A growing number of health experts, environmentalists and parents say artificial turf is harming children’s health and heating up the environment, and they’re pushing cities, counties and school districts to ban it. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Today is the LAST DAY to catch Ondi Timoner's new doc ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN at the Laemmle Glendale. 5:15 PM. Shooting this film has not only been a powerful experience during my own recovery, but it has already changed lives impacted by the Eaton Fire. I'm so proud. deadline.com/2025/09/all-...

The L.A. wildfire cleanup: Experts worry that the rapid pace of the cleanup resulted in sloppy work and lax oversight that may ultimately cost homeowners. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

New research finds that smoke from wildfires has caused more than 41,000 deaths annually from 2011 to 2020. "By our calculation, this is one of the most important climate impacts in the U.S." By Tony Briscoe @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

#EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report for @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4gvsaPe

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

“The fact is we’re paying more partly because of tariffs,” Daniel Sumner @ucdavisare.bsky.social told @jessicaroy.bsky.social America imports 80% of its coffee from Latin America. Bananas, another import for which we rely heavily on trade, are up 6.6% www.sfchronicle.com/personal-fin...

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

More than 100 members of the Writers Guild of America East and their supporters jammed the sidewalk in front of Walt Disney Co.’s Lower Manhattan headquarters Friday to protest ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

The Heyday Harvest, our annual gathering & biggest fundraiser of the year, is Sunday October 19th at the Freight in Berkeley. Please join our community of writers, artists, & activists to honor Alice Waters of Chez Panisse & author @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social ! heyday.salsalabs.org/harvest2025r...

NEW: I wrote about how drinking water fluoridation has long been heralded as a public health triumph, but skeptics increasingly hold sway in government. Most notably: RFK, Jr. And customer notice requirements are patchy, so people may not even know about it when their fluoridation stops.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Ted Cooke, whose nomination was rescinded by the Trump administration: "I’ve been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency because of party politics and maybe Colorado River basin intrigues." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/bure...

Ted Cooke, whose nomination was rescinded by the Trump administration: "I’ve never seen this kind of vitriol and opposition based on presumed bias. ... Why, all of a sudden, are we politicizing water in this way?" @alanhalaly.bsky.social www.reviewjournal.com/news/environ...

A Texas company is trying to restart an oil operation off the California coast. It now faces criminal charges alleging it knowingly violated environmental laws. @grace2e.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

California isn't backing down on offshore wind. Five ocean leases have already been granted to energy companies, and the state's plan calls for eventually putting enough turbines offshore to generate clean power for 25 million homes. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

What a photo. ( @staceywescott.bsky.social )

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

"The inmates... were being abused, and the abuse was covered up without proper discipline." A sheriff who is running for governor hid the causes of an epidemic of jail deaths behind a culture of cover-up and retaliation, a former captain said in an interview. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ICYMI: a 50-home development was approved less than a mile from Jackie and Shadow's nest. Advocates say the project will harm the celeb eagle couple and other wildlife/plants in the area. County officials say it was vetted to ensure it won't.

These stories are among the winners, announced today, of the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! Visit www.coveringclimatenow.org/awards to see them all, and help us celebrate this incredible work by resharing this post...

Colbert spent the entire monolog on Kimmel and the FCC.

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

My column on Jimmy Kimmel, Big Media owners and the shrinking of free speech in American media. https://loom.ly/P8pK0Gw

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

The White House plans to rescind its nomination of a former Arizona water official as the Bureau of Reclamation's commissioner. Ted Cooke told @yachnin.bsky.social: "This is not the outcome I sought, and I’ll leave it at that." www.eenews.net/articles/whi... @politico.com

MY LATEST: Rosina Philippe's ancestral village, Grand Bayou, has been overtaken by water, and yet she remains. “I say that we’re placemarkers,” says Philippe, an elder in Louisiana's Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe. "The Creator in his infinite wisdom has placed my people where we belong."

Opinion | Free speech worries mount as ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s show www.poynter.org/commentary/2... @poynterinstitute.bsky.social

Amid the news about Jimmy Kimmel, I’m remembering Diego Luna’s guest appearances earlier this year, when he strongly criticized Trump as he spoke about ICE raids and immigrants in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7726...

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

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...

L.A.'s plan for expanding the Convention Center hit a wall, with the council's budget committee recommending that the city halt work on the project and carry out less expensive repairs instead. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I’m in Delta, Utah, this week, doing a story on California’s last coal plant. It’s been one of L.A.’s largest electricity sources for 40 years, and under CA law it needs to shut down by the end of 2025. Gas and green hydrogen to come.

Global warming has accelerated since the 2000s. Sea level rise is also accelerating. @hausfath.bsky.social @dananuccitelli.bsky.social @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/clim...

A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

Three environmental defenders were murdered or disappeared, on average, each week in 2024, a new report says. insideclimatenews.org/news/1609202...

A clear majority of American Jews now oppose Israel's war in Gaza, new poll finds: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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"A near term crisis is unfolding before our eyes" The Colorado River’s reservoirs are so depleted that another dry year could send them plunging to dangerously low levels, a group of experts warns in a new analysis. @jfleck.bsky.social www.inkstain.net/2025/09/anal... www.latimes.com/environment/...

Water bills in L.A. County are rising faster than inflation. @edithdeguzman.bsky.social: "If we don’t think about how to generate the political will and provide assistance to those communities... we will be leaving a lot of our neighbors behind.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Since Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods in February, China has retaliated by halting all purchases of American soybeans. Soybeans that would normally be harvested and exported are now set to pile up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Eaton fire contaminated Altadena with lead. It's lingering even after cleanup, final county report finds

RIP Robert Redford, one of America's most influential environmental advocates and storytellers. www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Sometimes I just need to read @gustavoarellano.bsky.social

NYT response to lawsuit filed by Donald Trump against the newspaper and several NYT reporters. share.google/oTnqn8SIgHFV...

NYT INVESTIGATION: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. NYT digs into links between a lucrative transaction involving the Trump family's cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Dwindling #Colorado River Can’t Wait For States To Cut Water Use, Experts Say @ianjames.bsky.social reports for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...