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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Taxpayers spent $750M to put CO2-measuring satellites in the air, producing priceless benefits for scientists, farmers & others. Trump wants to let them burn up in the atmosphere

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Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

A wretched hive of scum and villainy”

Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's decision to overturn the Endangerment Finding represents a disturbing new level of extreme science denial. How many more lives do we have to lose before Republicans can stand up to big polluters & acknowledge that climate change is a deadly problem for Americans?

"May the bird of paradise fly up Trump’s nose
May an elephant caress him with his toes
May his wife be plagued with runners in her hose
May the bird of paradise fly up Trump’s nose"

Apologies to N. Merritt and Little Jimmy Dickens

The Trump administration is strangling climate change research and mitigation strategies from the last 30 years believing climate change isn’t real. I once heard Rush Limbaugh say on his radio show that there was nothing that man could do to destroy what God had created. Case closed. No mitigation.

FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a

The headline reads: “FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor" who reports directly to the president of Paramount.”

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Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cuts funding for several critically important national laboratories and…

The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cuts funding for several critically important national laboratories & observatories, like the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai‘i, which has been recording atmospheric carbon data for 70 years.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984

‘It’s not over’: An open letter to David Suzuki » Yale Climate Connections The famed scientist and environmentalist recently said the fight against climate change is over. That’s not honest realism – it’s depressing cynicism.

The famed scientist and environmentalist recently said the fight against climate change is over. That’s not honest realism – it’s depressing cynicism, writes Donald Wright:
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Lake Mead water projections raise red flags • Nevada Current If reservoir storage continues on its current trajectory, Lake Mead’s water elevation is likely to drop to about 1,038 feet by the end of June 2027 – two feet lower than when it fell to a record low i...

Water in Lake Mead is on course to fall to the lowest level in recorded history by 2027, according to a recent forecast by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Notable that the draft of the EPA decision to stop regulating greenhouse gases doesn't even try to float this ridiculous bullshit. This is just red meat for the rubes at Newsmax and the White House

EPA Seeks to Wipe Out Climate Rules With One Shot On House drama, the good and bad of solar, and earnings season

The Environmental Protection Agency is days away from proposing a rule to rescind the endangerment finding, the 2009 decision that established the federal government’s legal right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

More in today's climate briefing ⬇️

The file and print rulemaking to list Mojave Desert Tortoise as Endangered in California has been approved. As of July 15, 2025 the Mojave Desert Tortoise is officially listed as an Endangered Species in the state of California. You can find documents related to the listing and rulemaking on the Commission’s CESA page under “finalized petitions” and the 2025 regulations page. (links below) https://fgc.ca.gov/CESA#1089124-mojave-aka-agassizs-desert-tortoise-2025 https://fgc.ca.gov/Regulations/2025-New-and-Proposed#MDT Photo: Andrew Walde #Mojave #desert #tortoise #California #endangered

The file and print rulemaking to list Mojave Desert Tortoise as Endangered in California has been approved. As of July 15, 2025 the Mojave Desert Tortoise is officially listed as an Endangered Species...

Photo: Andrew Walde

#Mojave #desert #tortoise #California #endangered 🧪 #science #conservation

CPAC comes to Europe as alliance between the Trump White House and the international right grows Trump administration officials, MAGA influencers and far-right leaders gathered in Poland and Hungary this week for CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.

It should have been obvious that factions within the GOP were openly promoting authoritarianism with Victor Orbán of Hungary who’s been a featured speaker at CPAC in both the US and Hungary, Orbán’s praise of Trump and Trump’s praise of those events and Orbán himself
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You blocked me, all the proof needed to determine that you are just another little boy pretending to be an adult. I said nothing insulting to you or to anyone. Do you think the above post was insulting to you? You are useless to the Democratic Party.

Jason Grumet: The recently released memo from the Interior Department is a bewildering departure from the Administration’s promise to bring down energy prices and make America competitive in the race against China for AI and data centers. “In stark contradiction to the Administration’s commitment to tackling bureaucracy, this directive adds three new layers of needless process and unprecedented political review to the construction of domestic energy projects. The Secretary of the Interior will apparently now be personally reviewing thousands of documents and permit applications for everything from the location and types of fences to the grading of access roads on construction sites across the country.

“This intentional effort to slow energy production comes at the worst possible moment. U.S. electricity demand is projected to surge 35-50% by 2040, with data centers alone requiring over 100 GW of new capacity. To meet this demand, America needs a true ‘all of the above’ strategy, which includes additional natural gas and intense efforts to accelerate geothermal and advanced nuclear technologies. “Clean energy represented 93% of new capacity added to the grid last year because these sources are the best way to meet demand right now. It’s basic economics that cutting off the fastest and most affordable energy available to the grid just as demand surges will constrain our energy supply and lead to significant cost increases for American businesses and families. “This isn’t oversight. It’s obstruction that will needlessly harm the fastest growing sources of electric power. The move is particularly confounding as we look to the Administration to support bipartisan efforts in Congress to streamline permitting for all sources of American energy.”

The American Clean Power Association, which represents the solar and wind industries, just released a blistering statement going after the order slowing down permits.

From ACP CEO Jason Grumet, who is pretty careful with his words. Says it’s “confounding” amidst permitting reform talks.

Internal Agency Memo Calls for Political Reviews of Solar, Wind Projects The widely circulating document lists more than 68 activities newly subject to upper-level review.

Huge: An internal Interior Department memo that I’ve reviewed shows the agency may soon subject *any* activities related to wind and solar to heightened levels of political review.

It threatens to delay renewables projects across the country, including those not on federal lands.

#greensky

I spent 12 years working on SNWA projects at Lake Mead but I’m no expert. Las Vegas Valley gets ~90% of its water from Lake Mead, w/ the other 10% from wells. Nevada gets the least from the Colorado, so that allotment is not going to hurt wildlife along the river but drought and climate change will.

USFWS Desert tortoise connectivity areas deemed necessary for the long term survival of the species.

Some Nevada public lands, particularly outside of the Las Vegas Valley, have been set aside for recovery efforts for the Mojave Desert tortoise, a federally protected Threatened Species. That was the deal; protect lands outside of the valley in exchange for removing them from inside the valley.

I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up.

People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off….

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“Privately, Trump has repeatedly told lawyers and others in his second administration that when it comes to certain people he’d want to see lose their citizenship and then be shipped overseas for supposedly “national security” or “crime”-related reasons, he…

Trump needs to spend the rest of his life in prison, in solitary confinement, with no human contact ever, treated like a deadly contagious disease and isolated forever from the rest of humanity.

When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross

Enjoyed having Jesse on the podcast, even if the subject matter was pretty gruesome. Also available on Spotify and Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Trump just gave a huge gift to China’s economy » Yale Climate Connections Chinese manufacturers are already dominating clean tech industries. The GOP’s huge new tax and spending law will make it even harder for U.S. companies to compete.

Happy 249th birthday, America 🥳

For @climateconnections.bsky.social I discuss how President Trump celebrated the day by signing into law Republicans' budget bill that gifts the country’s position as the leading global economic superpower to China 🧵 (1/8)