Sara Sneath
@sarasneath.bsky.social
Reporting on climate justice for the Guardian US. Past: Journalist-in-residence at University of Miami’s Climate Accountability Lab. Big fan of bike rides | she/her | https://sneathfreelance.com
Our Director of Policy, Rebecca Shelton, is quoted in the article about her review of silica dust samples reported by MSHA from January to June of this year, showing that the problem is current and prevalent in our region. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying?
Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections
theguardian.com
El pulmón negro y la silicosis son incurables, pero prevenibles. Trabajadores enferman más jóvenes mientras industrias se oponen a protecciones contra la sílice. Necesitamos prevención, no excusas. ⚠️Artículo en inglés: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying?
Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections
theguardian.com
While erasing any limit to planet-heating pollution from power plants, Donald Trump's EPA made two bold claims - that this will lower Americans' energy bills and the pollution doesn't even matter anyway. The EPA's own documents tell a very different story www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’
Claims that dismantling pollution rules will lower energy bills and have little climate impact are far from convincing
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Private equity - a few profit and most of us pay, in so many ways #ClimateEmergency #FinancialSector www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
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on the heels of America's hottest summer on record, we are now set to get a lot more planet-heating pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters
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“Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/a...
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year all but four countries, report finds - Firms manage $7.3tn in assets - Big investors in gas and coal-fired plants for datacenters #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
theguardian.com
These firms manage $7.3tn in assets of all kinds, affording them the ability to shape the pace of the transition away from fossil fuels. Their investments include natural gas and coal-fired power plants to provide electricity to datacenters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
theguardian.com
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying? Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections. #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying?
Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections
theguardian.com
Silicosis is one of the oldest workplace hazards and public health experts have known for decades how to prevent it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying?
Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections
theguardian.com
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
Silicosis is one of the oldest workplace hazards and public health experts have known for decades how to prevent it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We know how to prevent black lung, so why are workers still dying?
Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections
theguardian.com
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
September 11 Docs
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The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
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I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Paul Brown, the pioneering environment correspondent for the Guardian, has died He was a brilliant journalist, colleague and human being and will be much missed, and always remembered www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Paul Brown obituary
The Guardian’s environment correspondent at a time when international concern over the climate began to take hold
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ICYMI: excellent reporting by @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social on team on the man behind those fake polls www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old
Exclusive: Rahil Prakash tells the Guardian: ‘I wanted to see if fake polls could penetrate the ecosystem that easily’
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Inspired by the huge "polling miss" in Michigan a 21 year old using AI created a fake polling outfit, made up polls in CA/NV/WI, and got lot of press coverage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old
Exclusive: Rahil Prakash tells the Guardian: ‘I wanted to see if fake polls could penetrate the ecosystem that easily’
theguardian.com
They yada yada yada'd the whole destroying the wetlands that protects us from hurricanes part.
Our sizzlin' new report (out this morning) covered in here- Supporters of state-level legislation to recover costs for climate disasters from oil companies outnumber opponents 3:1 in public hearings, but behind closed doors, opposition lobbyists ply their wares. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages
Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants
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"Congressional lobbyists working for fossil fuel firms that are exacerbating the climate crisis are simultaneously representing more than 300 local governments raising funding to recover from climate damage, according to a new analysis." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages
Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants
theguardian.com
Not one but TWO new reports showing how polluters use disinfo to sabotage policy in today's @theguardian.com , thanks to @sarasneath.bsky.social , @makepolluterspay.bsky.social and @climatedevlab.bsky.social
US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages
Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants
theguardian.com
After Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and detained Carlos Ricardo Parias last October, the Los Angeles-based journalist will cross 300 days in ICE detention on Monday.
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.
theintercept.com
On June 17, the first day of the Boyle Heights fire, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore told CBS LA that ammonia had escaped from the facility. Since then, Lineage and the fire department have provided few details to the public about what happened. capitalandmain.com/lineage-and-...
Lineage and Fire Chief Said There Was No Ammonia Leak. Real-Time Logs Tell a Different Story.
Weeks later, Lineage’s own data — buried in online reports — shows some unsafe ammonia levels in Boyle Heights.
capitalandmain.com
Scoop with @liamjscott.bsky.social: The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes's publisher, editor-in-chief, and a reporter today following criticism of DOD interference. The EIC and reporter were fired for "insubordination" for doing a CBS interview. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches
‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches
Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis
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More sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, is washing up on the beaches of south Florida, west Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In July, 9,000 tons of seaweed were removed from Miami-Dade beaches, more than ever removed in a single month before. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches
Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis
theguardian.com
More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable by foreign adversaries. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
A coalition of environmentalists and community advocates sued the federal government in an effort to halt the first-ever commercial sale of deep sea mining leases in American waters.
Environmentalists Sue to Halt First Sale of Seabed-Mining Rights
The suit claims the U.S. decision to allow mining for minerals in American waters didn’t consider the potential harm to endangered species.
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