Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Writing a book on corporate disinfo for Bloomsbury. She/her/ella in 🇨🇷. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
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Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity
I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many climate advocates and reporters declare the final text coming out of it a victory. It's true that the final text inclu...
drilled.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
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Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A comprehensive rundown of the #COP30 shenanigans from @roycerk2.bsky.social. From what I saw, the Colombians were the only ones whose negotiators and civil society groups were on the same page, and they carried the whole world on their shoulders.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A comprehensive rundown of the #COP30 shenanigans from @roycerk2.bsky.social. From what I saw, the Colombians were the only ones whose negotiators and civil society groups were on the same page, and they carried the whole world on their shoulders.
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when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
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The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry
Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30. It ought to be. A record-breaking funding ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Susana Muhamad, the new Special Envoy for International Cooperation for the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, has an invitation for countries around the world: if you're serious about phasing out fossil fuels, join us in Colombia this April 🌱
Watch her full remarks ⬇️
#FossilFuelTreaty #COP30
Watch her full remarks ⬇️
#FossilFuelTreaty #COP30
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Susana Muhamad, the new Special Envoy for International Cooperation for the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, has an invitation for countries around the world: if you're serious about phasing out fossil fuels, join us in Colombia this April 🌱
Watch her full remarks ⬇️
#FossilFuelTreaty #COP30
Watch her full remarks ⬇️
#FossilFuelTreaty #COP30
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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They've been doing it for years. Or at least since COP26 when the US collaborated with the Saudis on "Mission Innovation" to catalyze the CDR that was supposed to deal with emissions without requiring phaseout...
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
They've been doing it for years. Or at least since COP26 when the US collaborated with the Saudis on "Mission Innovation" to catalyze the CDR that was supposed to deal with emissions without requiring phaseout...
Hi, hello, regarding latest #COP30 text you cannot talk about "information integrity" on climate out one side of your mouth while the other is busy removing "fossil fuel phaseout" & adding "overshoot". anyone who gives a shit about information integrity should be saying so, loudly and clearly.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hi, hello, regarding latest #COP30 text you cannot talk about "information integrity" on climate out one side of your mouth while the other is busy removing "fossil fuel phaseout" & adding "overshoot". anyone who gives a shit about information integrity should be saying so, loudly and clearly.
Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30
BREAKING: COP30 Blue Zone venue is being evacuated after a firealarm was triggered. Smoke visible.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30
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This is COMPLETELY INSANE.
In addition to the environmental and labour violations, EIGHTY-FIVE times as much land is needed to power an ICE car on corn ethanol compared to the land needed for solar PV panels to power an EV car.
www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/u...
In addition to the environmental and labour violations, EIGHTY-FIVE times as much land is needed to power an ICE car on corn ethanol compared to the land needed for solar PV panels to power an EV car.
www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is COMPLETELY INSANE.
In addition to the environmental and labour violations, EIGHTY-FIVE times as much land is needed to power an ICE car on corn ethanol compared to the land needed for solar PV panels to power an EV car.
www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/u...
In addition to the environmental and labour violations, EIGHTY-FIVE times as much land is needed to power an ICE car on corn ethanol compared to the land needed for solar PV panels to power an EV car.
www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/u...
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Here we go again.
War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq
Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.
theintercept.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Here we go again.
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America is responsible for the largest volume of carbon dioxide currently sitting in the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing disasters and death
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
America is responsible for the largest volume of carbon dioxide currently sitting in the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing disasters and death
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site:
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?
Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.
drilled.media
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site:
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
As #COP30 races to be the CDR COP, great time to listen to a podcast about overshoot and how little sense it makes.
“Occidental Petroleum put out a press release claiming they had produced the world's first zero-carbon barrel of oil.”
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Listen now: Overshootpod.com
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Listen now: Overshootpod.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As #COP30 races to be the CDR COP, great time to listen to a podcast about overshoot and how little sense it makes.
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At #COP30 last week, India highlighted the impossibility of 1.5C and the reliance on CDR for overshoot scenarios. Interview with @glenpeters.bsky.social about Paris Agreement temperature goals, where we need to go and how to get there.
drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
A Reckoning with the 1.5°C Goal at COP30
Climate scientist Glen Peters about where we are in terms of achieving Paris Agreement temperature goals, where we need to go and how to get there.
drilled.media
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At #COP30 last week, India highlighted the impossibility of 1.5C and the reliance on CDR for overshoot scenarios. Interview with @glenpeters.bsky.social about Paris Agreement temperature goals, where we need to go and how to get there.
drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
drilled.media/news/cop30-g...
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Move to rename a tortured metaphor a “lizzanuzzi”
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Move to rename a tortured metaphor a “lizzanuzzi”
All the different counts of industry lobbyists at #COP30 (fossil fuel, CDR, big ag) have me wondering what the breakdown is of lobbyists to non-lobbyists, especially given that I suspect the counts are conservative...
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
All the different counts of industry lobbyists at #COP30 (fossil fuel, CDR, big ag) have me wondering what the breakdown is of lobbyists to non-lobbyists, especially given that I suspect the counts are conservative...
Love the way @greenprofgreen.bsky.social frames the fetishization of collaboration at COP as something that tries to impose a "win-win" frame on a situation in which there must be a loser...failing to grapple with that puts humanity--rather than fossil asset owners--at risk of losing. #COP30
As week 2 of #COP30 begins, @greenprofgreen.bsky.social talks to us about her new book and why we need more confrontation at COPs. drilled.media/news/drillin...
Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
In ‘Existential Politics,’ Jessica F. Green argues that head-on conflict with fossil fuel interests is a prerequisite for real progress.
drilled.media
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Love the way @greenprofgreen.bsky.social frames the fetishization of collaboration at COP as something that tries to impose a "win-win" frame on a situation in which there must be a loser...failing to grapple with that puts humanity--rather than fossil asset owners--at risk of losing. #COP30
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Excellent overview of all the complexities of #COP30 from @roycerk2.bsky.social and @amywestervelt.bsky.social
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excellent overview of all the complexities of #COP30 from @roycerk2.bsky.social and @amywestervelt.bsky.social
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
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“If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry.”
Spot on by @amywestervelt.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social in this fantastic recap of #COP30 so far:
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
Spot on by @amywestervelt.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social in this fantastic recap of #COP30 so far:
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry.”
Spot on by @amywestervelt.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social in this fantastic recap of #COP30 so far:
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
Spot on by @amywestervelt.bsky.social @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social in this fantastic recap of #COP30 so far:
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...