The Spider Hunter - Climate Activists, Sierra Club
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Prof Environmental and Entomology Consultant & Artist, aka The Spider Hunter
I have a B.S. in Biology & M.S. in Aquatic Biology. Worked at Ohio EPA. Love Jazz, art, wildlife, climate change, sports cars.
I have a B.S. in Biology & M.S. in Aquatic Biology. Worked at Ohio EPA. Love Jazz, art, wildlife, climate change, sports cars.
South Dakota wetlands are under threat from the EPA’s rollback southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/11/29/s...
South Dakota wetlands are under threat from the EPA's rollback • South Dakota Searchlight
The EPA just finalized a decision that slashes federal protections for wetlands, especially those without a “continuous surface connection” to rivers and streams.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
South Dakota wetlands are under threat from the EPA’s rollback southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/11/29/s...
How climate change is mobilizing plastic pollution: www.earth.com/news/how-cli...
How climate change is mobilizing plastic pollution
Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, and people.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How climate change is mobilizing plastic pollution: www.earth.com/news/how-cli...
Poll: Virginians plan to spend less this holiday season as prices, job market weigh on budgets virginiamercury.com/2025/11/28/p...
Poll: Virginians plan to spend less this holiday season as prices, job market weigh on budgets • Virginia Mercury
Virginians plan to dial back holiday spending this year, trimming budgets by about 5% even as the broader economy shows strong growth, according to a new Institute for Policy and Opinion Research surv...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Poll: Virginians plan to spend less this holiday season as prices, job market weigh on budgets virginiamercury.com/2025/11/28/p...
In Cancer Alley, residents are not giving up the fight for cleaner air lailluminator.com/2025/11/28/c...
In Cancer Alley, residents are not giving up the fight for cleaner air • Louisiana Illuminator
The air on a regular day in St. Gabriel is acrid — but many residents seem not to notice anymore. Grace has spent the last 10 years organizing residents against the growing chemical industry. The city...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In Cancer Alley, residents are not giving up the fight for cleaner air lailluminator.com/2025/11/28/c...
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Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. - Inside Climate News
Long-polluted waterways near Chicago are part of a system of natural and manmade barriers keeping invasive crustaceans at bay, a recent study suggests.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
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November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/c...
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/26/a...
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent • Minnesota Reformer
Charting a path on responsible mineral production in Minnesota could demonstrate to the world how we can meet our global challenges with integrity.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/26/a...
Weighing up the wild-meat harvest in Amazonia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Weighing up the wild-meat harvest in Amazonia
An assessment of the food hunted across the Amazon rainforest reveals its crucial role and how human pressures, particularly deforestation, threaten the resource.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Weighing up the wild-meat harvest in Amazonia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
The Trump administration will cut the pay of all farmworkers by reducing the minimum wages paid to workers filling seasonal agricultural jobs in the H-2A visa program. By lowering wage rates implement...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers • Kansas Reflector
Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the current state of the U.S. food industry is “like we live in some kind of alternate...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes www.circleofblue.org/2025/supply/...
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes
Explore shocking findings of microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. Discover the impact on Great Lakes ecosystems.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes www.circleofblue.org/2025/supply/...
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/26/a...
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent • Minnesota Reformer
Charting a path on responsible mineral production in Minnesota could demonstrate to the world how we can meet our global challenges with integrity.
minnesotareformer.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A Minnesotan reports back on the climate conference in Brazil, where the U.S. government was absent minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/26/a...
World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age www.nature.com/articles/d41...
World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age
Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Others must now help to find a way forward.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What happened at COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What happened at COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit
COP30 negotiated efforts to protect forests and ramp up financial packages for climate action, but with one glaring omission: a roadmap to cut fossil fuels.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What happened at COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Air pollution and pet health | Science Sessions | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Trump’s Baffling Free Pass for Coke Oven Pollution legal-planet.org/2025/11/24/t...
Trump’s Baffling Free Pass for Coke Oven Pollution - Legal Planet
Trump just gave coke ovens a free pass on their toxic air pollution. His own EPA found only weeks ago that doing so would be pointless.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump’s Baffling Free Pass for Coke Oven Pollution legal-planet.org/2025/11/24/t...
Many hoped UN climate talks in Brazil would be historic. They may be remembered as a flop www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Many hoped UN climate talks in Brazil would be historic. They may be remembered as a flop
For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N. climate talks that just finished in Brazil. Instead of an ambitious outcome,...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Many hoped UN climate talks in Brazil would be historic. They may be remembered as a flop www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Farmers bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies kansasreflector.com/2025/11/22/f...
Farmers bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies • Kansas Reflector
In the past, farmers’ loyalty to Donald Trump has overridden economics. This time may be different.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Farmers bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies kansasreflector.com/2025/11/22/f...
apnews.com/article/clim... climate talks end with deal for more money to countries hit by climate change
UN climate talks end with deal for more money to countries hit by climate change
United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to extreme weather’s wrath.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
apnews.com/article/clim... climate talks end with deal for more money to countries hit by climate change
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A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees - Inside Climate News
This is how the fund, which was seeded with $5.5 billion during COP30, will work—and why the Earth needs it.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/this...
This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies » Yale Climate Connections
The groundbreaking research offers evidence that specific fossil fuel giants drove economic losses for decades.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/this...
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction - Greenpeace International
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon. At COP30 we urgently need effective action that not just halts, b...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Shutdown Made a Bad Situation in Alabama Worse - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/20/t...
What the air you breathe may be doing to your brain www.ourmidland.com/lifestyles/a...
What the air you breathe may be doing to your brain
Lancet Commission added air pollution to its list of modifiable risk factors for dementia, along with common problems like hearing loss, diabetes and smoking.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What the air you breathe may be doing to your brain www.ourmidland.com/lifestyles/a...