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Keith Schneider

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Journalist reporting on global trends in water, energy, and agriculture. Writer for the New York Times, Circle of Blue, The New Lede, the Guardian.

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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wendell Berry understood that embracing efficiency, ever-higher crop yields, and confining farm animals in factory feeding operations was a system that antagonized principles of nature instead of working with them. www.circleofblue.org/2026/world/w...
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Wendell Berry’s Water Intelligence
Explore Wendell Berry's insights on water pollution and the impact of industrial agriculture on natural ecosystems.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s been a long time coming but the distaste for demon corn is well deserved. Here’s why. Corn is an absurdly prolific water polluter. The toxic products used to grow corn produce massive water contamination in every one of the corn-growing states. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Demon Corn
Discover how corn water pollution has become a significant problem affecting rural economies and public health.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
For the first time in over a century the farm sector’s biggest companies are encountering intensifying clamor for accountability for how they produce and market their products, as well as how they affect human health. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Despite Supreme Court Decision, Bayer Faces More Challenge Over Roundup
Explore the latest developments in Bayer Roundup lawsuits agriculture and their implications for farmers and consumers alike.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The veil of intimidation raised by the Farm Bureau and its farm sector allies is being shredded in Iowa. Pollution and cancer are on the ballot. Never has industrial ag come under this much scrutiny and criticism. Journalism played a huge part. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Toxic Terrain: How Journalism Helped Break Iowa's Farm Pollution Acquiescence
Explore the link between Iowa farm pollution and the rising cancer rate. Discover the environmental impact on public health.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ending barriers to new roads on lands where no bulldozer has tread is an outrage that should appall every American. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Trump Moves to Open America's Wildest Forests to the Bulldozer
KEY POINTS - The process began a year ago to delete a 25-year-old safeguard for wild forests. - Allowing new roads could open tens of millions of acres of forest – most of it untouched by industrial s...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I’m saddened by the death of James Bruggers, a great environmental journalist of my generation. Jim spent much of his consequential career reporting on the condition of land, water, air, and communities for the Louisville Courier Journal in Kentucky. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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James Bruggers, longtime environmental 'watchdog' for Kentucky, dies
James Bruggers, whose decades of environmental reporting in Kentucky and beyond helped win cleaner air and cleaner water, is dead at 68.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Donald Trump has a thing for ethanol. But why? Inordinately expensive to taxpayers, monstrously polluting, linked to cancer incidence in Corn Belt states, fermenting corn for fuel would appear to sane people as an insane pursuit. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Ethanol Was Marketed to Help Agriculture. But It Fouled Our Water and Injured Our Health.
Uncover the truths about ethanol in America: its costs, environmental impact, and the political motives behind its promotion.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The closure of the Strait accomplished what decades of climate and clean energy advocacy could not. It’s shifting big investments away from fossil-based energy and poured tens of billions of dollars into cleaner energy and transportation - except in U.S. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Solar, Wind, and E.V.s Rise from Shadow of Trump’s Iran War
Explore how China leads in clean energy and electric vehicles while the US lags behind in these crucial industries.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Utah wants to be a center of commercial nuclear manufacturing and power generation. Is it practical or impossible. Big goal that’s hard to reach. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04...
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Utah wants a new nuclear sector to rise in Brigham City. What will it take to pull it off?
Is Utah’s vision of an entirely new nuclear sector, including turning Brigham City into the Detroit, or Pittsburgh, or Silicon Valley of nuclear development, practical? Improbable? Or just plain impos...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
War gaming desal plants in the Middle East. Dropping bombs on a region’s freshwater supply is a war crime. Who threatened it first. Our maniac president. He’s an American disaster. www.circleofblue.org/2026/supply/...
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Desalination Explained: A Key Infrastructure Target
Explore the implications of targeting Iran's desalination plants and the potential impact on the region’s water supply and safety.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The right to gather and protest in public is under attack in states. A new form of corporate vigilantism. Not clubs and guns. Rather, state legislation. It’s insidious and dangerous. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump’s unfathomable orders to keep old coal plants in operation are disrupting electricity markets and increasing the cost of electricity for customers. They are also producing millions of tons of toxic air and water pollution that would have been halted. www.circleofblue.org/2026/water-e...
