No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel

The House just voted to strip the provisions that would have shielded pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits and stronger state-level restrictions out of the Farm Bill. Now we wait for the Supreme Court to tell us if they can still be sued for failure to warn about the risks of their products.

The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is higher than at any point in at least the past one million years (according to evidence from paleoclimate records). More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

New study finds a consistent negative association between insecticide use and insectivorous bird populations, based on 15 years of data from 2783 sampling plots in France. Less food? Fewer birds. 🐛🐦 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Declines in insectivorous bird abundance are related to increasing agricultural insecticide use

Pesticide use is suspected to contribute to bird population declines in Europe, but few studies link long-term pesticide trends to bird population abu…

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Fascinating op ed on the digital gamification of K-12 education and its downsides - been thinking about this more as I enter the relevant age of parenting. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

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This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Did you miss Pollinator Pathway's winter webinar on pollinators, pesticides, and what you can do to help? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkI6...

Winter Webinar - Pesticide-Free Landscapes for Pollinators and People: How We Can Help

YouTube video by Pollinator Pathway

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Take a break today to revel in the joy of a man unapologetically celebrating his Boricua culture. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Then learn more from @beckyhammer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/beck...

Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

Watch the world's biggest artist on the world's biggest stage at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. Get 3 free months of Apple Music and listen to Bad Bunny in Spatial Audio, access…

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Over-the-top dicamba: still a bad idea for non-target crops, plants, and wildlife. Yet here we are again. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Controversial Dicamba Herbicides Receive 2-Year Registration

After doing without in 2025, farmers will have access to

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Are you in NYC, Philly, or elsewhere in NJ/PA? Does your community garden, library, school, urban farm, etc. want a pollinator garden? Applications for Xerces habitat kits for this region are open through Feb 17th! Pick up and plant in May/June 🐝🦋🌻 xerces.org/pollinator-c...

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

New study: backyard mosquito sprays lead to insecticide levels high enough to kill pollinators, and sprays travel easily into neighboring yards. stacksjournal.org/article/ande...

See the influential paper and @undark.org commentary on Monsanto's ghostwriting by Alexander Kaurov & @naomioreskes.bsky.social: undark.org/2025/08/15/o... #pesticides #agtwitter

Boy, retraction is the thing these days. After years of critique, a foundational 25-year old paper on the safety of glyphosate herbicide has been pulled. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2

Great listen! Wondering how to improve kids’ health and educational experience? Cleaner indoor air might be part of the solution.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 9mo ago

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

6/ EPA says it's committed to reducing PFAS pollution. So why does it keep advancing new PFAS pesticides? Especially ones like isocycloseram, a chemical that exceeded levels of concern for bees and aquatic life for most proposed uses? #PFAS #Pesticides #ForeverChemicals #PublicHealth #EPA

4/ 🐝 Isocycloseram: Proposed broad spectrum insecticide with very high toxicity to aquatic invertebrates and honey bees. Risk quotients exceeded levels of concern for both, in some cases by orders of magnitude. Yet no full field studies for bees were required. 📄 www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...

Now that EPA has approved several of these, it’s time to bump this thread on PFAS pesticides:

Emily May@emtomology.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Did you know some pesticides are PFAS (forever chemicals)? A recent study found 30% of pesticides approved by EPA in the past decade meet the OECD definition of PFAS. 📄 Donley et al. 2024: ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...

Excited to share our new video, Growing Pollinator-Safe Plants: What Nurseries Can Do (and How You Can Help)! 🐝🌸🌎 This project has been 3 years in the making, featuring interviews with nursery managers on steps they take to reduce pesticide risks. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdv...

Growing Pollinator-Safe Plants: What Nurseries Can Do (and How You Can Help)

YouTube video by The Xerces Society

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Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Exciting new meta-analysis: compared to calendar spraying, threshold-based management cuts insecticide use by 44% and costs by 40% without reducing yields, and supports more beneficial insects. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Threshold-based management reduces insecticide use by 44% without compromising pest control or crop yield - Communications Earth & Environment

Pest control programs using pest density thresholds cut insecticide uses by 44% and costs by 40%, while maintaining yield and pest suppression, and enhancing beneficial insect populations, as revealed...

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Newly registered or re-registered insecticides and herbicides will be rolling out with labels that may require drift/runoff mitigations to protect ESA-listed species. Learn more about how to navigate the menu of mitigations in a 90 min webinar next Tuesday from EPA: www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Mitigation Math: Webinar Offers Tips to Tally Points for Pesticide Use

In 2026, more pesticide labels are likely to require measures to protect endangered species. EPA is offering a webinar next week to help farmers navigate these requirements.

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"Places that are used to fire, to relying and thriving on it, are now encountering fire regimes that are staggeringly different from those with which they evolved...The complex ecologies that thrived alongside their milder predecessors will be pushed beyond the point of recovery." 🌏

Brooke Jarvis@brookejarvis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...

“As classroom temperatures rise over time ... students tend to show declines in attention, memory and test performance,” said @edithdeguzman.bsky.social @ucanr.edu @luskininnovation.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Rising heat is causing students to underperform across the globe

A new study, which reviewed dozens of published articles from around the world, found that cumulative heat exposure has negative consequences for students' cognitive outcomes.

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Vermont is a soccer state! What an incredible season and undefeated run to the national #USL2 championship @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social

UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆 THE INVINCIBLES! ✨ YOUR VERMONT GREEN FOOTBALL CLUB! 💚

Hundreds of monarch butterflies died in a winter 2024 event. Investigation implicated multiple pyrethroid insecticides: tinyurl.com/3h3y7wuf From The Guardian: "Combinations of pesticides can have a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic. The solution...less pesticides." 🧪🌍🦋

Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study

New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

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Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.