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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould

@enviroprof.bsky.social
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Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
Merchants of Doubt are going after extreme event attribution www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In this class we're in the middle of reading about ways that AI has already harmed real people in its actual applications. There are so many examples (and that list is growing everyday) that it's not possible to cover them all. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Occasional reminder that all efforts to address the ecological crisis without changing the structure of the political-economy will fail.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you're Catholic & believe in church-defined sin, there are a lot of new official sinners now, including fossil-fuel company execs, climate deniers, & billionaire eco-destroyers. "Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation & the Creator’ www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A federal judge just killed New York's $75 billion climate bill for polluters. Fossil fuel companies would have been charged for climate damages. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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A federal judge just killed New York's $75 billion climate bill for polluters
Fossil fuel companies would have been charged for climate damages.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 04/09/2026
Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air #Climate
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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Existing approaches are no longer fit for purpose... I think, for me, that’s the clarion call. We now have to reconfigure our climate governance around dealing with an overshoot pathway.” - Prof Debra Roberts, a report author and co-chair of the @ipcc.bsky.social
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Permafrost is thawing deeper and it’s happening worldwide. A new study of 156 monitoring sites found that the active layer, the soil that thaws each summer, increased significantly at many sites from 2000–2024. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Long-term monitoring of active layer thickness confirms global permafrost degradation - Communications Earth & Environment
Active-layer thickness increased at 55% and 38% of Arctic and Antarctic sites, and >90% in European, Asian, and South American mountains, driven by increasing thawing degree-days and rainfall, acco...
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Expecting dozens of dissertations on American quiescence.
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As anthropogenic climate change triggers the collapse of the cryosphere, Himalayan valleys have become extremely vulnerable to catastrophic floods like the one in Nepal yesterday. Bhutan, Nepal, and Sikkim all have major economic, population, and cultural centers along these river valleys.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A year ago, the Swiss town of Blatter was destroyed by an ice-rock avalanche. Now hundreds are missing Nepal owing to the same kind of disaster. This only going to become more common as the climate warms.
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The 2025 Blatten disaster in the Swiss Alps followed exceptional warming and highlights the vulnerability of people and heritage in glaciated landscapes - Communications Earth & Environment
On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Rasuwa disaster in Nepal today. Original post
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"The United States has doubled down on its opposition to plastic production limits in global treaty talks, pushing to create a broad loophole to disregard the treaty on national security grounds." National security grounds??
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Leaked memo shows how U.S. aims to weaken global limits on plastic pollution
A memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point.
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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise. | Marcel Llavero Pasquina, from ICTA-UAB, hopes his research would be used to support excluding fossil fuel producers from any role in setting international climate goals. grist.org/accountabili...
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Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Liquidating the biosphere to create billionaires was a bad idea.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A corporate death penalty is a legal process that forces a corporation to dissolve or cease to exist.
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Bring back the corporate death penalty
We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate. Ancient and veteran trees are being disproportionately affected." 😢
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England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of #climate change extinctions. With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. "
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Climate change extinctions
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould @enviroprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every so often it is worth reiterating that there is zero possibility of solving the climate crisis, let alone the larger ecological crisis, within the current structure of the global political economy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Trump regime has withdrawn federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual report that compiles data from hundreds of scientists and specialists, highlighting the region’s warming, dwindling sea ice, and other environmental transformations.
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Trump Administration Kills Annual Arctic Report Card (Gift Article)
The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A simple point that surprisingly few people understand: "The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to 2C."
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How to stop global warming
The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"'Tipping points' may actually be fracture points - when key institutions & systems break from intense, cumulative stress. We still do not fully understand how sensitive the Earth system is to human impacts. We are well beyond incremental, 'policy relevant' pathways. Think wartime mobilisation."
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Pookah Girl ציפא חנה @sas9701.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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'Taken for a Ride' Documentary About the Auto Industry
Taken for a Ride begins with interviews on the inefficiencies and congestion on Los Angeles' highways. Next, the film displays a variety of archival footage on streetcar systems around the United Stat...
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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'm all for "climate adaptation," but honestly I don't know how we can adapt to this level of climate disruption of agriculture. Farmers can't "adapt" to chronic drought and heatwaves. Crops don't "adapt" -- they wither. I don't think we fully understand where we're headed.
theguardian.com
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Climate change is coming for nuclear power plants.
