An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

🚨BREAKING: Arizona State Univ. just announced a $115 million donation, its largest ever, from former Walmart chairman Rob Walton. They're launching a new School of Conservation Futures. My story, publ. as ASU Pres. Crow shares news at #ClimateWeekNYC, has details: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Thank you @coveringclimatenow.org for the "#Climate in every beat" award! I'm happy to see this collab btw @azcentral.com & @19thnews.org on the intersection of climate concerns + abortion access get recognized. Award: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the... Story: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

If you're an early-career journalist, consider applying for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's paid, mentored fellowship and follow in the footsteps of @katherinejwu.com, @janehu.bsky.social, @sciwriabdul.bsky.social, @1juliarosen.bsky.social, @celiaford.bsky.social and many more! Deadline: 10/31.

"I started working on [climate] 60 years ago. And I will be working on it until my last breath, whenever that is," former Moms Arizona organizer Hazel Chandler tells @azcentral.com from hospice. Read about Hazel's life in a feature by @joanmeiners.bsky.social: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

This isn’t at all surprising, given that it’s essentially been publicly reported that Stephen Miller ordered ICE to arrest first and ask questions later, but it’s still worth noting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... They are not even pretending that they know anything about someone before arrest.

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health. Trump’s EPA cancelled her work as climate threats continue to rise.

PG&E's 'remote grid' program is using solar, batteries, and generators to replace long power lines crossing fire-prone territory for handfuls of far-flung customers— a niche case for utility-owned microgrids that could expand as grid costs rise: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

What a beautiful tribute to Hazel Chandler and her lifetime of climate advocacy, even now as our progress is set backwards. So sad to hear she is in hospice now. Thank you, Hazel, for everything you've done to help Arizonans breathe easier.

Today in "Hate mail chronicles of a #climate reporter" Just heard from a reader who's repeatedly told me it's HILARIOUS that I think climate change is a real problem. Not only did this man spell his own first name wrong...but it seems he's currently on trial in Tucson for fraud. Good job Gerajd!

Heyo climate + outdoorsy folks! I’m about to embark on a big reporting project & I’d love for you to follow along. I’ll be riding my mtn bike across the entire state on the 850-mile Arizona Trail. I’ll try to post here too but more updates & info can be found on IG @joan_bikes_arizona Thank you!

Today, as part of my series on local climate leaders, I have a profile of Phoenix’s Hazel Chandler, who — even at the age of 79 & while fighting terminal cancer — is making time to stand up against the Trump administration’s rollbacks of climate work and policy. —> www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Heyo climate + outdoorsy folks! I’m about to embark on a big reporting project & I’d love for you to follow along. I’ll be riding my mtn bike across the entire state on the 850-mile Arizona Trail. I’ll try to post here too but more updates & info can be found on IG @joan_bikes_arizona Thank you!

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

I’m trying a big-tent approach to climate - @dwallacewells.bsky.social & @mattyglesias.bsky.social both blurbed my book. But Matt is so right about the lefty approach to enemy-choosing. He doesn’t mention climate but Al Gore (!) called this Ivory Soap environmentalism: 99.44% pure ain’t enough.

Imagine if large solar thermal facilities (the kind with dual-axis solar tracking mirrors that focus light onto a tower) could find a second use for astronomical research at night.

While experts assess damage from large wildfires near the Grand Canyon in Northern AZ, @sammclaughlin.bsky.social reminds readers: “There is a consensus among fire scientists that increased suppression will ultimately lead to more catastrophic wildfires, not fewer.” azdailysun.com/news/local/a...

ICYMI: The Trump admin has taken full aim at #climate science & our ability to fight climate change. Their effort to invalidate the EPA is unscientific. They also plan to "update" federal climate reports. This is Orwellian rewriting of history. Do not look away. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

A new National Academies study will review the latest scientific evidence on whether greenhouse gas #emissions are reasonably anticipated to endanger public health and welfare in the U.S., with a focus on evidence gathered since 2009. Learn more: buff.ly/lsAM2nv

For those who think the "news media" is too negative, consider: While doing research for a story, I just did a search for actions on an issue by a certain politician. The resulting AI summary was ENTIRELY SOURCED FROM THEIR OWN PRESS RELEASES. Of course that's more positive. It's also Idiocracy.

