Maxine Joselow
Climate and environmental reporter for @nytimes.com, cat mom, and baker. Send me tips on Signal at MaxineJ.55
- Interesting article by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social: Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
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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...
- 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...
- Resharing with the correct gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
- Thanks for sharing, Amy!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Trump administration is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
- 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...
- 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...
- “I never really thought about him as being the one who did it,” she said. “But now I’ve really got something to think about, huh?” Trump’s war on solar hurts his own voters. Great @maxinejoselow.bsky.social reporting in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
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- Sammy, congrats and best of luck with post-newsletter life!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- This to the tune of "Video Killed the Radio Star"
- 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...
- Scoop: 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...
- The EPA launched a webpage today to debunk the chemtrails conspiracy theory. The theory has gained traction amid the Texas floods and has been amplified by RFK Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/c...
- Scoop: The Energy Department has hired at least three scientists who are well-known for their rejection of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, according to records reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
- Democrats bet that jobs in red states would save their climate law from repeal. That bet was wrong. w/ @bradplumer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...
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- Hi! The NYT temporarily took down the update because it violated our rules on anonymous sourcing. The update will be back up shortly with attribution to a draft of the wraparound amendment that is circulating in the Senate!
- Today is my first day at the New York Times! I'm still covering climate policy and politics. Add me to your press list at maxine.joselow@nytimes.com
- Personal news: Today is my last day at the Washington Post after nearly 4 years. I'm so grateful for my time on the climate beat here alongside wonderful colleagues. Excited to share my next steps soon!
- New: Across the federal government, Trump is ordering agencies to stop enforcing rules he doesn't like. w/ @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and Ian Duncan wapo.st/4dqIrDN
- The House just voted to block California from banning sales of new gas cars in the state by 2035. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Scoop: The White House today forced out the top federal official overseeing U.S.-Mexico water disputes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- New: Trump is touting “clean coal” — but gutting federal programs that protect coal miners from black lung disease. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- The fossil fuel industry is ramping up its decades-long fight against efforts to make it pay for its role in causing climate change. w/ @annamphillips.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- 🚨 Scoop: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to repeal a landmark scientific finding that underpins key climate rules for cars and power plants. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- The Trump admin fired the only locksmith at Yosemite National Park. He was the only employee who could rescue visitors from locked restrooms. Inside the chaos at national parks: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Trump has tapped an oil industry insider to lead the agency tasked with overseeing drilling on public lands. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
