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Signs above the door for FEMA at Federal Center Plaza

'A lot of folks are terrified': FEMA joins EPA in retaliation against dissenting staff

The result of all that is an obvious chilling of the federal workforce's speech.

Gravity Relaunched

The media industry: great fun forever. Last week, I was laid off from my role as deputy editor of Splinter, where I spent about a year and a half covering — among other things — climate change, science, public health, and their intersection with politics and policy. Over the seven months of

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A low-gravity Happy New Year

As you might have (almost certainly didn’t) noticed, it’s been quiet around the Gravity Is Gone hallways the last year-plus. Just to catch you up, that’s because after spending the bulk of my career as a freelancer, I have now been on staff as a climate reporter

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The Climate Left and Deference to Moderation

Over at his Slow Boring site, Matt Yglesias has a bit of a screed against the “climate left.” He argues, basically, that the activist groups (like the Sunrise Movement) pushing for transformational action on climate change are ignoring political realities, are muddling up too many other issues along with climate,