ICYMI: The Trump admin has taken full aim at #climate science & our ability to fight climate change. Their effort to invalidate the EPA is unscientific. They also plan to "update" federal climate reports. This is Orwellian rewriting of history. Do not look away. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

237 people dead for trying to tell the world what’s going on. This cannot be allowed to continue!

I had to replace my watch about a year ago. All I wanted was a watch that looked nice on my wrist and told me the time. Every store I went to only sold smart watches. Many bicycles, the ultimate simple, mechanical freedom device, are also now unnecessarily “smart.” What is this hell we’ve created.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

On today’s Boiling Point podcast, I’m talking with JB Hamby, California’s lead negotiator in high-stakes Colorado River talks. We discuss how the American West can avoid running out of water, and what it all means for his home, the Imperial Valley: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work. www.theclimatebrink....

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

Without intervention, plastic production is on track to triple by 2060 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

For the 50th anniv (today) of Ed Abbey’s “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” I interviewed desert adventurer + climate scientist @ryantchoi.bsky.social about how the writer influenced environmentalism, the ways in which his legacy lives on & what Abbey might think about Trump www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Thanks @joanmeiners.bsky.social for the great @azcentral.com interview on the influence of Edward Abbey on environmentalism and his potential thoughts on climate change and modern day politics 🏜️🔧 www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... Edward Abbey's 'Monkey Wrench Gang' still resonates after 50 years

Wildfire-water supply connections part who knows: "A 115-year-old canal was severely damaged and is at imminent risk of failure. Surrounding communities rely on the canal to deliver water to fire hydrants and other municipal fire suppression systems." washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/23/i...

The WaPo is rapidly being enshittified, with seasoned journalists & columnists leaving, no one replacing them, and a bunch of horseshit boardroom talk about AI & newsfluencers replacing journalism. Pathetic, contemptible failure of US elites, everywhere you look.

Exclusive: Records obtained by Arizona Luminaria tie Amazon to a massive Tucson area data center that has been shrouded in secrecy until now

A flotilla of canoes and kayaks traversed the length of the Klamath River to celebrate its revival and look at what's left to be done.

I spent Sunday feeling devastated about the Grand Canyon fire. On Monday, I drove up to see what I could & talk to people about how they were feeling. I found that most visitors at the South Rim weren't concerned about the situation on the North Rim at all. Story: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

This feels totally dystopian

This is theft. These reports belong to the American people - they should be easily accessible by all.

Ash is starting to fall on my computer as I write. The sky just got a lot more grey. #DragonBravoFire #GrandCanyonLodge

I’m at the #GrandCanyon South Rim today, talking to people about the #DragonBravo fire that yesterday closed the North Rim for 2025 & burned its historic lodge. 💔 Do you have memories at the North Rim? Thoughts/worries/theories about what happened? —> [email protected]; 435-231-4840

The historic lodge at the North Rim just burned. I’m gutted.

This country won't get serious about climate change until we're honest about flood and fire risk and insurance to match. Imagine if Camp Mystic had been required to carry liability insurance in the event that its campers were flood victims. Those cabins would have been moved years ago.

Climate adaptation - including cooling - isn't a luxury. It's harm reduction and a moral imperative. The point is to do it in ways that don't make the problem worse, e.g., ramping up renewables to limit emissions, using high efficiency heat pumps (plus sealing/insulation), increasing shading, etc.

Maybe this is just rage bait at this point, but I find it Interesting that heating uses 4x the energy globally as cooling does, but authors of AC-shaming articles like this never call for people to just “tough it out” through the winter without heating their homes 🤔

💔 ~ 45,000 acres of the Grand Canyon region of northern Arizona is on fire and I can’t stop thinking about it. 💔 When is enough enough? Does everything literally have to burn or flood beyond recognition?

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy. The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #CA #California #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Solar #Wind

I might expect this from WaPo. But it’s actually insane how many other so-called journalism outlets are doing Bezos’ advertising for him today, as if making billionaires richer isn’t the biggest problem and risk society faces right now. (This is small sample of the “journalism” hawking prime deals.)

In need of some #climate inspiration these days? That's why I'm profiling Arizona's climate leaders on the first Sunday of the month. Yesterday's -- about Tucson youth climate activist Ojas Sanghi and what he's working on at MIT this summer -- will give you hope: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...