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Ilana Berger

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Climate research for Media Matters. Global superstar & activist. Views are my own. Writing: www.mediamatters.org/author/ilana-b…

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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As always, Evlondo making important observations.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've watched this person's following grow in an alarming way. To those familiar with it, her language has always signaled conspiracy theorist. I think many see her content and don't realize what her views are. Great work @alexhannaford.com heated.world/p/the-influe...
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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So paying companies to take jobs elsewhere www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...
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Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
For @mmfa.bsky.social: The MAHA-aligned crowd is still defending RFK Jr. But some notable figures can't ignore his failure to disrupt Trump's close relationship with Big Ag, and what that could mean for the movement. Still unclear if they'll ever draw a line. www.mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-ex...
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Joe Rogan gave RFK Jr. a platform to defend the administration’s embrace of glyphosate, but some other MAHA personalities aren’t letting it go so easily
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🚨The @mmfa.bsky.social 2025 broadcast study on climate coverage is out. There has been a pretty steep decline ↘️ 2022: 23 hours 2023: 17 hours 2024: 12 hours 2025: 8.5 hours
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Evlondo Cooper III @evlondocooper.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great analysis from my colleague @ilanaberger.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/robert-f-ken...
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Rogan complains about glyphosate, then gives the administration a pass by ignoring Trump's recent executive order boosting the herbicide ingredient
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I wonder how Bezos' boots taste? What an accomplishment to truly be the paper of the billionaire class, despised by the people. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach
If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Oh, and, as it happens ... bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Today we won. A U.S. District Court ruled that the administration violated federal law when it secretly convened a group of climate contrarians to produce a thoroughly debunked report to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The science still matters. We won't stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 28/10/2025
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. 

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. 

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This declaration is a testament to the hard work of CAAD members & others who make sure climate disinformation stays on the agenda! Happy to see countries stepping up where the U.S. is failing miserably.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
With COP30 underway, Climate Action Against Disinformation releases a report showing how both Big Carbon and Big Tech are sabotaging climate action worldwide. Cites examples of legislation that has been effective in limiting the harms of disinformation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 13/11/2025
“The UN and the World Economic Forum have each declared that Climate Change and disinformation are the greatest threats to Humanity. To truly make this COP the COP of Truth, we need firmly established guardrails against mis and disinformation,” said UCS’s Kate Cell from #COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Talking climate disinformation at #COP30!
Photo of CAAD's press conference showing the speakers and crowd.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This coming right after Kathy Hochul endorses Mamdani is.. something. Sure glad we're learning lessons here. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana. For two decades, Fox News has weaponized disasters caused by supercharged storms to attack political opponents, push right-wing narratives, and deny climate change.
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From Katrina to Helene: A timeline of Fox News’ hurricane misinformation, harmful narratives, and climate denial
For two decades, Fox News has weaponized major disasters caused by supercharged storms to attack political opponents, push right-wing narratives, and deny climate change. Major storms that hit populated areas generate wall-to-wall TV news coverage. At its best, this coverage exposes systemic issues that leave certain populations vulnerable to disasters, keeps a spotlight on both rescue and recovery processes to keep accountable those responsible for disaster response, and discusses the link between our warming planet and the intensification of storms, along with solutions for reducing climate pollution.At its worst, coverage ignores these issues, downplaying or denying the role of climate change and using disasters to amplify false narratives and misinformation that serve a political agenda. In 20 years of hurricane reporting, Fox News’ coverage has predominately reflected the latter.Below is an overview of some of the major storms that have made landfall in the U.S. over the past 20 years – and how Fox covered them.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
For @mmfa.bsky.social: Murdoch Media is pushing an extremely misleading narrative about rate hikes across the country, and particularly in New Jersey. www.mediamatters.org/rupert-murdo...
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Murdoch media find a scapegoat for New Jersey’s high electric rates
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New from me ⬇️ Last week, UCS and EDF moved to block the EPA from attempting to repeal the endangerment finding. Hopefully, legal precedent and scientific reality can withstand this coordinated assault on climate action.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In a victory for free speech, Media Matters won a preliminary injunction against the retaliatory FTC investigation. Below are a statement from @goangelo.bsky.social and some key excerpts from the ruling.
A federal court in Washington, D.C. issued a preliminary injunction today blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters for America from moving forward while the court considers the lawsuit Media Matters filed on June 23. In response, Angelo Carusone, Chairman and President of Media Matters, issued the following statement:“The court’s ruling demonstrates the importance of fighting over folding, which far too many are doing when confronted with intimidation from the Trump administration. This case is not just about the campaign to punish and silence Media Matters, however. It is a critical test for whether the courts will allow any administration - from any political party - to bully media and non-profit organizations through illegal abuses of power. We will continue to stand up and fight for the First Amendment rights that protect every American.”Key excerpts from the court’s opinion:

“Speech on matters of public concern is the heartland of the First Amendment. The principle that public issues should be debated freely has long been woven into the very fabric of who we are as a Nation. Without it, our democracy stands on shaky ground. It should alarm all Americans when the Government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate. And that alarm should ring even louder when the Government retaliates against those engaged in newsgathering and reporting.”

