Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social
PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
I think this is part of the answer, at least in the U.S. At some level media coverage and outrage are downstream of (1) field reporters and (2) data and the former have been decimated, and as for the latter: thehill.com/policy/equil...
Trump cuts to NOAA, NASA ‘blinding’ farmers to risks, scientists warn
The Trump administration’s cuts to climate research and federal weather forecasting agencies are “blinding” the U.S. to oncoming threats to its food supply — and kneecapping effor…
thehill.com
What's particularly startling about this story is that this is happening in Southern France and the U.K., which are at the same latitude as, respectively Maine and Newfoundland. Imagine, please, what this means for Texas.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21h agoNot sure why this isn’t the dominant topic of national conversation rn: “Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The climate crisis threatens our food supply.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21h agoNot sure why this isn’t the dominant topic of national conversation rn: “Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gift link and important summary thread from us (at the Science and Environmental Health Network) on health harms from the gas-burning plants that are powering mega-data centers. 👇 Glad to see this NYT coverage. Documenting air and water pollution from data centers is one of our core projects.
Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)@sehnetwork.bsky.social · 5h ago"Less mentioned has been the pollution from the scores of gas-burning plants that will power these data centers....Nationwide, at least 82 gas-burning power plants are being built or have been proposed to power data centers" as per @envirointegrity.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
🚨 Last month set a new record for the hottest average global sea surface temperature in the month of July! Record warmth is found in both the deeper ocean and at the surface. This isn't necessarily a surprise, but it will have consequences for around the world. Data in the graphic from NOAA ERRSTv6
Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.
Not sure why this isn’t the dominant topic of national conversation rn: “Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
theguardian.com
Trump Admin Sends Flight With Deportees to Venezuela for First Time Since Quakes without new information about the prior deportees reported trapped and killed in the quake: still no complete passenger manifest, official death toll or list of survivors from the flight. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...
U.S. Sends Flight With Deportees to Venezuela for First Time Since Earthquakes
A plane with 147 Venezuelans landed on Monday in the South American country amid criticism over the deaths of deportees housed in a collapsed building during June’s quakes.
nytimes.com
Frontline report from a speech language pathologist who works with little kids in the fracking fields of Colorado (and published in an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association publication, which I love.) Our researchon the health harms of fracking is cited: leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/l...
When the Playground Is Also an Oil Field
An SLP sees firsthand how oil and gas development in her Colorado community negatively affects clients, families, and health outcomes.
leader.pubs.asha.org
👀 All climate eyes on Syracuse, NY today as a federal judge considers a fossil fuel industry challenge to our state’s landmark Climate Superfund Act, which makes climate destroyers pay for the adaptations, work-arounds, and mitigating upgrades we’re gonna need. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/07...
Judge in Syracuse hears challenge to landmark NY law to charge fossil fuel companies for climate change
The law is designed to raise $75 billion to pay for infrastructure upgrades related to climate change.
syracuse.com
HUGE: Data center approvals in Texas halted. Growing public backlash to the rapid buildout of data centers leads Gov. Abbott on Monday to announce a moratorium on approval of data centers until regulatory agencies can audit those seeking connection to the grid. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/t...
New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.
texastribune.org
Tremendous news from the American Society of Clinical Oncology meetings for head and neck cancer patients, lung cancer patients and possibly brain and gastric cancers:
Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d agoGOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
I never have to go skydiving because I started my Monday by loading a let’s-just-find-out number of 10 lb plates onto a 35 lb barbell and headed down into a back squat. Thrilling. Terrifying. Life affirming. Possibly stupid. Great for my bone density unless I break something. It all worked out.
To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.
Max Miller’s livestream was all about denying his ex-wife’s allegations. Abusers often blame the victim. Do you know what he didn’t address? 2000 pages of police reports, a high school girlfriend pushed down the steps, Trump‘s former press secretary’s confirmation of abuse. A pattern. #SheShed
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
"The Ohio EPA confirmed that public comments against its proposed statewide data center wastewater permit exceeded 7,000."
