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Maxine Joselow

@maxinejoselow.bsky.social

Climate and environmental reporter for @nytimes.com, cat mom, and baker. Send me tips on Signal at MaxineJ.55

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Dean Napolitano@dinonapolitano.bsky.social · last wk.

By @quinnglabicki.bsky.social The brine is spurting to the surface, and locals fear it could soon contaminate the drinking water source for 32,000 people. “It would destroy the city,” said Susan Vessels, president of the Marietta City Council. “Once the damage is done, it cannot be undone.”

In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground (Gift Article)

The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.

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Mira Rojanasakul@rjnskl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Climate change worsens wildfires, but we could also be building our homes and neighborhoods in safer ways. Visit the lab where they're burning down entire houses to learn how to do just that.  🎁🔥 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Wildfire Researchers Who Burn Houses Down on Purpose (Gift Article)

As wildfires intensify, threatening more people, a nonprofit is studying how to rethink homes and neighborhoods to prevent catastrophe.

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Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3w ago

Climate change does not cause wildfires, but hot and dry conditions make them much more likely to spread. In Canada, 9 of the 10 worst wildfire years were both dryer and hotter than normal. And these fires are burning in areas that were historically not managed or suppressed.

Maxine Joselow@maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

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Maxine Joselow@maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Trump admin has appointed a critic of climate science to oversee the federal government’s flagship report on how climate change affects the United States. Confirming @scottpwaldman.bsky.social's reporting w/ an assist from @bradplumer.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Trump Administration Taps Climate Science Critic to Oversee Flagship Report

Matthew M. Wielicki has criticized the scientific consensus on global warming as alarmist. Now he’ll oversee a major federal report on the topic.

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Scott Waldman@scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 4w ago

The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.

The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.

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Maddie Stone@themadstone.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Maxine Joselow@maxinejoselow.bsky.social · last mo.

It was Rhino Pipeliner 5000, according to National Park Service documents and our previous reporting. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs

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altNOAA 🇺🇸@altnoaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can someone do a FOIA with NPS to find out exactly what paint was used on the reflecting pool? Was there a primer? Was there a sealant? Which company made them? Which product was it? We can science this with test/results!

Anna Kramer@annackramer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.

The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold

The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.

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Evan George@evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.