Join @robertakwok.bsky.social tonight 7pm in Seattle at Third Place Books Ravenna as she discusses her new book, Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown. It's about science's messy pursuit of understanding (and it's a delight!) thirdplacebooks.com/event/robert...

Roberta Kwok presents 'Lost in Curiosity'

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Featuring a chapter from @desmog.com’s @geoffdembicki.bsky.social on reporting strategies for investigating private and state-owned fossil fuel corporations

Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is good: gijn.org/resource/gij...

"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Trump administration sharply cuts protections for endangered species

By adjusting the meaning of "harm," the Trump administration could in effect open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and more.

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Former Exxon lawyer Robert Levy joins the DOJ division that dubs itself ‘the nation’s largest environmental law firm.' In reaction, a Koch lawyer says: "You will be missed in our circles" in Levy's now-deleted LinkedIn announcement. @desmog.com's latest www.desmog.com/2026/07/10/e...

Exxon’s Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm'

The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups.

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Our next story following up on @joefassler.bsky.social’s reporting that Colorado gave these same oil companies a $1 billion pass on financial assurance for oil and gas cleanup

DeSmog@desmog.com · 4w ago

Together, Chevron, Oxy and Civitas will pay just $2 million in penalties for faking cleanup data. Colorado's top regulator, who OK'd the deals, is resigning just weeks after a DeSmog investigation into her office's oversight of the same oil companies. Dig into the full story 👇️

This is today! I'll be in conversation with @michaelemann.bsky.social about the climate denier playbook and where we go from here. Still a few spots, join us! 👇

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tomorrow (Wednesday July 8) 3pm ET @desmog.com 20th Anniversary!

Couldn't agree more! Come join our discussion of fossil fuels and fascism, the evolution of climate denial, and solutions to the polluted information ecosystem next Wednesday. Sign up for the July 8 virtual party 👇

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last mo.

Very good time to come support the vital and tireless work of DeSmog!

This is tomorrow, June 30 (not June 23, d’oh). Come hang and talk patient advocacy, pollution in the Anthropocene, and moving from rage to action at Third Place Books in Ravenna. Can’t wait to co-host this discussion with the amazing @lodrinkswater.bsky.social!

Ashley Braun@ashleybraun.bsky.social · last mo.

Seattle! Join the talented @lodrinkswater.bsky.social next Tuesday, June 23 at 7pm at Third Place Books in Ravenna as we discuss her beautiful and deeply personal new book, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene. www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/lorrai...

Shrimp Shell Slurry to the Rescue? A new, multistep chemical process can turn bits of organic waste into “carbon-negative” fuel, food, and construction material. by @ashleybraun.bsky.social www.biographic.com/shrimp-shell...

Shrimp Shell Slurry to the Rescue? - bioGraphic

A new, multistep chemical process can turn bits of organic waste into “carbon-negative” fuel, food, and construction material.

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My latest for @biographic.bsky.social: transforming biomass trash into green hydrogen and carbon gold

Colin Schultz@colinschultz.bsky.social · last mo.

This is by far one of the most technically complicated stories I've assigned in a while, and @ashleybraun.bsky.social, as always, managed to deftly squeeze an ungodly amount of information into a tight, engaging package www.biographic.com/shrimp-shell...

Even the climate deniers didn’t expect this level of climate hushing www.desmog.com/2026/03/04/c...

Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of climate action advocates going ‘silent’ on the issue.

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · last mo.

The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.

I can't wait to ask @naomiaklein.bsky.social about the fossil fuel-AI nexus and her forthcoming book End Times Fascism at our webinar! Register now: luma.com/snaz4qbo

DeSmog@desmog.com · last mo.

DeSmog is turning 20! 🎂 Join DeSmog on July 8th – along with special guests @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social and Jim Hoggan – as we look back on two decades of climate accountability wins and reflect on how we can usher in the end of climate obstruction. RSVP: buff.ly/ujMMGga

This is why it is such a bad thing that so many future visions of climate action rely *very* very heavily on CCS; many times bigger than what that study optimistically says is feasible or possible. Eg: here's my compilation of fossil company scenario assumptions: www.rff.org/publications...

Seattle! Join the talented @lodrinkswater.bsky.social next Tuesday, June 23 at 7pm at Third Place Books in Ravenna as we discuss her beautiful and deeply personal new book, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene. www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/lorrai...

Lorraine Boissoneault presents 'Body Weather: Notes on Chronic

"Body Weather connects the challenges of the planet to the trials of the body and dares to imagine a future where we address both with humanity. It's a singular, stunning book.” —Ed Yong, author of

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Major new investigation reported by @joefassler.bsky.social (and edited by me) into Colorado's celebrated oil cleanup reforms. The regulator had the chance to incentivize the three largest oil companies to clean up their thousands of dead and dirty drill sites. It quietly gave them a $1 billion pass

DeSmog@desmog.com · 2mo ago

In 2019 Colorado passed reforms to spur the oil and gas industry to pay for its own cleanup. Our investigation with @us.theguardian.com digs into how the regulator instead quietly let the three biggest oil companies off the hook 🧵 www.desmog.com/2026/06/02/c...

