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Climate/Enviro Visual Reporting Fellow + US Commissioning Photo Editor @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/profile/thalia-… www.thaliajuarez.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too
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How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too
Novice gardeners James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz wanted to try something new when they moved out to the suburbs. Little did they know they were joining a nationwide movement
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George Joseph @georgejoseph94.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW @us.theguardian.com investigation into allegations that Amazon pushed smaller companies into raising prices: “They’d say, ‘You need to go to Target. You need to go talk to Walmart to get them to raise their price.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“Even after UnitedHealth’s lawsuit was filed, the Guardian did not back down, continuing to publish new detail in our investigation.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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Delaware judge dismisses UnitedHealth Group lawsuit against the Guardian
Healthcare conglomerate pursued a defamation lawsuit against the Guardian over 2025 investigative reporting
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/07/2026
Trump speech lays groundwork for him to tamper with midterm results, critics warn
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Trump speech lays groundwork for him to tamper with midterm results, critics warn
Democrats and advocates sound alarm at Trump rehashing false claims about 2020 election in his primetime address Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election are the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms. The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to return to the White House. With polls showing that the president is disliked by majorities of voters and his Republican allies are at risk of losing their control of the House of Representatives, the president’s Thursday evening speech rehashing allegations about the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden sparked fears he was already looking for ways to ensure November’s results are in his favor. Continue reading...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 16/07/2026
After Killings, Homan Says There Will Be ‘More Bloodshed’ Unless Dems ‘Shut Their Mouth’ About ICE "They are blaming the opposition for people being killed by their police."
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After Killings, Homan Says There Will Be ‘More Bloodshed’ Unless Dems ‘Shut Their Mouths’ About ICE
​"They are blaming the opposition for people being killed by their police."
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Outrider Foundation @outrider.org · 16/07/2026
Would you relocate if someone told you your home was sinking? When a recent study concluded that New Orleans had hit a “point of no return” due to the climate crisis, the local reaction was swift and fiery. Read the story 👉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 📸 @thaliajuarez.bsky.social
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Those affected by the outbreak are also being made to endure their isolation without air conditioning. Aurora was under a heat advisory with the outside air temperature at 96F (36C). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees
The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in Aurora
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training. Daniella Zalcman, a leading photojournalist, assesses the stakes. www.cjr.org/analysis/exp...
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Exposure to Risk: Freelance photographers vs. the Wall Street Journal.
Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/07/2026
After a recent study found New Orleans is at a ‘point of no return’ amid the climate crisis, some locals say they will ‘only leave if forced to’. But what would it take to stay?
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New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Remembering Gerald, Rob, John, Rebecca and Wendi 💙 www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Hutzell: Eight years after the Annapolis newsroom shooting, a return to 888 Bestgate
COLUMN | For eight years, I’ve avoided getting too close to 888 Bestgate, where five friends were murdered on June 28, 2018. It's the dark point on my landscape of regret, and it just smacked me in th...
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Worldwide, highways pose a significant threat to biodiversity as they create barriers within ecosystems. In San Antonio, a land bridge in Phil Hardberger Park is the first in the US, carefully designed for both wildlife and people: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Tracie McMillan @tmmcmillan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims. We found 125 different fees in US listings, from pet fees for DNA testing of dog poop to "variable refrigerant flow."
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‘Extremely overwhelmed’: apartment renters face rising tide of fees
Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/06/2026
From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, Michael Cunningham, Hilton Als, Eileen Myles and others share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life
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The best American LGBTQ+ books, chosen by authors
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
'How to respond to such galloping losses is an immediate challenge for parts of the Outer Banks but also a looming one for other low-lying US east coast communities, too, as the climate crisis relentlessly pushes up sea levels.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels
Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for other east coast communities
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/04/2026
Media rights groups condemn killing of Amal Khalil, who said in 2024 she had been threatened by ‘an Israeli enemy’
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Lebanese journalist killed in Israeli attack had spoken of death threat
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Residential energy use, including gas for cooking, accounts for around a fifth of US greenhouse gas emissions But just 3% of US homes currently have induction stoves - efforts to expand their use have been fought by the gas industry and Republican politicians www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why thousands of New Yorkers swap gas for induction stoves in clean energy push: ‘It makes sense’
US states from California to Georgia are promoting induction stoves for climate, health and cost benefits
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Climate Visuals @climatevisuals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life
The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 04/02/2026
Trump seems to be so worried about the midterms that he is looking for ways to manipulate the election process, rather than abandon the cruel policies that are making Republicans so unpopular: bit.ly/4kBBX8J
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Trump Ratchets Up Talk of Taking Over Elections
This is one of many signs that Trump knows his party is in big trouble in the coming midterm elections.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me
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Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026
lol they will try to flip it and reverse it, but decades of research continue to show that white people will get a callback for a job *just* because they're white.
