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Dan Becker @ The Safe Climate Campaign @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social advocates strong environmental action, holds automakers and other polluters & govt accountable for cutting pollution to fight climate change. Washington, DC. safeclimatecampaign.org
The Clean Air Act prevented more than 2.3 million premature deaths, 200,000 heart attacks, millions of cases of acute bronchitis and asthma attacks, 135,000 hospital admissions, 17 million lost workdays, 5.4 million lost school days due to respiratory illness caused or exacerbated by air pollution.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Clean Air Act prevented more than 2.3 million premature deaths, 200,000 heart attacks, millions of cases of acute bronchitis and asthma attacks, 135,000 hospital admissions, 17 million lost workdays, 5.4 million lost school days due to respiratory illness caused or exacerbated by air pollution.
Fossil fuel disinformation and corruption campaign. The oil, gas and coal industries continue to deny the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet. By Lisa Friedman, @stevenleemyers.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fossil fuel disinformation and corruption campaign. The oil, gas and coal industries continue to deny the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet. By Lisa Friedman, @stevenleemyers.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Bees are in trouble. Trump is trying to kill them.
Pollinators are in crisis. A toxic brew of pollution, pesticides, parasites, pathogens, habitat loss and climate change has devastated both managed and wild pollinators, especially insects.
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Pollinators are in crisis. A toxic brew of pollution, pesticides, parasites, pathogens, habitat loss and climate change has devastated both managed and wild pollinators, especially insects.
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Trump’s War on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving depends on pollinators. Trump is trying to kill them.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Bees are in trouble. Trump is trying to kill them.
Pollinators are in crisis. A toxic brew of pollution, pesticides, parasites, pathogens, habitat loss and climate change has devastated both managed and wild pollinators, especially insects.
@ejnegin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/themoney...
Pollinators are in crisis. A toxic brew of pollution, pesticides, parasites, pathogens, habitat loss and climate change has devastated both managed and wild pollinators, especially insects.
@ejnegin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/themoney...
Experts at India's top research hospital call the air “severe and life-threatening.” The level of toxic pollutants — from cars, factories and crop-waste burning by farmers — has been as many as 20 times above recommended levels for safe breathing. By Mujib Mashal
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India Is a Rising Power, but Its Capital Is a Lethal Gas Chamber
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November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Experts at India's top research hospital call the air “severe and life-threatening.” The level of toxic pollutants — from cars, factories and crop-waste burning by farmers — has been as many as 20 times above recommended levels for safe breathing. By Mujib Mashal
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Increasing air pollution to spite global warming!
North Carolina officials Say Trump’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase not just greenhouse gases but also soot and smog Air Pollutants by as much as 940 tons. @lisasorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...
North Carolina officials Say Trump’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase not just greenhouse gases but also soot and smog Air Pollutants by as much as 940 tons. @lisasorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...
N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants - Inside Climate News
There was a time when the air pollution in Charlotte, North Carolina, was so bad that the 871-foot Bank of America Corporate Center, the city’s tallest building, topped by an ornate metal crown, wore ...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Increasing air pollution to spite global warming!
North Carolina officials Say Trump’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase not just greenhouse gases but also soot and smog Air Pollutants by as much as 940 tons. @lisasorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...
North Carolina officials Say Trump’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase not just greenhouse gases but also soot and smog Air Pollutants by as much as 940 tons. @lisasorg.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...
Rupert Murdoch media companies blame a scapegoat in clean energy for rising electricity prices in New Jersey. But “the extreme hikes we are currently seeing are almost entirely attributable to data centers and their tremendous load,” Brian Lipman NJ Rate Counsel insideclimatenews.org/news/2911202...
Murdoch Media Wrongly Pinned NJ High Electricity Costs on Clean Energy, Says Watchdog - Inside Climate News
The op-eds and TV segments coincided with the gubernatorial campaign in the Garden State.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Rupert Murdoch media companies blame a scapegoat in clean energy for rising electricity prices in New Jersey. But “the extreme hikes we are currently seeing are almost entirely attributable to data centers and their tremendous load,” Brian Lipman NJ Rate Counsel insideclimatenews.org/news/2911202...
