Call for Abstracts: Please consider submitting to our @agugeohealth.bsky.social session, "Assessing the Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation: Insights for Public Health, Policy, and People," with co-conveners Jenny Bratburd, Susan Anenberg, and Jonathan Patz. Abstracts are due August 5.

Attending AGU in San Francisco? Consider submitting to our @agugeohealth.bsky.social session, "Assessing the Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation: Insights for Public Health, Policy, and People," with co-conveners Jenny Bratburd, Susan Anenberg, and Jonathan Patz. Abstracts are due August 5.

New research from me, Vijay Limaye, and @jonathanpatz.bsky.social out in Environmental Research: Health. Using more refined health cost data, monetized benefits from avoided hospital admissions and ED visits increase by 64% under the revised PM NAAQS. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Improved accounting of the health costs of air pollution in the United States

Improved accounting of the health costs of air pollution in the United States, Mailloux, Nicholas A., Limaye, Vijay S, Patz, Jonathan A.

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Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

My colleagues and I quantified the potential air quality and health effects of two natural gas power plants proposed for southeastern Wisconsin. Over their expected 30-year lifetimes, air quality damages could total $1.38 billion. Full analysis: www.climatesolutionsforhealth.org/air-quality

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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ICYMI: New York’s Sunrise Wind has won its court case and can get back to work. It was the last project held up by Trump’s offshore wind ban.

Sunrise Wind can proceed, ending Trump’s offshore wind ban — for now

A judge cleared New York’s Sunrise Wind to resume construction, completing a string of court victories for wind developers after Trump’s December…

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BREAKING: Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says.

5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says.

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“That report was kept secret until it was unveiled as part of Trump administration’s proposal to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The proposal relies extensively on the [Climate Working Group’s] report, citing it 22 times.”

Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 6mo ago

A big win today: a federal court found that the Trump administration’s sham report attacking climate science was created in secret by a hand-picked set of climate policy opponents, violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Read our statement here:

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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“Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of a landmark legal opinion key to their effort to eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules because of concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.”

Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court

Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.

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As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets

Nature - Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

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DeForest, WI, joins the list of towns and villages rejecting data center development. The village won't move forward with plans to annex 1,600 acres from a neighboring town to allow the construction of a data center.

DeForest announces it won’t move forward with controversial $12B data center

The Madison suburb of DeForest, where a $12 billion data center proposal has been in development for months, abruptly announced the data center “is not feasible.”

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New analysis from @globalenergymon.bsky.social finds that planned U.S. natural gas power capacity additions to meet data center demand with on-site power reached 97 GW in 2025, nearly 40% of all gas capacity in development and a huge jump from 2024. globalenergymonitor.org/report/betti...

"A team of career lawyers and technical experts would usually be involved, but only a few attorneys with the Office of General Counsel are known to be working on the rulemaking, the former officials said. It’s unclear if any agency experts on climate science are involved in the process."

Anxious greens await death of endangerment finding

Environmental groups are planning protests to oppose EPA’s upcoming move to repeal the scientific finding.

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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That’s now nearly 5 GW of offshore wind capacity that continue construction between Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, Empire Wind, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind.

Heatmap News@heatmap.news · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Construction on Vineyard Wind can proceed, according to a federal judge. That marks four losses in a row for the Trump administration against offshore wind. Read more from @emilypont.bsky.social: heatmap.news/sparks/viney...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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

Under President Trump, the EPA has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

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The most Wisconsin of comparisons: “Republicans’ bill has also drawn the attention of Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens, who has been outspoken against data center developments in Wisconsin. […] Berens slammed how small the bill was, joking that there are more regulations on cheese curds.”

@captimes.com · 7mo ago

GOP lawmakers want the Public Service Commission to protect other ratepayers from increased utility use by data centers. The PSC is skeptical that's possible.

I recently sat down with Amy Barrilleaux of Clean Wisconsin to talk about EPA’s proposal to stop valuing the health harms of air pollution, what those health harms are, and the enormous success of the Clean Air Act. Listen here:

What did the EPA just do?

At Clean Wisconsin, we believe everyone deserves deserves the right to clean water, breathable air, and a healthy community. Learn more about What did the EPA just do?.

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We're one year in. The speed, scope and severity of what's happening to American science is beyond anything we've seen before. The reliability of the Federal science and technology enterprise and the people within it, has been shattered. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

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I have an op-ed in @captimes.com on EPA’s proposal to ignore the health harms of air pollution in agency rulemaking. “By abandoning its longstanding practice of monetizing public health benefits of air pollution reductions, [EPA] is tilting its cost–benefit calculus in favor of polluting industry.”

Opinion | Trump EPA ignores health harms of air pollution

UW–Madison research shows that eliminating air pollution emissions in the U.S. energy system could prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year.

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The Trump administration is proposing to value the cost of air pollution deaths at $0. It’s no wonder that Trump’s EPA would take this step: avoided premature mortality is regularly the largest category of monetized benefits used to justify Clean Air Act regulation.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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New preprint up assessing the air quality and health benefits that could have been possible under the Inflation Reduction Act. Huge effort here with Erin Mayfield, Jamil Farbes, @jessedjenkins.com, Ryan Jones, Tracey Holloway, and @jonathanpatz.bsky.social.