Sarah Sax
@sarahlsax.bsky.social
Current researcher @climaterights.bsky.social investigating human rights and climate change. Award-winning journalist and video producer. Past @vice @highcountrynews. Follow me for climate/environment news (and rants). Opinions + typos all mine
ICYMI yesterday: @lesleyclark.bsky.social and I unpacked Trump's threat to open a suspension and debarment investigation into the National Academies over its involvement in a project aimed at educating federal judges about the climate science. Here's what it all means: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is.
The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
eenews.net
As the country hits heat records this summer Republicans in Congress are working on a bill to block OSHA from creating a heat standard to protect American workers jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
House Republicans Attempt to Kill OSHA Heat Standard - Confined Space
Republicans will mark up a bill tomorrow that would prohibit OSHA from issuing an effective workplace heat standard.
jordanbarab.com
In the US, we're contending with a parasite causing severe gastrointestinal illness. In the EU, they appear to be dealing with one that dissolves the spines of elected officials...
EU Recommends Three-Year Delay to Methane Regulation Penalties
The European Union recommended that member states delay by three years penalties on energy importers that fail to comply with the bloc’s controversial methane emissions rules.
bloomberg.com
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
wired.com
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
We have a beautiful, beautiful piece from Hassan Abo Qamar up at @thenation.com right now, about how people in Gaza have pushed through every obstacle to revel in the collective joy of watching the World Cup. A must-read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Joy of Watching the World Cup in Gaza
For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives us something the genocide has tried to take away: a sense of community, a sense of normality, and a moment of pure celebration.
thenation.com
Perfect article place in Norwegian media. It's almost impressive how these two things are basically just held as completely separate and never explicitly linked, in our media landscape.
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
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
It's a good day to be working on climate litigation today! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case
French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas products
theguardian.com
Robin Boardman@robinboardman.com · 2mo ago1995: Nigeria executed Ken Saro-Wiwa for opposing Shell's destruction of Ogoniland. 2008: The company was alerted to 100+ ruptures since 2008 but ignored them. 2026: Their leaky pipelines are still operating across Nigeria. This is the death project in action. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cutting methane emissions is one of the fastest, cheapest and most effective opportunities to slow global warming in the near term while delivering cleaner air, stronger crop yields, improved health and major economic benefits. www.un.org/en/climatech...
Secretary-General's Call to Action on Methane | United Nations
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Some of the most important things companies could do to address climate change are not recognized or rewarded by net-zero or carbon accounting frameworks. Some of the most meaningless things they can do are. Several recent critiques argue for a new paradigm. heatmap.news/sustainabili...
Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting?
A new Searchlight Institute report joins a growing chorus arguing that corporate climate targets do more harm than good.
heatmap.news
Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our new film with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs
YouTube video by ProPublica
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The US has been the single biggest driver of global gas power growth since 2015. It accounted for nearly a THIRD of global gas generation growth between 2015 and 2025. ember-energy.org/lat...
I am among the more than 350 signatories who have put their names to support the “roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth”. Read the opinion piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
theguardian.com
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
nbcnews.com
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
404media.co
Some cautiously optimistic news out of Amsterdam on the Et/Greenpeace SLAPP suit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...
Unusual Greenpeace Lawsuit May Proceed, Dutch Court Says
nytimes.com
The first-ever Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚☀️ All summer long, we’re reading nonfiction deep dives, page-turning thrillers, and fiction that sparks scientific curiosity. (1/2) #SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading
Join the Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge
Fill your bingo card with fascinating science stories, discoveries and ideas all summer long for a chance to win prizes
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Wrote about the only consistent principal among SCOTUS conservatives in voting cases is "we should disenfranchise Black voters at every opportunity." Without that single understanding, their actions over just the last few months (let alone years) makes no sense. But with it, it's very clear.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 3mo agoThe Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/03/the-supreme-courts-conservatives-have-one-consistent-rule-black-votes-shouldnt-count/
Devastating account of the intersections of extreme heat+pregnancy+homelessness in Delhi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat
Soaring summer temperatures bring many challenges to the Indian capital, but for the city’s homeless, particularly women, they can be a threat to life
theguardian.com
Climate change is also an education emergency.
As Climate Change Extends Europe’s Heat Season, Schools Bake
nytimes.com
Devastating account of the intersections of extreme heat+pregnancy+homelessness in Delhi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat
Soaring summer temperatures bring many challenges to the Indian capital, but for the city’s homeless, particularly women, they can be a threat to life
theguardian.com
The idea that public opinion is static, or that people's feelings aren't influenced by political communication, is perhaps the dumbest part of the "Democrats shouldn't mention climate change" argument.
The planet is around 1.4C warmer than in preindustrial times, defined as 1850-1900. By comparison, Europe is around 2.4C hotter than the preindustrial era, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. (RTÉ News)
Why is Europe the world's fastest warming continent?
Europe, which is in the throes of a record-smashing heatwave this week, is the world's fastest-warming continent and stretches into an even more rapidly heating Arctic.
rte.ie
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
The Oklahoma Communities Gutted by ICE
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
motherjones.com