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Executive Order Puts Oldest Polluting Coal Plants Back in Action
Explore the implications of the Trump emergency order on the coal plant and its impact on energy regulation in Michigan.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
One of the administration’s latest environmental outrages: its attack on the compelling progress the country has been making on reducing contamination from mercury, one of the primary chemical pollutants of concern in the 1970s. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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EPA Reversal Opens the Door to More Mercury Pollution
The practice of reporting on the environment starts with a working knowledge of a range of scientific disciplines. One of them is chemistry.  To wit: since the 1960s, when Americans and visionary lawm...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Paul Ehrlich, the population scientist whose prediction of a “population bomb” evolved into a global population drawback, died yesterday. The NYT obituary I prepared: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
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Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Bayer mounted a nationwide campaign in last 2 years to protect the $2.8 billion market for Roundup. Its case is now heard in the Oval Office, Congress, the EPA, the U.S. Solicitor General’s office, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legislatures of 11 states. www.circleofblue.org/2026/agricul...
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Bayer’s All-Out Campaign to Protect Roundup
Uncover the ongoing Bayer Roundup glyphosate lawsuit that highlights the clash between corporate power and public health concerns.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Here’s a surprise. MAGA change of strategy on renewable energy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power
The Trump-led attack on solar eases as the right reckons with its crucial role in powering AI and keeping utility bills from spiraling.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Senate is poised to vote on a resolution intended to clear a new pathway to eventually open a long-disputed copper mine close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. There’s a lot riding on the vote, and not just for northern Minnesota. www.circleofblue.org/2026/water-p...
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Senate Vote Tests Future of Boundary Waters Protections
The Senate's decision on the Boundary Waters mining issue could reshape environmental protections and natural resource development.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Trump displays every intent to do as much damage as he can to America’s world-leading program of natural resource protection. But clear signals of countermeasures and opposition are in view, particularly in the Great Lakes region. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Great Lakes Lawmakers Push Back Against Federal Environmental Rollbacks
Explore the impact of Great Lakes environmental policy under Donald Trump and its consequences on decades of protection.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
SMR development is motivated by converging , unconfirmed projections prompting billions in investment. By far the most important: the cost of building nuclear plants will fall, and demand for electricity will significantly increase. www.circleofblue.org/2026/water-e...
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A Nuclear Shift Buoyed by Billions, and the Waters of the Great Lakes
The Palisades Nuclear Plant is making history by reopening after decommissioning. Discover what this means for Michigan's energy supply.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On January 15 author and activist Chris Jones launched a longshot political campaign as a Democrat to serve as Iowa’s 18th agriculture secretary. His message: hold agriculture accountable for its colossal contamination. www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
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Chris Jones Campaigns to Clean Up Iowa’s Water
KEY POINTS The race for Iowa agriculture secretary focuses on clean water and farm-related pollution. Iowa author and clean water activist Chris Jones is running as a Democrat. Industrial agriculture ...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Michigan in 2025 issued nationally significant requirements big livestock and poultry producers to more safely manage the brown tide of manure they spread each year on farm fields. They are so encouraging to movement to stem farm pollution. www.circleofblue.org/2026/great-l...
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Nitrates from Chemical Fertilizer and Manure Risks
Understand the significance of nitrates from chemical fertilizer and manure in farming and their implications for the environment.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
America attacked Venezuela overnight. Pres. Maduro will be prosecuted for drugs and corruption. Recall US attacked Panama in 1989 to remove Noriega on similar charges. U.S. lost 24 soldiers then. Panama casualties were 500 soldiers and civilians. Maduro operation yielded no U.S. dead, Trump said.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
No one I know considers their lives near the forests and clean waters of the upper Great Lakes as anything other than a blessing. All of what we’ve accomplished in the Great Lakes is in mortal danger from a president and compliant allies in Congress. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Trump Is Desperate to End Era of Land, Water, Wildlife Protections
Overview: Much of America, and especially the Great Lakes, demonstrates the virtuous work of environmental conservation. The region’s beauty and bounty is not an accident. President Trump is engaged i...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Court rulings are poised to arrive next year on operation of Line 5 oil pipeline that crosses the Great Lakes. They come amid a new era of energy demand and old technology to supply it. www.circleofblue.org/2025/great-l...
