Jeremy Schmidt

A Canadian researcher was 'indispensible' to helping Trump dismantle climate action A Canadian economist and conservative columnist who recently called Prime Minister Mark Carney a "climate zealot" played a critical role in the Trump administration's push to eradicate US climate rule...

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But that one lake wasn’t enough so we better ditch the whole thing

Community-Led FOIA: Introduction to the Project and the State-by-State Guide – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative By: Gretchen Gehrke, Jessica Varner, Bianca LaPaz, and Amy Xu What is Community-Led FOIA? At EDGI, we work to make public information […]

💡 New tool alert! EDGI has created guides on how to FOIA in *all 50 states*. FOIA (the Freedom of Information Act) helps ensure the government operates in the interest of the people. Learn more about community-led FOIA & the state-by-state guides in our new blog: envirodatagov.org/community-le...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

@wsmith-geo.bsky.social The commercialization/politicization of “Societies”…

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Alberta Municipality Declares Farm Disaster Due to Drought, Approves Water-Guzzling Data Centre Plan An Alberta municipality that declared an agricultural disaster earlier this month due to drought is moving forward with plans to host the “largest AI computer data centre on Earth,” which could drain ...

Farmers are losing their livelihoods due to lack of water, Indigenous communities are raising alarms, but this municipality in northern Alberta is full steam ahead on hosting the largest AI data centre on Earth.

www.theenergymix.com/alberta-muni...

#ableg #cdnpoli #water #drought #AIdatacenters

I live near the Lea and would love to be a part of this! Can we DM?

Thames21 and partners launch five-year initiative to improve the River Lea catchment - London TV Environmental charity Thames21 – catchment partnership host for the London Lea – is working alongside its partners to deliver a comprehensive five-year plan to restore the River Lea, its tributaries a...

Fantastic that London TV covered our London Lea Catchment Plan launch. It's great that the media are still shining a spotlight on the work we do with our volunteers and partners to help improve our local rivers.

Please read full story here: london-tv.co.uk/thames21-and...

Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land - Antipode Online Danny McNally (Teesside University) on Noam Leshem’s Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land Read Review

New book review -- @dannymcnally.bsky.social on "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" by @noamleshem.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/07/31/e... @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways Environment secretary says Defra will be launching changes to post-Brexit scheme for sustainable farming

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BC LNG project divides Indigenous nations, risks financial and environmental harm A major BC LNG pipeline and terminal is reigniting deep divisions among Indigenous nations, exposing communities to major financial and environmental risks despite promises of economic benefit.

BC LNG project divides Indigenous nations, risks financial and environmental harm.

Summary here of an important new report from Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social. Does a great job of laying out financial risk...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/28/n...

Sunil Amrith’s book perhaps?

In case you need a new worry: Kansas Geological Survey map of SW Kansas shows how irrigation from groundwater since 1996 has sucked water out of the Ogallala aquifer until the water level in places like Garden City is now >100' lower than it was at the start. www.kgs.ku.edu/HighPlains/H...

Bill and Ted’s Ontological Adventure

Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

Germany's Central Bank warned officials had previously “completely underestimated” the risks rising temperatures pose to the financial system.

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Now it’s the robots killing the planet. Aren’t there movies about this?

Indigenous leaders denounce Alberta’s plans to alter water management Former Smith’s Landing chief Gerry Cheezie is not mincing words about plans between the Alberta government and Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to change the legal framework governing the w...

There are no positive ecological or watershed benefits from inter-basin transfers - something industry and government willingly ignore. "Indigenous leaders denounce Alberta’s water management plans" share.google/yHavqV3wtGzL...

But you know . . . Jobs! #canpoli
#oilandgas

Imperial Oil's Fleet of Heavy-Haul Trucks at Kearl Oilsands Site Now Fully Autonomous - Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. expects its recently completed transition to self-driving trucks at its Kearl oilsands mine will help boost bitumen production from that site to all-time record levels in t...

As oil sands extraction moves to autonomous, self-driving trucks, there’s fewer jobs even as mining increases its relentless pace energynow.ca/2023/10/impe...

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Cultures of Energy: 234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman) Dominic reports briefly on how your co-hosts returned home to their own personal Hurricane Harvey. Then (4:20) returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over ...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We talk with old friend Imre Szeman about his new book Futures of the Sun and why energy transition is too often the story of failed states. tinyurl.com/5n6bp8b6 @cymene.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Hulk Hogan, guy who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker, dead at 71.

Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition

“Four premature newborn babies had died at hospital in recent weeks from malnutrition. Their mothers were too weak to produce milk & the hospital did not have enough formula to give them” says British surgeon who had been volunteering at Gaza hospital.

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The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun.

The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.

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Carney strides into Northern Gateway minefield Prime Minister Mark Carney set off alarm bells across British Columbia when he told a journalist at the Calgary Stampede that a new bitumen pipeline to BC’s north coast is “highly, highly likely.” Now...

Prime Minister Carney set off alarm bells across British Columbia when he told a journalist that a new bitumen pipeline to BC’s north coast is “highly, highly likely.”

"Few projects in Canadian history have generated such intense blowback."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

EVENT about to begin: I'll be talking at 3:45 ET about our new paper on the impact of Monsanto's ghost-written paper claiming glyphosate is safe, and how the scientific community needs to work harder to address disinformation in peer-reviewed journals.
www.nationalacademies.org/event/45170_...

My River, My Place campaign - Thames21 Every picture tells a story, what’s your river story? Our rivers can be beautiful spaces for wildlife and for people, but they can also face...

🎺We are so excited to be running a #MyRiverMyPlace campaign over the summer to encourage you to share personal reflections on what your local river means to you and Thames21’s work. Get involved.
🌊Please view more details here: www.thames21.org.uk/2025/07/my-r...

Please give us 10 months of The Colbert Report @stephencolbert.bsky.social , surely THAT Colbert is what the network wants

Sometimes the national level union in UK higher ed is remarkably ill suited to deal with things