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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 3d

"The Interior Department, which is furloughing thousands of workers, will keep processing permits for new oil and gas projects." #TrumpShutdown

Trump to Keep Oil Permits Moving in Shutdown, Freezes Renewables

The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on “priority conventional energy projects” during the government shutdown but will freeze activities on so...

www.bloomberg.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 21d

Don't take my word for it. Listen to the kids:

Protect their health, their communities, and their futures. Protect the endangerment finding.

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · 21d

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

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · Sep 5

“The finding has “profound implications” for preventing the neurodegenerative disorder […] with scientists calling for a concerted effort to improve air quality by cutting emissions ….”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests

Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

www.theguardian.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Sep 5

The percentage of Americans who "strongly disapprove" of the job Trump is doing as POTUS is 2x as large as the % who "strongly approve"

This is a pretty bearish signal for the GOP in this year's off-yr elections. & this is why he's trying to rebrand the OBBB

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-str...

Trump's "strongly disapprove" numbers are record-setting (not in a good way)

Nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job he's doing as president. That is starting to have political costs

www.gelliottmorris.com

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Sep 1

That’s just what I needed!

sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Aug 19

Boo

sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Don’t ask what nature can do for you . . .

Measuring and ranking countries’ efforts to protect animal and plant life will incentivise us to achieve a better future

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Aug 14

Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-...
Comment to the EPA on the proposed deregulation of greenhouse gases.

Regulations.gov

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Jul 21

nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... new paper on climate concern among Canadian youth.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Jul 21

NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts

Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

www.nature.com

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 12

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy

Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.

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Isabella Cueto @isabellacueto.bsky.social · Jul 9

On June 18, HHS said it would soon release ethics and conflict-of-interest documents for new vaccine advisers appointed by RFK Jr. to the ACIP. That group's first meeting came and went.

Now, HHS appears to be backpedaling.

www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...

HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest

RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.

www.statnews.com

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Jun 25

I want to share this new paper in Nature, which I hope will be influential: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

An aspirational approach to planetary futures - Nature

The Nature Relationship Index offers a new way to measure and engage human aspirations to shape a better future for people and all life on Earth.

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sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · Jun 17

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a… greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life

Everything we offer at Greater Good is based on scientific research. Now that work is being threatened.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

sdclayton.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social · May 23

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IOPP Environment and Energy (@iopp-environment.bsky.social)

🌍 Environmental Research: Health has been accepted for indexing by Web of Science! 🎉 Read more about #ERH here 👉 https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2752-5309 #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalScience #Cli...

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · May 8

Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change:

"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"

collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · May 8

NEW: I obtained a handy little flowchart on how the Trump administration plans to fund (or not fund) research about the health effects of climate change.

Out: work on why climate change is happening, climate anxiety, literacy or education
In: Health effects of extreme weather (eg wildfires)