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Josh Voorhees @joshvoorhees.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚨New from @fieldnotes.co + @drilledmedia.bsky.social: Energy Transfer has deployed a decade-old astroturf group it secretly funds in a bid to stop @greenpeace.org from suing it in Europe for intimidation: fieldnotes.co/reporting/en...

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Inside a Pipeline Giant’s Bid to Block Greenpeace’s Historic…

Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Why don't you like AI?" They plan to build "several" fracked-gas-fired power plants in NEPA for Blackstone's "$25 billion investment to build data centers." PA "is often cited as a prime location for the AI revolution given its abundant energy resources" aka fracking share.inquirer.com/kWyBT0

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Sen. McCormick, Trump announce billions in AI and energy investments in Pa. at innovation summit: ‘The nation’s future depends on us’

Republican Sen. Dave McCormick organized the summit, which drew appearances from President Trump, major tech CEOs and the state's most prominent Democrats.

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WIRED @wired.com · 15/07/2025

Eyewitness video filmed on Monday, July 14 showed floodwater surging onto the platform of New York’s 28th Street Station as passengers watched from a train car. Intense storms and heavy rainfall caused flooding across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with several flash flood warnings issued.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)

Close up of the 1865 Viele topographical map of manhattan showing the stream beneath 28th st and 7th avenue https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~305704~90076084:Topographical-Map-of-the-City-of-Ne

Stream flows east to west from higher ground btw 25th and 30th street and 5th and 6th avenues.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

NYC, tonight. Flash flooding has significantly affected the subway. This is the 28th Street station of the No. 1 train. The 1 is out, and the 2 and 3 trains are back in service with severe delays. E, F, M, and R trains are a mess too. Oh, and do *not* drive. Stay home.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

@cmu.edu students prepare for a visit from President Donald #Trump to their campus on July 15 for an "Energy & AI Summit" organized by Republican Pennsylvania Senator David McCormick that includes tech and fossil fuel execs. Numerous #protests are scheduled to occur nearby throughout the day.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Again, the hazard communication failures are not just in red states/governments.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I've been in a FUSRAP and thorium/REE hazmat management rabbithole lately and it's amazing what you can do with no oversight! My current fav is Apollo, PA, where nuclear waste was buried "in accordance with [AEC] regulations" between a river and a neighborhood over an undermined former coal mine.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 14/07/2025

June 2025 saw: • Wildfires across Canada • 46 °C in Spain • July 4th flash floods in Texas • Record-breaking heat from Tokyo to Texas And yet, climate coverage dropped 6% from May. And 28% from last June. 2/7

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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 14/07/2025

Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates. And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7

2004-2025 media coverage of climate change

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 14/07/2025

Les précipitations rapides ont causé des inondations et des pannes de courant. #orage

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Les orages de dimanche ont déversé jusqu’à 100 mm de pluie sur Montréal

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

So...are we feeling lucky? Because we're playing an increasingly high-stakes game of roulette with the global climate, and the house odds are decidedly not in our favor.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

So, in other words, our current policy trajectory would still yield essentially a doubling of the warming we've seen so far, with consequences far exceeding a doubling of those we've experienced to date.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

And there's a big covert campaign going on to just continue to convince us that "nerd" is a real identity with real characteristics that somehow completely shields this field from any kind of accountability or even admittance of the fact that it is a deeply segregated labor force.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In 2018, Philly rezoned a floodplain *literally in the middle of a river* to build luxury housing. City Council approved bc Councilman Jones pushed for it, arguing that "100-year" floods happen so often that "We have become pretty adept in that area." Not just red states! whyy.org/articles/lux...

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Lux townhouses are coming to a flood-prone island off the coast of Manayunk - WHYY

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I look forward to University of Delaware announcing how they'll protect international students from this shit

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Putting this in a larger context, this was extremely common after Hurricane Katrina for disaster cleanup and rebuilding workers (as it is generally). ~25% of Katrina cleanup workers were undocumented, plus the govt suspended major federal labor protections. antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

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View of Reflections from the Field: Disparate responses to labour exploitation in post-Katrina Louisiana | Anti-Trafficking Review

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Everyone should know that the U.S. *encourages* migrant children to do hard labor. Republicans know this but are purposely twisting this into a scandal based on lies rather than the horrifying truth. The NYT did an excellent investigative series in 2023: www.nytimes.com/series/alone...

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Alone and Exploited

An investigation into America's hidden migrant child workforce.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

are you fucking kidding me I'm glad to see Jeannette Sutton finally interviewed about this, though! “'There is no required training. There’s no certification process currently within IPAWS,' said Jeannette Sutton" but as ever, texts alerts and sirens are *not enough*!

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Reading a bunch of the EPA 2024 Transition Briefs for the incoming administration and it's heartwrenching to see the important and often overdue work we've lost. Indoor air and wildfire smoke guides, climate resilience planning tools, uranium cleanups in Navajo Nation... www.epa.gov/foia/2024-tr...

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2024 Transition Briefs FOIA Records Repository | US EPA

2024 Transition Briefs FOIA Records Repository

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

America’s own Tiananmen Tank Man

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Critical minerals news: DoD is becoming the largest shareholder in a U.S. rare earth metals company to expand their REE magnet production for the military. DoD is buying $400 million in stock, + a $150 million loan w/in 30 days + a fixed minimum price of $110/kg mpmaterials.com/news/mp-mate...

