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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 1d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 2d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 9d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 14d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 19d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 19d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 23d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 24d

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 24d

Amazing to me that moderation is labeling this image as "self harm". It's very much the opposite of that.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 24d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 29d

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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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · 29d

More than half the apples grown in the US depend on water from a leaky canal that's in the process of failing. “This is an unfolding emergency. This is a train wreck in motion right now.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

On the brink of a devastating canal collapse, a GOP district waits for Trump’s help

After a fire burned nearly all of the Yakima Tieton Canal’s 12-mile route, a team documented more than 2,000 leaks spurting and gurgling from the concrete.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Sep 4

How chemicals in plastics affect male fertility www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about

Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Sep 3

In moving to block New England Wind, the Trump administration is seeking to block a third offshore wind project in less than two weeks.
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Trump’s war on wind just got much bigger

In moving to block New England Wind, the administration is seeking to block a third offshore wind project in less than two weeks.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Sep 3

Why simply burying our CO2 won't solve climate change www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

This is how much we can cool the planet by burying carbon underground

Carbon storage is becoming a more mainstream climate solution. A new study says that we won’t have enough room to bury all our CO2.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 30

The immigration raid by Border Patrol agents on an active fire scene shocked many veteran wildland firefighters.
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Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire

Veteran firefighters worried a DHS raid on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington could make it more difficult to find contractor crews.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 28

On the world’s biggest bug farm, roughly 10 billion maggots squirm toward the day they’ll be crushed, dried and sold as an alternative form of protein powder. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

At the world’s biggest bug farm, 10 billion maggots recycle food waste

An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 17

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of toxic dust blow into growing Utah communities.
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As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of dangerous dust blow into boomtowns

Dozens of dust events probably happen each year across the 120-square-mile playa once covered by the Great Salt Lake. But there are no comprehensive state or federal records of them.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 15

Negotiations on a landmark international plastics treaty collapsed after the U.S. opposed any explicit limits on plastic production and objected to any potential restrictions on plastic additives or productions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Landmark plastic talks collapse with the U.S. opposing key production limits

The multiyear attempt to curb global plastic pollution is at an impasse, with the U.S. set against the production limits that many nations see as the main solution.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 14

Trump's war on inconvenient government data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump’s answer to numbers he doesn’t like: Change them or throw them away

From D.C. crime rates to census collection to labor statistics, the administration has suppressed inconvenient data and conjured inaccurate statistics to bolster policy objectives.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 14

Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.
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Her dogs kept dying, and she got cancer. Then they tested her water.

Residents of Elkton, Maryland, worry about the “forever chemicals” in their water but say W.L. Gore & Associates has always been a good neighbor.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 12

Trump plan for domestic "reaction force" calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest

Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 11

A jaguar in Arizona! With photos. But the border wall expansion could block its path. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

A rare jaguar roams Arizona. Border wall expansion imperils its future.

The sightings highlight the importance of the San Rafael wildlife corridor, which faces threats from a proposed border wall expansion.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 2

China calls them the “new three” — electric vehicles, solar panels and lithium-ion batteries — a set of technologies to replace the country’s previous export focus on furniture, clothing and household appliances.

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How the U.S. lost its lead in electric vehicles and other clean energy inventions

China dominates the global market for clean energy technology like electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels, which were all invented in the U.S.

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Roger Hodge @hedtk.com · Aug 2

More public land shenanigans www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump officials aim to divert money meant for buying wilderness land

After a plan to sell public land faced bipartisan backlash, the Interior Department appears to be making a bid to halt the expansion of federal public lands.

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