Ashley Flintoff
@ashleysflintoff.bsky.social
Executive Director at Friends of the Rouge • Sailor • Detroiter • Urbanist • I do what the 2 huskies + 2 cats tell me to do
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Detroit River nonprofit launches toxic sediment cleanup initiative with $350 million funding target planetdetroit.org/2025/05/detr...
Detroit River nonprofit launches toxic sediment cleanup initiative with $350 million funding target
A new initiative seeks investors to back the cleanup of the Detroit River's toxic sites.
planetdetroit.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Detroit River nonprofit launches toxic sediment cleanup initiative with $350 million funding target planetdetroit.org/2025/05/detr...
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Want to learn more about a nearby stream or river? Do you care about how clean the waters around you are? Do you like bugs?
If you're in Michigan, check out these opportunities to join a volunteer stream monitoring event near you!
www.michigan.gov/egle/newsroo...
If you're in Michigan, check out these opportunities to join a volunteer stream monitoring event near you!
www.michigan.gov/egle/newsroo...
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Want to learn more about a nearby stream or river? Do you care about how clean the waters around you are? Do you like bugs?
If you're in Michigan, check out these opportunities to join a volunteer stream monitoring event near you!
www.michigan.gov/egle/newsroo...
If you're in Michigan, check out these opportunities to join a volunteer stream monitoring event near you!
www.michigan.gov/egle/newsroo...
If you’re going to the game make sure you stay in your seats for the halftime “game” - I promise it’ll be a boatload of fun 😆
Detroit City Football Club hosts the 2024 Eastern Conference champions, Rhode Island FC, tomorrow at historic Keyworth Stadium.
Kickoff is set for 4 PM: seatgeek.com/detroit-city...
Kickoff is set for 4 PM: seatgeek.com/detroit-city...
April 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If you’re going to the game make sure you stay in your seats for the halftime “game” - I promise it’ll be a boatload of fun 😆
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Here are just some of the websites that will go dark at Midnight because of this cancelled contract.
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
April 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Here are just some of the websites that will go dark at Midnight because of this cancelled contract.
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
Just stumbled across this beautiful piece by Vanessa Reid on @ssireview.bsky.social about finding beauty in the unmooring of our known navigation systems and embracing the secret guides we find in the margins. ssir.org/articles/ent...
Secret Guides and Weird Waymarkers (SSIR)
When the navigation systems we have relied upon are themselves unmooring, what do we tether to?
ssir.org
April 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just stumbled across this beautiful piece by Vanessa Reid on @ssireview.bsky.social about finding beauty in the unmooring of our known navigation systems and embracing the secret guides we find in the margins. ssir.org/articles/ent...
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Watershed restoration not only improves the health of communities, but also supports recreation, tourism, and local economies! #GreatLakes #CleanWater #FederalFunding
March 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Watershed restoration not only improves the health of communities, but also supports recreation, tourism, and local economies! #GreatLakes #CleanWater #FederalFunding
Things you learn when you work for an environmental NPO: EVERYONE wants you to be part of their Earth Day event. Rest of the year, half of them are nonexistent, but on Earth Day?
a man with long hair and a beard is saying you 're number one
Alt: a man with long hair and a beard pointing and saying you're number one
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Things you learn when you work for an environmental NPO: EVERYONE wants you to be part of their Earth Day event. Rest of the year, half of them are nonexistent, but on Earth Day?
The level of cruelty of this administration knows no bounds. “This doesn’t make America healthier or greater,” Mr. Tejada said. “It makes us sicker, smaller and uglier than we have been in at least a generation.”
EPA Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
EPA Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The level of cruelty of this administration knows no bounds. “This doesn’t make America healthier or greater,” Mr. Tejada said. “It makes us sicker, smaller and uglier than we have been in at least a generation.”
EPA Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
EPA Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling.
Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling.
Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.
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Per @steveinskeep.bsky.social:
“Here The NY Times identifies words the Trump administration erased or discouraged in federal websites and documents, along with many of the ideas that the words express.”
