Roger Hodge
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Power and politics editor, Climate & Environment, The Washington Post. Author of Texas Blood and The Mendacity of Hope. Former editor of The Intercept, Oxford American, and Harper's Magazine.
The new plan out of U.S. climate talks doesn’t even mention fossil fuels www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Draft agreement at U.N. climate summit makes no mention of fossil fuels
Many countries and environmentalists expressed outrage that the main cause of climate change was not included in a draft deal as the U.N. summit draws to a close in Brazil.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The new plan out of U.S. climate talks doesn’t even mention fossil fuels www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump officials think new drilling off the coast of California would be a fine idea www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump officials unveil plan to drill off California, sparking a fight
The Interior Department proposed a five-year plan that would allow offshore oil exploration off the coasts of California, Alaska and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trump officials think new drilling off the coast of California would be a fine idea www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Overfishing menhaden will collapse the Atlantic foodchain www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | It’s the ‘most important fish in the sea.’ And it’s disappearing.
If the menhaden decline continues, striped bass could be next to vanish.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Overfishing menhaden will collapse the Atlantic foodchain www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"There were so many ways to die in the wilderness — and now fewer staffers to stand guard." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
They retired from the government. Now they’re back, protecting forests Trump abandoned.
The U.S. Forest Service lost thousands of workers under Trump. Volunteers and retirees are trying to help — but things are breaking.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"There were so many ways to die in the wilderness — and now fewer staffers to stand guard." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Trump administration announces plans to weaken Endangered Species Act www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
This law saved the bald eagle. Trump officials want to weaken it.
The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump administration announces plans to weaken Endangered Species Act www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes
Tapping energy from “superhot rock” could produce cheap, clean, constant energy almost anywhere — if drills and wells can survive infernal heat and pressure.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
EPA moves to roll back federal wetlands protections
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Trump proposal would limit protections for U.S. waterways
The EPA proposed curtailing broader definitions of wetlands embraced by the Obama and Biden administrations, removing protections under the Clean Water Act.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
EPA moves to roll back federal wetlands protections
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In search of better bread, beer and bourbon, these makers focus on healthy soil www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Better bread and booze start with healthier soil
Bakers, distillers and brewers are looking for grains grown with old-school techniques that help the planet and bring more flavor to your plate or glass.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In search of better bread, beer and bourbon, these makers focus on healthy soil www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Welcome to the frog apocalypse www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Welcome to the frog apocalypse www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
“It was like you could hear the devil and his demons in that water,” recalled Lester, 73, who endured a harrowing escape thanks to friends who came to the couple’s rescue. “I’ve never been so scared in my life.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Where the sky keeps bursting
A Washington Post investigation shows why one region of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to extreme rainfall and floods.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“It was like you could hear the devil and his demons in that water,” recalled Lester, 73, who endured a harrowing escape thanks to friends who came to the couple’s rescue. “I’ve never been so scared in my life.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
White House plan would open California to offshore oil drilling www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration plan would open California to offshore oil drilling
A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
White House plan would open California to offshore oil drilling www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Democrats have stopped talking about climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Climate change is out. Energy affordability is in.
A Washington Post analysis of Democratic lawmakers’ appearances and social media posts show they are going quiet on climate.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Democrats have stopped talking about climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump officials have reshaped the EPA to weaken enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement
An analysis of environmental enforcement cases, together with targeted furloughs during the federal shutdown, shows the EPA’s shift towards deregulation.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How Trump officials have reshaped the EPA to weaken enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Post’s analysis, based on state-of-the-art weather data and computer models of the climate system, reveals how rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Post’s analysis, based on state-of-the-art weather data and computer models of the climate system, reveals how rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
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October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
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Crushing rocks for the climate. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth
Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Crushing rocks for the climate. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
White House puts on white gloves for fossil fuel concierge service.
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White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
White House puts on white gloves for fossil fuel concierge service.
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The scientists asked agriculture workers to swallow a pill-sized thermometer. What they found can help prevent heat strokes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why.
Nearly half of Florida farmworkers’ bodies reached dangerous temperatures in one study — but short breaks pulled them back from the danger zone.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The scientists asked agriculture workers to swallow a pill-sized thermometer. What they found can help prevent heat strokes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Nico Rivero asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about his puzzling pronouncements on solar energy. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The Trump administration picks a fight with the sun
President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nico Rivero asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about his puzzling pronouncements on solar energy. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
And the Park Service has taken down signs mentioning climate change, slavery and Japanese internment www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment
The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And the Park Service has taken down signs mentioning climate change, slavery and Japanese internment www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Couple of scoops this morning. One on EPA political appointees telling scientists to hit pause on publishing research, pending review: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA orders scientists to stop publishing research, officials say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Couple of scoops this morning. One on EPA political appointees telling scientists to hit pause on publishing research, pending review: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Locked up in the unfinished facility, migrants were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss
As the Trump Administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, one former official called the list of violations at Fort Bliss among the worst she’s ever seen.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Locked up in the unfinished facility, migrants were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Scoop: Trump officials have ordered the removal of this iconic image from a national park www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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September 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Scoop: Trump officials have ordered the removal of this iconic image from a national park www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no.
Brazil brought the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference to the Amazon. Then the price frenzy began.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay $1,000 per night for climate talks? Many countries say no. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...