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Due 9-2, DOE & GHG: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/01/2025-14519/notice-of-availability-a-critical-review-of-impacts-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-the-us-climate 9-15: https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · Sep 3

From a hearing in June. Dr Schrier, from WA and AAP member, asks Kennedy how many kids with measles or meningitis or pertussis he has treated. It’s epic. #pedsky
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Schrier says RFK Jr. should be held responsible for 'every death from a vaccine-preventable illness'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for the clarification.

Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 21h

@apha.org @docsforclimate.bsky.social
This will affect our physical health because of the loss of climate science, and our mental health because of the loss of beauty from the Hubble images.

Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2d

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5d

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).

Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

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Space.com @space.com · 7d

#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.

www.space.com/space-explor...

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Prof Lucie Green @luciegreen.bsky.social · 2d

The Goddard Space Flight Center has played a central role in America’s success in space exploration. It’s shocking to see what is now happening to it edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

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wkow27news.bsky.social @wkow27news.bsky.social · 1d

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 1d

As NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center, Union says: “High profile missions currently supported by the public, Congress and/or the President (e.g., Roman, Dragonfly) will be immediately harmed or endangered.” 🧪🔭

GESTA’s Summary of Goddard Building Closures Status

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the largest group of scientists, technicians and engineers in the US who develop Earth and space science flight missions. Below is GESTA's understanding of the...

www.gesta-goddard.org

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5d

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).

Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 22h

@cnn.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nprnews.bsky.social @ucs.org @neildegrassetyson.com @drshepherd2013.bsky.social
please keep this in the news. Hubble and Webb telescopes are amazing and other Goddard work is outstanding.
@indivisible.org maybe you can spread the word

Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5d

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).

Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

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Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · 2d

🎉 Peter Hubbard just scored a home run with his win for Georgia PSC! ⚡️Time to knock affordable energy and good jobs investment out of the park! 🌟

Climate Cabinet endorsed Peter Hubbard has won his Georgia Public Service Commission race. This is a victory graphic celebrating his win.

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Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · 2d

🏆 Victory! Alicia Johnson just brought home the win for clean energy and lower costs. Let’s keep building a brighter future at the Georgia PSC! 🌞

Climate Cabinet endorsed candidate Alicia Johnson won her election! This is a photo of her victory graphic.

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 5d

See for yourself what health damages are happening due to CDC losing 1/3 of it's workforce and >150 programs.

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 5d

National Public Health Coalition released new data showing impacts of illegal firings across CDC since Jan 2025. CDC has lost one-third of its civil-service workforce & over 150 programs. Explore an interactive dashboard. See how cuts are undermining public health nationwide.
CDCDataProject.org
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The National Public Health Coalition (NPHC) released new data revealing that since January 2025, CDC has lost one-third of its workforce.
CDCDataProject.org
The dashboard details the impact on 150 CDC programs, threatening outbreak responses, disease prevention efforts, and community health funding to name a few. NPHC warns these cuts severely harm public health nationwide.
press release Oct 30, 2025

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6d

“We’re fighting for our lives” in Gloster, Curtis Harris told the Mississippi Free Press at the hearing on Oct. 14. “When I came from Chicago, I was in good health. And (then) I came down here, and everything changed.”

Gloster Biomass Plant Gets OK to Increase Emissions

Mississippi regulators approved new permits for Drax’s biomass plant in Gloster, Mississippi, reversing a decision from earlier this year.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.

Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.
It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!
475 ReTruths 1.67k Likes
Oct 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 7d

Also the Gates memo totally ignores non-climate health harms from fossil fuels, including 91,000 deaths per year due to extraction, transport, processing, and use. Also many more serious but not deadly health problems: COPD, CVD, strokes, preterm birth, dementia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States

Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.

www.science.org

Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 7d

With it being so rare, it would be hard to prove anything, including if it was service related - even when there was serious toxin exposure that is a likely cause.
Also being rare, this won't save them a lot of $$. It will just traumatize more vets.

Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 8d

Summary: let my industry keep killing people with air pollution and GHG, and then we can use our immense profits to focus on alleviating the suffering we caused.
He needs to watch that margarine commercial from the 70s again: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 9d

"Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All --Experts are calling his latest memo "pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing" by Victor Tangermann for @futurism.com: futurism.com/science-ener...

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn't So Bad After All

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.

futurism.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8d

(1/2) It's election season! 🗳️
Georgia friends, are you concerned about intensifying climate change? Familiar with the PSC? Here's an opportunity to provide a check on GA Power and help determine if rates increase along with intensified climate change impact. #vote
georgiansforaffordableenergy.org

- Georgians for Affordable Energy

Georgians for Affordable Energy is a nonprofit seeking utility reform to end the trio of Georgia Power’s high bills, high shutoff rates, and obscene profits.

georgiansforaffordableenergy.org

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 10d

Also 💉 stops measles outbreaks very quickly.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 11d

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations.

It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to strengthen into a rare Category 5 hurricane, threatening Jamaica with potentially catastrophic flash floods and landslides: https://cnn.it/47sseLE

Hurricane Melissa forecast to become a rare Category 5 tonight, seek shelter now in Jamaica | CNN

Melissa rapidly intensified going into Sunday morning and is now a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds. The US National Hurricane Center expects it to strengthen into a rare Category 5 hurricane o...

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 10d

Excess electricity is generated by this system and is sent to low-and moderate-income households through Community Solar program.

How cool is that?

You can learn more from my host, Sustainable Westchester. 3/3

sustainablewestchester.org/storage-at-o...

Solar + Storage at our Mount Kisco Headquarters! - Sustainable Westchester

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10d

I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this:

Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?

It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.

grist.org/climate/clim...

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 10d

For them to leave a storm early due to severe turbulence is major, because they're used to flying through hurricanes and getting lots of turbulence.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11d

Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa

This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11d

"Maria" harvests olives in the Reedley, CA area without a union contract. She tells us she earns $5 per bucket. In 8–9 hours she picks 15–18 buckets, which isn't even minimum wage. She knows the law says she should get minimum wage, but the law isn't enforced. #WeFeedYou

Worker harvesting olives on a 16 foot ladder

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 11d

London LEZ and ULEZ have reduced use of sick leave by 18%, there are 10% fewer respiratory illnesses and people overall feel better and more satisfied.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“And Breathe Normally”: Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being

Air pollution poses a global concern due to its detrimental effects on climate, healthcare, and human capital accumulation. However, there is limited …

www.sciencedirect.com

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