BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored

Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.

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Russell Vought, Trump's pick for OMB director, ought to be low-profile given the really exciting nature of budgets. But the Christian nationalist co-author of Project 2025 also believes the U.S. is at war with "woke militancy" and climate science. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | As Los Angeles burns, a Trump Cabinet pick targets the pinnacle of U.S. climate research

The man behind the plan is Russell Vought, Project 2025 co-author.

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We wrote about how Germany's AfD is using people's concern about the climate crisis pollution to further promote their anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 2y ago

Elon Musk faced widespread rebuke after endorsing Germany's extreme far-right party AfD but doubled down on Sunday. Here's prior BBC reporting on what AfD wants and who are their allies... www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

The more likely form of grid defection for data centers increasingly appears to be behind-the-meter gas generation. A must-read by @ariellesamuel.bsky.social: 🔌💡 heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

Some bittersweet news: Today was my last day at HEATED. It's been a wonderful two years, but now the newsletter is moving in a new direction (more on that in the post). I'll be freelancing as I look for a new place to continue climate reporting full time. heated.world/p/a-note-on-...

A note on the future

Taking a short break, and changing course.

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This story is the rabbit hole I went down to find out why AI is now being called the “savior” of the gas industry. I found that tech giants are building gas plants and pipelines to power data centers. AI could burn through as much gas as the state of Florida by 2030. heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

AI is guzzling gas

Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals.

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If by some chance you're not yet a fan of Heated by @ariellesamuel.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social here's why you should be 👇 open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Reminder: Tim Ryan is a paid fossil fuel mouthpiece

The next time you see this man on MSNBC giving Democrats advice in a football sweatshirt, remember: he’s paid $250,000 a year to hype up methane gas.

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SCOOP: Tim Ryan, a former U.S. Congressman, was paid $250,000 last year by a fossil fuel lobbying group to promote methane gas as "clean energy" Ryan promoted gas on MSNBC as recently as last week, with no disclosure of his position with the lobbying group From me and @ariellesamuel.bsky.social

Reminder: Tim Ryan is a paid fossil fuel mouthpiece

The next time you see this man on MSNBC giving Democrats advice in a football sweatshirt, remember: he’s paid $250,000 a year to hype up methane gas.

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This is gross but you need to know about it thanks @ariellesamuel.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social

Indigenous peoples snubbed at plastic pollution summit

“This entire process has been a violation,” said one Indigenous representative who engaged in protest at the summit.

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