“Media Matters engaged in quintessential First Amendment activity when it published an online article criticizing Mr. Musk and X.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/08/2025
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
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RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
First a correction: U.S. oil production has fallen over 300,000 bpd this year. Seems like that should have been mentioned in this article. It's already in decline. This isn't true: "U.S. energy companies are producing record amounts of oil"
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Analysis: Sliding US rig count outpaces efficiency gains, threatening onshore oil output
HOUSTON (Reuters) -The falling number of oil and gas rigs deployed across the United States is reaching a level that would indicate onshore crude output from the world's top producer could fall in ear...
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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We annotated some of the most, er, interesting lines in the DOE's new climate report with the help of scientists. New from me and the rest of the team: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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We fact-checked the Trump administration’s climate report
Scientists say the report cherry-picks key data and misrepresents the state of climate research.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New for @mmfa.bsky.social: We found that popular online shows pushed right-wing misinformation about #HurricaneHelene recovery efforts, and at least 5.7 million people listened. So, what does that mean for Atlantic hurricane season 2025? Nothing good. www.mediamatters.org/hurricanes/h...
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Half of the top 10 online shows spread misinformation or false narratives about Hurricane Helene in 2024
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
oh ok got it qz.com/1351489/trum...
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One Russian company seems thrilled with Trump’s move on asbestos
The US Environmental Protection Agency is moving to open new avenues to approve asbestos products, and at least one Russian asbestos producer seems thrilled about it. Earlier this summer, Uralasbest p...
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
National Conference of State Legislatures, which represents state lawmakers, is urging the Senate to reject the AI provision in the #BigBeautifulBill. And my mom talked to Wired about it! www.wired.com/story/a-poli...
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A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Kid at NYU just lost his diploma for speech you can overhear by tuning into the UN security council.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Right-wing media claim Trump is "fighting for the little guy" and "a man of the people," as the administration dismisses market realities to prop up expensive coal and eliminates resources to protect the health & safety of miners. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
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Trump's push to bring back coal finds support with right-wing media
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Long Island's south shore in Nassau County has the most to lose here. It's a special place. Would be heartbroken to see Jones Beach and the beautiful salt marshes disappear, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/n...
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In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding
The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
last year i quit my job as a reporter in congress with an essay saying they’d try to do a mass detransition if trump won — and the media wouldn’t cover it last week the WH declared all trans people child abusers & threatened prosecution against our medical providers nothing in: NYT, WaPo, Politico
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Why I’m leaving congressional journalism.
My experience as (probably) the only out trans reporter in Congress.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Weather influencers who say they try to stay out of politics are deeply worried about what the Trump admin is doing to NOAA & NWS. Less than a month after the massive cuts, we've had a week of absolutely hellish weather events that killed at least 42 people. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Storm chasers and meteorologists warn Trump's cuts to NOAA threaten public safety
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is where the last few years of criminalizing climate protest have been headed: newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Mother has permitted a crumb of good news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NYC Congestion Pricing Toll Gains Support Among City Residents
New York City’s controversial congestion pricing initiative is gradually gaining support, although the new toll has yet to win over a majority of voters.
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Evlondo Cooper III @evlondocooper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Broadcast correspondents provided essential climate coverage in 2024, including former CBS correspondent Ben Tracy and ABC's Ginger Zee. They, among other journalists, ensured climate stories remained in the public discourse amid competing news priorities. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...
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Broadcast correspondents covering climate change in 2024
In a year dominated by election coverage and international conflicts, climate coverage on broadcast news in 2024 was limited. However, many correspondents at corporate broadcast networks remained comm...
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
According to right-wing media, climate change-driven food shortages & poverty aren't contributing to immigration. But the number of ppl leaving the Central American Dry Corridor bc they can't grow crops anymore suggests otherwise. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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Right-wing media warp Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas’ comments on border crossings
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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is out. I personally know many of the contributors to the research included here. They follow the data, not their feelings, and the data tells a sobering story.
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
NEW: Right-wing media are using the cancellation of two offshore wind projects, Orsted's Ocean Wind 1 & 2, to rail against renewable energy. But experts see long-term growth for offshore wind despite setbacks. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...
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Right-wing figures are using the cancellation of two offshore wind projects to make misleading claim...
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Ilana Berger @ilanaberger.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
A U.S. citizen shot two government protesters in Panama. Matt Walsh blamed them for their own deaths & said activists like them are “little different morally than someone who goes outside and starts firing a gun into the air at random targets.” www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/m...
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Matt Walsh blames two protesters shot in Panama for their own deaths
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