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Research finds entrenched hiring bias against African-Americans
Meta-analysis documents persistence of racial discrimination in U.S. labor markets
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/01/2026
Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known.
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Girl, 5, deported to Honduras despite being US citizen, becomes latest victim of Trump crackdown
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 27/01/2026
The fatal shooting of Pretti wasn't the first time federal immigration officers have killed civilians under the Trump administration, and wasn’t the first time that officials spread misleading accounts about the victim. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/i...
In recent months, federal immigration officers across the U.S. have shot and killed at least five people:

- Silvio Villegas González
- Isaias Sanchez Barboza
- Keith Porter
- Renee Good
- Alex Pretti
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Trump’s government has unequivocally crossed a threshold now where even well -documented truth is irrelevant and the murder of US citizens by the state is formally sanctioned. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/01/2026
The president asks ‘whatever happened to global warming?’ Well, it could be making our winter storms worse.
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Trump says the big US winter storm is proof of climate hoax – here’s why he’s wrong
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The average US household paid nearly $116 more for electricity in 2025 than the year before, a 6.7% increase, according to data from the Energy Information Administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump’s failed energy bill pledge leaves US households struggling: ‘It’s obscene’
A year after then candidate Trump promised to cut energy bills in half, rising costs are pushing many Americans’ household budgets to the brink
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/01/2026
Trump has comprehensively failed to meet a key election promise to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency, with power prices instead surging across the US.
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How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US
Guardian analysis shows electricity bills were up 6.7% last year, and much higher in some states, and gas bills up 5.2%
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m
Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations." Uprooter @thaliajuarez.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’
As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
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‘Targeted assassination’: Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff condemned
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities..." grist.org/science/brea...
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Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Nearly half of Americans are breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared to a year ago and likely to increase in coming years due to the climate crisis and Trump admin environmental rollbacks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
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Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants – report
American Lung Association’s study says almost 156 million people live in areas with unhealthy levels of soot or smog
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
US interior dept is fast-tracking fossil fuel and mining permits, citing Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US interior agency to fast track fossil fuel and mining permits over ‘fake emergency’
Department cites Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration to expedite permissions from multiple years to 28 days
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump admin kills a landmark civil rights settlement requiring Alabama to address raw sewage pollution in a majority-Black community www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration kills landmark pollution settlement in majority-Black county
Decision will affect mostly low-income Alabama residents as DoJ dismisses agreement over untreated sewage as DEI
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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The proposed cuts to NOAA cold have profound consequences not just for climate change, but for our national security and the entire economy. Here's what I learned: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/04/2025
Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
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Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
Democrats including Schumer say Trump is using antisemitism as cover to defund schools
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If you’ve seen a Christian bemoaning the “sin of empathy” or Elon Musk talking about “suicidal empathy” and wondered what that was about, I have an essay for you tldr version is that they are wrong but I think that the details etc are pretty interesting and scary and speak to our fascist moment
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial by @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and regulatory rollbacks - bad news for the climate crisis, water shortages and consumers centershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers
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Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/04/2025
Scientists now estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit short-term and long-term climate targets.
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/04/2025
A new Republican plan would exempt many new toxic Pfas or “forever chemicals” from health and safety review.
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New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic Pfas from review
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dozens of EPA rollbacks have targeted regulations intended to save nearly 200,000 lives in the US by 2050, as well as prevent millions of asthma attacks, heart and respiratory problems and other public health harms. by oliver milman & @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests
EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rules
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thalia juarez @thaliajuarez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Taking this information down really erodes the nation’s ability to keep communities safe and curtails effective disaster response." the trump admin removed this fema tool. my colleagues recreated it and you can now access it here v www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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Outrider Foundation @outrider.org · 25/03/2025
Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, uprooting thousands of trees and leaving the region exposed to floods, fires and extreme heat. Read more & see photos from Fellow, @thaliajuarez.bsky.social produced with @us.theguardian.com
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Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks
Damage to trees in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene was ‘extraordinary and humbling’ but urban areas face particular problems
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Israel killed two Palestinian journalists in separate attacks today, bringing the death toll of media workers in the Gaza war to 208. They were Palestine Today’s Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera’s Hussam Shabat.
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Israel kills Al Jazeera and Palestine Today journalists in separate attacks in Gaza
Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera Mubasher's Hussam Shabat were killed in air strikes across the Gaza Strip
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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Helene was the deadliest storm to hit the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina and yet the reporting on its aftermath has been minimal by comparison. This piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social is worth your time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
By me: ‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors in rural Southern Appalachia help each other rebuild after the climate disaster as misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories swirl @thaliajuarez.bsky.social 📷📸 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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