Kirti M
@kirmal.bsky.social
Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
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The Trump administration has scrapped two financial oversight committees that assessed risks posed by climate change.
Trump Administration Scraps Oversight Groups on Climate and Financial Risk
The Financial Stability Oversight Council revoked the charters of two climate-focused committees formed under the Biden administration.
bloom.bg
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Trump administration has scrapped two financial oversight committees that assessed risks posed by climate change.
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The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.
The CDC’s Cuts to FoodNet Could Threaten Americans’ Health
Public health experts worry that downsizing the sprawling FoodNet surveillance system could make it harder to prevent food-borne illnesses.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.
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BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind.
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind.
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…
www.propublica.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.
(Published Aug. 2024)
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1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning
Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.
www.forbes.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
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Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.
Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
July 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.
Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
The flights are all turbulent, the storms are all catastrophic, the plants are all scorched or frozen. There is no peace in a world on fire.
Unprecedented will be the new normal. Welcome to our climate changed future.
'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe
Dozens of the country's mainland regions are currently under the second-highest alert as the heatwave continues.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The flights are all turbulent, the storms are all catastrophic, the plants are all scorched or frozen. There is no peace in a world on fire.
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The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
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The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
June 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
The only way to survive is to elect fierce climate leaders and get your financial portfolio out of the fossil fuel industry.
turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...
Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country
Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.
prospect.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The only way to survive is to elect fierce climate leaders and get your financial portfolio out of the fossil fuel industry.
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Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Earth set to exhaust ‘carbon budget’ within 3 years as Paris hopes fade
Goal of limiting warming to 1.5C looks increasingly out of reach, study finds
on.ft.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Dissent is in the suburbs and in the countryside.
I love seeing the massive #NoKings turnouts in major cities, but what I love even more are the hundreds and hundreds of small, rural towns that had relatively bigger turnouts compared to their populations 💙🙏
June 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Dissent is in the suburbs and in the countryside.
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This is not just stupid and cruel. It's about the weaponization of extreme heat as a political tool.
A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
NOAA's Center for Heat Resilient Communities would have helped local officials keep residents safe.
www.motherjones.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is not just stupid and cruel. It's about the weaponization of extreme heat as a political tool.
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Burning fossil fuels superheats the planet. That heat kills outdoor workers, including workers in the oil fields. But the companies that make billions from the oil & gas produced in those fields not only don't care about their cooked workers, they actively fight laws to protect them.
May 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Burning fossil fuels superheats the planet. That heat kills outdoor workers, including workers in the oil fields. But the companies that make billions from the oil & gas produced in those fields not only don't care about their cooked workers, they actively fight laws to protect them.
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
Republicans are pushing us towards an unlivable planet.
By @alejandrabee.bsky.social
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Republicans are pushing us towards an unlivable planet.
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Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
www.propublica.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Data generated by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has helped to successfully avoid a repeat of a 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when nearly half a million people were warned to not drink the water or even touch it.
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine.
Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease
Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 and 64 years old each year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine.
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Reminder: those responsible for fires & floods have names & job titles.
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...
apnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reminder: those responsible for fires & floods have names & job titles.
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This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.
Xi Commits China to Tougher Climate Targets as US Retreats
China’s President Xi Jinping committed the world’s top polluter to more stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade in global climate talks that took place without the US.
www.bloomberg.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.
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I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
April 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans.
Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.
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Trump’s budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
More than 1 million parents wouldn't be able to go to work under the proposal, the National Head Start Association warns.
More than 1 million parents wouldn't be able to go to work under the proposal, the National Head Start Association warns.
Exclusive: Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.
www.usatoday.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
More than 1 million parents wouldn't be able to go to work under the proposal, the National Head Start Association warns.
More than 1 million parents wouldn't be able to go to work under the proposal, the National Head Start Association warns.
"A single large tree can provide a cooling effect equivalent to 10 room-sized air conditioners operating for 20 hours per day"
"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging...
"An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
"An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"A single large tree can provide a cooling effect equivalent to 10 room-sized air conditioners operating for 20 hours per day"