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Emily Atkin

@emorwee.bsky.social

I run HEATED, a weekly-ish newsletter devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her. πŸ“§: emorwee@proton.me Signal: @emorwee.06

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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

27.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 944    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 36
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Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.

26.02.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
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Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of powerβ€”enough to power tens of millions of homesβ€”are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

29.01.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1157    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 121

I am!! It’s new, about a year in, but I love it

27.02.2026 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Billionaires Are Killing Climate Journalism. Here's Our Response.
YouTube video by HEATED Billionaires Are Killing Climate Journalism. Here's Our Response.

Nothing gives me more energy than basking in the work of the REAL ONES who are staying focused on fossil fuels and climate

extremely glorious news on that front: @emorwee.bsky.social is teaming up w/ former CBS climate journo Tracy Wholf for a new video podcast -->>>

26.02.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή

27.02.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

I am going to watch the heck out of this.

Huge get for @emorwee.bsky.social to partner with Tracy Wholf, former Senior Climate Producer at CBS (from the days when CBS was still a legitimate news outlet). Let's go!

heated.world/p/climate-co...

26.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Just go to the Substack post and click β€œlisten via” 😊 all audio versions are there

26.02.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn lol I did didn’t I 😩

26.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

26.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As ALWAYS you are far too kind bill, thank you!! (I ask too much of you but maybe you will come on sometime??)

26.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

Find subscribe links here:

26.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 430    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7
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Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

Remember when CBS News laid off its whole climate reporting team last fall?

Good news: I've scooped up their former senior climate producer, and now she's making a podcast with me.

Sucks to suck, David Ellison!

Listen/watch/subscribe here:

26.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 346    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies

Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocksβ€”including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

25.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 719    πŸ” 366    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 23

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rightsβ€”full stop.

26.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3991    πŸ” 1080    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 22

fucking genocidal

26.02.2026 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1137    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

"Justice Samuel Alito has not recused himself from the case, despite having reported significant financial investments in the fossil fuel industry.

The conflict of interest is frankly astonishing, and I genuinely do not understand why it isn’t a bigger story." @emorwee.bsky.social

25.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Why aren't more people talking about this!? Thanks @emorwee.bsky.social for bringing this to critical information to the surface.

25.02.2026 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

I don’t get how this isn’t a larger story (other than the obvious that a lot of other people and institutions have these financial ties)

25.02.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies

Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocksβ€”including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

25.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 719    πŸ” 366    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 23

I cannot overstate what a massive, glaring and bright red sign of wrongdoing it is whenever a company starts doing offsetting.

Whether it's for carbon, biodiversity or water, nothing marks the presence of a massive, pulsating guilty conscience blob as clearly as offsetting does.

24.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math a...

The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

24.02.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3378    πŸ” 610    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 94
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He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking.

β€œThis door knock marks a significant escalation,” said Ronald L. Kuby, the man’s lawyer, who represents several climate activists.

β€œThe fact that they went to the wrong address of a member who has not been active suggests that they are starting an investigation. They are digging.”

20.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January β€” including during Winter Storm Fern.

"The data from January shows that the nation’s two operating utility-scale offshore wind farms ... performed as well as gas-fired power plants and better than coal-fired facilities, including during last month’s Winter Storm Fern." www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... by @mariagallucci.bsky.social πŸ”ŒπŸ’‘

13.02.2026 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

12.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 10
Beaver Conflict Resolution Program | Northern Rockies, Prairies, and Pacific | National Wildlife Federation The Beaver Conflict Resolution Program addresses landowner concerns with beaver activity such as flooding or tree felling. Our program assists with site assessments, device design, permitting, installation, and cost-share funding. Programmatic goals include:

Dang this program is actually cool as hell

13.02.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Lemme tell ya, job #6 is just one dam hassle after another.

13.02.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for β€œbeaver conflict resolution technician”

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for β€œbeaver conflict resolution technician”

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

13.02.2026 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1365    πŸ” 300    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 37
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What repealing the β€˜endangerment finding’ means for public health The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean

What repealing the β€˜endangerment finding’ means for public health

The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

12.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: β€œCBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are β€œevaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

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