America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports
This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism
Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the Louisiana coast.
MORE from @garretthazelwood.bsky.social, with @floodlightnews.org @typeinvestigations.org & @veritenews.org
People want to ride bikes
Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest:
reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...
Normal people: I hate to be the one to tell you this
Reporters: I went to journalism school to be the one to tell you this
infuriating must-read piece by my colleague @alexcuadros.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.
Do you ever look at the edges of your chipped nail polish and think they look like tiny eroding coasts? The way the polish pulls back from the edges of the nail resembles how water eats away at land over time
Cutting 11 journalists and doing it in the style of your newsletters 😳
how are you even qualified to judge whether JAMA of all things is biased towards a particular therapy beyond the word of clinicians, who have arrived at a very firm consensus on this specific topic? appalling arrogance
A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump.
Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
""for the companies well-positioned to make the most of suddenly rising natural gas prices, “it’s a gold rush,” Williams-Derry said. “I’ve often described the oil and gas industry’s financial strategy as ‘pray for war,’” he said. “That is how they make money.”"
insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
New data centers could double one utility’s electricity load – with power from coal. But key details are blacked out. Should ratepayers be worried?
Little debby cakes are also incredible if you need a fast sugar hit on like a long bike ride. They also taste much better and are way cheaper than gu
Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups.
Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency.
The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.
What can you do with a history degree?
I was not expecting Bad Bunny to celebrate the work of linemen during halftime but I'm here for it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure foreign investors.
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself
Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature.
This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities.
Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee.
ecori.org/the-usual-su...
haha I think it's more because it's a very international city. There's a WhatsApp group for every bike ride. There's one for my apartment complex and my work. And, I'm in another group for climate related things in town.
No one told me how many WhatsApp groups it would take to have a social life in Miami
solid methodology
The Trump FBI raided the author's home today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
