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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · 13d

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E&E News: ‘Treading water in the dark’ as Interior shutters

Wildland firefighters, staffers working on administration energy priorities and some park rangers will keep working during the shutdown.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · 13d

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E&E News: What to know about the government shutdown

Parks are mostly open. EPA staff is still working. Feds are freaked out.

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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · 13d

The federal government has shut down.

Here's what that means for government services in transportation, food safety, housing, defense and more.

Comprehensive breakdown from team @politico.com:

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Government shutdown 2025: A guide to what’s still open, what’s closed and what’s fuzzy

While Social Security checks, mail and student loan bills will still be delivered, millions of workers are still set to suffer financial hardship.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · 15d

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E&E News: OPM issues layoff guidelines for government shutdown

The Trump administration has indicated it could lay off federal employees if the government shuts down.

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 15d

"Weather" a govt shutdown, see what we did there?
As Tom Frank and I report, forecasting & disaster operations generally continue through shutdowns. (There's even precedent for extreme weather during a lengthy shutdown e.g. TS Karen in 2013.) The bigger issue... 1/2
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How FEMA and NWS would weather a government shutdown

The threat of a federal funding lapse comes as Tropical Storm Imelda approaches the East Coast.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 20d

Trump's climate denial tirade at the UN is part of an administration-wide effort to pressure other countries to drop their climate policies and clean energy reliance. Aside from some commitments to buy LNG to avoid tariffs, the pressure campaign is largely ineffective. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump urges the world to abandon climate fight

Through his rhetoric and promotion of U.S. fossil fuels, the president is trying to undermine global climate efforts.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · 26d

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E&E News: Colorado River negotiations teeter over future water use

“They’re asking me to give up the future we were promised and to make promises that I can’t keep,” a Wyoming official said.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 29

My colleague @chemnick.bsky.social with all the facts

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E&E News: Zeldin previews his big climate move. Here’s a fact check.

The EPA administrator made several inaccurate comments on a right-wing podcast ahead of rolling back the endangerment finding.

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Denver Westword @westword.com · Jul 22

U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans Misrepresented Family’s Immigration History

In defense of mass deportation, the pro-Trump Republican from Colorado has long said his grandfather immigrated ‘the legal way.’ Documents show otherwise.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 22

The new #ColoradoRiver "supply driven" proposal — aka "natural flow" — could release between 55 percent and 75 percent of three-year average flows from Lake Powell, per Wyoming officials.

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E&E News: Reclamation weighing Colorado River flows

The seven states that share the drought-stricken river are aiming for an agreement before a November deadline set by the Bureau of Reclamation.

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 16

Some NSF-related news from Rebecca Trager at @chemistryworld.com: NSF employees were working on their own version of a dissent declaration, but have since paused the effort after EPA employees faced retaliation for releasing a similar document.

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National Science Foundation employees’ dissent declaration on ‘indefinite hold’

Document's postponement follows recent suspension of staff at Environmental Protection Agency for releasing similar declaration

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 16

Unless grouse migrate into North Dakota from neighboring states, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's home state will be the first one in decades to completely lose its sage grouse population, from my colleague Scott Streater

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E&E News: Sage grouse blink out in Burgum’s North Dakota

The state could be the first to lose its entire sage grouse population since the 1950s.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us!

Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 7

Even before it was a completed work of art, Mount Rushmore was considered a closed club. But that has never stopped the applications from rolling in.

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E&E News: A club too exclusive for Trump — or anyone else who applies

People have long wanted to add presidents to Mount Rushmore. But there's two big reasons that's unlikely, if not impossible.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 7

From @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social on the Texas flash floods:

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E&E News: Texas flood forecasts were accurate. It wasn’t enough to save lives.

The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early morning flash floods.

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · Jul 7

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Interior reorganization will shift nearly 5,700 employees

"Those people are going to have a very difficult time figuring out who they work for and who directs their work," said a former NPS superintendent.

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E&E News: Interior reorganization will shift nearly 5,700 employees

People in certain specialties at bureaus and agencies — such as communications and IT — are moving to the Interior secretary's office.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jul 3

EPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administration

From my colleagues @rbravender.bsky.social @kevinbogardus.bsky.social

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E&E News: EPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administration

The staff were put on administrative leave after signing a “declaration of dissent.”

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · Jul 1

A White House official tells me all preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, "ensuring compliance with statutorily required reporting." According to GCRP archives, NCAs are Highly Influential Scientific Assessments under federal guidelines and required to be digitally accessible.

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · Jul 1

As others noted yesterday, the USGCRP website has disappeared, along with all five National Climate Assessments previously housed there. Updates on this story in the works.

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Website for top US climate reports goes dark

The White House didn't respond to questions about the National Climate Assessments. Their disappearance is in line with the administration's past actions.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Nothing quite like ice cream with your bff.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interior Secretary Burgum said half of NPS employees work in parks. NPS data disagrees.

Of roughly 18,600 positions at NPS funded by Congress, 14,954 were located in parks in FY2022, the most recent public data.. From @hroxaner.bsky.social

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E&E News: Burgum says only half of NPS employees work in parks. NPS data disagrees.

Roughly 80 percent of National Park Service employees are based in parks, according to publicly available agency data.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Federal employees will be off Thursday in honor of Juneteenth, but don't expect agencies to make a big deal about the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. From @hroxaner.bsky.social and @kevinbogardus.bsky.social

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E&E News: Trump admin to observe — but not celebrate — Juneteenth

Agencies will observe the federal holiday with less fanfare than under the Biden administration.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jun 17

A FOIA request shows about 7,500 Interior employees have left via buyouts or early retirement since January.

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E&E News: 7,500 Interior workers took Trump buyouts or early retirement

The department lost more than 1,000 workers each from the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, and Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Jennifer Yachnin @yachnin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Trump has quietly nominated veteran Central Arizona Project official Ted Cooke to lead the Bureau of Reclamation.

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E&E News: Trump taps Arizona official to lead Reclamation

The Bureau of Reclamation commissioner is expected to play a key role in the contentious negotiations over use of Colorado River water in the West.

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