By the way, this Trump post didn't happen by accident. It's a result of a carefully crafted narrative being promoted by polluters, petrostates and right wing think tanks, built on claims by professional propagandists like #RogerPielkeJr of the American Enterprise Institute:

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The scenarios aren't predictions, so they're not "right" or "wrong". They are possible futures depending on our actions. The good news is that emissions are now tracking below older "business-as-usual" pathways because of climate policy in spite of Trump: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Hugely consequential: lack of $ for prescribed burning, slowed pace, a full suppression strategy. “It's in defiance of all that we have learned, decades of fire ecology research, all that indigenous people have shared with us about how they stewarded the land with fire," www.npr.org/2026/05/17/n...

New burn bans and Trump's battle with immigration and DEI are impacting forest fires

Firefighters say setting fires on purpose is one of the best  ways to protect against massive wildfires later. But the Trump administration is banning or stalling preventative burning across the U.S.

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This 👉🏼 “content creators and marketing firms are increasingly compensated to promote candidates or points of view and where there are few requirements for disclosure. The paid advocacy exists outside the realm of traditional lobbying and campaigning, reaching younger, more online audiences.”

Mike Baker@mikebaker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And here is today’s article from Ken Bensinger exploring how influencers are getting a deluge of political money. (The lede of the story is about how one influencer was getting paid $100,000 from the campaign of a billionaire Democrat). 5/5 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

"Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...

Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’

A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.

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Story to come, but here's some interesting tidbits I learned in reporting on Microsoft's potential pullback to its target of 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. 🧵 1. Microsoft set the goal in 2021, but unlike Google, has never publicly reported on progress toward it.

It is so hard to watch the journalism crisis hit your favorite publications. We need way more nature/biodiversity reporting, not less!

Jude Isabella@judeisabella.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week the @biographic.bsky.social team learned that, owing to an ongoing deficit, the California Academy of Sciences will no longer provide us with financial support. We're reaching out to foundations that support environmental journalism. We've got plans, we just need some help!

This is awful news. The erosion of support for thoughtful independent journalism dedicated to covering biodiversity and conservation means more time spent scrambling for resources and less time doing the essential work of reporting, writing, editing, photography—understanding and connection

Colin Schultz@colinschultz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

Great reporting from @jamesctobias.bsky.social + Julia Kane for Public Domain on the way Harold Hamm's Continental crafted a "roadmap" that paved the way for speedier drilling in Wyoming & skirted using an environmental review tangled up in court www.publicdomain.media/p/emails-sho...

Emails Show How Interior Dept Delivered New Drilling Permits for Burgum's Billionaire Ally

Oil and gas giant Continental Resources wanted the Bureau of Land Management to sign off on new wells in Wyoming, despite a court injunction there. The agency obliged.

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The U.S. Wildland Fire Service is the big new thing in wildfire. To understand its significance, I spoke with its inaugural chief Brian Fennessy, as well as a number of thoughtful critics and supporters. Here’s my best effort to string it all together. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

As potentially significant season kicks off, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service’s first chief shares priorities

“Suppression is always going to be there,” Chief Brian Fennessy told the Mountain West News Bureau. “But we're not going to suppress our way out of this situation.”

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A space to watch 👀 Insightful thread on what the new Wildland Fire Service Chief thinks about wildland firefighter health and cultural burning

Murphy Woodhouse@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week, Chief Brian Fennessy - the inaugural head of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service - gave me more than an hour of his time. Lots of material, but I want to highlight one thing that struck me as esp. significant: he's a cancer survivor, and attributes his disease to his long fire career.

For @opb.org , @ashleybraun.bsky.social with a fascinating story on the Indigenous cultural burning revival in the wet Pacific Northwest. It raises questions about widespread assumptions about the infrequency of fire in Oregon’s Coast Range www.opb.org/article/2026...

How Indigenous leaders are ‘carrying fire’ from Northwest history to the present

The fire scars in Oregon forests tell a story, and it’s a familiar one to Indigenous communities.

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Is this the best use of taxpayer dollars? Is this communications policy serving the public interest? Gov. "Ferguson has been directly involved in reviewing and editing some agency news releases and talking points, contributing to delays, according to email records." www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Scoop: Governor sign-off rule snarls flow of information in Washington

Records show delays in public updates on vaccine access, measles exposure risk and more.

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Having followed and edited stories on this topic for years, I still learned a lot from the discussion 👏

DeSmog@desmog.com · 3mo ago

Thanks to everyone who joined for our virtual discussion of the oil industry's wastewater crisis! Excellent dive into the issues with our reporter Justin Nobel and those from @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social.

My story for OPB on the revival of an essential part of Northwest Indigenous culture: 🔥 fire 🔥 And the emerging research that suggests what many people think they know about fire in Oregon's wet western forests may be wrong...

OPB@opb.org · 3mo ago

Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest have long used intentional fire for ceremony, and to steward the land, managing everything from food and wildlife to medicines and basket-making materials, according to Indigenous experts and researchers with the U.S. Forest Service.

Earlier this month, I traveled to Southern Oregon to witness the growing momentum among Pacific NW Indigenous elders, youth, knowledge holders, and their supporters as they gathered to revive an essential part of their culture: 🔥fire🔥 1/