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 3d agoVICTORY! Standing O to Ohioans who just gave us all an object lesson in the power of going apeshit! Organized, immediate, ongoing participation in the public comment process has sandbagged a sneaky plan to allow data centers to freely pollute water. For now. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/o...
Abuse accusations: throwing scalding water on his (now ex) wife and calling it horseplay pointing a gun at her head breaking his daughter’s collarbone Oh and a former WH press secretary says she was also his victim NYT headline: “family feud” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Ohio Republican Denies Abuse Accusations, Deepening High-Stakes Family Feud (Gift Article)
Representative Max Miller denied in a livestream the allegations of domestic abuse made by his ex-wife amid worries in the Republican Party that a once-safe seat may be in danger.
nytimes.com
As a lifelong Ohioan, it’s my right, my duty even, to relentlessly criticize the ass clowns who are running my state into the ground But when you give the people the power that our gerrymandered legislature so often takes from us, we can do good things
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 3d agoVICTORY! Standing O to Ohioans who just gave us all an object lesson in the power of going apeshit! Organized, immediate, ongoing participation in the public comment process has sandbagged a sneaky plan to allow data centers to freely pollute water. For now. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/o...
@saveohioparks.bsky.social: 1,600 of those EPA letters were submitted by our volunteers. Advocacy works! Join us! @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 3d agoCommentary: Ohio citizens showed power by stopping state EPA approval for data center pollution of waterways ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/o...
VICTORY! Standing O to Ohioans who just gave us all an object lesson in the power of going apeshit! Organized, immediate, ongoing participation in the public comment process has sandbagged a sneaky plan to allow data centers to freely pollute water. For now. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/29/o...
Ohio citizens showed power by stopping state EPA approval for data center pollution of waterways • Ohio Capital Journal
Enraged citizens got wind of the Ohio EPA’s outrageous proposal to make it easier for massive data centers to pollute local waterways with impunity and they mobilized. They fought and won. The power o...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
🥚 International adoptions by Colorado (and all US states) have plunged “overwhelmingly due to bans and restrictions in several countries, including the handful of nations that were once the top countries for international adoptions by US families.” Because fraud. coloradosun.com/2026/07/28/i...
International adoptions by Colorado families have dropped to lowest on record
The dropoff is happening nationwide, with Colorado families adopting just 18 children last year from other countries
coloradosun.com
Those who will suffer the most have no idea. This is a moral crisis beyond anything humanity has ever experienced… 💔
Tero Kuittinen@teroterotero.bsky.social · 4d agoWe may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
I kinda hate how Fauci is being compared to Galileo and Darwin bc he’s standing for science in the face of ignorant power. He is, of course! But I’m old enough to remember when we all went after Fauci in the early days of the AIDs epidemic for opposite reasons.1/2 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Fauci praised as 'hero' by public health experts after Senate hearing
Public health experts and advocates are defending Dr. Anthony Fauci after he faced fierce criticism from Republicans at a Senate hearing.
usatoday.com
Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.
The persecution of Anthony Fauci is not about anything he is accused of doing, it's about attacking science and trying to recapture the pandemic insanity that energized many on the radical right.
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 5d agoA thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
And the oil industry shares [not coincidentally] an OG goal of the war: get a regime in Iran that the U.S. can do business with so the industry can finally at long last get back into Iran and not be shut out from such a lucrative oil market. A long-held Republican/oil industry goal shared by Trump.
Again, I think we were totally right to be skeptical of the apologist "Actually the oil industry hates this war" takes. They do not hate this war, like they do not hate any war: bloodshed makes their wallets fatter
Antonia Juhasz@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 5d agoClimate activists accuse the fossil fuel industry of profiting from war while Europe is burning on the back of its business. Shell faces backlash as profits soar 70% on back of Trump's Iran war. news.sky.com/story/shell-...
