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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pennsylvania really wants to become a tech hub and it’s using hypothetical data centers to keep an obsolete gas plant open

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Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open.

The Department of Energy says Trump's 'energy emergency' and voracious data centers warrant keeping the plant outside of Philadelphia running.

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · Sep 2

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the department of everything else". It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables.

How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy - High Country News

The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 3

I wrote about how bad things are getting for offshore wind:

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Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?

Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.

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Grist @grist.org · Sep 3

Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?

Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.

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#Wind #Energy #Renewables #Climate #Environment #Oceans

Can offshore wind survive the Trump administration?

Regardless of what happens with Revolution Wind, the government’s pause may set the industry back decades.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wrote about the Interior Department’s efforts to throttle wind and solar over the past two months:

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Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them

The Department of the Interior, or DOI, has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C. as “the department of everything else” — public lands, natural resourc...

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · Aug 20

Only @knibbs.bsky.social could bring you a story like this and that’s the highest compliment I got

Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Aug 19

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

What is the correct amount of pro-Palestine content?

The origins of the TikTok ban.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 13

I went back on NPR to talk about hydrogen

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Behind the race to find natural hydrogen

Roughly 90% of the hydrogen in the United States is produced using fossil fuels.

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Grist @grist.org · Aug 13

New and IMPT: Inside the chaotic, lucrative world of disaster recovery.

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#Disaster #Climate #Economics #Contractors #Exploitation #Policy #Politics #Floods #Hurricanes #Wildfires

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Grist @grist.org · Aug 13

Natural hydrogen could be key for decarbonizing heavy industries like trucking, shipping, and aviation – if we can find enough of it. For the first time, researchers are starting to think that might be possible. grist.org/energy/natur...

A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.

Natural hydrogen could transform the clean energy sector — if we can find enough of it.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 13

I wrote about the rush to find natural hydrogen along the Midcontinent Rift

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A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.

Natural hydrogen could transform the clean energy sector — if we can find enough of it.

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 11

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. www.wired.com/story/palant...

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 8

So proud of my friends for naming their baby Lenny

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 8

New research shows that wildfire smoke is causing way more deaths than officially recorded

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As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer

The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi Bob, thanks for catching that! The study’s author’s emailed me as well—the article has been updated with a correction.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 6

I went on Here and Now to talk about disappearing groundwater

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Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe. What's the impact?

Groundwater depletion is rapidly accelerating, creating areas of "mega-drying" in regions that heavily depend on groundwater for their drinking supplies.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Groundwater (!!) is contributing more to sea level rise than melting in Greenland and Antartica

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Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise

Overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheets.

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Grist @grist.org · Jul 30

Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.

The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.

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#Politics #Policy #Food #Climate #Water #Health

Trump's environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here's how.

The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.

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Grist @grist.org · Jul 25

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

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#CultureWars #Seaweed #Climate #Fishermen #USDA

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Jul 27

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 24

“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · Jul 25

The lawfare & bad-deal politics used by Trump & allies to destroy media outlets like ‪‪@mmfa.bsky.social are also used by the fossil fuel industry to destroy critics.

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More on that that here for @grist.org + @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Jul 25

I wrote about the administration's latest attempt to throttle wind and solar

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Will new Interior Department rules shackle wind and solar? Insiders are divided.

Insiders are divided. They know new Interior Department rules will slow wind and solar development — but they don’t yet know how much.

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Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m not voting for ANYTHING that plays in Pianos ba dum tss

Rebecca McCarthy @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thought this said Pianos on first read

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Jul 24

America's pundit sickness in one sentence: "The question for Mamdaniism is not just whether it will play in Park Slope or Prospect Lefferts Gardens—it’s whether it will play in Plano." THAT IS CATEGORICALLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE QUESTION, HE'S RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOT PLANO

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Jul 24

He's literally running on trying to make the city better to live in for more people, his whole message is positive-sum

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · Jul 23

The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.

Trump’s EPA delays rules requiring toxic coal ash cleanup

The agency’s move to extend compliance deadlines for “legacy” coal ash dumps is the latest in a string of Trump admin attacks on environmental regulations.

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