The Rhode Island General Assembly considered a law this year to charge fossil fuel emitters for the costs of climate change. The bill did not become law this year, but the Possibly team spoke with a co-sponsor of the bill, @jenniferboylanri.bsky.social about the legislation, and what comes next.

What if polluters had to pay for the effects of climate change?

The Rhode Island General Assembly considered a law this year to charge fossil fuel emitters for the costs of climate change. Possibly spoke with a co-sponsor of the bill about what comes next

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How are the plastic and fossil fuel industries connected? This week on Possibly, we’re taking a closer look at how plastics have given the fossil fuel industry a new business platform — with hardly anyone noticing they’re even in the market.

How are the plastic and fossil fuel industries connected?

This week on Possibly, we’re taking a closer look at how plastics have given the fossil fuel industry a new business platform — with hardly anyone noticing they’re even in the market

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Oped: Arresting journalists is fascism's logical next step: It will only silence us if we let it A protest that no one hears about is like the tree that falls silently in the forest. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/oped-arres...

Oped: Arresting journalists is fascism's logical next step: It will only silence us if we let it

A protest that no one hears about is like the tree that falls silently in the forest.

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If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

wtf

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."

Rhode Island Energy has withdrawn a proposal that, if approved by state regulators, would have provided its electric and gas customers some savings on their bills over the next two winters. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/19/m...

Rhode Island Energy withdraws proposal to credit ratepayers during winter months - The Boston Globe

The credits could have saved customers between $20 and $30 a month on electric bills, and $40 to $50 a month on gas bills.

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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

My friend Lina Prestwood produced this audio piece which (and I don't usually say this), you absolutely have to listen to. It's a poem about what it is to grow up in Gaza, written by someone (who is remaining anonymous) from Gaza. It's called 1001 Stabs. An incredible piece of writing and audio

XMTR Festival Selects: 1001 Stabs — (( XMTR ))

Lina Prestwood (UK, 2025)

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Had a lot of fun reporting this piece about the Endeavor, a ship that has facilitated a TON of research (a boatload of research if you will?) in the Atlantic, especially, the Gulf Stream!

Possibly@askpossibly.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The R/V Endeavor, the oldest research vessel in the US, was retired last month after 49 years of operation by @urigso.bsky.social. Possibly's @nathardy.bsky.social toured the ship and spoke with the scientists who knew it best. Listen our latest episode below, or wherever you get you podcasts.

Devastating piece by the inimitable @ninalakhani.bsky.social about the rising climate crisis death toll www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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This map rocks!!

Miriam Wasser@miriamwasser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Oh hey, we made a cool tool to help you track where various offshore wind projects in New England stand and understand which actions from the Trump administration have affected their progress. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... @wbur.org

This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

Last month the Department of the Interior stopped construction on a Rhode Island wind farm that was 80% complete. This week on Possibly we break down what the order means for Rhode Islanders: our clean energy, jobs, and utility bills. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

What does the stop-work order on Revolution Wind mean for Rhode Islanders? - TPR: The Public's Radio

Last month the Department of the Interior stopped construction on a Rhode Island wind farm that was 80% complete. This week on Possibly we break down what the order means clean energy, jobs, and your ...

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It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,” said David Crisp, a former scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped.

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“Most of us are Trump voters, and we still believe in a leader who builds. That’s why we’re asking President Trump to reverse the stop-work order issued to Revolution Wind by Interior.”

‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt

The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…

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A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.

Boston commuters aren't sold on a federal takeover of South Station

A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.

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Say her name @apnews.com - Maryam Abu Daqqa risked her life working for you, yet now you refuse to say her name while spouting the same old IDF lies. Shame on the AP and all the mainstream media silent amid the slaughter of >250 Palestinian journalists - that's more than 20 colleagues each month.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 12mo ago

BREAKING: The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what it believed was a Hamas camera.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Part three of my series on the Big Beautiful Bill and the clean energy transition is out now. The short of it is if you're considering an EV, solar panels, heat pump, etc, you still have time to get a big tax credit, but not much time!

Possibly@askpossibly.bsky.social · last yr.

President Trump’s tax bill is about to end a number of tax credits for homeowners who install clean energy appliances. But some people are racing to beat the deadline. This week on Possibly @nathardy.bsky.social explains what homeowners need to know. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

First story in a series I reported about what Trump's de facto repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act will mean for New England consumers is out now. This week solar and wind, next week we tackle EVs

Possibly@askpossibly.bsky.social · last yr.

In July, President Trump signed the 'Big Beautiful Bill' into law, making major changes to how solar and wind power are funded. This week on Possibly we break down what the legislation means for your utility bill and the future of clean energy in the US. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

What many of us warned, & what is unavoidably clear now, is that there is no privileged sphere of "real life" that is sheltered, separate from the information environment. It's narratives all the way down -- even to the point that they shape *how people experience their own material circumstances*.

“She said, ‘I think this is going to be the last time I get to visit you,’” Öztürk’s friend recalled. “I told her, ‘No, no, you’re going to be able to come again, don’t worry, and I’m going to come visit you.’ That all turned out to be wrong.” By @hannahallam.bsky.social

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…

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Listen to the final episode of our series on home insurance and the climate crisis to hear from US Senator @whitehouse.senate.gov, @cadavejones.bsky.social and Professor Ishita Sen about what we can do about this looming crisis. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

How do we solve the climate change home insurance crisis? - TPR: The Public's Radio

This week on Possibly, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse helps explain what options we have to address climate change’s impact on the home insurance industry.

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Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry, causing higher rates and non-renewals. Regulation of the industry falls on the states. Learn how they're responding in our latest: Featuring Ishita Sen & @cadavejones.bsky.social

Climate change is messing up our home insurance prices. What can states do? - TPR: The Public's Radio

Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry. This week on Possibly, we look at how states are responding to this problem.

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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley@pressley.house.gov · last yr.

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.