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Feb 14, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
In case you missed them: a thread of some of the stories that the NYT climate team published last week:
Climate change is everywhere, even in your nose: nyti.ms/37gG6KK
“It’s nice to see a decline occurring when you’d expect to see pollution increasing.” nytimes.com/2021/02/08/cli…
Dec 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Trump administration is rushing to approve a final wave of large-scale mining and energy projects on federal lands, encouraged by investors who want to try to ensure the projects move ahead even after President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office. nyti.ms/3asRi9y
In Arizona, the Forest Service is preparing to sign off on the transfer of federal forest land — considered sacred by a neighboring Native American tribe — to allow construction of one of the nation’s largest copper mines. nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/…
Jan 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
President Trump completes new regulation that rolls back environmental protections on many wetlands and streams: “Farmers coalesced against the E.P.A. being able to come onto their land, and he’s delivering." nyti.ms/38ygbMJ by @CoralMDavenport@CoralMDavenport The new rule will remove federal protections from more than half the nation’s wetlands, and hundreds of thousands of small waterways. nytimes.com/2020/01/22/cli…
Dec 12, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
What you can't see can hurt the planet: methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and leaks are plentiful. We went hunting for them with equipment that reveals the unseen. nyti.ms/2Pe6pIR
In the course of two survey flights over a patch of the Permian Basin in West Texas, our journalists @HirokoTabuchi and @jonah_kessel identified 6 sites with unusually high methane emissions
Apr 16, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
President Trump just signed a bill that gives the force of law to a drought agreement among seven states that use water from the Colorado River. Here's our story about the states and agencies coming to agreement: nyti.ms/2GuxAuJ
Congress quickly passed the bill formalizing the agreement; Trump was expected to sign the agreement. Audubon Society reaction:
Feb 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Green New Deal is technologically possible, experts say. But it will cost trillions of dollars, require expansive new taxes and federal programs, and could not be accomplished within the 10-year timeframe that supporters say is necessary. nyti.ms/2SN9aEe
Many of the people responding to this tweet are interpreting it as saying that the story claims climate action is too expensive, or somehow not worth the attempt. That is not what the story says, though it does say the political challenges are daunting. Thanks for reading.
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