This photo of me was taken almost simultaneous with this interview going to air (featuring my struggles with #ecogrief ). When Bob did his original interview with me in April, I was sitting in the shade of the trees under the huge smoke plume

The approval of an 800 MW solar project recently in Ohio came as a surprise to some who had watched the state reject projects that had local opposition. Here's what happened and why, based on months of reporting: insideclimatenews.org/news/18052024/…

Hard to beat listening to Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis when you have to do mind-numbing database work youtu.be/e6pEIHtffqQ?si…

My colleague Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 facing down the intimidation tactics of the fossil fuel industry.

New today at The Open Notebook – a free Science Journalism Master Class, How to Excel at Interviewing, taught by @NewmarkJSchool’s Emily Laber-Warren, with insights from Karen Kwon, Liza Gross, Karen Emslie and many others. theopennotebook.com/science-journa…

Must-read: A Texas tribe’s desperate fight to protect ancestral land in the #RioGrande delta texasobserver.org/forgotten-keep… Texas Observer Inside Climate News Dylan Baddour

Turn on your toaster, bulldoze a Joshua tree? Flip a light switch, feed an endangered tortoise to a badger? California can build a better solar powered future.☀️

“We should question our right to harm other beings based on human ideas of who belongs or how nature should be.” Thank you, Michelle Nijhuis, for bringing ethics, and hubris, to the prospect of so much killing hcn.org/articles/killi… via High Country News

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event...I could not feel greater despair over the future.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I think about my colleague James Bruggers's dogged #plasticspollution reporting each time I pick up a piece of the stuff, and each time I see a new study about how pervasive it has become in the web of life. Definitely check out the landing page. insideclimatenews.org/project/bag-it/

Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month. The cause has not been found. Melody Petersen latimes.com/california/sto… Los Angeles Times

Must-read reporting from Liza Gross about the harmful impacts of oil & gas drilling across CA. An average idle well leaks 1/3 of a ton of methane EACH YEAR in addition to other health-harming carcinogens.

Our communities deserve better.

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