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Momentous Court Decisions Near For Line 5 Oil Pipeline
Explore the Line 5 pipeline legal battle, highlighting its impact on the environment and local communities in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Neither Catalonia, Spain, nor Iowa took into account the serious consequences to water of raising many animals indoors – until wells and streams and lakes and rivers were thoroughly poisoned by nitrates. It’s the same story almost everywhere on Earth. www.circleofblue.org/2025/agricul...
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Spain’s Hog Haven Pollutes Catalonian Waters
Learn how Catalonia's large-scale hog farming leads to nitrate pollution and its consequences for the environment and public health.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It’s useful to know that the dreadful leadership and debilitating governance that is trying to wreck the American experience is an outlier among the nations of the world. I spent time in Barcelona this month. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Clean Water Is a Virtue in Helping Cities Be ‘Livable and Lovable’
Uncover insights on Barcelona water infrastructure and its role in supporting sustainable and secure urban environments.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Chris Jones, former University of Iowa water quality researcher and farm pollution activist may run for Iowa Sec. of Agriculture. If he does, and looks like he will, it would be most significant race for crucial agriculture post since Jim Hightower ran and won Texas Ag Commissioner race in 1982.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Times reports that $1.2 billion in Food For Peace program, dropped by DOGE wrecking crew that took out USAID, will be restored in ‘end shutdown’ proposal. Reflects not weakening of anti “woke” view of Whitehouse. Rather power of Corn Belt agriculture.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Why is SNAP so crucial to people that need help? Because the $9 billion SNAP costs per month to feed 42 million low income Americans amounts to an average $214 per person per month. It’s a big help and so many families receiving benefits include working adults.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Here’s another crucial, despicable, dangerous detail about the White House assault on health and environment. The Trump administration doesn’t want Americans to know about trace farm chemicals in water. See: www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S.
Explore the impact of USGS cuts on water monitoring and the potential loss of vital contaminant data for millions.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The world paused for more than a moment to mourn and honor Jane Goodall. For just one mournful yet brilliant day — the first day of October 2025, the day Jane Goodall died — the deepening menace of our era was eased by the shining example of her life. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Jane Goodall’s Legacy Included Protecting Clean Water
Explore Jane Goodall's legacy in protecting watersheds and promoting clean water initiatives around the world.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jane Goodall’s death is a blessed reminder of how intelligence, grace, and courage changes the world. She displayed all the essential virtues of an activist intent on assuring Mother Earth's safety. I wrote her obituary published this morning in the Times. static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10…
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A shameful retreat is occurring in the global work to secure clean water and safe sanitation for millions of people.The end of U.S.A.I.D. is wrecking business plans four thousands of American grain producers who are perilously close to losing their farms. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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“America First” Puts Big Hurt on International Water Programs
Explore the devastating implications of the USAID closure on the global water crisis and its impact on clean water access.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Whatever Congress decides on the EPA budget, state environment departments next year will receive much less federal support. The consequence is erosion in the quality of natural abundance and the condition of the economy. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Slashing Federal Budget Is Big Problem for State Environment Agencies
Explore how EPA funding cuts impact the Great Lakes and the vital resources they support in our latest analysis.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
More impediments to facing up to Iowa’s worst in nation water pollution. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared
Roughly $400,000 in the $1m budget was for public awareness – but those funds were recently ‘zeroed out’
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Wake up America. Trump’s assault on environmental statutes and agencies is for real. Goal: MAPA. Make America Polluted Again. See Iowa for what’s coming for every state: www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Make America Polluted Again Starts in Iowa
Des Moines faces record nitrate levels in drinking water. Iowa’s pollution crisis is a warning of how deregulation and industrial agriculture threaten public health.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Changing definition of “harm” in Endangered Species Act renders the most powerful conservation law essentially useless in protecting species. www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-p...