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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.
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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What is climate gentrification? Why house prices are rising outside of Europe's city centres New ICTA-UAB research led by amaliacaar.bsky.social www.euronews.com/2026/07/23/w...
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Hot property: How climate gentrification is driving up house prices
Extreme heat is not only making cities less liveable; it’s also reshaping who can afford to live where.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's the latest from @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social: Rebranding geoengineering as "climate stabilization" is a bad idea because it suggests the climate can be controlled and held steady, obscuring ongoing ecological change, political tradeoffs, and questions of whose "stability" is prioritized.
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Selling Stability: The Problem with Pitching “Climate Stabilization” as a New Category of Climate Response — African Tech Futures Lab
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The future of climate change keeps moving into the present. The future of climate action… somehow stays in the distant future. A fascinating new study analysing 240,000+ US news stories reveals how news coverage may be normalising delay. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Temporal horizons in US climate change news - Nature Climate Change
Whether news presents climate change as something happening now or in the future impacts public risk perceptions and climate action. A recent study shows that, in US news, the timing of anticipated cl...
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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yet again, the future has already arrived. "Waterways across Europe have been affected by prolonged heatwaves and ​drought this year and the average peak ​temperature across Western Europe on Monday was forecast ⁠to be 26.2 degrees Celsius, 2.7 degrees above ​the normal high for July 20..."
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Danube water levels reach lowest in 30 years, hampering farming and shipping
Water levels of the Danube river in Romania fell to their lowest since 1996 ​over the weekend, prompting irrigation restrictions for ‌farmers and partially disrupting shipping and tourism along its ba...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"If you were on a big boat, like the Titanic, & someone comes up to you & says the boat's going down, you bloody well get on those lifeboats & start acting & do stuff" "We're not doing that. The ship is starting to sink in a really massive way, & we're not seeing it as what it is. It is so serious"
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Great Barrier Reef at risk of 'collapse', scientists warn
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse" linked to this year's El Nino weather phenomenon, top scientists warn.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#1-INSANE MINIMUMS 35.0 Djangeldi UZBEKISTAN HOTTEST NIGHT 33.7 Achisaj 43.5N 822m asl ‼️ KAZAKHSTAN HOTTEST NIGHT 32.4 Turkestan,29.1 Almaty TURKMENISTAN 33.8 Bagtiyarlyk,32.8 Sarakhs,32.2 Turkmenbat 29.5 Parkhar TAJIKISTAN HOTTEST NIGHT IRAN 29.6 Ferdows 🇰🇬 24.6 Kara Su
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EXTRAORDINARY July Records smashed allover the Hemisphere in Namibia,Zambia,Botwana,Zimbabwe,Madagascar,Malawi up to TANZANIA where the National record of July highest temperature was pulverized: 33.8C Tabora 1200m asl It will get worse. Most record breaking event in Southern Africa history
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures" in June (post below) Now, in July: "Malta is living the most extreme heat wave in history" bsky.app/profile/extr...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
These will be among the iconic images of the global warming era. Such sadness and awe
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 16/07/2026
Train crew in Canada 'encased' by intense flames amid wildfires - video #Climate
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Train crew in Canada 'encased' by intense flames amid wildfires - video
More than 100 wildfires are currently burning in Canada, with winds carrying the smoke southeast
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Once upon a time, there were glaciers in Montana. There was even a place called Glacier National Park.
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There are some crimes that happen all at once, with smoke and sirens. Then there are the quiet ones. The kind committed with a pen. The Trump administration’s decision to open endangered species’ habitats to development won’t make the evening news the way a hurricane or wildfire does.
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‘Death sentence’: Trump administration to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/07/2026
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 09/07/2026
Trump's latest abuse of the pardon power? Rewarding people convicted of intentionally polluting and violating clean air laws.
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Trump pardons 11 people, including several for Clean Air Act violations | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people on Friday, a White House official told CNN, including several individuals who violated the Clean Air Act aimed at cutting down on emissions and improving air ...
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Comment period for Vought’s OMB rule that puts unaccountable political commissars directly in charge of American science funding closes in 5 days. Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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