Ken Hemmes

In addition to legal experts @envirojustice.bsky.social , I'd add that environmental & conservation science experts also call for real reform, not more rhetoric, slippery words, and confident endorsements or centrist exhortations that are flatly wrong

(next post & embedded🧵 if u'd like more info)

Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.

This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧

insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

That little blue dot is a young exoplanet!
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
#Astronomy 🔭

www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵

A photo of a small, black-furred shrew climbing on a branch with text overlay that says "Australia’s only shrew declared extinct. Australia continues to lead the world in mammal extinctions."

Australia’s only shrew has been declared extinct. Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and ranks second for loss of biodiversity. We need better funding for conservation action and stronger environmental laws to uphold our international commitments to prevent further extinctions 🧪

The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live:
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽

Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE

Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor says Government mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts

The cost of kicking real reform down the road.

For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.

If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Revolving door' between politics and lobbying rings transparency alarm bell Lobbying has become big business, with around 727 lobbyists registered in the national capital, more than three times the number of elected officials sitting in parliament.

This is how broken our lobbying laws are.

Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰

It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Pakistan to Ask Qatar to Defer LNG for Years on Weak Demand Pakistan plans to ask Qatar to delay delivery of liquefied natural gas supply over the next five years as the South Asian country grapples with weak demand and mounting import costs.

LNG demand in Pakistan is disappearing as solar boom continues

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

I highly recommend folks go out and get a covid vaccine ASAP.

Why not go all the way with plank time?

As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...

🚨🧵My latest:

As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.

The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Summary of this ruling from a science perspective:

- Three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit: Clinton, Obama, Biden appointees refused to restore terminations during litigation.

- Lower court found grant terminations violate the APA (arbitrary and capricious), 1A, and statutory agency missions.

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For 30 years, vaccine recommendations from the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social have lined up with the CDC’s plan, leading to millions of children saved from serious illness.

Pediatrician ‪@drhigginsmd.bsky.social‬ breaks down AAP’s split with RFK Jr.’s CDC. 🩺 🧪

There is no logical justification for this, only an ideological one

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

🧪 So, does this mean that Columbia caved to the tune of $220M and, surprise, still doesn’t get their NIH grants back? This is just absurd. Congress *should* be pissed.

This is figure 2. The plot shows the distribution of work hours at baseline (in red) and at endpoint (in green). Panel a presents company-level average work hours. Panel b presents individual-level work hours.

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

This is a must watch. Here is an interview of Francis Collins, former director of the NIH w/ Stephen Colbert. He ran the NIH for 12 years.

"Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. "Our investments are in trouble."

The brain drain is here.

🧪 youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU?...

Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com!
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh

Trump administration shuts down EPA's scientific research arm The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic chemicals, climate change, smog, wildfires, water pollution and more.

🧪1/2 With the announcement that the research arm of the #EPA is being shutdown...... It seems that organization was expressly put into place to stop things like the rise of leaded gasoline and CFC's.
This is 🥜s. Its like history is doomed to rhyme!
www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...

Graph of median super balances by age: Age Median account balance $ 18-24 $5,170 25-29 $19,187 30-34 $38,525 35-39 $65,491 40-44 $93,351 45-49 $121,924 50-54 $147,857 55-59 $169,146 60-64 $189,618 65-69 $208,143

The 2022-23 tax stats released today show that $3m is more than 15 times higher than the median amount of super people in their early 60s have

"We have $8M in a SMSF. How can we avoid the new super tax?" – SMH

"You could hardly find a more pointed example of what's wrong w/ Australia’s economic system,

"We don’t have dental in Medicare because we subsidise inheritance of the wealthiest" @grogsgamut.bsky.social

theaus.in/grogonomics-...

Fellow climate scientists: please be better than Dick Lindzen

Regional emperor penguin population declines exceed modelled projections - Communications Earth & Environment The number of emperor penguins in the Bellingshausen and Weddell Sea declined by 22% over the period 2009–2023, a reduction of 1.6% per year, exceeding predictions from population models based on high...

🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted

A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected.

This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

A must read then call your representatives 🧪

thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

The way to beat Trump's fake populism is with real economic populism:
- genuine solutions like rent control and free fast busses
- directing the deep well of public anger up at the oligarchs, not the vulnerable.

This is what Trump fears most - and it's why he never wanted to run against Bernie