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Jeremy Cherson

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Associate Director of Government Affairs at Riverkeeper. Based in the Hudson Valley of the great State of New York. All things protecting the Hudson River and its tributaries. Visit us at https://bsky.app/profile/riverkeeper.org or on the web riverkeeper.o

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Nov 15

Riverkeeper launched our new website this week. I'm super proud of our team which has been hard at work for a year redesigning and debugging the new site. New features will be launched over the next few months. www.riverkeeper.org

Riverkeeper - Protecting the Hudson River & Safeguarding Drinking Water

Protecting the Hudson River & Safeguarding Drinking Water

www.riverkeeper.org

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Jun 23

www.riverkeeper.org/news-and-eve...

How industry influence continues to derail environmental progress in the NYS Assembly

Protecting the Hudson River & Safeguarding Drinking Water

www.riverkeeper.org

Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · May 7

www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

Commentary: Road salt use is making New Yorkers’ drinking water undrinkable

Commentary: New York needs a Road Salt Reduction Council to set use limits and move communities toward more sustainable road maintenance practices.

www.timesunion.com

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Save NOAA @savenoaa.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨 Meteorologists are sounding the alarm: severe weather forecasts are already slipping due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service. Lives are on the line.

📉 Forecast quality down
⏱️ Lead times shorter
⚠️ Systems stretched thin

Call Congress now—demand they fully restore NOAA.

Meteorologists say NWS cuts degraded forecasts during recent storms

The National Weather Service’s reduction in weather balloon launches meant forecasters had less data available when the central U.S. got hammered with hail and tornadoes.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 18

Oh hey! We support this bill!

Congressional Bill Bot @fedbillbot.bsky.social · Apr 18

H.R.2959
To amend the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense ...

SPONSOR: @pkryan.bsky.social
№ CO-SPONSORS: 1

STATUS: Introduced

LATEST ACTION: House floor - 2025-04-17 Referred to the House Committee on ...

#Democrats

Details at congress.gov

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · Apr 16

Americans' Concerns About Environmental Issues.
(Gallup)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250416-top...

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is chilling. Non-profits need to band together with universities and other institutions to protect our right to criticize our own government and their actions - no matter who is in charge at any given time. That's the American way. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups

White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...

www.bloomberg.com

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 10

This seems bad.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Trump directs agencies to quietly repeal regulations — without public notice

The memo appears to rely on a misinterpretation of a recent Supreme Court ruling.

www.politico.com

Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are not backing down from the fight for clean water.

Rather than working for the people, the administration is catering to mega-corporations and their billionaire CEOs at the expense of the environment and people’s health. @riverkeeper.org

www.riverkeeper.org/news-and-eve...

Standing strong for the Hudson River: Pushing back against rollbacks and holding the line for clean water‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‍‍...

Protecting the Hudson River & Safeguarding Drinking Water

www.riverkeeper.org

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Apr 4

Solved the microplastics problem

‘Clean Water,’ ‘Equity,’ ‘Microplastics’ and Other Words Banned in Leaked USDA Memo

The agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “clean water,” “affordable housing” and “microplastics.”

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 3

I've joined TikTok! Please follow me as I embarrass myself and hopefully reach new audiences with clean water policy nuggets from Planet Albany. www.tiktok.com/@jeremychers...

In February, I testified on behalf of @riverkeeper_hudsonat a New York State budget hearing in Albany, advocating for increased funding to tackle urgent environmental challenges. We’re pushing for cri...

TikTok video by jeremychersonriverkeeper

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you Senator May for your leadership! Let's get #RainReadyNY!

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Senator Rachel May @rachelmayny.bsky.social · Apr 3

The warming atmosphere is increasing heavy rain and flooding. We must empower NY water authorities with policy tools to address the stormwater crisis. My bill (S4071) enables them to adopt innovative strategies to make communities “Rain Ready.” Thank you to the Senate Majority for your support.

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Mar 17

Big wins for clean water in NY’s budget proposals in race to deadline.

💧 $700M/$600M for water infrastructure
💧 $9.5M for Hudson River Programs(+$2M!)
💧 $500M for the Environmental Protection Fund

Now we need Gov. Hochul to hit "accept" to lock it in!

www.riverkeeper.org/news-and-eve...

With federal cuts looming, NYS lawmakers propose boosts to clean water funding‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‍‍‍‍‍...

Protecting the Hudson River & Safeguarding Drinking Water

www.riverkeeper.org

Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Mar 14

Dude. I'm running out of adjectives for sheer self-own of the U.S. right now. We are being stripped and sold for parts. The know nothings are winning. Sagan's warnings were 100% accurate.

Scott Dance @byscottdance.com · Mar 14

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@doublewhammied @doublewhammied.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Ozempic owes its success 2 research N2 Gila monster venom, which after 4 decades of investigatn, finally gave rise to GLP-1s, drugs that hold promise in transforming #publichealth & are already shifting the economy. If silliness be the proxy 4 edge science, play on — give us excess of it." #MedSky

Opinion | Science needs more shrimp on treadmills

The case for funding more edge science — not less.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Riverkeeper @riverkeeper.org · Feb 24

🗞️ "Later this year, Riverkeeper will roll out a more robust version of its public monitoring program at more than 200 locations in the river and its tributaries." Read more: ⬇️

Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · Feb 22

Microplastics in the Hudson River, @riverkeeper.org's public monitoring program in the river, and reducing the amount of plastics getting into us with the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act.

highlandscurrent.org/2025/02/21/o...

Out There: Plastics on the Brain

The plastics problem is getting worse

highlandscurrent.org

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · Feb 20

Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · Feb 5

The US National Science Foundation is set to lose 1/4 to 1/2 of its staff: www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

www.eenews.net

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · Jan 31

Trump is purging vital scientific data, including a climate-justice tool for the health and financial well-being of millions of Americans. There's a Data Dunkirk saving this data, but there shouldn't have to be

🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s Climate Data Purge Hurts Americans’ Health and Wallets

The removal of web tools that scientists and policymakers use to study global warming is a blow to the country’s physical and economic well-being.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Jan 31

Was just listening to this album. Also high on the list is ornette coleman's science fiction suite.

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Rebecca Adams @rebeccaadamsdc.bsky.social · Jan 30

The CDC weekly report the Trump admin. paused was expected to cover a study on whether veterinarians treating cows had bird flu. Another stalled report shows cases in which people carrying bird flu may have infected cats.Read the @kffhealthnews.bsky.social story by @amymaxmen.bsky.social on @cnn.com

Trump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies | CNN

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States.

www.cnn.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 30

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · Jan 30

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

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Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Jan 30

For real? This can't be real? Is this legal? Highway funding based on birthrates?

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · Jan 30

NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

www.transportation.gov

Jeremy Cherson @jcherson.bsky.social · Jan 30

Had a great time advocating for the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act with @beyondplastics.bsky.social and @riverkeeper.org on Tuesday. Very grateful for the volunteers from Westchester County who came up to make their voices heart. And thanks to Senate Sepulveda for supporting!

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Jan 24

Science, Silenced: For the first time in 60+ years, one of CDC’s flagship scientific publications—the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)—was not published yesterday as scheduled following the Trump administration's gag order earlier this week. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication

MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today

www.medpagetoday.com

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