Frances Stewart

This Massachusetts town banned gas — and housing boomed anyway Critics say stringent, pro-electrification building codes and restrictions on natural gas will impede housing developers. A Boston suburb is proving them…

More evidence that we can build affordable housing without gas. www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Stop the Trump Admin’s Climate Chaos Plan Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Climate Chaos Plan will eliminate the Endangerment Finding, which requires the EPA to protect people from carbon pollution produced by burning fossil fu...

Lee Zeldin just proposed a plan claiming climate change and the pollution that causes it pose no threat to public health or the environment. But it's not too late to stop his #ClimateChaosPlan: Demand the EPA protects our health and climate from pollution. actonclimate.now/stopclimatec...

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for term...

Anyone want to guess why Trump wants to destroy carbon dioxide monitoring satellites?
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Gold standard or appalling? HHS’s $500 million vaccine bet on inactivated viruses puzzles field Department selected universal flu vaccine work by NIH leaders without “transparency,” some scientists say

I guess we now officially know where RFK Jr. got the $500 million he handed over to a buddy in May for a single vaccine platform that experts say is outdated and may well fail.

He did it by ending research on proven mRNA vaccine technology—the tech that saved 3.2 million lives in the U.S.

YouTube video by CBS News State Department puts out request for foreign nutrition aid

Rubio scrambles to rebrand by ordering new emergency food while millions in nutrition aid rotted in warehouses after USAID was gutted. Fraud, complicity, and wasted tax dollars pile up. Now he wants credit for cleaning up the disaster he helped create.

Curtailing funding for foreign components on NIH grants has real consequences. Broader participation in clinical trials means broader applicability of cures. And for rare diseases, there may not be enough eligible patients in the US alone. Ending foreign components will harm patients in the US.

Operation Trojan Horse Quote Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC · 29m Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly. Underneath is a screenshot of an 8 second video showing agents lifting the door of a rental truck from the inside as they get ready to jump and out and grab people.

This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse."

Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

Remember the fear early in the COVID pandemic of enclosed public spaces, grocery stores, emergency rooms?

And then being able to relax more after you got vaccinated? Hug your neighbors? Visit your elderly relatives again?

Sigh. Those were the days.

I am aware of reports that threats were made against Texas elected officials in our state.

Threats of violence will be investigated and those responsible will be held accountable.

I have instructed @ilstatepolice.bsky.social to ensure we maintain public safety.

On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said:

“The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”.

These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S.

He is running a disinformation op against Americans.

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.

And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

- Carl Sagan

An important action to take today--thank you for the organizing @standupforscience.bsky.social !

Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors express frustration over growing global support for nuclear weapons as deterrenc...

Today is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. As horrific as that was, a nuclear attack today would be much worse. We need to follow the advice of the survivors and act to ensure that never happens. apnews.com/article/japa...

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I just donated to Native Public Media Inc. It’s a cause I really care about.

If you feel like supporting too, here’s the link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Advocates: Energy auction shows data center influence, grid operator's deficits - Maryland Matters The auction by multistate power grid operator PJM will cause most Marylanders’ monthly electric bills to go up $2 to $5 next summer on top of other costs -- a "death by a thousand cuts" that points up...

Energy auction shows data center influence, grid operator’s deficits marylandmatters.org/2025/07/28/p...

July marks five-year high in heat-illness hospitalizations with fatalities climbing - Maryland Matters High temperatures this summer have resulted in the deaths of 19 individuals and more than 1,200 Marylanders landing in the emergency room with heat-related illnesses.

July marks five-year high in heat-illness hospitalizations in Maryland with fatalities climbing marylandmatters.org/2025/08/01/j...

Maryland records most flash flood warnings since 2020. Here's why. - Maryland Matters As heat and humidity increases in Maryland, so has flash flooding. The state has had at least 51 flash flood warnings so far this year, its most since 2020

Maryland records most flash flood warnings since 2020. Here’s why. marylandmatters.org/2025/08/01/m...

Bike man meme. Riding the bike: we need energy dominance and affordability! Putting a stick through the spikes: OBBB, permitting restrictions, red tape, cancelling a transmission line On the ground, hurt: but, but, but blackouts are coming

I got to be a guest host on the Open Curcuit podcast with @stephenlacey.bsky.social & @cleangridview.bsky.social this week, & here’s how we talked about the One Big Beautiful Bill & what it does to raise costs, raise emissions, & reduce reliability. 🔌💡 Listen: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

2025 has seen the second warmest first half of the year on record after 2024 – and is on track to be the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850. My latest State of the Climate report over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

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 —

It's their go-to play: www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

The world's top court makes a climate decision Big global win for climate, heatwave disaster in Kashmir, and supporting innovation for lasting change

This past week brought a landmark legal opinion for climate and set another series of staggering heat records: a powerful reminder of why we all have a role in accelerating climate solutions.

Read the full edition of the newsletter here:

The climate needs a politics of the possible To win voters’ consent, policymakers must offer pragmatism and hope

"The climate needs a politics of the possible"

"To win voters’ consent, policymakers must offer pragmatism and hope," says @theeconomiser.bsky.social

www.economist.com/interactive/...

cc @katharinehayhoe.com

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook

My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue.

It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...

RealClimate: The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding? RealClimate: The EPA, along with the "Climate Working Group" (CWG) of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to res...

AI in the DOE report? This ref (p29) is fake:

Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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/...

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961

Over 30°C for 3 weeks in Finland! Global warming is here.

Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s Education Dept. Cuts The spending plan protects TRIO from Trump’s chopping block and boosts funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s Deep Education Cuts

Senate Republicans are planning to protect the Pell Grant program, keeping the maximum grant award at $7,395 for the coming academic year, despite the Trump administration’s proposal to lower it. bit.ly/4fmIYHI

#HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It.

The Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill “was positive for us across all of our top priorities,” said American Petroleum Institute.

What was ROI on fossil fuel political spending from the giveaways? Bet they made their money back and more.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/c...