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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Jul 21

With the Trump administration calling to eliminate EPA's ORD, it’s worth revisiting this piece by @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social on how cuts would impact our EPA lab in Narragansett, threatening local jobs & vital environmental research. Rhode Islanders, this isn't abstract, it's incredibly local. 🌊

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · May 20

NEW: Massachusetts moves to nearly double black bear hunting to curb population www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/s...

Massachusetts moves to nearly double black bear hunting to curb population surge - The Boston Globe

To cull the population growth, regulators voted in favor of new regulations to expand the bear hunting season.

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · May 12

Climate change has led to a rise in tick-borne illness in New England. For one family, the impact was deadly.

After weeks in the ICU, they finally got a diagnosis: It was a tick bite - The Boston Globe

Climate change has led to a rise in tick-borne illness in New England. For one family, the impact was deadly.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · May 12

Really compelling, sad, informative story from @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social about a rare, but increasingly less so, tick-borne disease and a life lost to it

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After weeks in the ICU, they finally got a diagnosis: It was a tick bite - The Boston Globe

Climate change has led to a rise in tick-borne illness in New England. For one family, the impact was deadly.

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Apr 29

Last week I was playing around with a new "tree ring plot" to visualize daily global temperature anomalies from ERA5.

I thought it would be neat to make a version of the plot for daily global absolute temperatures (rather than anomalies):

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Apr 24

Climate change indicator: Worse air quality in New England.

Drought, wildfires, and heat are degrading air quality here, the American Lung Association's annual report card shows.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/23/s... #climate #climatechange #greensky #climateimpact

Air quality is getting worse in coastal New England - The Boston Globe

Wildfires and extreme heat, more intense due to climate change, are making air pollution worse.

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Apr 17

Moakley Park in South Boston and Tenean Beach in Dorchester are among the coastal resilience projects impacted by the end of FEMA's BRIC grant program: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/s... #climate #climateresilience #coastalresilience #slr #sealevelrise #trump #FEMA #federalfunds

Trump spending cuts hit two sea level rise protection projects in Boston - The Boston Globe

Fortifying Boston's coastline against rising sea levels just got tricker after the Trump administration slashed federal spending for climate resiliency projects in the city.

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Grist @grist.org · Apr 11

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.

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#Forest #trees #Climate #environment #GreenSky

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts of climate change

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Sabrina Shankman @shankman.bsky.social · Apr 4

Being able to afford heat in New England is a matter of life and death. That's why low-income households who rely on federal assistance to help pay their bills, and the groups that administer that aid, are worried about the implications of this week's firing of the entire federal LIHEAP staff.

Residents fear loss of heating help after Trump shutters aid offices - The Boston Globe

110,000 Mass. residents so far this year have received help with their heating bills from a federal program known as LIHEAP. On Tuesday, every single federal employee working on the program was fired.

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Grist @grist.org · Apr 6

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding.

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#Mosquito #Health #Disease #Bugs #Climate

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

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Esmy Jimenez @esmyjimenez.bsky.social · Apr 5

Boston Common this morning. Thousands of protestors rolling in with more expected. #mapoli #mass

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Apr 1

A year ago, I wrote about a family in Central Massachusetts struggling to recover from devastating flash flooding.

This year, they celebrated what they now call their "climate-proof" house, which they spent a year upgrading to protect the home against water.

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How one family climate-proofed their house after Leominster’s destructive flash floods - The Boston Globe

After the Noseworthy home was damaged in the 2023 flash flood in Leominster, the family decided they needed to "climate-proof" the house.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · Mar 28

The number of measles cases has risen to 400 as the historical outbreak continues to rage on in West Texas, with two additional counties reporting their first cases, according to state officials on Friday. Of those, 41 patients have been hospitalized.

Texas measles cases rise to 400. Here is what you need to know.

The West Texas outbreak has spread to two new counties – Andrews and Midland – for a total of 17 affected counties, as of Friday.

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David McGlinchey @davemcg.bsky.social · Mar 27

“Science in Woods Hole is most definitely under threat,” said Max Holmes, president and CEO of Woodwell Climate Research Center.

Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 27

Woods Hole has been a company town for #ocean and #climate science for 150 years. Now, it may be one of the most extreme examples of a community vulnerable to federal spending cuts.

The centers here rely heavily on government $$ to support research.

My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/s...

This town on the Cape is a hub for climate scientists. Under Trump, its local economy is shaking. - The Boston Globe

The small upper Cape community has been a sort of company town for environmental scientists for more than a century.

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Mar 27

“As the Trump administration looks to shrink the agency, will similar cleanups of today languish?” By @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

The Boston Harbor cleanup showed the power of the EPA — when it’s willing to use it - The Boston Globe

Just a few generations past, the harbor was too toxic for swimming and was known as the "dirtiest" in the nation. The EPA was key to the cleanup.

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 27

Woods Hole has been a company town for #ocean and #climate science for 150 years. Now, it may be one of the most extreme examples of a community vulnerable to federal spending cuts.

The centers here rely heavily on government $$ to support research.

My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/s...

This town on the Cape is a hub for climate scientists. Under Trump, its local economy is shaking. - The Boston Globe

The small upper Cape community has been a sort of company town for environmental scientists for more than a century.

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Aaron Pressman @ampressman.bsky.social · Mar 26

Bloomberg added AI written summaries at the top of stories. Big problem today for a story that's moving the entire stock market:
(An AI summary previously at the top of the story was removed because it misstated when the broader tariff action was to take place.)
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Trump to Announce Auto Tariffs Today, White House Says

President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on the auto industry on Wednesday, according to the White House, a move that would escalate his fight with global trading partners ahead of a broader tarif...

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Sabrina Shankman @shankman.bsky.social · Mar 19

For the first time, Boston will have targets for heat pumps and energy efficiency in small/mid-sized buildings — 5K heat pumps and 10K weatherizations over the next three years. Those goals are part of a new program being announced by @mayorwu.boston.gov at tonight's State of the City.

State of the City: Mayor Wu to launch $150m plan to cut Bostonians’ energy bills - The Boston Globe

Beyond energy issues, Wu is also expected to tout the city’s historically low violent crime rates, her administration’s efforts to increase Boston’s affordable housing stock, rightsize Boston Public S...

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 18

Before Trump took office, EPA proposed new rules to better control stormwater runoff.

Now, cuts to EPA could jeopardize such efforts to stop stormwater and wastewater pollution from entering Boston-area watersheds, former regulators told me.

Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/s...

The Boston Harbor cleanup showed the power of the EPA — when it’s willing to use it. - The Boston Globe

Just a few generations past, the harbor was too toxic for swimming and was known as the "dirtiest" in the nation. The EPA was key to the cleanup.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 18

The cleanup work isn't over. The public still can't regularly swim in Boston-area rivers.

Old and problematic sewage systems remain in place where pollution spills into rivers. Too much stormwater pollution still ends up in our rivers, leading to E. coli and algal blooms.

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 18

NEW: Just a few generations ago, Boston Harbor was known as the dirtiest harbor in the nation. Now, we swim and fish in it.

The #EPA was key to that cleanup— a reminder of what the agency can accomplish when it's well-funded and politically powerful.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/s...

The Boston Harbor cleanup showed the power of the EPA — when it’s willing to use it. - The Boston Globe

Just a few generations past, the harbor was too toxic for swimming and was known as the "dirtiest" in the nation. The EPA was key to the cleanup.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 18

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

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Jo Latimore @jolatimore.bsky.social · Mar 13

Michigan DNR: "First cougar cubs verified in Michigan in more than a century." !!!!

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First cougar cubs verified in Michigan in more than a century

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Mar 14

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · Mar 11

NEW: The lead plaintiff appealing mass federal firings is a New Hampshire-based wildlife biologist named Allison.

She’s representing thousands in a class action for #DOI employees.

This is her story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/s... #usfws

A N.H. wildlife biologist is suing to restore federal jobs: ‘What happened was wrong’ - The Boston Globe

Allison Keating had glowing performance reviews. She was fired anyway. Now she's the lead plaintiff in a massive class action appeal for thousands hoping to get their jobs back.

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