Holly Doremus
hollydoremus.bsky.social
Holly Doremus
@hollydoremus.bsky.social
Environmental law prof and scientist fallen from grace
This is what Hegseth and Trump mean by "warrior culture" -- fire or ignore the lawyers, then claim the right to kill people for no apparent reason other than you enjoy the video. Time for the officers being turned into murderers to refuse these unlawful orders.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's not possible or desirable to keep politics completely out of research science grant funding decisions. The broad choice of areas of inquiry to support needs to come from the political branches. But the current level of political micro-management is unprecedented and unhealthy for science.
Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history
Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
EPA has proposed to rescind its 2009 finding that GHG emissions from cars and trucks endanger public health and welfare. The Department of Energy and National Academies have issued dueling reports on the evidence. Here's how to read them: legal-planet.org/2025/09/18/t...
The National Academies school the Trump administration on gold-standard science - Legal Planet
It’s not news that the Trump administration has little interest in getting the facts right. But facts often matter for crafting policy that serves our societal goals. And it’s not rare for the law to ...
legal-planet.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My take on the stay of the preliminary injunction in the "Alligator Alcatraz" case is now up on Legal Planet.

legal-planet.org/2025/09/09/p...
Parsing the 11th Circuit's "Alligator Alcatraz" decision - Legal Planet
Last week, a divided panel of the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals stayed the preliminary injunction issued by a District Court halting use of the Everglades detention center the Trump Administration ...
legal-planet.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous -- Republicans on the House Oversight Committee agree with Trump that "gold standard science" means "claims that justify our policy goals, with no supporting evidence necessary and no opposing evidence considered."

oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...
oversight.house.gov
September 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I am trying to get back to posting regularly on Legal Planet, the UC Berkeley / UCLA environmental law blog. Here's my take on the Trump administration's response to the International Maritime Organization's greenhouse gas reduction framework.

legal-planet.org/2025/09/03/t...
legal-planet.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Calls for a new constitutional convention have recently come from both left and right. Am I the only one who thinks the most likely outcome of such a convention in this political climate is the breakup of our union? Or who can't help wondering whether that would be a bad thing?
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Need a smile? (Don't we all these days) Check out the feed from this webcam.

@coralcitycamera.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just finished Adam Becker's More Everything Forever. Confirms my priors about the absurdity of "effective altruism" and "longtermism," not to mention the empty arrogance of tech bros, so of course I recommend.
August 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This. We badly need to rediscover respect for virtues like integrity and humility, and to demand that our leaders make at least some effort to embody them.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Virtue of Integrity
The only way out of our wreckage is to rewrite the cultural script, to make excellence in character admired again.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As a former NSF graduate fellow, I am deeply saddened to see this program being slashed in half. Its uniquely portable funding allows promising STEM grad students to pursue the work they find most important. These short-sighted cuts will be felt for decades. www.science.org/content/arti...
Will NSF’s flagship fellowship program survive under Trump?
Despite 50 Nobelists and 75,000 alumni, NSF’s graduate research fellows could be a vanishing breed
www.science.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Federal workers are being rushed back to the office. It’s causing chaos.

In case you thought Trump's return to office mandate was about anything other than bullying federal workers. I don't see efficiency gains, do you?

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Federal workers are being rushed back to the office. It’s causing chaos.
Some need to win a coin flip to use a desk. Others say they’re killing time when workstations aren’t available amid the administration’s return-to-office mandate.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Good news from Point Reyes! Agreement reached to wind down 12 cattle operations. Gets NPS closer to allowing indigenous tule elk to range free within the Seashore, although they will still be barred from adjoining private and public lands.
www.nps.gov/pore/learn/n...
Point Reyes National Seashore Announces Revised Record of Decision for General Management Plan Amendment and Settlement Agreement on the Management of Ranching on Park Lands - Point Reyes National Sea...
A news release announcing that Point Reyes National Seashore is releasing a revised Record of Decision for the General Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement and is releasing a S...
www.nps.gov
January 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Striking visual illustration of temperature increase over time from the local to the global, thanks to @edhawkins.org. Hard to deny that the world has changed a lot in a short time, looking at this Warming Stripes picture of global temps since 1850:
November 27, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Holly Doremus
You can now share the Warming Stripes directly to BlueSky, such as these for my town of Reading:

showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...

(Find the graphic you want to share, click the blue options button - the one with three horizontal lines - and select the butterfly!)
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
November 27, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Does anyone who believes government serves any positive function think that putting two self-styled "disruptors" in charge of structural reform is wise? Perhaps on occasion letting a bull loose in a china shop is good for the bull, but I've never heard of it being good for the china shop.
November 22, 2024 at 4:56 PM