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Eric Lipton @EricLiptonNYT
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In case you missed any of these (see tweets below) here are the stories recognized today by Columbia University in granting its top award to the The New York Times's for its coverage of the environment in 2017 nytco.com/environmental-…
Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on
Toxic Chemicals? An Industry
Insider Helps Call the Shots

nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/…
Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement @danielle_ivory nytimes.com/2017/12/10/us/…
How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas @HirokoTabuchi nytimes.com/2017/05/20/bus…
Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands with @BarryMeier nytimes.com/2017/08/06/us/…
How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science with @CoralMDavenport nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/…
These stories were all part of a package The NYT called Trump Rules, which examined regulatory rollbacks in the Trump era across the federal government. Thank you NYT readers for supporting all this important work. Here is a link to that broader series nytimes.com/series/trump-r…
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The NYT has written a great deal abt Chlorpyrifos since 2017, after Pruitt vetoed staff & decided not to ban it, despite evidence it's hurting farm workers/children. Abt 6 million lbs sprayed each yr on soybean/corn/oranges/almonds/
apples/asparagus/grape/broccoli/etc. Eat those?
Here are some of those stories, if you missed them. First, Pruitt rejects his own staff recommendations and decides not to ban the pesticide.
nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/…
Then @RoniNYTimes and I got the EPA emails that showed how Pruitt in early 2017 had promised the farmers that use the pesticide he was there ready to help them. Emails also showed how EPA staff advice was rejected.
nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/…
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PART IV: TRUMP ERA IMPACT ON AIR/WATER. SCENE:WEST VA. IF there's a single thing helped motivate modern environmental movement in US it was Cuyahoga River repeatedly catching fire in OHIO back in 1950s/60s. How could a river (IT IS WATER) catch fire? ANSWER : SEVERE POLLUTION
THE creation of the EPA in 1970--and the passage of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act--empowered the Fed Gov to clean up the terrible degradation that industrialization had wrought to our air and water. (STICK WITH ME ON THIS, sorry for history lesson)
Kanawha River, W Va. largest inland river is one of those rivers that had been severely hurt by decades of abuse by humans. Human waste, power plants, coal mine runoff, industrial pollution, etc. A MESS. Here is EPA report from 70s
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PART III: How Much Is Clean Air Worth To YOU? Scene: HOUSTON, Tx. The Obama EPA moved in Dec. 2016 to mandate that nine coal-burning power plants install so-called scrubbers to make a MASSIVE cut in SULFUR DIOXIDE pollution. WHY? Tx power plants emit more SO2 than anywhere in US
The move by the EPA was under the so-called REGIONAL HAZE rule, that dates back to 1999 and is intended to help cut haze that mars the air in national parks and wilderness areas nationwide. THIS IS WHAT HAZE LOOKS LIKE.
Obama EPA concluded that Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) upgrades at these nine plants would eliminate 190,000 tons a year of SO2=or more than any other state produces, except Texas. Here is description of that plan.
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THREAD: 2018 has seen a diversification of quality reporting and uptick in exposure of the mass repression of #Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in western #China, by media, academics, and civil society groups across the world.
.@RFA Uyghur Service should be commended for its long-standing and fearless reporting on the situation in #Xinjiang, way before the current human rights crisis began to unfold. See its reporting here: rfa.org/english/news/u…, esp. the series of interviews w/ victims/families.
Despite government restrictions, major international media outlets have produced several deep-dive investigative pieces, based on satellite imagery, interviews with victims and/or their families, procurement documents on Chinese government websites, and field visits.
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A partial list of things I made in 2018:

1. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War came out in May. This book, which me and Marwan Hisham cowrote and I illustrated, had dominated the last three years of my life.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550211/b…
#BrothersOfTheGun is a National Book Award semifinalist, and a New York Times Notable Book. Syria in Ink, an exhibit of the artwork, opened at the Brooklyn Public Library (with simultaneous exhibits at Amnesty International HQ in London and BANT Havuz in Istanbul).
I wrote the most for @nybooks, including a cover story on refugees nybooks.com/articles/2018/…
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(Thread) The New York Times has published an articles: “48 of the coolest kids in New York”. Inside is a cornucopia of mongrelisation and degeneracy. Let’s go through and caption them as they should have been captioned.
nytimes.com/2018/11/27/mag…
Serenity Jordan, 9 years old. Not sure whether her or the bag has the bigger lips.
Is that a head scarf or a garbage bag? Either way, that wouldn’t have been cool in my school.
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I want to talk a bit about yesterday’s White House press briefing, and what it says about the Trump administration's relationship with the media.
This was the first briefing @PressSec held, I think, since October 3rd. Briefings, @PressSec has said, are an artifact of when "you didn’t have the same access and ways to communicate with the American public.”

So why hold one yesterday?
Yesterday morning, Trump tweeted that the press — the same press that a crazed follower of his had been sending bombs to — was "the true Enemy of the People." To hold a briefing yesterday was to schedule an on-camera confrontation over those comments.
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Flashback to the last NYT hit job on Rod Rosenstein. I'm gonna go back over my old thread here and see if anything pops out to me.
Hey now, four people. Just like today's article said four people were in the room with RR when he said it. Interesting.
Uh what lol is this the same article or something. All of this so far is in the article today.
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"The curious paradox is that the cause of trans-democracy, today, seems to be the cause of the elite—e.g., the New York Times editorial board. What is the attraction, to the intellectuals (a tiny minority in any society), of trans-democracy?"
"This is trans-democracy in a word: meatpuppet democracy. Astroturf democracy. Furthermore, as a Jedi master of trans-democracy, the progressive must of course oppose any manifestations of genuine, grass-roots cis-democracy."
"So what is his natural response? His natural response is to project, and accuse the tea partiers of being Astroturf organizations coordinated by secret billionaires."
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