Matt Herbert

Exclusive: MLB approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials said, and Grand Teton was scouted. The Tetons are about “wildlife, opportunity for solitude, not for more amusement,” said the county commissioner. https://wapo.st/3Vh0N50

Deforestation in the Amazon fell to a 10-year low under President Lula, but Brazil's tight election puts those gains at risk. Experts warn a victory by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro could revive policies favoring agribusiness and mining, threatening Indigenous lands and climate targets. Learn more!

You’ve heard of the revolving door between government & lobbying. How about no door? A senior staffer for Senator Mike Rounds is registered to lobby the South Dakota Legislature on behalf of more than a dozen clients, including Meta, the tobacco giant Altria & Big Ag interests. @politico.com:

South Dakotans this fall will vote on a proposal to raise the bar on direct democracy. They’ll also decide on whether to weaken the Medicaid expansion that was approved via a 2022 citizen-led initiative.

The Obama Presidential Center is here, and it’s running on 100% clean energy.

“This is so ridiculous, it makes you sick,” said Don Neubacher, a former supervisor at Yosemite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer.

Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001.

Important read from @nytimes.com: How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

Trump just quietly approved the construction of a #DataCenter on #PublicLand in southern Nevada — the first data center allowed on public land. We've already filed an appeal against this dangerous development, but we need your help to show the scale of public opposition ➡️ bit.ly/4fGlM7W

A heat wave in Europe this week has toppled temperature records. It also hastened a realization that the world’s fastest-warming continent is filled with buildings and infrastructure designed for a climate that no longer exists.

Nearly 4,000 jobs. 47,000 solar panels a day. Made top-to-bottom on American soil. This is the clean energy promise kept: good jobs, lower bills, and a better future. electrek.co/2026/06/11/g...

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. n.pr/4us6kSh

Super excited for @pew.org’s event next week featuring conversations with some of the top experts working to scale distributed energy resources in the United States, including a keynote address from FERC Commissioner David Rosner. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4d9003... #Energysky #DERs

HUGE day: @notus.com has launched its local coverage! D.C. folks, tap in — we're building something very exciting here. I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

BURGUM: Understand -- there are times in North Dakota when the wind does not blow and the sun doesn't shine KING: Of course. That's where batteries come in

A NEW report from @pewtrusts.org offers a playbook to scale distributed energy resources, like batteries🔋, rooftop solar☀️, and smart appliances🛜 across the United States. Read the report: pew.org/derplaybook #EnergyPolicy #DistributedEnergy #DERs #Energysky

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Welcome to @canarymedia.com's new series on clean energy in rural America! For the inaugural feature I went to California’s Central Valley, where water-starved farmers are planning what could be the world's biggest solar and battery project: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

In 2025, state legislatures passed 113 policies to boost distributed energy resources, like home batteries, rooftop solar, and smart appliances – a 79% increase 📈 from 2024. Check out @pewtrusts.org’s new #DER State Policy Explorer & analysis for more ➡️ bit.ly/4d3yiyD #Energy #CERAWeek

The EPA plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show.

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

From Trump’s first term in 2018. RIP

Despite ongoing border wall construction, a new ocelot & a new jaguar have arrived in AZ. “We may be the last Arizonans to share mountains where jaguars & ocelots still roam” McSpadden said. “I think history will judge us... if we fail to protect this rare, wild freedom.” tucson.com/news/local/s...

Many cities across the country where companies seeking to build massive data centers to win the AI race with China are coming up against the reality of local politics.

China building geopolitical power w/energy tech of the future, while US pursuing military lawlessness for energy tech of the past. (1/x)

The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

As the destruction and costs from weather- and climate-related disasters in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025, more states are cultivating resilience expertise and investing in projects to reduce risk. More from my @pewtrusts.org colleagues ⤵️ www.pew.org/en/research-...

Tiger conservation in Thailand is a rare bright spot. The country’s Western Forest Complex has helped grow the Indochinese tiger population from ~40 in 2007 to 140+ today, with new evidence of breeding in the south as corridors open up.

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

ICYMI: Last week was “the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States.” More in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

First, the frogs died. Then people got sick. wapo.st/47Slsij

I stopped listening to Bill Gates talk about climate change a long time ago. You should stop too.

Through the first six months of 2025, disasters across the United States caused more than $100 billion in damage -- the most expensive start to any year on record. Fourteen disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage through the first half of the year.

The Trump administration stopped updating a federal database that tracked the cost of extreme weather disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires and other events, that each caused at least $1 billion in damage. A group of scientists has revived it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...

Donald Trump is scrapping a 2001 rule that protects 58m acres of the most prized forests in the US "so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money." I went to the forest where the roadless rule was unveiled to find out what's at stake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt