Don Carr
@doncarr.bsky.social
Author of THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER and the upcoming THE REPUBLIC OF AWESOME. Environmental writer and Great Lakes flack. Iowa born, South Dakota raised, Minnesota to the end.
www.doncarrauthor.com
Views my own. Live Green or Die Hard.
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Views my own. Live Green or Die Hard.
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Don Carr
@doncarr.bsky.social
· Nov 10
The Midnight Rambler By Don Carr — the best thriller books
I am quickly finding that an environmental thriller is a sub genre that resonates with me and connects to so many current events. Sophie Grant, our FMC, is one bad a$$ Environmental Protection Agency...
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“I am quickly finding that an environmental thriller is a sub genre that resonates with me and connects to so many current events.” www.bestthrillerbooks.com/teresa-brock...
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
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Seems like we should have a data center pause button to press until all the issues can be properly vetted. Right now it's ready, fire... aim.
Concentrated weapons grade nitrates is a fun data center byproduct.
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Seems like we should have a data center pause button to press until all the issues can be properly vetted. Right now it's ready, fire... aim.
Concentrated weapons grade nitrates is a fun data center byproduct.
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Concentrated weapons grade nitrates is a fun data center byproduct.
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South Dakota’s water quality debate reflects a bigger US issue:
✅ 80% of tested river stretches fail standards
✅ Ag runoff & animal waste drive E. coli spikes
✅ Downstream communities pay the price
Clean water vs. ag economics—how do we strike the balance?
#CleanWater #AgRunoff #EnvironmentalPolicy
✅ 80% of tested river stretches fail standards
✅ Ag runoff & animal waste drive E. coli spikes
✅ Downstream communities pay the price
Clean water vs. ag economics—how do we strike the balance?
#CleanWater #AgRunoff #EnvironmentalPolicy
SD's water protecters encouraged by farm regulation chatter
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November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
South Dakota’s water quality debate reflects a bigger US issue:
✅ 80% of tested river stretches fail standards
✅ Ag runoff & animal waste drive E. coli spikes
✅ Downstream communities pay the price
Clean water vs. ag economics—how do we strike the balance?
#CleanWater #AgRunoff #EnvironmentalPolicy
✅ 80% of tested river stretches fail standards
✅ Ag runoff & animal waste drive E. coli spikes
✅ Downstream communities pay the price
Clean water vs. ag economics—how do we strike the balance?
#CleanWater #AgRunoff #EnvironmentalPolicy
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Some of the #GreatLakes most damaging invasive species - like zebra mussels + round gobies - were introduced via ballast water. However, ballast water management systems on ships have been shown to reduce the abundance of living organisms in ballast water by more than 98% www.wpr.org/news/conflic...
Tensions mount over conflicting ballast water regulations on the Great Lakes
American shippers are at odds with the Canadian government over its regulations that require all Great Lakes vessels or “lakers” to install systems to treat their ballast water by 2030.
www.wpr.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Some of the #GreatLakes most damaging invasive species - like zebra mussels + round gobies - were introduced via ballast water. However, ballast water management systems on ships have been shown to reduce the abundance of living organisms in ballast water by more than 98% www.wpr.org/news/conflic...
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
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What if addressing the climate crisis also solved economic problems we've battled for generations? One Florida climate strategist brings ideas to his Duluth hometown. www.startribune.com/mn-climate-p...
www.startribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What if addressing the climate crisis also solved economic problems we've battled for generations? One Florida climate strategist brings ideas to his Duluth hometown. www.startribune.com/mn-climate-p...
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Oh wow, even South Dakota Republicans don't want to drink shit.
When state GOP lawmakers call for regulating farmers it must be really bad.
With so much polluted water, SD lawmaker says state can no longer ‘dance around’ ag regulations • South Dakota Searchlight
A top lawmaker said it may be time to move beyond financial incentives and consider regulations on agriculture for water pollution.
southdakotasearchlight.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh wow, even South Dakota Republicans don't want to drink shit.
