I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“When things are out of your control, what are you going to do?” Cordelia said. “We’re all going to die. I’m probably going to die sooner than I would have.”

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

This is not allowed in Europe. We’re so damn gross

With today's PFAS news, this The Hill scoop is so striking: For four extra years, companies got away without reporting PFAS toxic waste discharges because of a giant technical loophole. Trump appointees blocked EPA officials from warning Senate about it thehill.com/business/45836….

New bill from Laura Friedman would ban a common weedkiller that's been linked to Parkinson's disease, as my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith reports: latimes.com/environment/st…

goodness the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) #SEJ2024 fomo is severe

Two dozen carbon capture projects are proposed in Louisiana, but figuring out where companies plan to inject CO2 underground can be a mystery — making it harder for the public to evaluate their potential for harm. Great investigation by Sara Sneath

'On average each day, almost 12 billion cubic feet [of gas] were superchilled to nearly 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, shrinking the fuel to one-600th of its gaseous size, and shipped overseas to buyers in Europe and Asia.'

'A society with limits on wealth will have to develop new aspirations.' What a terrific, thought-provoking, conversation-starting debut by Christine Emba The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Breadfruit!

Hardy, perennial, nutritious. And as the climate changes, it'll thrive in more places.

It's a win by my favorite metric: calories per acre: midrange yield is 10 mil. High-end is double that, which is huge.

Zoë Schlanger in The Atlantic
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'It’s likely that fewer than 10 breadfruit varieties have ever been tried in the mainland U.S., Fielding points out, despite hundreds of them existing in the tropical islands of the Pacific. It will take some research, but a breadfruit revolution in this country is possible.'

It baffles me that air pollution standards don't take into account the combined impact of multiple sources of pollution on one geographic area. It seemed like magical thinking to ignore the cumulative impact of that. Will be interesting to watch this play out

“… free, bold, joyous, monarch of all you survey, untrammelled, at ease, at home! At home, though among all manner of strange, unknown creatures, flung at your feet every minute by the quick succeeding waves.” ❤️‍🔥

A perfect memory transformed into a perfect paragraph; no notes 🍈

what is the point of a having a job if you can't opine about breadfruit tostones am i right theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

For Audubon Magazine I wrote about a really uplifting trend in the environmental world: land trusts and community groups working closely together to combat the housing and biodiversity crisis, with wide reaching benefits for all. audubon.org/news/conservat…