Jon Levy

The Trump administration wants to repeal the 2009 "Endangerment Finding", arguing that greenhouse gases don't actually harm health and well-being. A group of 100+ experts reviewed the literature and disagrees. We brought the receipts (400+ references). Full comment at zenodo.org/records/1728...

Proud to be part of the Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health that just put together a report summarizing the evidence of health harms of climate change to date. Report is here: zenodo.org/records/1728... 🛟 #climatesky

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

A graphic with the text, "State-of-the-Science and the Future of Cumulative Impact Assessment, a webinar on October 9 from 3 to 4 PM Eastern Time."

Cumulative impact assessment is the process of identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of multiple proposed projects.

Learn about our new report advising how to advance the science and practice behind cumulative impact assessment at our October 9 webinar: https://ow.ly/rsOf50X4uwA

There are many things wrong with this idea, including:
1) Universities aren’t people. I may or may not believe what university leadership believes.
2) Research (at least for health) should be judged on whether it has good ideas for making people healthier. Less merit means worse health.

Quantifying Aviation-Related Contributions to Ambient Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations Using Interpretable Machine Learning Ultrafine particles (UFP, Dp < 100 nm) are abundantly emitted by aircraft, but quantifying their contributions to ambient particle number concentrations (PNC) is challenging due to confounding from lo...

Our new publication from @busph.bsky.social shows that machine learning models can be used to explain aircraft contributions to ultrafine particle air pollution near airports.

And it was co-authored by new @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social champion Prasad Patil!

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E&E News: Internal docs: Zeldin races ahead without analysis in endangerment rollback The EPA administrator plans to sign off on the repeal's policy and legal justifications before his staff finishes the regulatory impact analysis.

"... Zeldin intends to sign off next week on the final policy and legal justifications for repealing the so-called endangerment finding and Biden-era climate rules for cars and trucks... before agency staff have time to sift through all public comments...." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong

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Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

In a single email, the EPA ended her research into how climate change endangers children Jane Clougherty spent years studying how extreme weather affects kids’ health, but as climate threats continue to rise, the Trump administration cancelled her work.

The EPA cancelled grants that would help us understand how children are affected by climate change.

The agency response: Maybe Biden and Harris "shouldn’t have forced their radical agenda of wasteful DEI programs and ‘environmental justice.'"

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We published a paper a while back, which is worth resurrecting - wind farms can yield hundreds of millions of dollars of health and climate benefits each year, as they displace polluting power plants.

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White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind

The assault on wind is very similar to the assault on vaccines - ginning up evidence to support a desired policy that harms public health. Offshore wind is good for climate, air quality, and overall grid reliability.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

@citizencohn.bsky.social shares some of my story and the work that I have done on public health with thousands of scientists and implementers. We ended outbreak after outbreak TOGETHER. Many of those outbreaks occurred because of RFK Jr’s rhetoric. www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...

The institutions that protect our health and safety - CDC, EPA, etc. - are being deliberately destroyed in a manner that will be hard to undo.

Whether this is to boost favored industries, pandemic backlash, or because ideology trumps evidence, the outcome is the same. We will be less healthy.

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health

Hey @nytimes.com, you got the title wrong. Here’s the correct version:

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Bulldozing the Foundations of Public Health

CNN news story, Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas

Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

SPH Debuts New PhD in Community Health Sciences The one-of-a-kind social and behavioral sciences-focused doctoral program will emphasize social justice and community engagement.

🚨 New PhD program in Community Health Sciences at @busph.bsky.social 🚨

Graduates will be trained to use social justice-focused, community-engaged approaches to address some of the most pressing public health issues facing us today. We are accepting applications this fall.

Interesting to read this “priority” after my solutions-oriented environmental health disparities center application was administratively withdrawn without review 🤔

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Stops Wasteful Grantmaking ENDING GRANT ABUSE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars

I don’t want political appointees from this administration deciding what is meritorious research. But I wouldn’t want political appointees from ANY administration deciding that. That would mark the end of basic research, research with long-term benefits, etc.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

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Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months o...

In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Great example of how citizen science measurements of air pollution can be aggregated to provide meaningful regional and national data. At a time when federal data are disappearing or becoming less reliable, locally generated and compiled data will take on increasing importance.

Map of fine particulate matter concentrations across the US today, showing elevated levels downwind of wildfires

Network of PurpleAir monitors captures the widespread and substantial air quality impacts from Canadian wildfires extremely well (screenshot from map.purpleair.com, taken 5 minutes ago)

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose? We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country.

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?

We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country.

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#Jobs #Climate #Policy #Politics #DOGE

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Lead sentence in this article is key - EPA proposes "revoking a scientific finding" that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

The thing about a scientific finding is that it is based on evidence. You can't revoke it just because it is inconvenient.

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