Christine Spolar
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Stuff I read: facts. Former FT, NYT, WashPost, Bloomberg, KFF Health
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ExxonMobil Uses Corporate Arbitration System to Challenge Climate Solution It Promotes - Inside Climate News
The oil giant has filed a notice of dispute under an energy treaty about the European Union’s carbon capture and storage requirements.
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Getting ready for The Italian Festival/procession in Clerkenwell…#myhood
An excellent day @insideclimatenews.org with an Oakes honor. Congrats to winner the Examination & NYT team, and WaPo as fellow finalist. Gr8 work by all & 👏👏 @katiesurma.bsky.social, Nicholas Kusnetz, @georginagustin.bsky.social , @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social journalism.columbia.edu/news/2026-oa...
The Examination and The New York Times Win 2026 John B. Oakes Award | Columbia Journalism School
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What a weekend…. For #Swifties , for #America and now for Inside Climate News: we have a new podcast! The oldest climate newsroom invites you to tune in… and meet our reporters who cover the #environment and #climate risks. Welcome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48T...
S1E1 - Climate Reporting Is Changing
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Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’...@CNN. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...
Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN
Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican’s concerns could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained wh...
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What's that buzz? Keep reading....https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03072026/drone-delivery-could-cut-pollution/
Drone Delivery Could Cut Pollution. Can Communities Live With the Noise? - Inside Climate News
Electric drones could make small package deliveries cleaner. But in North Texas, Amazon’s Prime Air program faces a challenge: winning over people beneath the flight path.
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Always read Marianne Lavelle ! @mlavelle.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0207202...
Heat Wave Politics: GOP Leaders Deride Calls to Conserve - Inside Climate News
With half of Americans under a major heat advisory, official warnings and response are colored by the nation’s deep political divide.
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The latest chapter in the Keyport investigation I launched, from @karinpricemueller.bsky.social. People who live in neighborhoods near an old dump are 15% more likely to have cancer than other residents of their county, according to a preliminary disease incidence study nj.com commissioned.
NJ.com@nj.com · last mo.A new study commissioned by NJ.com bolsters what residents have already been fearing.
I Cold-Called President Trump About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor. Here's What I Found: Trump may be vaguely aware of the people/groups helping to rewrite policies. What matters aren't the technical details but a broad ideological project: Deregulate everything. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
I Cold-Called President Trump. Here’s What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.
I was hoping the president would give me some color about his relationship with billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand. I walked away with a clearer picture of what matters in Washington right now.
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It's London Climate Action Week and this is part of the conversation: insideclimatenews.org/news/2206202...
A Trump Ally’s Rise in Colombia Could Mean the End of Landmark Climate Policies - Inside Climate News
Abelardo de la Espriella, the apparent winner of the presidential election, has vowed to expand oil, gas and mining production, alarming activists in the world’s deadliest country for environmental de...
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One of the best people I've ever known, a beloved colleague and friend, has died. If there are any polluters in heaven, they better beware. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
James Bruggers, longtime environmental 'watchdog' for Kentucky, dies
James Bruggers, whose decades of environmental reporting in Kentucky and beyond helped win cleaner air and cleaner water, is dead at 68.
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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract ft.trib.al/v2LRiPS
Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract
Scrutiny of Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, comes amid pressure for ministers to use break clause in key contract
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Longtime energy reporter here. What's happening with virtual power plants has a momentum that surprising and encouraging, a pleasant kind of, "I didn't see that coming." Here's my latest: insideclimatenews.org/news/0406202...
As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants - Inside Climate News
The decentralized power systems are playing a growing role in the transition away from fossil fuels.
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New research suggests players in the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup this coming June and July are facing a greater risk of unsafe temperatures than they did in 1994, the last time the U.S. hosted the World Cup.
The 2026 World Cup Will Feature a Villainous Player: Extreme Heat - Inside Climate News
As athletes and academics urge FIFA to update its heat-stress framework, a study shows nearly a quarter of all games are likely to be played in dangerous temperatures.
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Scientists are outplanting a new generation of experimental lab-grown corals called “Flondurans” to reefs in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park.
Scientists Outplant Experimental ‘Flonduran’ Corals in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park - Inside Climate News
Researchers are testing whether cross-breeding elkhorn corals from Florida and Honduras can help restore lost genetic diversity and improve the threatened species’ ability to withstand warmer waters.
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Long shot I know, but does anyone I know still have last Friday's Metro?
Data: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone ft.trib.al/wPxcNrQ | opinion
Data: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
To decide whether official statistics are useful, look at what happens when they disappear
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