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The schizophrenia of focusing #cop30 on saving forests, while also promoting notoriously forest killing #biofuels
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The schizophrenia of focusing #cop30 on saving forests, while also promoting notoriously forest killing #biofuels
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
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It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
An Elegy for My Boundary Waters - Racket
It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
racketmn.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
Chronic. And top recipients are wealthy land barrons.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Chronic. And top recipients are wealthy land barrons.
And he was promptly renditioned to the nearest manure lagoon.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And he was promptly renditioned to the nearest manure lagoon.
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NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
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I did not have “South Dakota GOP legislator understands the gravity of the effects of ag pollution on his constituents” in my bingo card, I confess.
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
When state GOP lawmakers call for regulating farmers it must be really bad.
With so much polluted water, SD lawmaker says state can no longer ‘dance around’ ag regulations • South Dakota Searchlight
A top lawmaker said it may be time to move beyond financial incentives and consider regulations on agriculture for water pollution.
southdakotasearchlight.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I did not have “South Dakota GOP legislator understands the gravity of the effects of ag pollution on his constituents” in my bingo card, I confess.
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
A very good thing.
"One of the largest corporations on Earth is telling Wall Street that ordinary people in small towns can stop billion-dollar deals."
"One of the largest corporations on Earth is telling Wall Street that ordinary people in small towns can stop billion-dollar deals."
Local governments should serve residents, not corporations. Data centers do the opposite. • Michigan Advance
Something is happening in Livingston County’s Howell Township that every Michigander should pay attention to, no matter their politics. On a quiet Sunday morning in September, I came across a legal no...
michiganadvance.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A very good thing.
"One of the largest corporations on Earth is telling Wall Street that ordinary people in small towns can stop billion-dollar deals."
"One of the largest corporations on Earth is telling Wall Street that ordinary people in small towns can stop billion-dollar deals."
When state GOP lawmakers call for regulating farmers it must be really bad.
With so much polluted water, SD lawmaker says state can no longer ‘dance around’ ag regulations • South Dakota Searchlight
A top lawmaker said it may be time to move beyond financial incentives and consider regulations on agriculture for water pollution.
southdakotasearchlight.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
When state GOP lawmakers call for regulating farmers it must be really bad.
"This is our climate change reality now, and it's truly unprecedented.”
Climate change, its wild
The fabled Tower Rock walkway has defied expectations and emerged from the Mississippi River's depths, triggering worries among water experts.
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
"This is our climate change reality now, and it's truly unprecedented.”
Public funding + wild claims of corn ethanol being climate friendly where have I heard that before?
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 8:17 PM
Public funding + wild claims of corn ethanol being climate friendly where have I heard that before?
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New today: at @ewgofficial.bsky.social, we just released our updated Conservation Database. We now have conservation funding by practice for multiple different conservation programs, down to the county level for most programs. Found over $31B went to farmers 2017-2024. www.ewg.org/news-insight...
Updated EWG database finds over $31B spent on U.S. farm conservation programs
MINNEAPOLIS – Between 2017 and 2024, U.S.
www.ewg.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New today: at @ewgofficial.bsky.social, we just released our updated Conservation Database. We now have conservation funding by practice for multiple different conservation programs, down to the county level for most programs. Found over $31B went to farmers 2017-2024. www.ewg.org/news-insight...
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Trump: "Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal is reduced by 25% this year." (That's because the meal is smaller and crappier, of course.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump: "Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal is reduced by 25% this year." (That's because the meal is smaller and crappier, of course.)
Clean, green ethanol.
Don't do the environmental crime if you can't pay the fine.
Don't do the environmental crime if you can't pay the fine.
Minnesota pollution agency fines Claremont ethanol plant for violations
Claremont-based Al-Corn Clean Fuel, LLC, has paid more than $40,000 for air permit violations.
www.kttc.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Clean, green ethanol.
Don't do the environmental crime if you can't pay the fine.
Don't do the environmental crime if you can't pay the fine.
Now this is an interesting development in the upcoming water wars. The director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says any water exported out of the state now requires a permit.
Protecting Missouri water: export permits begin - Brownfield Ag News
The director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says work is underway to implement a new water export law in Missouri. Kurt Schaefer says any water exported out of the state now requires ...
www.brownfieldagnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Now this is an interesting development in the upcoming water wars. The director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says any water exported out of the state now requires a permit.