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Keerti Gopal
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reporting on health and climate justice @insideclimatenews.org | signal @ keerti.33
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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 1d
Extreme heat is harming our health, and we need to strengthen awareness among patients, providers, and our communities. Thank you @keertigopal.bsky.social for uplifting this critical topic and expert voices like @lisapatel.bsky.social.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · 6d
Faster aging. Trouble focusing. Dementia. From our brains to our DNA, extreme heat is wreaking havoc on our bodies — and we're experiencing it more and more. Here's what you need to know: insideclimatenews.org/news/0210202...
What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body - Inside Climate News
As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · 6d
Faster aging. Trouble focusing. Dementia. From our brains to our DNA, extreme heat is wreaking havoc on our bodies — and we're experiencing it more and more. Here's what you need to know: insideclimatenews.org/news/0210202...
What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body - Inside Climate News
As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote more about the context around this project and community pushback in March, read it here: insideclimatenews.org/news/2903202...
After Decades of Shattered Trust, Chicagoans Demand Transparency on South Side Quantum Computing Development - Inside Climate News
The multi-billion-dollar project is slated to develop a long-vacant former steel mill site, with the potential for thousands of jobs. But residents fear further contamination and displacement in a com...
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · 7d
A quantum computing project broke ground yesterday in Chicago, but community members are voicing concerns about potential displacement and environmental harm

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As Chicago Quantum Campus Breaks Ground, Residents Call for Community Benefits - Inside Climate News
Developers and lawmakers say the project will be an economic boon, but concerns about contamination and displacement persist.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 15d
Since 2023, the city has drawn between $70 million and $90 million of an approximately $325 million federal loan for lead service line replacements that expires next year

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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · 25d
Monsoon floods that have killed more than 950 people and evacuated millions in Pakistan this summer were intensified by climate change. The climate crisis is here and now, more @insideclimatenews.org
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Climate Change-Driven Floods Continue to Displace Millions in Pakistan - Inside Climate News
More than 2 million people have been displaced in Pakistan since June of this year, as floods continue to cause destruction across a country still reeling from the devastation of relentless climate sh...
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Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco @juanpab.bsky.social · Aug 28
We got big project out today about Chicago’s lead pipes. The news is we mapped them all. The big idea is that Chicago residents are living through a public health crisis, and we wanted to help them visualize their place in it.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Aug 28
This is the latest in our ongoing series on Chicago’s lead pipe problem. Check out the other stories here + resources on how to stay safe!

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Lead City - Inside Climate News
Digging into Chicago's massive lead pipe problem
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Aug 28
Chicago has the most lead service lines of any city in the county. We mapped out which neighborhoods are hit hardest. Mega collab out today from me, @peteraldhous.com @juanpab.bsky.social @compatibilism.bsky.social + @amyqin.bsky.social

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Chicago Has a Huge Lead Pipe Problem—and We Mapped It - Inside Climate News
Lead water service lines are all over the city. But majority Black and Latino neighborhoods bear the biggest burden, our analysis finds.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 22
"[Drummond] shouldn’t be shipping coal to the state of Israel in the first place, given Israel’s persistent human rights record,” one protester told @insideclimatenews.org near the company's corporate campus on Friday. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/2208202...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · Aug 8
Thousands are being forced to evacuate in Southern California as the Canyon Fire grows rapidly, fueled by extreme heat and dry conditions.
Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate - Inside Climate News
It’s among the wildfires that are raging in North America and Europe as climate change creates dangerous conditions, posing immediate and long-term dangers to human health.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · Jul 22
The petrochemical industry didn’t like the science that the EPA was putting out on chemical risks. Now, the office responsible for that work has been eliminated by the Trump administration and the future of agency risk assessments is uncertain.
Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal - Inside Climate News
Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 17
Chicago residents: tell the city what heat interventions you want prioritized here! northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 17
In the neighborhoods where Black residents were hit hardest by Chicago's 1995 heat wave, many systemic disparities remain unaddressed.
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30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem - Inside Climate News
CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she’d known since she was a child had been found dead on the steps of a church...
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 14
Eight months past a federal deadline, >90% of at-risk Chicagoans haven't been warned that their water may be contaminated with lead. 2nd story in our summer lead pipes series is out @insideclimatenews.org @grist.org @wbez.org, from me + @juanpab.bsky.social

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Chicago Was Supposed to Warn Residents About Toxic Lead Pipes. It’s Barely Started - Inside Climate News
This story is a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News and WBEZ. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropo...
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 3
139 EPA employees were put on administrative leave today for signing a petition (on their own time) that expressed disagreement with the administration. Very important unpacking here from @lisasorg.bsky.social and @shamaan.bsky.social

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EPA Employees Called on the Agency to Stop Undermining Public Health. The Trump Administration Put Them on Leave - Inside Climate News
The 139 employees signed a petition dissenting with recent EPA actions, saying they endanger the public.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 2
Air pollution is making the gene-level mutations in lung cancer tumors of nonsmokers look a lot like those in smokers' lungs. New research from NIH today @insideclimatenews.org
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NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers - Inside Climate News
Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that particulate matter pollution impacts lung cancer at the DNA level.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jun 27
“It’s like you got a mask on,” Curtis Hackett said. “It’s just like you got a fan on and it’s blowing hot air, that’s exactly how I feel.”

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For Unhoused People in Chicago, There’s No Escaping This Heat
People experiencing homelessness are particularly vulnerable to the health ramifications of extreme heat, which is worsening due to climate change. Finding a cool place at night is a particular challe...
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jun 26
Chicago has the most lead service lines of any city in the country, and its current plan to replace them is lagging behind a federal mandate. This story kicks off our summer series on lead pipes in Chicago, with @insideclimatenews.org, @wbez.org and @grist.org

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Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline - Inside Climate News
Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
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Beyond Plastics @beyondplastics.bsky.social · Jun 15
"It’s a rogues’ gallery of polluters that have lined up to oppose the bill," Enck says. @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social: Put #NewYork over industry profits. Pass the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act. @insideclimatenews.org @laurendalban.bsky.social
New York City Has a Trash Problem. A Packaging Reduction Bill Could Help - Inside Climate News
A proposal in the state Legislature that would require a steep drop in non-recyclable packaging faces fierce opposition from businesses that would have to meet new package and recycling demands.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · Jun 13
Any economic benefit from the Trump administration’s retreat on climate policy would be overwhelmed by the negative costs of air pollution and contraction in clean energy jobs, a new study says.
Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035 - Inside Climate News
As the Trump administration makes the economic case for the repeal of climate policies, sobering numbers emerge on health and energy costs.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · May 25
President Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday focused on speeding up nuclear energy development by reducing regulations that officials said have “choked” the industry for decades.
Trump Signs Executive Orders to Boost Nuclear Energy, Reduce Oversight - Inside Climate News
The orders emphasize streamlining nuclear energy for defense and AI projects, and call for a “substantial” overhaul of the agency that ensures the industry doesn’t harm public health and safety.
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · May 22
The show was inspired in part by the death of Michael Broadway, who died of asthma during a heat wave at Stateville Correctional Center. Extreme heat, combined with inadequate healthcare, is one of the many climate-related hazards facing incarcerated people across the country
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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · May 22
In Chicago, artists highlight environmentally hazardous prison conditions and draw links between abolition and environmental justice — the show is staying up through June 7!

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In Chicago, Artists Imagine a World Without Prisons or Environmental Hazards - Inside Climate News
An exhibition featuring work from incarcerated artists highlights links between environmental and climate injustice and the prison system.
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