Rocky Kistner
@therockyfiles.bsky.social
Independent journalist, Society of Environmental Journalists board. Formerly with ABC News, PBS Frontline, Marketplace public radio, NRDC OnEarth, HuffPost contributing writer. Mizzou J School alum. TheRockyFiles.org,
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Killing the pollinators. “Honey bees are the backbone of our food system, pollinating the crops that feed our nation...If we continue to see losses at this rate, we simply won’t be able to sustain current food production.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Killing the pollinators. “Honey bees are the backbone of our food system, pollinating the crops that feed our nation...If we continue to see losses at this rate, we simply won’t be able to sustain current food production.”
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Health experts cry foul over Trump plans to cut air safety rules: "The Trump EPA is siding with big polluters, challenging safer standards and asking a court to do its dirty work.” https//wapo.st/49zm7rA @AmudalatAjasa
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Health experts cry foul over Trump plans to cut air safety rules: "The Trump EPA is siding with big polluters, challenging safer standards and asking a court to do its dirty work.” https//wapo.st/49zm7rA @AmudalatAjasa
On the eve of millions losing their SNAP food benefits, Trump throws a party: “Gatsby and “a little party never killed nobody” was the “official theme” of the night” the-independent.com/news/world/ame… @Independent x.com/therockyfile...
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On the eve of millions losing their SNAP food benefits, Trump throws a party: “Gatsby and “a little party never killed nobody” was the “official theme” of the night” the-independent.com/news/world/ame… @Independent x.com/therockyfile...
Stunning investigation into why Iowa has the second highest and fastest-growing U.S cancer rates: "It's our risk factors from 10,20, 30 years ago that are causing these cancers now." @arianaeunjung @dtkeating @jaheezus @washingtonpost x.com/therockyfile...
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Stunning investigation into why Iowa has the second highest and fastest-growing U.S cancer rates: "It's our risk factors from 10,20, 30 years ago that are causing these cancers now." @arianaeunjung @dtkeating @jaheezus @washingtonpost x.com/therockyfile...
The fossil fuel subsidy gambit: Trump officials say clean energy subsidies should end, but coal, oil and gas interests reaped more than $16 billion in subsidies in 2023. “We subsidize oil and gas through the tax code” @dgelles @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The fossil fuel subsidy gambit: Trump officials say clean energy subsidies should end, but coal, oil and gas interests reaped more than $16 billion in subsidies in 2023. “We subsidize oil and gas through the tax code” @dgelles @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
Killing science: “The 2026 budget would slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3 percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s science-research budget.” @nytimes @alanburdick messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Killing science: “The 2026 budget would slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3 percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s science-research budget.” @nytimes @alanburdick messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
New from Money Trail: PragerU promotes a distorted view of history and partners with the Trump administration and school systems in 10 states. “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”https://themoneytrail.substack.com/p/prageru-may-soon-be-whitewashing @cmatthiessen.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New from Money Trail: PragerU promotes a distorted view of history and partners with the Trump administration and school systems in 10 states. “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”https://themoneytrail.substack.com/p/prageru-may-soon-be-whitewashing @cmatthiessen.bsky.social
The relentless push for ‘clean beautiful coal:’ “the moves are unlikely to change the long-term trajectory for #coal, which is being displaced by cheaper and cleaner sources of energy including natural gas, #solar and #wind power.” @dgelles messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The relentless push for ‘clean beautiful coal:’ “the moves are unlikely to change the long-term trajectory for #coal, which is being displaced by cheaper and cleaner sources of energy including natural gas, #solar and #wind power.” @dgelles messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
SEJ board elections are coming up soon. Deadline to file is this Friday. Come join the board of the world’s biggest environmental journalism org, fighting for free speech and critical environmental reporting. Join us! @sejorg www.sej.org/sej-board-el...
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
SEJ board elections are coming up soon. Deadline to file is this Friday. Come join the board of the world’s biggest environmental journalism org, fighting for free speech and critical environmental reporting. Join us! @sejorg www.sej.org/sej-board-el...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Beyond dispute: “the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, found that the evidence linking rising emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” @hclaire_brown @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
September 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Beyond dispute: “the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, found that the evidence linking rising emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” @hclaire_brown @nytimes messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
Rooting out the liberal network: "Mr. Miller said that a formal effort would be coming, with federal agencies rooting out what he referred to as a “domestic terror movement”... to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again" nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u... @nytimes
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Rooting out the liberal network: "Mr. Miller said that a formal effort would be coming, with federal agencies rooting out what he referred to as a “domestic terror movement”... to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again" nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u... @nytimes
Despite drill baby drill, renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels and growing fast: "the tipping point has arrived. In the next few years, we can expect to see cheap, plentiful renewables outcompete more and more fossil fuels." @conversationUS theconversation.com/climate-acti...
