Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. #writerslife #WritingCommmunity
Bonn Climate Summit: Health Community Demands Ambition on Ending Fossil Fuel Dependence and Robust Investment in Protecting Communities bit.ly/sb62health #sb62 #health @jenimiller.bsky.social @jessbeagley.bsky.social
The Climate-ConsciousWriters Handbook is now available from the Climate Fiction Writers League. climate-fiction.org/the-climate-...
NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly!
Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest.
#NoKings #50501Movement
Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians
House Tries to Block California from Cleaning Its Own Air
Trump just gutted California’s clean air waivers. This will unleash 1.6 billion metric tons of emissions and saddle consumers with billions in extra fuel costs. It’s all part of this administration’s Polluters First Agenda.
We will fight this.
The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.
“I don’t think there’s any way to put this, other than saying that this is an unmitigated public health disaster" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated.
As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷♂️
On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!
A promotional graphic for the Healthy Climate America podcast. At the top, the podcast logo features a green and blue caduceus symbol with the text "Healthy Climate America." Below, two circular headshots are displayed: on the left, Lisa Patel, MD, MESc, labeled as "Host: Lisa Patel, Executive Director, The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health," and on the right, John Cook, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Center for Behavior Change." White soundwave graphics are in the background. The main text reads: "New Podcast Episode – Teaching the Choir to Sing: How Health Professionals Can Fight Misinformation." At the bottom, a green banner displays "Listen now: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica.
With the rampant spread of mis- and disinformation, how can health professionals fight back with the truth? @johnfocook.bsky.social joined @lisapatel.bsky.social for a new episode of Healthy Climate America to explore this question and more.
Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerca
Trump administration shuts down federal advisory committee on infection prevention
Critics say the move will put patients at risk at a time when threats from emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance are on the rise.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...
"The overall risk of threats and hazards occurring in the US has increased since this administration took over, while the capacity of our emergency management system is being diminished" @samlmontano.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#climaterisk #emergencymanagement
A table titled "Funding Levels Summary (in millions)" shows funding data for various U.S. federal agencies over fiscal years FY24, FY25, and the FY26 President's Budget Request (PBR). It includes five columns: Agency, FY24 Omnibus, FY25 CR (Continuing Resolution), FY25 Enacted, FY26 PBR, and % Change from FY25 to FY26 PBR. Agencies and their respective funding levels (in millions) and percent changes are: DOE (Department of Energy) FY24 Omnibus: $50,246.75 FY25 CR: $50,246.75 FY25 Enacted: $49,800 FY26 PBR: $45,100 % Change: -9.4% DOE Office of Science FY24 Omnibus: $8,240 FY25 CR: $8,240 FY25 Enacted: — FY26 PBR: $7,092 % Change: -13.9% EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) FY24 Omnibus: $9,158.89 FY25 CR: $9,158.89 FY25 Enacted: $9,100 FY26 PBR: $5,000 % Change: -54.5% NASA FY24 Omnibus: $24,875 FY25 CR: $24,875 FY25 Enacted: $24,800 FY26 PBR: $18,800 % Change: -24.3% NASA SMD (Science Mission Directorate) FY24 Omnibus: $7,334.20 FY25 CR: $7,565.70 FY25 Enacted: — FY26 PBR: $3,908.2 % Change: -46.7% NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) FY24 Omnibus: $997.02 FY25 CR: $997.02 FY25 Enacted: — FY26 PBR: NA % Change: NA NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) FY24 Omnibus: $6,319 FY25 CR: $6,319 FY25 Enacted: — FY26 PBR: $4,799 % Change: -24% NSF (National Science Foundation) FY24 Omnibus: $9,060 FY25 CR: — FY25 Enacted: $8,800 FY26 PBR: $3,900 % Change: -55.8% USGS (United States Geological Survey) FY24 Omnibus: $1,455.43 FY25 CR: $1,455.43 FY25 Enacted: — FY26 PBR: $891.43 % Change: -38.8% Red text is used to denote percentage decreases in FY26 PBR compared to FY25. Several entries for FY25 Enacted are missing or denoted with a dash. NIEHS has no FY26 PBR or percent change listed.
This is not a science budget. This is a massacre.
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“Unconstitutional retaliation and viewpoint discrimination.”
As we keep saying, an EO is not a law.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
AGU GeoHealth, Current Environmental Health Reports, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, (assuming others are too, feel free to add) stepping in to help with the big loss of #EHP 🧪
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An emerging story over the past 1-2 weeks is that NIH has started reinstating some grants it previously terminated.
We don't yet fully understand what's happening, but it wasn't magic. Advocacy works. Keep up the pressure!
@stephaniemlee.bsky.social with the story👇
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If you care about American children, read this: Toxic Toys and the Death of Oversight open.substack.com/pub/blanphea... Then contact your member of Congress and the White House and tell them start protecting our children from the companies that prioritize profits over people's health.
The first 100 days of the Trump Administration have been chaotic, costly, created economic uncertainty, challenged our constitution, and weakened our institutions, alliances, and credibility.
The EPA canceled 781 grants worth billions of dollars aimed at helping people and communities deal with the impacts of climate change.
Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our data on terminated NIH and NSF grants are collected from submissions from affected researchers as well as government websites and databases. We encourage researchers, program officers, and grant administrators to submit information via the forms here (NIH) and here (NSF) to help us keep our data up to date.
With NIH + NSF grants being so chaotically cancelled, the government is making it difficult for anyone to track the impact of these cuts
So kudos to @noamross.net, @scott-delaney.bsky.social, + affected researchers for collaborating on such excellent crowdsourced trackers!
grant-watch.us
Scientists can’t speak under The New American Papacy
Ex-NIH chief says he was "not allowed to speak" under Trump administration
www.axios.com/2025/04/28/t...
More on this concern, as I was able to share with the NYT:
“There may well be a sixth National Climate Assessment...The question is whether it is going to reflect credible science and be of real use to our communities as they prepare for climate change.”
State Department eliminates Office of Global Change, which has led US involvement in UNFCCC, IPCC, etc
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 BY EMAIL Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice Dear Deputy Attorney General Blanche, The Department placed each of us on administrative leave ostensibly to review our, and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office's, handling of the Adams case. It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case. We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none. We have served under Presidents of both parties, advancing their priorities while pursuing justice without fear or favor. The role of a career prosecutor is not to set policy. But a prosecutor must abide by the oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the rules of professional ethics set by the bar and the courts. The Department has long understood that these duties can and should coexist with the need to follow Department policies and orders. This is to the benefit of all: the courts, defendants, and the public, who can have confidence in the good faith and judgment of line prosecutors; the Department, which retains credibility while still receiving zealous advocacy from its lawyers; and the prosecutors themselves, who can stand in court confident that they are ethically carrying out their duties. Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington. That is wrong. Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign. Sincerely, Celia V. Cohen Andrew Rohrbach Derek Wikstrom Assistant United States Attorneys
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
