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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 16h

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is scrapping a 2001 rule that protects 58m acres of the most prized forests in the US "so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money."

I went to the forest where the roadless rule was unveiled to find out what's at stake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 6d

this sums up a root cause of a lot of things happening at the moment jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 14d

World leaders rally to release new emission reduction targets a day after Donald Trump calls climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world” in scathing and often fact-free UN speech www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks

Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 15d

"Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. It’s like being woken in the night by a burglar wearing a striped shirt and carrying a bag marked “Swag”" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 17d

In Chicago - what a city this is - to see the first organized swim in its cleaned up river in 98 years

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 21d

Scientists at 'de-extinction' company say they’ve made a "pivotal step" in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years

Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22d

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 22d

"Residents in the area no longer pile their garbage up on sidewalks, but building supers instead toss their bags in the bins"

my word, you know it might just work, New York gothamist.com/news/no-more...

No more trash piles: City to install garbage bins in hundreds of Brooklyn parking spaces

The sanitation department aims to roll out large on-street containers in some of Brooklyn's most populated areas.

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 26d

Sales of plant-based meat have plummeted amid a surging pro-meat trend in the US, pushed by online influencers and the Trump administration.

The number of vegetarians in the US is even lower than it was in 2001, despite meat's huge toll upon the planet. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Why vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘Not our moment’

Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 27d

down with this sort of thing www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Barcelona in Miami; Milan in Perth? Welcome to the league of anywhere | Jonathan Liew

What goes on tour, stays on tour as Uefa meets on Thursday to discuss La Liga’s and Serie A’s request to play competitive matches abroad

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 28d

Global greenhouse gas emissions edged up in the first half of 2025 due to a rise in pollution from the US.

It may be a sign of things to come - Trump's pro-fossil fuel policies are set to badly slow cuts to planet-heating emissions, new forecast finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 29d

House committee releases image of apparent Trump birthday note and entire Epstein album www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

House committee releases image of apparent Trump birthday note and entire Epstein album

Image mirrors report of letter, turned over by estate lawyers after subpoena and part of ‘infamous “Birthday Book”’

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 5

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers?

REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes

C: It wasn't that they make mistakes

F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Sep 4

I stand by my offer to appear on Joe Rogan and set the record straight about our half-billion-year temperature reconstruction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong

Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Sep 4

For months, Joe Rogan has told his huge audience that a study shows the world is cooling, disproving "horseshit" climate science.

The study's authors say he has this completely wrong. We are now in an era where many now get news from figures like Rogan. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong

Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say in withering and comprehensive review www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say

Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 22

🤡 "So dumb" 🤡

The operator of coal-fired plant in Michigan wanted to close it. But Trump forced it to keep running at a cost of $1m a day.

#climatecrisis
Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1m a day

A town had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Aug 14

Fantastic exercise by Carbon Brief to go through Trump's controversial climate report.

They found the report, by 5 handpicked researchers with fringe views on climate change, has least 100 false or misleading statements interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...?

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

interactive.carbonbrief.org

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Aug 11

the New Yorker has calculated how much Donald Trump and his immediate family will have gained financially from two presidential terms.

It is $3.4 billion.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

www.newyorker.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Aug 10

For a couple of days a year, we get to forget about cars

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Aug 7

National parks staff say they're doing multiple jobs as prized parks degrade amid Trump cuts.
- ecological work now being ignored
- safety a worry, from lack of lifeguards to visitors leaving food out in Yosemite, luring bears
- impacts will last years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts

Park bosses say they’re running visitor centers and even cleaning bathrooms as remaining staff try to keep sites open

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · Aug 6

A Trump admin report last week claimed the Great Barrier Reef has enjoyed a "recent rebound" and "considerable growth."

Australian scientists have just confirmed the reef has suffered its biggest annual drop in live coral since the 1980s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching

Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events

www.theguardian.com

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Aug 5

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:

www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Aug 2

I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The report is "tedious" and at times "truly wearisome", according to Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University. Kopp recently worked on a paper showing how rising temperatures and drought will worsen crop yields, counter to the report's claims that crops will flourish with extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

"Carbon dioxide fertilization is largely irrelevant to how increasingly extreme heat and intense drought will impact crop yields," Kopp said. "As a former department of energy fellow, I'm embarrassed by this report."

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