🚨New from @fieldnotes.co + @drilledmedia.bsky.social: Energy Transfer has deployed a decade-old astroturf group it secretly funds in a bid to stop @greenpeace.org from suing it in Europe for intimidation: fieldnotes.co/reporting/en...

Inside a Pipeline Giant’s Bid to Block Greenpeace’s Historic…

Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

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"Why don't you like AI?" They plan to build "several" fracked-gas-fired power plants in NEPA for Blackstone's "$25 billion investment to build data centers." PA "is often cited as a prime location for the AI revolution given its abundant energy resources" aka fracking share.inquirer.com/kWyBT0

Sen. McCormick, Trump announce billions in AI and energy investments in Pa. at innovation summit: ‘The nation’s future depends on us’

Republican Sen. Dave McCormick organized the summit, which drew appearances from President Trump, major tech CEOs and the state's most prominent Democrats.

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Eyewitness video filmed on Monday, July 14 showed floodwater surging onto the platform of New York’s 28th Street Station as passengers watched from a train car. Intense storms and heavy rainfall caused flooding across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with several flash flood warnings issued.

The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

Sunday’s record-setting storm [in Montreal] could repeat on Thursday www.montrealgazette.com/news/weather...

Sunday’s record-setting storm could repeat on Thursday

Weather conditions in Montreal for the next two days mirror what was seen just prior to Sunday’s deluge.

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NYC, tonight. Flash flooding has significantly affected the subway. This is the 28th Street station of the No. 1 train. The 1 is out, and the 2 and 3 trains are back in service with severe delays. E, F, M, and R trains are a mess too. Oh, and do *not* drive. Stay home.

@cmu.edu students prepare for a visit from President Donald #Trump to their campus on July 15 for an "Energy & AI Summit" organized by Republican Pennsylvania Senator David McCormick that includes tech and fossil fuel execs. Numerous #protests are scheduled to occur nearby throughout the day.

Again, the hazard communication failures are not just in red states/governments.

Mark D. Levine@marklevinenyc.bsky.social · last yr.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

I've been in a FUSRAP and thorium/REE hazmat management rabbithole lately and it's amazing what you can do with no oversight! My current fav is Apollo, PA, where nuclear waste was buried "in accordance with [AEC] regulations" between a river and a neighborhood over an undermined former coal mine.

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · last yr.

politico reports the trump admin is telling regulators to just “rubber stamp” new nuclear reactors this new process, which apparently was relayed to regulators via doge, will specifically speed up *nuclear safety* assessments www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

June 2025 saw: • Wildfires across Canada • 46 °C in Spain • July 4th flash floods in Texas • Record-breaking heat from Tokyo to Texas And yet, climate coverage dropped 6% from May. And 28% from last June. 2/7

Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates. And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7

Les précipitations rapides ont causé des inondations et des pannes de courant. #orage

Les orages de dimanche ont déversé jusqu’à 100 mm de pluie sur Montréal

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So...are we feeling lucky? Because we're playing an increasingly high-stakes game of roulette with the global climate, and the house odds are decidedly not in our favor.

So, in other words, our current policy trajectory would still yield essentially a doubling of the warming we've seen so far, with consequences far exceeding a doubling of those we've experienced to date.

And there's a big covert campaign going on to just continue to convince us that "nerd" is a real identity with real characteristics that somehow completely shields this field from any kind of accountability or even admittance of the fact that it is a deeply segregated labor force.

In 2018, Philly rezoned a floodplain *literally in the middle of a river* to build luxury housing. City Council approved bc Councilman Jones pushed for it, arguing that "100-year" floods happen so often that "We have become pretty adept in that area." Not just red states! whyy.org/articles/lux...

Lux townhouses are coming to a flood-prone island off the coast of Manayunk - WHYY

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals

I look forward to University of Delaware announcing how they'll protect international students from this shit

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.

A man was robbed and assaulted in Milton, Delaware, by two masked men impersonating ICE agents www.delawareonline.com/story/news/c...

Putting this in a larger context, this was extremely common after Hurricane Katrina for disaster cleanup and rebuilding workers (as it is generally). ~25% of Katrina cleanup workers were undocumented, plus the govt suspended major federal labor protections. antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

Melissa Paints@melissavandiver.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone on Reddit overheard a local guy say he has undocumented immigrants working on a building and plans to withhold pay and call ICE when they're done. If anyone knows him... www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

Everyone should know that the U.S. *encourages* migrant children to do hard labor. Republicans know this but are purposely twisting this into a scandal based on lies rather than the horrifying truth. The NYT did an excellent investigative series in 2023: www.nytimes.com/series/alone...

Alone and Exploited

An investigation into America's hidden migrant child workforce.

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United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.

The UFW is also aware of reports of child labor on site. The UFW demands the immediate facilitation of independent legal representation for the minor workers, to protect them from further harm. Farm workers are excluded from basic child labor laws. 5/

are you fucking kidding me I'm glad to see Jeannette Sutton finally interviewed about this, though! “'There is no required training. There’s no certification process currently within IPAWS,' said Jeannette Sutton" but as ever, texts alerts and sirens are *not enough*!

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.

NEW: FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System to send warnings with safety instructions to all mobile phones in the affected area during critical hours as the flooding began.

parks 🤝 landfills

Leventhal Map & Education Center@bplmaps.bsky.social · last yr.

👀 One of Cambridge’s best parks used to be a clay pit? And a landfill? And an MBTA dumpsite??? Maps: Atlas of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1903), Map of the city of Cambridge (1922) Sources: Boston Globe, City Parks Alliance, Cambridge Historical Commission #bpl #LMEC #maps #cambridgeMA

Reading a bunch of the EPA 2024 Transition Briefs for the incoming administration and it's heartwrenching to see the important and often overdue work we've lost. Indoor air and wildfire smoke guides, climate resilience planning tools, uranium cleanups in Navajo Nation... www.epa.gov/foia/2024-tr...

2024 Transition Briefs FOIA Records Repository | US EPA

2024 Transition Briefs FOIA Records Repository

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America’s own Tiananmen Tank Man

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

FUCK ICE

Critical minerals news: DoD is becoming the largest shareholder in a U.S. rare earth metals company to expand their REE magnet production for the military. DoD is buying $400 million in stock, + a $150 million loan w/in 30 days + a fixed minimum price of $110/kg mpmaterials.com/news/mp-mate...

MP Materials Announces Transformational Public-Private Partnership with the Department of Defense to Accelerate U.S. Rare Earth Magnet Independence

MP Materials Announces Transformational Public-Private Partnership with the Department of Defense to Accelerate U.S. Rare Earth Magnet Independence

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Texas politicians have been loudly denying the link between climate change and extreme floods But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come

Abbott says megafloods are “just part of nature.” The fossil fuel industry disagrees.

In leaked audio from a meeting last month, gas industry representatives acknowledged that extreme weather is getting wackier and more dangerous.

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Some of us communicate as *part* of our jobs. But there are positions *dedicated* to these efforts. That's why we're so worried about the loss of Warning Coordination Meteorologists at the NWS. What I described above is what they do. Every day. In service to people. www.noaa.gov/jetstream/wfos

Bove is supposed to become a federal judge in Philly 🙃

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Newly revealed messages from fired DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni show in real time how DOJ officials handled court orders related to the Alien Enemies Act, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more — as well as Emil Bove's alleged suggestion to say "fuck you" to the courts. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...