Maxine Joselow
Climate and environmental reporter for @nytimes.com, cat mom, and baker. Send me tips on Signal at MaxineJ.55
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- The National Park Service has taken down a sign about climate change at Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began. Yet the fort is extremely vulnerable to climate impacts like sea level rise. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/c...
- For decades, the government has put a dollar value on the lives saved by federal regulations. But under Trump, the value at the Environmental Protection Agency is now effectively $0. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
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- Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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- A copper smelter in Arizona is one of the country's largest sources of lead pollution. Trump exempted it from complying with clean-air rules for the next two years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
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- A copper smelter in Arizona is one of the country's largest sources of lead pollution. Trump exempted it from complying with clean-air rules for the next two years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
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- Scoop: The Trump admin is considering giving SpaceX nearly 800 acres in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
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- The Trump admin just halted five additional wind farms off the East Coast, jeopardizing billions of dollars of investments. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
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- A federal judge today struck down the Trump administration’s halt on approving new wind farms on federal lands and waters. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...
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- MAHA activists are urging President Trump to fire EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over his decisions to loosen restrictions on harmful chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
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- President Trump just announced he would gut fuel efficiency rules for cars, a major climate policy designed to encourage more electric vehicle production. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
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- ICYMI: The Trump admin will begin charging foreign tourists a $100 fee to visit the most popular national parks, in an "America First" approach to public lands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
- Some National Park Service workers are still owed some back pay after being furloughed during the government shutdown. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/c...
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- The Trump admin announced a plan today to open more than a billion acres of U.S. waters to offshore oil and gas leasing. To put that into perspective: the leased acreage is more than half the size of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
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- SCOOP: A council created by Trump has recommended that FEMA should not be eliminated. Earlier this year, Trump said the agency should "go away." w/ @byscottdance.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...
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- Scoop: The EPA has reconsidered its plans to kill the popular Energy Star program in response to intense backlash. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...
- New: There are no employees left at the National Park Service who can plug abandoned oil and gas wells, which can leak methane and contaminate groundwater. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/c...
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- The Trump administration is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
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- Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
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- In Georgia, Trump’s cancellation of $7 billion in solar energy funding is hurting some of his own voters. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
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- The Trump administration plans to keep national parks largely open to the public during the expected government shutdown, according to an internal email reviewed by @nytimes.com. Conservationists say parks should be closed to prevent irreparable damage. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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- The Trump admin is nearing a deal to allow a road through an Alaskan wildlife refuge, documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...
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- New: The Trump administration has stopped gathering certain data on climate change and other issues. Here's what's at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
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- New: Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia has privately urged the Trump admin not to thwart an offshore wind project off the coast of his state. w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/c...
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- More than 180 FEMA employees wrote to Congress today warning that the Trump admin has gutted disaster response efforts during hurricane season. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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- Reposted by Maxine JoselowTrump officials may soon hold public climate science debates, recruit more denialists to attack research and go through every line of the National Climate Assessments to highlight doubt, a DOE report author told me. “We will have to enlist other scientists," he said. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
- Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...
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- I reported earlier this month that the Energy Department had hired prominent climate skeptics. Well, now we know what they were working on. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
- New: At least 15 coal plants and 4 chemical facilities emailed the EPA this spring to request exemptions to environmental rules, according to documents obtained by @sierraclub.org and shared w/ @nytimes.com. They all won the exemptions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
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- This to the tune of "Video Killed the Radio Star"
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- Trump told National Park Service employees to report signs that “disparage” Americans. Here’s what they flagged. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
- How to get clean energy tax breaks before they vanish: News you can use from @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/c...
- Reposted by Maxine JoselowScoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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