“Here The NY Times identifies words the Trump administration erased or discouraged in federal websites and documents, along with many of the ideas that the words express.”
March 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Per @steveinskeep.bsky.social:
“Here The NY Times identifies words the Trump administration erased or discouraged in federal websites and documents, along with many of the ideas that the words express.”
“Here The NY Times identifies words the Trump administration erased or discouraged in federal websites and documents, along with many of the ideas that the words express.”
In DC with @healthylakes.org for #GreatLakesDay! Loved talking about the importance of the #GLRI with @peters.senate.gov yesterday #ProtectCleanWater
March 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In DC with @healthylakes.org for #GreatLakesDay! Loved talking about the importance of the #GLRI with @peters.senate.gov yesterday #ProtectCleanWater
Pushing back to reinstate the EPA’s EJ work: m.riverbender.com/news/details...
Duckworth, Booker, Blunt Rochester Urge Trump Administration to Reopen EPA Environmental Justice Office
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ)—founding co-chairs of the Senate’s first-ever Environmental
m.riverbender.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Pushing back to reinstate the EPA’s EJ work: m.riverbender.com/news/details...
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has halted federal environmental and climate grants again, impacting 43 projects in Michigan, including five in Detroit. Despite court orders blocking the freeze, funds were briefly resumed before being locked out once more. https://buff.ly/41334Aa
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has halted federal environmental and climate grants again, impacting 43 projects in Michigan, including five in Detroit. Despite court orders blocking the freeze, funds were briefly resumed before being locked out once more. https://buff.ly/41334Aa
Nature is not just "up North" - the struggle to conserve land in SE Michigan. Thanks @detroitnews.bsky.social for highlighting the awesome work of our friends at Six Rivers Land Conservancy: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
Why it's hard to buy and protect land for conservation in Metro Detroit
Conservation groups argue it's easier to convince people to help buy land in northern Michigan than Metro Detroit for conserving nature.
www.detroitnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Nature is not just "up North" - the struggle to conserve land in SE Michigan. Thanks @detroitnews.bsky.social for highlighting the awesome work of our friends at Six Rivers Land Conservancy: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
"Building a more equitable world would require addressing the damage that for-profit companies cause at the root." (gift article from The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | The Impossible Math of Philanthropy (Gift Article)
There’s a reason so many seemingly well-funded causes fail to move the needle.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Building a more equitable world would require addressing the damage that for-profit companies cause at the root." (gift article from The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
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A reprieve, for now
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
apnews.com/article/dona...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
apnews.com/article/dona...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L.
apnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A reprieve, for now
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
apnews.com/article/dona...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
apnews.com/article/dona...
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A coalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.
States Plan to Sue to Block Trump’s Federal Grants Freeze
Democratic attorneys general from states including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are moving to keep funds flowing to state governments and cities.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A coalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.
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A federal judge has called a 4pm conference in the emergency lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups to halt President Trump's federal aid freeze:
January 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A federal judge has called a 4pm conference in the emergency lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups to halt President Trump's federal aid freeze:
"Nuance should enter decision-making; bad-faith actors should exit" - I appreciate the transparency and due diligence from Michigan Environmental Council on the proposed solar development in Gaylord: environmentalcouncil.org/discover-pos...
Our statement on the proposed Gaylord solar farm
Nuance should enter solar farm decision-making; bad-faith actors should exit
environmentalcouncil.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Nuance should enter decision-making; bad-faith actors should exit" - I appreciate the transparency and due diligence from Michigan Environmental Council on the proposed solar development in Gaylord: environmentalcouncil.org/discover-pos...
When I get the urge to give into the doom scrolling, I’m reminding myself of these faces, and of the Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III who said “there must be resilience in our resistance” - these youth deserve better and we must fight for a world worthy of them.
January 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
When I get the urge to give into the doom scrolling, I’m reminding myself of these faces, and of the Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III who said “there must be resilience in our resistance” - these youth deserve better and we must fight for a world worthy of them.