Todd Woody
@toddwoody.bsky.social
Environmental journalist covering climate and ocean issues at Bloomberg News in San Francisco. Formerly at Participant Media, Fortune, Forbes, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee and other publications. www.toddwoody.com [email protected]
New: As the Trump administration eliminates incentives for energy-efficient appliances, California is joining New York and Boston to spur a market for affordable electric window heat pumps and battery-equipped induction stoves to decarbonize housing. Free link.
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As Federal Support Withers, California Invests in Cheap Heat Pumps
The state is allocating more than $100 million to create demand for energy-efficient technologies that renters and low-income residents can afford.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New: As the Trump administration eliminates incentives for energy-efficient appliances, California is joining New York and Boston to spur a market for affordable electric window heat pumps and battery-equipped induction stoves to decarbonize housing. Free link.
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COPs are all about super-technical diplomatic talk, but also about people. Those who go there harbor memories of all sorts and this year we dug out a few. We asked climate celebs like @laurencetubiana.bsky.social what their best COP memories are. Read them for FREE
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Inside the Human Aspect of Climate Meetings — a Collection of COP Memories
COP talks bring together thousands of people once a year with a goal to advance the fight against climate change. They’re cathartic events where hyper-technical diplomatic talk takes center stage. But...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
COPs are all about super-technical diplomatic talk, but also about people. Those who go there harbor memories of all sorts and this year we dug out a few. We asked climate celebs like @laurencetubiana.bsky.social what their best COP memories are. Read them for FREE
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LA County Fire Dept is now telling residents in Topanga that if evacuation is not possible, they need to shelter in their homes. It’s a policy that, historically, has proven incredibly dangerous, but the department says it has no better options. My latest: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Can you survive a wildfire sheltering at home? For one community, L.A. County Fire says it may be the only option
L.A. County Fire plans to order Topanga residents to shelter-in-place if evacuating from fire isn't possible. It's raised concern from experts and residents, but the department says it has no other op...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
LA County Fire Dept is now telling residents in Topanga that if evacuation is not possible, they need to shelter in their homes. It’s a policy that, historically, has proven incredibly dangerous, but the department says it has no better options. My latest: www.latimes.com/environment/...
New: California Governor Gavin Newsom seized the mantle of US climate leadership at COP30 in Brazil in the face of Trump hostility to climate action. Here's the data on how the world's fourth-largest economy is decarbonizing and slashing emissions. Free link.
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What California's Record Shows About Newsom’s Claims to Climate Leadership
As the US retreats on climate policy, the governor is pitching himself as a global leader.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New: California Governor Gavin Newsom seized the mantle of US climate leadership at COP30 in Brazil in the face of Trump hostility to climate action. Here's the data on how the world's fourth-largest economy is decarbonizing and slashing emissions. Free link.
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Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules.
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Trump EPA's Rewrite of US Water Definitions Would Affect Climate Change
The agency wants to change the definitions of waterways protected under the Clean Water Act.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules.
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Another Trump FEMA head is out: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA Chief Resigns After Six Months, Criticism Over Floods
The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, resigned on Monday after about six months on the job.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Another Trump FEMA head is out: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New from me: London is struggling to adapt to the climate-changed reality of more flash-flooding, and insurers are spooked. That's made it harder to get cover for high-end properties with basements, creating an insurance time-bomb and increasing demand for property-level protections. Gift link.
London’s Rich Come to Grips With Flood Risk on Their Doorstep
As London struggles to adapt to the reality of more frequent and powerful floods, its wealthier corners are emerging as some of the most at risk.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New from me: London is struggling to adapt to the climate-changed reality of more flash-flooding, and insurers are spooked. That's made it harder to get cover for high-end properties with basements, creating an insurance time-bomb and increasing demand for property-level protections. Gift link.
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New from me: I spoke to two scientists who originally helped spread the use of carbon capture. They now say it's being misused. Here's why (gift link):
The Scientists Who Popularized Carbon Capture Have a Warning About It
Many countries are relying on it to meet their climate goals, but it might hurt more than help, they say.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New from me: I spoke to two scientists who originally helped spread the use of carbon capture. They now say it's being misused. Here's why (gift link):
New: Hurricane Melissa has underscored the financial and practical challenges of adapting to more frequent and destructive climate-driven Caribbean storms that strike randomly and increasingly flood islands’ mountainous interiors as they stall over land. Free link.
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Melissa Shows How Quickly Climate Change Is Outstripping Defenses
As COP30 kicks off, the hurricane’s rampage spotlights the contentious issue of how much rich countries should pay for adaptation and loss and damage in vulnerable nations.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New: Hurricane Melissa has underscored the financial and practical challenges of adapting to more frequent and destructive climate-driven Caribbean storms that strike randomly and increasingly flood islands’ mountainous interiors as they stall over land. Free link.
