationwide outrage. Tiktok, 200 other Chinese apps banned. Today, Modi and Xi: "let's be friends" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...

You know how the Gulf Stream (AMOC, for the climate nerd set) keeps Europe habitable? The latest tipping points paper is making the rounds for good reason. AMOC collapses past 2100 in *all* projections iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Good @economist.com take www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Without Congressionally-approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.

Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.

This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

“I think we should all be scared about the nation’s health security.” — former CDC deputy director www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Keep in mind: avian flu and other 'next pandemic' virus candidates don't care about any of this chaos. And, sooner or later, there will be a next pandemic. Let's hope we have a functioning CDC by then.

The price of gasoline at the pump has long been the number that's top of mind for politicians seeking re-election. Will the price of electricity on your monthly utility bill soon join it as a driver of election outcomes?

One of the biggest stories in the world right now. Of course US media (except for @wired.com) is missing it completely.

For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

America’s property insurance crisis could make 2008 look small. Insurers fleeing entire states, premiums tripling, millions of homes becoming uninsurable. $1.47T in property losses projected by 2055. The hardest truth: managed retreat is inevitable. New post: open.substack.com/pub/paulinaj...

Trump in the Oval Office, backing up @vermontgmg.bsky.social analysis in real time: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."

Cheap Chinese solar panels are fueling a bottom-up energy revolution in Africa.

China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America's entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024 www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...

Translation: Trump says he’s increasing your electricity prices.

Glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵

The big long-term outcome of the Big Beautiful Bill: ceding energy/technology primacy to China. "The Bill...shackles the US to a 19th-century energy system even as China barrels ahead toward near-total dominance of supply chains for solar, wind, batteries, and EVs." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Agreed: the issue of spiking power costs will only increase in political salience. Much like soaring insurance premiums, it will soon be impossible to ignore. But much hinges on people's ability to connect the dots. And on media and politicians helping them do so. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"The U.S. and China have switched places when it comes to lowering climate pollution. China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell 2.7% in the first half of 2025 while U.S. emissions increased 4.2 %, reversing a long-standing pattern in global climate pollution." www.eenews.net/articles/in-...

One of the most under-discussed outcomes of the Big Beautiful Bill: electricity bills around the US will go up. It will raise costs for developers of new generation. Looks like it's already begun: www.utilitydive.com/news/wind-so...

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

jfc

🇨🇳 China installed 464 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to June☀️ That's more than the total EU solar capacity as of 2024 (338 GW) and DOUBLE the total US solar capacity (229 GW). ...in just 12 months

This will get litigated. A direct assault on science behind the endangerment finding "would be laughed out of court," one expert told me. But a narrower legal attack (e.g. on the meaning of "endanger") might win, he warned: "This Supreme Court doesn’t give a shit about precedent or anything else."