Trump-Vance environmental rollbacks came one after the next this week, harming everything from rare whales to protections for millions of acres of wetlands and streams, weakening the Clean Water Act to jeopardizing the Hudson River‘s health @maxinejoselow.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Trump-Vance environmental rollbacks came one after the next this week, harming everything from rare whales to protections for millions of acres of wetlands and streams, weakening the Clean Water Act to jeopardizing the Hudson River‘s health @maxinejoselow.bsky.social
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Shame!
Trump-Vance EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit; wants to kill rule which would save thousands of lives by cutting exposure to a pollutant tied to a higher risk of strokes, lung cancer and other cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. By Sean Reilly www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
Trump-Vance EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit; wants to kill rule which would save thousands of lives by cutting exposure to a pollutant tied to a higher risk of strokes, lung cancer and other cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. By Sean Reilly www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit
The move could offer an early test of the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulatory agenda.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Shame!
Trump-Vance EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit; wants to kill rule which would save thousands of lives by cutting exposure to a pollutant tied to a higher risk of strokes, lung cancer and other cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. By Sean Reilly www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
Trump-Vance EPA to scrap lifesaving soot pollution limit; wants to kill rule which would save thousands of lives by cutting exposure to a pollutant tied to a higher risk of strokes, lung cancer and other cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. By Sean Reilly www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
Trump-Vance give big oil another victory!
EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump-Vance give big oil another victory!
EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People. Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry. @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People. Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry. @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bad breath!
Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act protections, exempting coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins and monitoring benzene. @rachelfrazin.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/energ...
Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act protections, exempting coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins and monitoring benzene. @rachelfrazin.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/energ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Bad breath!
Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act protections, exempting coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins and monitoring benzene. @rachelfrazin.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/energ...
Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act protections, exempting coke ovens from a rule limiting their releases of pollutants, such as mercury, formaldehyde, soot and dioxins and monitoring benzene. @rachelfrazin.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/energ...
AI throws aging coal plants a lifeline as the Trump-Vance Administration makes them dirtier, allowing them to spew more pollution. @arielwittenberg.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: AI gives coal plants a lifeline as Trump makes them dirtier
At least 15 coal-fired plants are being kept online to power artificial intelligence as the administration rolls back pollution rules.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
AI throws aging coal plants a lifeline as the Trump-Vance Administration makes them dirtier, allowing them to spew more pollution. @arielwittenberg.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
Hiroshima survivor excoriates Trump for reviving nuclear arms race!
“I’m just so disappointed in the US president. People chose that man? What’s happened to you? Yeah, it’s really sad. But we must finish — stop using [nuclear weapons].” By Matt Viser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“I’m just so disappointed in the US president. People chose that man? What’s happened to you? Yeah, it’s really sad. But we must finish — stop using [nuclear weapons].” By Matt Viser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Hiroshima survivor’s vision clashes with Trump’s push for nuclear testing
Koko Kondo was just 8 months old when a U.S. nuclear bomb obliterated her community. She wants to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself, and sees Americans as allies in her quest.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hiroshima survivor excoriates Trump for reviving nuclear arms race!
“I’m just so disappointed in the US president. People chose that man? What’s happened to you? Yeah, it’s really sad. But we must finish — stop using [nuclear weapons].” By Matt Viser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“I’m just so disappointed in the US president. People chose that man? What’s happened to you? Yeah, it’s really sad. But we must finish — stop using [nuclear weapons].” By Matt Viser. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
COP car!
The BYD Dolphin EV the Chinese carmaker’s most popular model in Brazil. Solid, whiz-bang modernity and, at just under $22,500, cheap enough to appeal to a growing market of professionals even in one of Brazil’s poorest regions. @karlmathiesen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The BYD Dolphin EV the Chinese carmaker’s most popular model in Brazil. Solid, whiz-bang modernity and, at just under $22,500, cheap enough to appeal to a growing market of professionals even in one of Brazil’s poorest regions. @karlmathiesen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
A Test Drive Through Brazil in Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare
The biggest story of the climate summit might be the brand-new EVs on the streets outside.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
COP car!
The BYD Dolphin EV the Chinese carmaker’s most popular model in Brazil. Solid, whiz-bang modernity and, at just under $22,500, cheap enough to appeal to a growing market of professionals even in one of Brazil’s poorest regions. @karlmathiesen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The BYD Dolphin EV the Chinese carmaker’s most popular model in Brazil. Solid, whiz-bang modernity and, at just under $22,500, cheap enough to appeal to a growing market of professionals even in one of Brazil’s poorest regions. @karlmathiesen.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Stepping on the gas!
