Interior Secretary Doug Burgum called "an incompetent liar" by US attorney. No surprise, it's a job qualification requirement in the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.

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How Elon Musk, Exxon, and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry are conspiring behind the scenes to suspend all federal environmental laws to create a sacrifice zone for a rocket-launching spaceport on the Gulf Coast at a critical point in the Mississippi flyway. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Alex Lubben@alexlubben.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: SpaceX wants to launch rockets from a remote swamp in southwestern Lousiana. Story here: www.nola.com/news/busines...

Fellow veterans Walter Boyton, Jon Mueller and I offer our perspectives on how we can finally escape from the “Neverland” of perpetually missed goals for reducing nutrient pollution of the Chesapeake Bay without tiering up. Just online rdcu.be/fxovw

Davey is free! Charges of vandalism to Reflecting Pool dropped as US attorney Pirro admits contractor’s flawed installation of blue coating in rush for Trump’s July 4 celebration. Stop this clown show! Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool (Gift Article)

President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”

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This was my old job and I loved it!

Tulane Political Science@tulanepolisci.bsky.social · 6d ago

Now Hiring: David and Jane Flowerree Professorship in Environmental Studies and Public Policy. We seek to hire an Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure-track) for a joint position in Political Science and Environmental Studies. tulane-ibqejb.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Interested in the safety of oil & gas, renewable energy, and minerals development in US ocean waters, check out this webinar on Thursday, July 30.2:00–3:30 pm. I'll be on the panel and registration is free. www.eli.org/events/new-m...

Wow, Linkedin says that has been a doubling in hiring of Professor Emeritii. Does this mean I should stay retired because the job market is so good?

Meta’s new data center in Louisiana is big. How big? Well, it’s Parisian in scale. Source: buff.ly/KPk219f

I am pleased to join the panel in an Environmental Law Institute breaking news webinar on the ramifications of the recently re-merger of BOEM and BSEE into the U.S. Marine Minerals Administration. July 30, free registration. 🌊 connect.eli.org/webmail/1088...

It was easy to cheat on something that invisible.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2w ago

💥 The oil/gas industry “publicly underplayed the concerns over methane. And as the natural gas industry faced increasing competition from electric stoves and heaters, industry groups worked on an advertising campaign that highlighted gas as a clean fuel.” Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

So I am working on a new project, and I went to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction strategy site to see what the current numbers are for the much-heralded tech fixes to address tile drainage pollution (bioreactors, saturated buffers, multi-purpose oxbows, and water quality wetlands). 1/

Tracking the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy

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New: Bertha is over performing, Now 60 mph! Why? Partly very hot #Gulf sea surface temps near the center, and it will move into even hotter water as it moves west. A #hurricane is unlikely because the system will face an uphill battle from strong shear. 1/

I keep getting these emails from Linkedin about Professor Emeritus job openings in the past week.

The Trump admin is attempting to illegally authorize the restart and operation of oil pipelines in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Kern counties in violation of state and federal law. We’re suing. CA's coastline is not for sale to enrich the President’s fossil fuel friends.

Attorney General Bonta Continues to Protect California’s Environment and Public Health, Fights Trump Administration’s Latest Effort to Delay and Evade Judicial Review of Sable Offshore’s Illegal Pipel...

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a second petition against the Trump Administration, challenging the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) recent ...

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Powerful feature article by @alexlubben.bsky.social on rapidly heating Gulf of Mexico, driven by human-caused climate change, with enormous consequences for hurricane intensification & sea-level rise. Meanwhile, Trump wants to cut funding of observations. Gift 🔗 www.nola.com/news/environ...

The Gulf’s heating faster than the world's oceans. Louisiana is at ground zero.

The Gulf is in the throes of a turbulent new era that holds enormous consequences for Louisiana and the other states along its coast. “These are not theoretical concepts, one Tulane scientist said. “T...

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This combination, two days apart, will serve for future historians as an effective shorthand for the lunacy of the moment.

“Avoidance of water quality, avoidance of the environmental consequences of agriculture has been a real tragic mistake here for the Democratic Party.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer

Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.

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This is an important message - forest management alone can’t stop the surge in wildfire. We must halt climate change if we want to keep the increasing wildfire trend from getting worse - much worse.

Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not just forest management. Climate Change is a major factor. Thanks @zekehausfather.com for the illustrative graphic

Powerful feature article by @alexlubben.bsky.social on rapidly heating Gulf of Mexico, driven by human-caused climate change, with enormous consequences for hurricane intensification & sea-level rise. Meanwhile, Trump wants to cut funding of observations. Gift 🔗 www.nola.com/news/environ...

The Gulf’s heating faster than the world's oceans. Louisiana is at ground zero.

The Gulf is in the throes of a turbulent new era that holds enormous consequences for Louisiana and the other states along its coast. “These are not theoretical concepts, one Tulane scientist said. “T...

nola.com

Funding uncertainties and an outsized reliance on few countries’ contributions have put the ocean sciences community in a “really risky place,” researchers say. eos.org/articles/cha...

Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data - Eos

An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, sea level rise, and more.

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~2006: "You can't link any weather event to fossil-fuel emissions." ~2026: There's "a direct and well-understood impact." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Was "deep ocean turbulence" on your bingo card? Currents, eddies and internal wave in the world's ocean affect its productivity and climate through awesome processes. We are unravelling these mysteries, but "global ocean research is at risk" because of Trump's cuts and restrictions.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌊 🔁 Deep ocean turbulence (the process that distributes heat, nutrients and carbon from the surface to the seafloor and back) affects our lives within the span of a human lifetime, according to a new report supported by Scripps Oceanography scientists. Dive in to learn more. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4aUSUas

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

Mighty proud of my junior Senator and how she took on Russell Vought.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

National Academies report that advances in tools, observations & methods now allow attribution of extreme events to climate change to be completed within days. Trump's first term science advisor Kelvin Droegemeier was a member of the committee. www.nationalacademies.org/publications...

Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts 2026

Decades of data and research indicate that human-caused climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of several types of extreme events, such as...

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The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in MD develops the food safety practices that prevent food-borne illnesses like Cyclospora. Yet, this admin is trying to close BARC with a half-baked plan that threatens critical research, wastes taxpayer money, & risks more outbreaks.

Nearly 7,000 cases of cyclosporiasis confirmed or under investigation nationwide, CDC says

Michigan health officials suggested lettuce or salad greens could be possible sources. Taco Bell said it had removed some ingredients “as a precautionary measure.”

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What in hell were you thinking. He’s a freaking jerk!

kellydeer@kellydeer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cartoon by @hickeycartoons.bsky.social.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Farooq Azam has been awarded the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, for his groundbreaking discoveries on the microbial loop at @scrippsocean.bsky.social. 🏆 https://bit.ly/4eQUEm5

Trump has Algae Derangement Syndrome (ADS). @alanburdick.bsky.social writes: let's "cede the Reflecting Pool to the algae, step away and let the protists run it." Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/s...

E Pluribus Algae: Why Green Pond Scum Is as American as Red, White and Blue

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