Daphne Wysham

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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Time to make polluters pay for these health costs: "One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year."
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How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

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E&E News: Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official The administration and its Republican allies in Congress say the International Energy Agency discourages fossil fuel investments around the world.

More "shoot the messenger" behavior: Now targeting the IEA because they are (finally) telling the truth on need for fossil fuel phaseout. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Time to get the Department of Natural Resources out of the logging business | Soapbox - Port Townsend Leader It’s time to stop logging big old trees on state forestlands to pay for schools and public services. The revenues can be replaced but the ecological and climate damages from continuing this …

Stop logging old-growth trees on state forestlands for school and service funding—revenues are replaceable, but the ecological and climate damage may be irreversible. www.ptleader.com/stories/time... via @daphnew.bsky.social

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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

More "shoot the messenger" behavior.

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Trump fires data statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of top government economist after release of large revisions to employment data

The Trump administration in three words: Shoot the messenger. wapo.st/4lXPibh

Oil and Gas Methane Regulations An overview of Oil and Gas Methane Regulations across 50 U.S. States, with state-by-state policy progress, key resources, and model rules.

States should use their authority to regulate methane – a potent planet-warming gas that contributes to asthma and cancer via additional air pollution.

Nine states have already taken action: www.climatepolicydashboard.org/policies/ind...

HISTORIC MEDITERRANEAN HEAT WAVE
-HOT NIGHTS
Extreme minimums up to 36C -Hundreds records including
TURKEY
32.8 Urfa
32.1 Sirnak 1350m NEAR WORLD RECORD HOTTEST NIGHT 1300M !
31.5 Adymanan
31.2 Gaziantep
28.7 Gap Meydan
TUNISIA
33.1 Kebili
31.7 Gabes Airport
31.1 Gabes

Daphne Wysham: Pulling The Methane Emergency Brake — Sea Change Radio Sometimes seemingly intractable problems are not as impossible to solve as one might think. A case in point is the hole in the ozone layer which was largely resolved by the fluorocarbon-banning polici...

My interview with Sea Change Radio on the launch of our Methane Emergency Brake campaign in Bonn is up: www.cchange.net/2025/07/22/w...

Failing the climate test: LNG projects awaiting final investment decision do not stand up to U.S. Government analysis - Greenpeace - Greenpeace Read the report: Download "Failing the “Climate Test.” The multi-volume analysis, termed the 2024 LNG Export Study, represents the most comprehensive government assessment to-date of the energy, econo...

Our NEW report with @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social + @earthworks.bsky.social finds that further investments in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are incompatible with a liveable climate. Learn more: www.greenpeace.org/usa/failing-the-climate-test/

The Trump regime’s budget request would slash more than $1.5 billion from NOAA, a move that all living former directors of the National Weather Service warned could lead to unnecessary deaths. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Instead of looking “helpless” Mike Johnson could speak out against it.

“Canadian pulp for toilet paper is an ideal test case for the Senators border carbon adjustment idea...Here, a 100% tariff is justified on climate damages alone, an amount that will give US producers of non-wood paper products a leg up in markets that are now subsidized by Canada.”

Exclusive: Pakistan looking to sell excess LNG amid supply glut curbing local gas output - document Pakistan is exploring ways to sell excess liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes amid a gas supply glut that could cost domestic producers $378 million in annual losses, according to a presentation and a government official familiar with the matter.

From Reuters: Pakistan looking to sell excess LNG amid supply glut curbing local gas output - document

The ramp up of solar leaves the country with too much expensive LNG that it can't use

Underscores risks of getting locked in to long-term LNG contracts

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Senate Republicans just passed the most anti-environmental, job-killing bill in history—protecting billionaire tax breaks while families get stuck with higher bills and blackouts. They call it beautiful. We call it a betrayal.

Graph showing funding for ICE agents in 2025 dollars, adjusted for inflation and population growth, from 2016 through 2029. If the "big beautiful bill" passes, it would triple ICE funding.

Trump's "big beautiful bill" would triple funding for ICE agents, providing significantly greater ability to continue terrorizing people, ripping apart families, and disappearing people to prisons without due process.

"In 2023, developing countries paid $25 billion more to creditors than they received in fresh debt disbursements, leading to an overall net debt outflow for years in a row...Today, 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest than on health or education."

Letter from 188 U.S. Environmental Groups Urges EU Commissioners to Reject Trump’s Pressure to Purchase U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) - Oil Change International Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S.

Today, 188 U.S. groups called on EU Commissioners to refuse to bow to the Trump administration's pressure to increase reliance on U.S. #LNG & other fossil fuel imports.

The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG.
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Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Governments Must Shun Controversial Methane Reporting Tool: Climate Experts Climate experts have penned an open letter urging governments not to adopt GWP*, a methane reporting tool that paves the way for greenwashing.

Such a cynical, deceptive communications campaign from New Zealand: Confusing the public with a simple asterisk following "GWP" (GWP*) to mean "let's lock in current high levels of methane." Let's not.
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The Campaign Launches at SB62 in Bonn - Methane Emergency Brake [Bonn, Germany — June 16, 2025] At a press conference today at the UNFCCC’s Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, NGOs, scientists, and climate advocates launched a global campaign to “Pull the Methane Eme...

We've launched our methane emergency brake campaign here in Bonn. methaneemergencybrake.org/the-campaign...

Launch Event - Methane Emergency Brake Launch Event As Methane Climate Impacts Soar, NGOs, Scientists, Advocates Launch New Campaign to Pull the Methane Emergency Brake Watch Live: Link coming In New York: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, ...

Our “Pulling the Methane Emergency Brake” press conference takes place Monday, June 16, at 10:30 am Central European Time in Bonn, Germany. Press advisory here: methaneemergencybrake.org/launch-event/ #cutmethane

Please sign up to join our Methane Emergency Brake campaign! #cutmethane
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According to @USCBO, the methane polluter fee is projected to generate $8.47 billion in revenue over the next five years–which could help lower the national deficit. Yet, Congress wants to halt this policy. @MEMBER make it make sense: vote NO on the budget bill. #CutMethane

John Vaillant: Mark Carney should understand better than anyone why Canada is burning. Here’s how he can change course. Many reasons for our intense wildfire season are well-known. Our leaders need to do the math in order to save our economy - and us

“If we understand industrial CO2 as debt, then heat is the interest on that debt…we now find ourselves in the default zone.”
And here come the repo-men…
Another banger from @johnvaillant.bsky.social

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show

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Trump has tapped Palantir, which has been used by the Israeli government in its war on Gaza, to compile information on people in the United States.

“If you're not freaking out yet, you should be,” says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook, OpenAI, Palantir & More: “These Companies Are Not Your Friend” We continue our conversation with investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the rise of unregulated tech behemoths like OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that has been embroiled in scandals su...

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