When an Omaha mother discovered high levels of lead in her son’s blood, she looked up EPA soil tests and discovered potentially harmful levels of the metal in her yard. City officials said her home didn’t qualify for a government-funded cleanup. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

🚨 New analysis🚨 Since Trump returned to power, 15 coal plants had planned retirements pushed back or delayed indefinitely. Nearly 75 percent were on track to shutter in the next two years. AI is a major, but not the only driver. Read more 👉

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

You can find the Nebraska Climate Assessment report here: nsco.unl.edu/news/nebrask...

I was glad to work together with dozens of researchers across disciplines to summarize what the latest research tells us about how climate change is impacting Nebraskans. We shouldn't sacrifice the vulnerable and need policies to protect the people and places we love. omaha.com/news/state-r...

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The fossil fuel industry’s playbook: Deny. Delay. Dilute. Chapter 2 of “Climate Obstruction” shows how Big Oil reinvented obstruction for the net-zero era. Read: cssn.org/news-researc...

Check out our chapter on How Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Impede Climate Action!

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Not surprisingly, these scientists’ names and viewpoints were familiar from previous research by UCS and others, congressional testimony, and other public appearances.” Find out who authored the Trump administration’s sham climate report and uncover their ties to the #FossilFuel industry.

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Trump admin wants to keep expensive coal plants online to power AI If you're wondering why electricity bills are going up.... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

UCS's @karenstillerman.bsky.social breaks down why this report matters and the policies contributing to a spike in food prices and food insecurity in her latest blog:

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Black lung is still destroying lives and families in Appalachia, and this “pro-coal” government doesn’t care. The implementation of a lifesaving safety rule has been delayed yet again, and coal miners will continue to pay the price. Via @westvirginiawatch.com westvirginiawatch.com/2025/08/14/t...

If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...

WARNING SIGNS: Nebraska's GDP shrunk by a nation-leading 6.1% in the first quarter of 2025. Only Iowa lost as much, based on federal statistics. Tough times in agriculture led the way, which could signal trouble. From Erin Bamer:

Anyone with a basic understanding of economic inequality and taxation trends would have immediately caught this error. That our representatives believed it is revealing. In reality, comparing the table cited for 2017 with 2022 the share paid by the top 1% FELL (2.2%), as their share of income grew.

Nebraska’s congressional delegation ludicrously claim, in @owhnews.bsky.social , the 2017 tax cuts doubled the share of taxes paid by the richest 1%. Hyperlinks provided show they compare the share of individual income taxes paid by the 0.1% in 2017 with the top 1% now. omaha.com/opinion/colu...

Nebraska’s congressional delegation ludicrously claim, in our biggest newspaper, the 2017 tax cuts doubled the share of taxes paid by the richest 1%. Hyperlinks provided show they compare the share of individual income taxes paid by the 0.1% with the top 1%. omaha.com/opinion/colu...

US kids are 15x more likely to die by gun, and 2.5x more likely to die by car than kids in the OECD 18 countries. All while their health is deteriorating in other ways. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

"rural voters who lost hospitals were roughly 5–10 percentage points more likely to vote Republican in subsequent presidential elections. If anything state Republicans seemed to benefit in rural areas from rejecting Medicaid and resulting rural health woes..." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A rural hospital in a Nebraska county that voted 75-25 for the GOP Senator in November closed due to the Republican Party's impending Medicaid cuts. This is a harbinger of a bleak future to come for rural communities. www.splinter.com/rural-hospit...

'It’s a stunning display of support for a widely unpopular set of ideas. In late September, just before the election, NBC News found that distaste for Project 2025 was one of the few things Americans agreed on; just four percent of Americans approved of the initiative. www.desmog.com/2025/06/02/m...

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Social media hype monetized content pouring into the growing public service void? The plot to Twisters 3?

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

Excellent visualizations in this article illustrating how rich tech dudes have tentacles in all the places that would otherwise be holding them accountable. Here are main figures of you do not have subscription

We're in an energy crisis, and millions of people can't even afford the utilities they need to survive storms, heatwaves, and freezes. Read CCI fellow @sevier.io and Energy+Industrial Systems Policy Manager Winston Yau on how public power can deliver lower costs and cleaner energy.

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

Sobering report from CBO: Nuke modernization cost expected to reach nearly $1 Trillion the next decade, 25% more than projected last year. www.cbo.gov/system/files... This train wreck has been 15 years in the making as officials downplayed cost/risks of excessive modernization.

Iowa farmers are twice as likely as the national to be Dismissive or Doubtful of climate change, despite their closeness to the land and exposure to the weather. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @mason4c.bsky.social @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

One day people will look back at what is by far the weirdest ideology to emerge that causes someone to look at the world hurtling towards widespread destruction and say "ok, so how do we keep profits up?" www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-...

Utility corruption gets the HBO doc treatment tonight. Featuring the utility that bribed its way into billion-dollar bailouts subsidized by people’s electric bills. Good day to appreciate @cleantechfacts.bsky.social for all his work to document the saga in real time. youtu.be/dykZuyO7RUU?...

Bob's Digital Disconnect saw ahead to the problems we face today, why and what we might do.

Bitcoin bros love to say that bitcoin is green, actually—that it's helping advance renewable energy and making the grid cleaner and more sustainable It's not, and the authors of this thorough @thebulletin.org article brought the receipts thebulletin.org/2025/03/is-b...

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

I know folks jokingly say "I guess clean air is woke now," but the far-right actually does make sense of environmental amenities and regulations though a racialized lens.

Here's a letter to the American public from (anonymous, out of fear of retaliation) current & former employees of EPA, earnestly -- and somewhat heartbreakingly -- explaining how important their work is & what a tragedy is is that Trump's destroying it.

Trump complains that wind turbines "kill the birds," then, on behalf of the oil industry, goes after the Migratory Bird Treaty Act: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

VOTER PUSHBACK? Labor activists stood in the Capitol during Thursday morning’s agenda and criticized a pair of legislative bills seeking to weaken voter-approved minimum wage and paid sick leave laws. From Juan Salinas II:

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

Drivers typically crash into pedestrians who are similar to them in ethnicity and income -- with one big exception: Wealthy drivers often hit low-income pedestrians. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

When SpaceX’s Starship blew up in January, Musk called it “barely a bump in the road,” brushing off the FAA’s concerns. Yet during the accident, dozens of airplanes scrambled to avoid debris. Pieces of the craft were later found on beaches and roads.

BREAKING: young Angelenos who fled wildfires are occupying the Phillips 66 facility demanding oil & gas companies pay to rebuild LA. These companies make climate change worse while raking in TRILLIONS of $$ each year. They profit while we lose our homes. That must end.