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The Trump administration plans to keep national parks largely open to the public during the expected government shutdown, according to an internal email reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Conservationists say parks should be closed to prevent irreparable damage.
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‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

Breaking News: The Trump administration outlined a plan to revive the coal industry, including opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining.

Trump Nears Deal for Road Through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge

The Trump admin is nearing a deal to allow a road through an Alaskan wildlife refuge, documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.

Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.

A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem

“Measuring itself is a political act with political consequences,” Dr. Pralle said. “And clearly the Trump administration does not want to do anything to alleviate a problem like climate change.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c... from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social

A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem

New: The Trump administration has stopped gathering certain data on climate change and other issues. Here's what's at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract From Hurricane Response Internal documents show how online conspiracies and personal attacks disrupted FEMA during back-to-back hurricanes last year.

New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials.

Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms

G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms

@maxinejoselow.bsky.social and @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social report for @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/c...

The Lone G.O.P. Governor Opposing Trump’s War on Offshore Wind

New: Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia has privately urged the Trump admin not to thwart an offshore wind project off the coast of his state. w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/c...

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed a law to strengthen the nation’s disaster response. FEMA employees say the Trump administration has reversed that progress.

FEMA employees warned Congress that the Trump administration had reversed the progress made in disaster response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response

More than 180 FEMA employees wrote to Congress today warning that the Trump admin has gutted disaster response efforts during hurricane season.

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Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

Lisa Friedman, @bradplumer.bsky.social and @maxinejoselow.bsky.social report for @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.

Trump officials may soon hold public climate science debates, recruit more denialists to attack research and go through every line of the National Climate Assessments to highlight doubt, a DOE report author told me.

“We will have to enlist other scientists," he said. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy

Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...

Inside the ‘Radical Transformation’ of America’s Environmental Role

The E.P.A. said this [past] week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

By David Gelles and @maxinejoselow.bsky.social

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...

I reported earlier this month that the Energy Department had hired prominent climate skeptics. Well, now we know what they were working on. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email.

New: At least 15 coal plants and 4 chemical facilities emailed the EPA this spring to request exemptions to environmental rules, according to documents obtained by @sierraclub.org and shared w/ @nytimes.com. They all won the exemptions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

POLITICO Pro: EPA to launch plan Tuesday for undoing climate rule cornerstone EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is planning to announce the move at an Indiana transportation facility.

EPA will move tomorrow to revoke the endangerment finding, the foundation for all US climate regulations, and emissions limits for cars and trucks.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the announcement in Indiana.

w/ @chemnick.bsky.social

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This to the tune of "Video Killed the Radio Star"

Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

Breaking News: The UN’s top court called climate change an “existential threat” and said nations had legal obligations to act. It was the first time that the court has weighed in on climate change.

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

Trump told National Park Service employees to report signs that “disparage” Americans. Here’s what they flagged. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

How Can I Get Clean Energy Tax Breaks Before They Vanish?

How to get clean energy tax breaks before they vanish: News you can use from @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds.

It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

No, Chemtrails Are Not Real or Causing Floods, E.P.A. Says

The EPA launched a webpage today to debunk the chemtrails conspiracy theory.

The theory has gained traction amid the Texas floods and has been amplified by RFK Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/c...

Two Found, Two Missing: An Agonizing Search After the Texas Floods Four friends, all 21, planned to spend the weekend in the Hill Country. Then the rains came.

Four friends, all in their 20s, planned to spend the weekend in Texas’s Hill Country. Then the rains came.

The Trump admin just hired 3 outspoken climate contrarians. Scientists are worried what comes next | CNN The Trump admin just hired 3 outspoken climate contrarians. Scientists are worried what comes next

Confirming @maxinejoselow.bsky.social's scoop: DOE has hired 3 prominent climate contrarian's, and mainstream climate scientists are worried about what's next... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/c...