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MP Materials Announces Transformational Public-Private Partnership with the Department of Defense to Accelerate U.S. Rare Earth Magnet Independence

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Texas politicians have been loudly denying the link between climate change and extreme floods But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come

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Abbott says megafloods are “just part of nature.” The fossil fuel industry disagrees.

In leaked audio from a meeting last month, gas industry representatives acknowledged that extreme weather is getting wackier and more dangerous.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Some of us communicate as *part* of our jobs. But there are positions *dedicated* to these efforts. That's why we're so worried about the loss of Warning Coordination Meteorologists at the NWS. What I described above is what they do. Every day. In service to people. www.noaa.gov/jetstream/wfos

Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM)

Serves as the principal interface between the forecast office and the users of the forecast office products and services. This position is fully responsible for planning, coordinating, and carrying out area-wide public awareness program designed to educate the public to ensure the mitigation of death, injury, and property damage or loss caused by severe natural hydrometeorological events.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Bove is supposed to become a federal judge in Philly 🙃

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The only way in which Grok is smarter than me is that Grok isn't a PhD student

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Alerts from NWS Raleigh NC (UNOFFICIAL) @rdu.nws-bot.us · 10/07/2025

3 NW Archdale [Guilford Co, NC] Broadcast Media reports Flash Flood at 9 Jul, 10:13 PM EDT -- water rescue, car stuck in flood waters. at Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:22:31 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In other flash flood climate disaster news: At least three people in New Mexico are dead after "slow-moving thunderstorms brought torrential rain to the South Fork burn scar, an area affected by devastating wildfires last year that made it vulnerable to flooding." www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/w...

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Flash flood hits New Mexico mountain town, leaving at least 3 dead | CNN

At least three people, including two children, were killed and one person is missing after torrential rain triggered raging flash flooding Tuesday in a wildfire-scarred village in southern New Mexico,...

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I'm excited for hot takes about copper smelters and for the Department of Energy to reimagine Nicki Minaj's Anaconda for their social media pages

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Relatedly, Philly has had ~50000 flash flood warnings in the past week and a tornado *warning* yesterday yet the discussion locally and nationally is acting like Texas is the only place with a watershed.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s rich seeing major outlets who originally declined to write about FEMA’s shitty response in Texas just now publishing stories and without crediting my original reporting.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I'm biased, but I think the fixation on the NWS cuts here and "attacks on science" generally has something to do with this Or worse (and this is speculation), that the Helene FEMA misinfo and/or DHS connection make people less concerned for FEMA.

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G8erlaw68 @g8erlaw68.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Welp, apparently someone finally found Waldo.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

DHS Twitter account:
FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES!

Image of a skeleton doing squats with the text MY BODY IS A
THAT TURNS
MACHINE
ICE FUNDING
INTO
MASS DEPORTATIONS

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I have now received a response to a FOIA request about how AI was used to find fraud in narrative portions of asylum applications during Trump 1 and Biden. Trump 2 is using this same tool, the 2.0 version, more broadly. Guys: AI is not the way to do this.

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This has been me writing about military materials demand 😭. I caught myself writing a whole page of notes about the evolution of the Geneva Conventions

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

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DuPont agrees to settle lawsuit over Hoosick Falls water pollution

DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Looks like they agreed with some people on here that we should let our assumed political opponents drown!

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Dreamboat Annie @soulwithoutaking.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

they really do explicitly say—several times—that they are specifically not interested in warning "the crazy people", the people from Houston that build houses right on the river, the people they don't know, the people who aren't part of the phone tree: they explicitly don't want those people warned.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/07/2025

From a 2016 Commissioner's Court Regular Session: "Mr. Hewitt: Sirens did not seem to get very much support. The thought was that sirens are better for tourists than local residents. The sirens would only be beneficial for someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do."

legacy.co.kerr.tx.us

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Coryn Wolk @corynwolk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The opt-in alert system is like what has failed in Philly: the city used ReadyNotify for Tropical Storm Isaias floods, but only ~2% of city residents were enrolled for alerts, and half of those were email-only. The alerts were also only in English (they have added Spanish). whyy.org/articles/eme...

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Philly’s flood-prone Eastwick will finally get custom emergency alerts

In a place where flooding has required residents to be rescued by boat, the city wants a contractor to develop a better system of emergency alerts.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

And it contributes to the idea that the National Weather Service failed, which is a convenient theory for the state and local officials, without confirming it.

Then we get this: "A spokeswoman for the National Weather Service, Erica Grow Cei, did not answer questions from The New York Times about the Texas vacancies, including how long those positions had been open and whether those vacancies had contributed to the damage caused by the flooding." So no one is on the record from the NWS saying yes they did. So maybe we don't have a story at all.
More from the story: "Around midnight on Thursday, the San Angelo and San Antonio weather offices put out their first flash flood warnings, urging people to “move immediately to higher ground.” The office sent out additional flash flood warnings through the night, expanding the area of danger. It is not clear what steps local officials took to act on those warnings."
Local journalism suggests that these local officials did not take enough steps soon enough.
But the story just keeps raising questions without answering them. "An equally important question, he added, was how the Weather Service was coordinating with local emergency managers to act on those warnings as they came in." It was certainly issuing timely warnings.
Here's what Wired reports, with far less ambiguity: "And meteorologists say that the NWS did send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a flood watch for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash flood emergency alert by 4:30am."

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