ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

The Reuse Alliance in Petaluma, CA, is offering a screening of The Plastic Detox documentary on June 27th. I’ll be joining the panel afterward to help answer questions on how to reduce exposure to plastics and associated chemicals. www.reusealliance.org/events/plast...

This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

"Knowledge, once learned, cannot be taken away," Federal funds may completely disappear… but "it's not going to take away the truth, and we have that knowledge now, and we will continue on our path to protect what's out there." www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n... Via @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s newsletter.

This is devastating. If you can afford to do so, join me in donating to try to stop the hemorrhaging of talented journalists occurring thanks to this administration’s assault on public radio.

It’s time to phase out unnecessary uses of PFAS plastics, including in cookware, cosmetics, clothing, and more. To learn more about PFAS microplastics and how to reduce your exposure: https://on.nrdc.org/49rrW9E

Each morning, I go outside to listen to birds before traffic and leaf blowers etc. ramp up. The bird song calms me. This morning, there was quite a collection singing in the trees, as identified using the wonderful Merlin app.

My latest Starbright post, about personal worth, the reassurance of a distant star, and being seen. #astronomy #disability www.patreon.com/posts/signal...

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Looking forward to this series by Heather Cox Richardson. #WeAreAmerica m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzQ...

Oceanic creatures would also appreciate fewer massive ships plying their waters.

Please use the link in the outrageous announcement to submit comments to the EPA. Tell them no amount of PFAS is safe to consume and you want PFAS regulated as a class asap! They need to stop the BS like they think we are stupid. Make some noise and tell your elected people this is not ok!

Between industrial discharges, vehicular exhaust, & drift of pesticides from conventional agricultural, there are a lot of sources of toxic chemicals to our food and water that are challenging to avoid. This blog post focuses on suggestions to help you avoid some. laureljstandley.com/2026/05/18/l...

Jane Goodall: “..while we’re the most ‘intellectual animals’ to ever walk the planet, ‘we’re not intelligent’. Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.” AI = intellectual Sustainable living = intelligent

“It is some very effective marketing that has convinced so many of us that getting off of fossil fuels is a sacrifice as opposed to a money-saving, peace-promoting, water-protecting, health-improving, technological leap forward.” Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (quoted in Solnit & Lutunatabua’s “Not too Late”)

“No matter how one chooses to act, it’s never been more important to muster collective, sustained action to protect science.” Lessons in resistance from Tim Snyder www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is yet another escalation of abusive tactics by this administration. Short of a massive blue wave this fall, the Republican Party seems to be incapable or unwilling to get these people under control.

The “Stop Greed, Build Green” proposal looks transformative.

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In addition to being the worst nest builders (everything they put on the ledge over my door falls to the ground), the birds brought a cigarette butt to put in their nest. Please, folks, pick up your butts so baby birds aren’t exposed to the toxic, carcinogenic chemicals in them.

This and Canada’s middle countries initiative gives me hope someday we’ll break this destructive hegemony and fossil fuel industry governing the U.S.

Yes!!

Perfect way to end the evening- visited by this hummingbird who drank from the succulent’s blossoms, then the rose, then another flower, and topped it off back at the feeder outside my kitchen window.

No data center should be approved going forward if it doesn’t generate its own power using renewables.

A wonderful way to wrap up Earth Day with @heathercoxrichardson and Liza Donnelly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GASz...

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May this Earth Day bring a transition to honoring that we’re part of Earth’s incredible ecosystem, not dominant and driven to exploit it. Eco over Ego.

This class of chemicals should never have been mass produced. Any chemist could tell you they’re extremely long-lived, which is a red flag for building up in the environment.

“..what, after all, is the climate crisis, but a warped and degraded relationship between our species and the sun, whose rays we are currently trapping in our blanket of greenhouse gases?” Bill McKibbon, Here Comes the Sun

All states need to do this. #EndCitizensUnited

Er, yum? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

With Substack’s decision to platform people like Andrew Tate, I’ve decided to post only on my website blog from now on instead of both. I’ll continue to read the work of the many talented writers and journalists there. laureljstandley.com/blog/

Important information on plastic-based chemicals and preterm birth.

💯 “.. I tried to understand why (Dr. Swan)’s so focused on helping people make product swaps when she herself acknowledges that systemic action is necessary for real change. Very matter-of-factly, she told me, individuals just don’t have time to wait for governmental action, which can take decades.”

This passage from James Lovelock’s book Gaia demonstrates Shell’s concerns about whether fossil fuel combustion would have global consequences back in 1966. 60 years later we can conclude that, yes indeed, they’re having devastating consequences worldwide.

May Pam Bondi and other corrupt attorneys soon follow.

Dear @schumer.senate.gov, you are not acting in Americans’ best interests by blocking less expensive EVs. If American manufacturers’ future is at risk, it’s because they refuse to make what we want.

“Before our decade is out, we have to break the back of the fossil fuel system. We have to land the sun on the earth.” Bill McKibbon, Here Comes the Sun

My morning cup of nature. #natureheals

I can get behind HI - Human Intelligence - as seen through the Artemis II mission, clean energy innovation, and, yes, art, music, and writing.

Would love to see this PFAS pesticide ban (bill AB 1603) be enacted more quickly than 2035, since our food, soil, and water supplies will become more and more contaminated the longer these extremely long-lived chemicals are in use. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...

Just started reading Bill McKibbon’s Here Comes the Sun for Anne Marie Bonneau’s Earth Day book club, came across this awesome line: “We are on the verge of turning to the heavens for energy instead of to hell.”

Let us soon put these people out of business. Electrify!

More great advice for reducing the plastic contaminating your life.

This afternoon I did yoga, listened to meditation music, and called my senators and representatives and Mike Johnson demanding impeachment and removal of the mad man in the White House. Feeling much better.

“Conflicting emotions in this moment are formidable. The contrast between Moon Joy and impending genocide here on Earth couldn't be more stark. Working together, we can do great, transformative, and inspiring things! Working against each other, we are the instruments of our own destruction.”

Would that those responsible for checks and balances in our government would stop this delusional not-a-king.