This is a work of art: the headline of the obit of Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO and a leading architect of predatory delay on climate.
He helped launch the Global Climate Coalition, a well-funded anti-climate industry front group, in 1989.
heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...
ht @gwagner.com
Alex Steffen
No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").
Max Kennerly
Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation.
This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome.
That’s not a typo.
The sweet taste of freedom*
*cow shit
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.www.propublica.org
I triple checked that last number because it sounded so impossible.
Let's try to wrap our heads around these numbers again, shall we.
One million seconds from now it will be a week from Tuesday.
One billion seconds from now it will be February... in 2058.
One trillion seconds from now won't arrive for almost 32,000 years.
Brooke Jarvis
During the pandemic I wrote about the wild and crazy whirlwind that is the cherry harvest, and what it says about the agricultural workers we depend on utterly but take for granted. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/m...
During the pandemic I wrote about the wild and crazy whirlwind that is the cherry harvest, and what it says about the agricultural workers we depend on utterly but take for granted. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/m...
since then, the visa program that props up the whole system, which is famous for abuses, has ballooned. Here's an interesting update www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/b...
President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel
Brooke Jarvis
Brooke Jarvis
Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