September 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Despite drill baby drill, renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels and growing fast: "the tipping point has arrived. In the next few years, we can expect to see cheap, plentiful renewables outcompete more and more fossil fuels." @conversationUS theconversation.com/climate-acti...
Trump’s climate science disaster: “Five people were hand-selected by the secretary of energy for their viewpoints, and they produced a shoddy mess of cherry-picked data and unsupported assertions” @olliemilman @dharnanoor @guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trump’s climate science disaster: “Five people were hand-selected by the secretary of energy for their viewpoints, and they produced a shoddy mess of cherry-picked data and unsupported assertions” @olliemilman @dharnanoor @guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Will Maine's new resilience officer survive Trump? "The NOAA grant...will supply about $22 million to the state resilience office. A significant portion of that will go out in grants to communities through the state’s Community Resilience Partnership" @EmmettGartner @MaineMonitor shorturl.at/7j5QJ
August 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Will Maine's new resilience officer survive Trump? "The NOAA grant...will supply about $22 million to the state resilience office. A significant portion of that will go out in grants to communities through the state’s Community Resilience Partnership" @EmmettGartner @MaineMonitor shorturl.at/7j5QJ
Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet. Now energy-draining air conditioning is mandatory for Europe’s increasingly sizzling summers: “It is becoming too hot to survive without it” @chicoharlan @washingtonpost
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August 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet. Now energy-draining air conditioning is mandatory for Europe’s increasingly sizzling summers: “It is becoming too hot to survive without it” @chicoharlan @washingtonpost
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.@Axios: brought to you by the association of fossil fuel companies that boost #climatechange.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
.@Axios: brought to you by the association of fossil fuel companies that boost #climatechange.
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In China EVs charge faster and cost less. But not in the US: “two major Chinese companies announced breakthroughs in battery technology that will enable electric vehicles to drive hundreds of miles on a five-minute charge.” @hclaire_brown
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August 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In China EVs charge faster and cost less. But not in the US: “two major Chinese companies announced breakthroughs in battery technology that will enable electric vehicles to drive hundreds of miles on a five-minute charge.” @hclaire_brown
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Trump EPA to cut solar grants: “If the Trump administration is serious about energy abundance and affordability, then they should be working hard to accelerate — not terminate — these grants.” @jakespring
August 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Trump EPA to cut solar grants: “If the Trump administration is serious about energy abundance and affordability, then they should be working hard to accelerate — not terminate — these grants.” @jakespring
Experts say Trump’s war on science will have grave consequences for America’s health: “Not since Stalin and Soviet Lysenkoism have we seen such a brazen effort to misrepresent science in service of an ideological agenda,” @michaelemann.bsky.social @zbryonwolf.bsky.social @CNN
August 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Experts say Trump’s war on science will have grave consequences for America’s health: “Not since Stalin and Soviet Lysenkoism have we seen such a brazen effort to misrepresent science in service of an ideological agenda,” @michaelemann.bsky.social @zbryonwolf.bsky.social @CNN
Hard to predict, but warmer waters make topical storms more likely.
"Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season! Feels like the next few days are going to be all over the place with a far Atlantic wave getting noticed... Not even going to try and 'guess' on anything right now." spaghettimodels.com
"Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season! Feels like the next few days are going to be all over the place with a far Atlantic wave getting noticed... Not even going to try and 'guess' on anything right now." spaghettimodels.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hard to predict, but warmer waters make topical storms more likely.
"Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season! Feels like the next few days are going to be all over the place with a far Atlantic wave getting noticed... Not even going to try and 'guess' on anything right now." spaghettimodels.com
"Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season! Feels like the next few days are going to be all over the place with a far Atlantic wave getting noticed... Not even going to try and 'guess' on anything right now." spaghettimodels.com
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August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The first atomic bomb victims were campers blown from their bunks: “The former campers developed terrible cancers. Kent suffered from skin and endometrial cancer….Only she and one other of that group of 12 would live past the age of 40.” @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
July 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The first atomic bomb victims were campers blown from their bunks: “The former campers developed terrible cancers. Kent suffered from skin and endometrial cancer….Only she and one other of that group of 12 would live past the age of 40.” @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The Sierra Club, Earth Island Institute, Center for Biological Diversity and Animal Welfare Institute all opposed the $3 billion Barataria Bay diversion because it would kill fisheries and dolphins and hurt fishing communities. Enviro groups and media funded by the Walton Family Foundation backed it
July 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Sierra Club, Earth Island Institute, Center for Biological Diversity and Animal Welfare Institute all opposed the $3 billion Barataria Bay diversion because it would kill fisheries and dolphins and hurt fishing communities. Enviro groups and media funded by the Walton Family Foundation backed it