Oil Producers, but Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End. The agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia and Exxon, Chevron and Marathon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Oil Producers, but Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End. The agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia and Exxon, Chevron and Marathon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End
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November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Stepping on the gas!
Oil Producers, but Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End. The agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia and Exxon, Chevron and Marathon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Oil Producers, but Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End. The agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia and Exxon, Chevron and Marathon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Trump doubles down on fossil fuels but Republicans make it one in a row!
Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition. California and Florida lawmakers oppose the plan. It's a rare example of Republican pushback.
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Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition. California and Florida lawmakers oppose the plan. It's a rare example of Republican pushback.
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Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition - Inside Climate News
It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump doubles down on fossil fuels but Republicans make it one in a row!
Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition. California and Florida lawmakers oppose the plan. It's a rare example of Republican pushback.
@keertigopal.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2111202...
Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition. California and Florida lawmakers oppose the plan. It's a rare example of Republican pushback.
@keertigopal.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2111202...
Lost Science: She Studied How to Protect Children From Pollution and Heat. “There was no warning, no conversation,” just a single email, said Jane Clougherty, environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year. @sachimulkey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Lost Science: She Studied How to Protect Children From Pollution and Heat. “There was no warning, no conversation,” just a single email, said Jane Clougherty, environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year. @sachimulkey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
This law helped save the bald eagle. Trump wants to weaken it, announcing plans to roll back protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act. Businesses are frustrated with how the law impedes logging, farming, oil and gas drilling. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
This law helped save the bald eagle. Trump officials want to weaken it.
The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This law helped save the bald eagle. Trump wants to weaken it, announcing plans to roll back protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act. Businesses are frustrated with how the law impedes logging, farming, oil and gas drilling. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites
Flooding from surging seas is likely to inundate thousands of U.S. hazardous sites in coming years as global temperatures rise, placing the nation’s most vulnerable at greatest risk. @lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Flooding from surging seas is likely to inundate thousands of U.S. hazardous sites in coming years as global temperatures rise, placing the nation’s most vulnerable at greatest risk. @lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites
Flooding from surging seas is likely to inundate thousands of U.S. hazardous sites in coming years as global temperatures rise, placing the nation’s most vulnerable at greatest risk. @lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Flooding from surging seas is likely to inundate thousands of U.S. hazardous sites in coming years as global temperatures rise, placing the nation’s most vulnerable at greatest risk. @lizagross.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Global warming is costing homeowners big bucks!
Rising home insurance premiums, driven higher by climate change, are cascading into the broader real estate market and eating into home values in the most disaster-prone areas. @hclaire_brown @rjnskl www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Rising home insurance premiums, driven higher by climate change, are cascading into the broader real estate market and eating into home values in the most disaster-prone areas. @hclaire_brown @rjnskl www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Global warming is costing homeowners big bucks!
Rising home insurance premiums, driven higher by climate change, are cascading into the broader real estate market and eating into home values in the most disaster-prone areas. @hclaire_brown @rjnskl www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Rising home insurance premiums, driven higher by climate change, are cascading into the broader real estate market and eating into home values in the most disaster-prone areas. @hclaire_brown @rjnskl www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why am I not surprised?
GM, Ford bosses celebrate Saudi oil baron with Trump. Thanks for guzzling our oil!
Mary Barra,the chief executive of General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker.
William Clay Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor.
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GM, Ford bosses celebrate Saudi oil baron with Trump. Thanks for guzzling our oil!
Mary Barra,the chief executive of General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker.
William Clay Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Who Attended Trump’s Dinner for the Saudi Crown Prince?
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November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Why am I not surprised?
GM, Ford bosses celebrate Saudi oil baron with Trump. Thanks for guzzling our oil!
Mary Barra,the chief executive of General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker.
William Clay Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
GM, Ford bosses celebrate Saudi oil baron with Trump. Thanks for guzzling our oil!
Mary Barra,the chief executive of General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker.
William Clay Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The cost of deregulation exceeds the benefits. The Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks could cost the U.S. $153 billion and nearly 3,300 lives annually, according to calculations by a think tank at the New York University School of Law.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The cost of deregulation exceeds the benefits. The Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks could cost the U.S. $153 billion and nearly 3,300 lives annually, according to calculations by a think tank at the New York University School of Law.
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