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Changing Crucial Definition In Endangered Species Act Undermines Purpose Of Klamath Dam Removal
Explore the Klamath River's transformation as salmon return home following the historic removal of four dams.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
People will die. DOGE cuts weakened Weather Service role as primary warning system. First public evidence emerges of Trump-backed program of forcing valuable federal workers out of their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Are we really going to attack another country in Middle East on pretense of stopping a weapon of mass destruction. This is same playbook used to attack Iraq! Bio weapons then. Nuclear bomb now. Stop this craziness.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This should be easy for President Trump. It’s the same playbook he’s already dismantled in 2016 election. Iraq and Iran. Destroy the weapon of mass destruction. Bio weapon in first. Nuclear bomb in second. Why are we even considering this dangerous joke?
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Thoughtless in the White House. Trump wants to wreck Great Lakes restoration. www.circleofblue.org/2025/great-l...
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Trump Wants to Wreck Progress on Restoring Great Lakes
Explore the beauty of the Great Lakes, where breathtaking sand dunes meet the crystal-clear waters of Lake Michigan.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Pressure on a blockbuster weed killer that may harm people. www.circleofblue.org/2025/agricul...
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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical
Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and l...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The President is on a rampage to wreck America’s best values and principles. The environment is a feature of the purge. Circle of Blue www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Trump’s Earth Day Purge
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Schools closed where I was rais...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Is water the unmentioned resource in Trump’s campaign to control Greenland? There’s a lot of it there, ready to monetize for a fiercely thirsty planet. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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Is Water the Unmentioned Reason for Trump’s Interest in Greenland?
Say this much, President Trump’s vow to “go as far as we have to” to control Greenland is pernicious, consistent, and ironic.   Though he’s obscured his reasons for bringing the world’s largest island...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
When Trump/MAGA talk about a “hoax” watch out. Trump called the virus “the Democrats’ new hoax” in Feb. 2020. Over a million Americans died from the virus. Trump/MAGA call climate change a “hoax.” Thousands of Americans have died in recent years from climate-supercharged fire, flood, storms.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Dirtier communities, degraded air and water, more exposures to hazardous compounds will grievously injure the economic advantage America has gained from its cleaner environment. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion...
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‘Most Momentous Day’ in EPA History? Spare Me.
Overview: EPA Rollbacks Endanger Public Health & Environment: Under Lee Zeldin, the EPA is slashing regulations, cutting its budget by 65%, and dismantling its scientific research office, increasing p...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bet that MAGA world is paying close attention to Stephen A. Smith. Dude is talking politics with same poise and polish that he brings to sports commentary. Without running for anything he’s polling. Is Stephen A. The man…of the moment? Stay tuned.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Never before has the United States confronted an attack on science like the one President Trump launched in January 2025. For the first time in U.S. history, raw ideological menace is blocking federal funding that supports scientific advance. www.circleofblue.org/2025/opinion....
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Opinion: Trump’s Attack on Science Drowns Common Sense
Blocking research funds challenges president’s promise of a “proud, prosperous, and free” nation.
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My prayer is that this moment in our national life produces a figure like Ali, capable of surpassing courage and love and instinct, a leader who can guide the country away from its contemporary path of menace, and incompetence. modeshift.org/419/muhammad...
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Muhammad Ali’s Courage and Compassion | ModeShift
The memories and the message are everywhere inside the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. That’s the point of a museum dedicated to honor the life and achievements of the greatest American a...
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Keith Schneider @keithschneider69.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Trump’s effort to change the market for straws – like efforts to influence the sale of clean cars or charging stations or solar panels or any of the other equipment intended to make the planet safer – have nothing to do with “symbolism over science.” www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-q...
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Opinion: The President’s Plastic Trigger
President Trump delights in alarming opponents and aiding friends in polluting industries
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