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Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
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Seabed Mining Disrupts Fisheries, Researchers Find
Scientists analyzed data from a test mining operation to document threats to small marine organisms key to the health of commercially valuable seafood like tuna.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
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What will the impact of the US's green retreat under President Donald Trump be — for the economy and for the world? A fascinating new Bloomberg Economics analysis gives us some hints.
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Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
US Economy Wins From Green Exit, Unless the World Follows Suit
If the world collectively retreated from green policies, the global economy would shrink, Bloomberg Economics researchers write.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What will the impact of the US's green retreat under President Donald Trump be — for the economy and for the world? A fascinating new Bloomberg Economics analysis gives us some hints.
Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
Read more @bloomberg.com (gift link!).
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What's all the COP fuss about? Two months ago I set out to find what COPs achieved. The answer was in the data: a $10 trillion wave of green investment that's starting to change things.
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
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As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
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There’s a $10 Trillion Antidote to Trump’s Climate Backlash
The landmark Paris Agreement triggered a wave of climate commitments. A decade later, Bloomberg examined seven key categories to chart progress amid a new era of attacks on global warming science and ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What's all the COP fuss about? Two months ago I set out to find what COPs achieved. The answer was in the data: a $10 trillion wave of green investment that's starting to change things.
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
As Laurence Tubiana told me: "The train has left the station"
FREE read:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Why have green stocks become one of this year’s most lucrative bets despite political headwinds? And is this rally a real comeback or a flash in the pan? Natasha White, Alastair Marsh, and I spoke with experts to find out www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
Green Investors Enjoy Huge Returns as Stock Market Powers Through Trump’s Attacks
A dramatic rebound in clean-tech stocks has investors in the green economy hoping they can finally turn the page on years of punishing underperformance.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why have green stocks become one of this year’s most lucrative bets despite political headwinds? And is this rally a real comeback or a flash in the pan? Natasha White, Alastair Marsh, and I spoke with experts to find out www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
For @bloomberg.com #greenstocks
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I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
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A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Biggest Arctic Carbon Sink Is Increasingly Unstable
Scientists at the top of the world are racing to uncover how rapidly the Arctic’s permafrost is thawing.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.
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Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa
The massive storm underscores the challenges in keeping up with the quickening pace of climate change.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.
Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
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Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
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Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive.
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My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
Hot Weather is Killing More than Half a Million People a Year
Authors of a new Lancet report warn that parts of the world could become unlivable, as climate change drives a surge in heat deaths.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive.
My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):
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New: China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular nuclear reactors and nuclear fusion that can help power data centers, according to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #nuclearfusion #datacenter
Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power
China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular reactors and fusion that can help power data centers.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New: China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular nuclear reactors and nuclear fusion that can help power data centers, according to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #nuclearfusion #datacenter
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I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I finally watched the Danish series Families Like Ours on Netflix.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
It’s incredible. Beautiful and tragic.
And a reminder that as violently destructive as the climate crisis is and will increasingly become, ultimately it will be a refugee crisis of unimaginable scale and suffering.
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Yesterday, Trump was sending federal forces to San Francisco. Today, he's not.
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A San Francisco Crackdown Would Carry Enormous Economic Risk
In less than two weeks, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has gone from San Francisco’s most beloved philanthropist to its most famous turncoat to its most unlikely hero.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Yesterday, Trump was sending federal forces to San Francisco. Today, he's not.
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The reason? Some rich tech bros talked him down.
As I write for @opinion.bloomberg.com, back-channel begging shouldn't be required for cities to avoid an unwanted federal intervention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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SCOOP from me:
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…
The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
SCOOP from me:
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heat Shock Tips Florida Corals to Extinction
Extreme ocean temperatures triggered the demise of coral species key to the health of a reef that protects the state’s cities from climate-driven storms.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why Big Oil Is Asking EPA Not to Cut its Polluter Reporting Program
The oil and gas industry says it needs the program’s data to conduct business.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trump's EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead.
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tagteam w/Ruth Liao @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Beef is notoriously bad for the environment. Just how bad depends a lot on where in the US you eat it.
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
Why Eating a Burger in Houston Is Less Climate-Friendly Than in Chicago
Where cows come from plays a big role in their carbon footprint, a new study found.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Beef is notoriously bad for the environment. Just how bad depends a lot on where in the US you eat it.
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
See how your city stacks up in my latest for @bloomberg.com:
Wow! California condors, which were nearly extinct by the 1980s, are now expanding their range into Alameda and Contra Costa counties, one even flying to Mount Diablo. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
For a century, they were gone. But California Condors are making a comeback in these parts of the Bay Area
“These movements into Alameda County, and even Contra Costa County, are the first to be documented in over 100 years.”
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October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wow! California condors, which were nearly extinct by the 1980s, are now expanding their range into Alameda and Contra Costa counties, one even flying to Mount Diablo. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
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OK, here we go...
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
OK, here we go...
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.
Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com