Rebecca McCarthy

Trump's environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here's how. The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.

Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.

The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.

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#Politics #Policy #Food #Climate #Water #Health

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart. A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

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#CultureWars #Seaweed #Climate #Fishermen #USDA

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall? The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

The lawfare & bad-deal politics used by Trump & allies to destroy media outlets like ‪‪@mmfa.bsky.social are also used by the fossil fuel industry to destroy critics.

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More on that that here for @grist.org + @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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Will new Interior Department rules shackle wind and solar? Insiders are divided. Insiders are divided. They know new Interior Department rules will slow wind and solar development — but they don’t yet know how much.

I wrote about the administration's latest attempt to throttle wind and solar

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I’m not voting for ANYTHING that plays in Pianos ba dum tss

Thought this said Pianos on first read

Trump’s EPA delays rules requiring toxic coal ash cleanup The agency’s move to extend compliance deadlines for “legacy” coal ash dumps is the latest in a string of Trump admin attacks on environmental regulations.

The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.

Why flash flood warnings will continue to go unheeded Experts say local education and community support are key to conveying risk.

Why flash flood warnings will continue to go unheeded.

Experts say local education and community support are key to conveying risk.

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#Floods #Climate #Environment #Disaster #Policy #Politics

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right And blowing its credibility in the process.

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.

stephen miller disclosed a six figure stock holding in palantir, a tech company significantly involved in ICE enforcement per @pogo.org

New York's mayoral race could decide the city's climate future The nation's largest city has an ambitious plan to cut emissions. Mayoral frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani could make or break it.

New York’s mayoral race could decide the city’s climate future #Climate

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents While Escorting Immigrant from Court This was the third time Lander had been accompanying people to and from their immigration hearings.

I’m here covering the arrest of comptroller Brad Lander while he was escorting migrants at 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday morning.
@hellgatenyc.com’s continuing coverage here: hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask. Research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than feared.

When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.

New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought.

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#Oceans #Ocean #Climate #Environment #Politics

Hannah Lee has a solo show opening on Saturday — go see it if you are in LA!!

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Here's one Biden climate provision Republicans are unlikely to kill “Essentially, we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing a private sewer system for oil and gas.”

“Essentially, we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing a private sewer system for oil and gas.” SEHN's @ssteingraber1.bsky.social + @carolynraff.bsky.social in new piece on #CCS. "It’s really a budget buster with no guardrails at all.” @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social, @motherjones.com tinyurl.com/2jn9f7sf

Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors.

Last week, President Trump signed four executive orders “aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States,” @bradplumer.bsky.social‬ reported in @nytimes.com, which, one order said, would “generate American-led prosperity.” buff.ly/drcMKak

What’s likely to survive from Biden’s climate law? The controversial stuff. Most of the incentives being left off the chopping block are those favored by oil and gas companies, like carbon capture.

Hi, if you want to read about all the lousy "green" energy stuff that made it through the House budget bill at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday, I've got you covered

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The Kentucky tornadoes spur mounting anxiety over weather service warning systems Trump weakened the understaffed National Weather Service. Some in the storms' paths wonder if those cuts contributed to the death toll.

New for @grist.org with @hurwitz.bsky.social -

As the Trump admin cuts already-stretched National Weather Service offices, the past weekend’s tornadoes in the Midwest and South spurred anxiety about the nation’s warning systems.

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ah ok

1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇

MOVE Bombing in Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on a West Philly house in 1985. The fire caused by the explosion killed 11 people, an atrocity that Philadelphia still grapples with today.

Get started by visiting Inquirer.com/move. (4/4)

Went to the lottery party last night—here’s Mia trying to read poetry to 2000 Sixers fans lol.

Deep Sea Rush | Rebecca McCarthy The question is whether Deep Sea mining, a new extractive industry on the seafloor, is an easy answer to the looming metals shortage, or an oceanic death march.

Donald Trump wants to mine the sea floor for its precious metals, a practice some capitalists have proposed as an “eco-conscious” alternative to terrestrial extraction. @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social investigated these dubious claims back in Baffler no. 54.

Deep Sea Rush | Rebecca McCarthy The question is whether Deep Sea mining, a new extractive industry on the seafloor, is an easy answer to the looming metals shortage, or an oceanic death march.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order that would allow private companies to mine the seafloor. But as @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social explained back in 2020, deep sea mining could have catastrophic consequences, some of which we aren’t even aware of.

psyched about this

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Working on a story about this rn lol

🚨please swing by this saturday for indie bookstore day🚨

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James Meek · ‘Everything is possible’: In Greenland None of the Greenlanders I met want to, or expect to be forced to, accede to President Trump’s high-handed claim. But...

‘The Trump assault had caught Denmark off guard because it was based on Greenland’s desirability, a concept Denmark had long ago rejected.’

@jamesmeek.bsky.social reports from Greenland:
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