Peter Aldhous

Satellite company @planet.com has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast.

This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region.

EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

ICYMI from the weekend: @mlavelle.bsky.social and I tracked losses of staff from EPA in the first year of the second Trump administration for @insideclimatenews.org
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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

New federal workforce figures show the radical change at EPA in the first year of the Trump administration Among the 4,000 employees who departed in 2025 were scientists responsible for breakthroughs in testing for health risks of biopersistent chemicals.

The Biggest US LNG Exporter Is Claiming a Massive Tax Credit for Using Its Cargo as an ‘Alternative’ Fuel - Inside Climate News Critics say the claim relies on a dubious interpretation of a law intended to promote natural gas and other fuels. An Inside Climate News analysis put the potential windfall at more than $140 million.

Here's our story from July 2025:
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Cheniere Energy Received $370 Million IRS Windfall for Using LNG as ‘Alternative’ Fuel - Inside Climate News The country’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas benefited from what critics say is a questionable IRS interpretation of tax credits.

When @mckennapr.bsky.social and I covered this claim for tax credits last year, it seemed impossible to justify. But Cheniere got a massive payout, even more than our conservative estimate based on the company's likely use of LNG for shipping fuel
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War in Iran Could Have ‘Historic’ Disruptions on Energy Markets - Inside Climate News Oil prices jumped after the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Experts say the effects on oil and gas prices will depend on how long the war lasts and whether Iran damages energy infrastructure.

And another: insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump - Inside Climate News As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.

Catching up with coverage from my @insideclimatenews.org colleagues on affordability, energy ... and war insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...
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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

The Trump admin's assault on science continues. An @insideclimatenews.org analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows >4K employees left between 1/2025 and 1/2026, wiping out institutional knowledge. @mlavelle.bsky.social & @peteraldhous.com report insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

NEW from me @insideclimatenews.org with @mlavelle.bsky.social: Latest federal workforce data reveals the full extent of cuts to EPA in first year of Trump 2.0. And it's not just the numbers, it's the experience and leadership of those lost
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I'm good with my guitar, thanks ...

#H5N1 #Birdflu detected in northern Elephant Seals along CA coast. UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz found in 7 pups at Ano Nuevo. Story to come.

Thread from author of a global history of mass detention camps

It’s an intervention

My website has officially entered 2026
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If you want to see some rousing volcanic activity, just check out the current live feed from Kīlauea. 🧪

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I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next? - Inside Climate News Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, t...

What happens next?
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‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding - Inside Climate News The Trump administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gases are a pollutant, an important legal foundation for their regulation.

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding
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Customs and Border Protection Said to Have Fired Anti-Drone Laser That Triggered Airspace Closure

... at a party balloon. Well done everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

The Guadalupe River flooded catastrophically in 1998. This was before the fracking boom put hundreds of massive oil tanks in its floodplains in the Eagle Ford Shale. Now, locals worry a repeat could trigger an environmental disaster.

Making it possible

Vinyl and amplifier are the same vintage, comfortably 40+ years old.

Anything under 15 minutes doesn’t do it justice

Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

Strong student reporting from the Epstein files
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National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL.

Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers.

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Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an ...

You gotta appreciate a reporter who gets a tip from ... a nun.
Hear @dylanbaddour.bsky.social explain his tipster and his latest data-rich investigation about the effect on fracking on Texas floodplains. He and @peteraldhous.com are on ICN's Sunday Morning: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

The Guadalupe has flooded before. Now, oil tanks sit in its floodplain. Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Also published @expressnews.com
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Fracking boom put oil field in Texas river’s floodplain Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Here's @texastribune.org with our @insideclimatenews.org story on flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River Basin. w/ @dylanbaddour.bsky.social
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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

ICYMI at the weekend: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I on flood hazards to oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River floodplains insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an ...

EXTRA: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I were interviewed about our story on flood hazards for oil infrastructure in the Guadalupe River basin by @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social for the @insideclimatenews.org Sunday Morning video:
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