Happy Climate Week! In the latest Current Climate newsletter: 🏅Honoring 50 people leading the charge on sustainability 🌳 A landscape artist designing “sponge cities” 🚘 Volvo Cars’ push to make recycled vehicles #ForbesSustainabilityLeaders www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

“I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

The latest edition of my science & emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, is here. What's inside: 🪴 Startup Genomines is growing nickel for batteries on farms instead of mining it 🧊 Scientists used salty ice to generate electricity 🛰️ Building quantum networks in space And more!

Feel like this bears repeating— Donald Trump's net worth has increased by $3 billion in the past 12 months, mostly due to crypto. Anyway, how's your day?

California isn’t backing down on offshore wind power despite Trump’s efforts to kill it www.latimes.com/environment/...

83% of US adults haven't paid for news in the last year. About half (49%) say their main reason is they can find plenty of free news elsewhere. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

ICYMI, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I wrote about how tomorrow's ACIP meeting seems poised to restrict crucial vaccines even further. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

What makes up Donald Trump's fortune? Forbes breaks it down, explaining exactly what the president owns and owes. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

New from me: As part of Forbes' annual list of Top Sustainability Leaders, I spoke with Kongjian Yu, who pioneered the "sponge city" concept for flood control. Sponge cities use green spaces, landscaping, constructed wetlands, permeable surfaces and other methods to control water in urban spaces.

NEW: Sweden's Volvo Cars isn’t a global giant by sales, but Chief Sustainability Officer Vanessa Butani, a #ForbesSustainabilityLeaders honoree, wants it to be a circular business leader with aggressive reuse of metals, batteries and climate-neutral auto plants www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

The National Academy of Sciences weighs in on Energy Department's shoddy climate report: Evidence that climate change harms public health is beyond scientific dispute apnews.com/article/clim...

Forbes Sustainability Leaders List highlights global leaders combating the climate crisis across a range of sectors. See who made the list.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii are setting their own vaccine guidelines and the Golden State may create a $23 billion fund for R&D www.latimes.com/california/s...

A new edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. Inside, Amy Feldman and I look at: 💊 If cannabis-based painkillers can reduce the need for opioids 💉 What's at stake for vaccines in this week's ACIP meeting 🏭 Big pharma's new U.S. manufacturing moves And more!

Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

This week’s key CDC immunization advisory meeting—packed with RFK Jr.’s hand-picked advisors—seems poised to put further restrictions on key vaccines. @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at the risks to public health and vaccine makers for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

Donald Trump really hates wind turbines -- unless they're supplying electricity to the crypto company his boys run www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

cool, cool: DOJ deletes study showing domestic terrorists are most often right-wingers www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

🚨NEW🚨 In May, a Virginia resident was poking around a neighbor's trash looking for valuable items. They found hundreds of pages of classified Navy documents allegedly left on the curb by an NCIS employee. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Watch: "Eric Trump Removed From Board Role After Firm Consults Nasdaq" me, with Brittany Lewis

No more secret TikTok deals. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Tesla now trades at 199x fwd earnings because the CEO who sold $39B of its stock at $279 just bought $1B at $389. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In the latest Current Climate newsletter: 🌊 Ocean power joins the renewable energy mix 🚅 A major new funding plan for California’s high-speed rail project 🛤️ Norfolk Southern’s efforts to make freight rail more sustainable #Sustainability #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

You’d think an ostensibly pro-business administration wouldn’t have been so quick to abuse employees of companies pouring $billions into your economy by treating them as dangerous criminals and souring international relations. You’d be wrong

The current EPA chief seems to be unaware that the role of his agency is in the name: environmental protection apnews.com/article/epa-...

Seven states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado River, experts warn in a new analysis. “We’ve got a real problem,” researcher Jack Schmidt says. “Reclamation needs to address all this right now and begin to implement cuts.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Guessing Trump won’t be apologizing for lying about the Fed's Lisa Cook www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

Tesla’s board wants to give this guy $1 trillion

💸NEW: "Trump Media General Counsel Sold Every Share He Could—Becoming Second Insider To Cut Stake" me, for @forbes.com

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

Wtf When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect. Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man. (Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)

Interesting development: the U.S. Energy Department disbanded the controversial research group behind its embarrassing climate report that was light on, uh, science 🤔https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/climate/trump-dissolves-contrarian-group

Such a great idea -- solar canopies going up over the California Aqueduct in the hot, dry Central Valley🌞https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-first-canal-array-project-nexus

NEW: California's financially challenged bullet train project locks in $20 billion of new funding as the state extends its Cap-and-Trade program through 2045 #highspeedrail www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Tesla has had many safety probes over the years for high-tech problems, including battery pack fires and Autopilot/FSD glitches. But Bloomberg took a deep dive into a simpler flaw: doors that don't easily open when crashes occur www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🚨NEW🚨 ICE is preparing for an "upcoming agent hiring surge," contract records show. It's ordered armor, Glocks, and AI surveillance drones from Skydio. The $2.2bn Silicon Valley drone maker sold 20 drones to CBP too. Its AI can latch onto a target and follow. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

NEW: Amazon’s Zoox prepares to take on Waymo with launch of robotaxi service in Las Vegas — that’s free to use for now #selfdrivingvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

the Interior Secretary is going to be so happy to learn about these newfangled things called "batteries" 🔋🤦‍♂️

Elon Musk's mammoth $17 billion purchase of spectrum from EchoStar will only pay off if SpaceX can launch a new generation of satellites on its mega-rocket Starship. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

it's the brain worm talking. absolutely NO kids were ever encouraged to bring guns to school 🤦‍♂️

When you’ve even lost the dumbest guy on Fox News www.thedailybeast.com/fox-host-bri...

No president in U.S. history has used his position of power to profit as immensely as Trump, whose net worth is up $3 billion in the last year. That vaults Trump 118 spots higher on The Forbes 400, out this morning. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

1/ Today, @forbes.com launched its 44th annual Forbes 400 list, chronicling the wealth of the 400 richest Americans. They're collectively worth a record $6.6 trillion and it now takes a record $3.8 billion net worth to make the cut. Let's dig into the numbers. www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Critics Shred Trump Energy Department Comments on Wind, Solar www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...

NEW - ICE has given Clearview AI its biggest federal deal to date, with a contract worth up to $10 million. It'll be used for investigating assaults on agents as well as CSAM. Meanwhile, ICE has just bought a bunch of Greykey tools for searching Android and iPhones. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

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Why harvesting solar energy is a win for America's farmers www.motherjones.com/environment/...