Climate & Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost. Send me tips on Signal at jspring.99 Ex-Reuters in Brazil/China Host of @foreignpod.
Washington, D.C.
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🧵 If reforestation could work anywhere, it's in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. I followed two reforestation projects for 3+ years to find out why it's so hard. Threats at gunpoint, botanical mysteries, here's what I found. 1/
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From the Fox News video, I noticed that Rep. Omar's street had 3 speed bumps in one block. I found a map of all speed bumps in DC on the city's OpenData website and fed it to Chatgpt to find probable locations. While racing to check out those locations, someone just sent me the address. A1 in the Wash Post was the result.
Yesterday, this 150+ year old tree came crashing down, ending a two month stand-off between activists and border agents. The activists had occupied it in a tree-sit to block border wall construction. I spent a day with them last month. Full story here: wapo.st/3VwLwgy
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SCOOP, from @jakespring and @stephapstein Trump officials are considering building a baseball park in Grand Teton National Park, after @MLB asked if they could host a game there washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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The EPA halted funding a study on gas stoves and asthma. But the researchers pressed ahead with it, with a smaller group of participants and the results were striking, By @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Trump officials are seeking to loosen federal rules intended to protect historic sites + potentially end the process of soliciting public input.
The current rules have held up Trump’s arch.
Me + @jakespring at WaPo, matching our pal @janaykingsberry.
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Breaking: Trump administration regulatory change allows killing of species threatened with extinction washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Trump has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing fossil fuels and nuclear power, while working to halt wind and solar projects. But consumers' electricity bills are still soaring. @jakespring and @evanhalper explain why washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
The National Park Service swapped a slavery exhibit "under the cover of darkness" last night at Philadelphia’s Independence Park, to a version that advocates say softens the depiction of slavery and George Washington as a slave owner washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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A very fancy visual graphic showing the difference between the normal Marine One landing spot (on lawn that is current unusable) vs where Trump will be choppering in and out for the next few months (and using a motorcade to go back and forth).
New: Trump is set to resume his Marine One helicopter flights — but from the Ellipse, not the White House, given the sheer amount of construction.
And instead of walking out the WH doors, now he'll take a motorcade.
with @jakespring @DanLamothe
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SCOOP, from @ddiamond @jakespring and @DanLamothe The park south of the White House will become a temporary landing zone for the president’s Marine One flights, which have been on hold for two months because of his construction projects. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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New: Trump is set to resume his Marine One helicopter flights — but from the Ellipse, not the White House, given the sheer amount of construction.
And instead of walking out the WH doors, now he'll take a motorcade.
with @jakespring @DanLamothe
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NEW: Hazardous firework-induced smog continues to hover over Washington D.C. this morning. Avoid time outdoors if you can.
The air so filled with microscopic particulates (PM2.5) that it’s potentially harmful to exert oneself outside. CODE PURPLE alert in effect.
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Yet another SCOOP from @jakespring Internal National Park Service modeling predicts the Trump administration's massive July 4th fireworks display will cause dangerous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions across central D.C. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Trump has a new side project: counting the number of trees in a public park across the street from the White House.
He wants Lafayette Square to feature 47 trees — to match his 47th presidency, per people familiar.
with @jakespring
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SCOOP, from @jakespring Four people died in national parks this past weekend. But recent internal guidance prohibits park staff or other Interior Department employees from directly notifying the public about the deaths, in a shift from past practice. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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SCOOP from @jakespring The National Park Service has removed ‘woke quotes’ displayed at Bunker Hill, one about the Vietnam War and another that was in favor of foreign-born immigrants washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Scoop: Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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SCOOP: Trump officials are diverting roughly $90 million in national parks entry fees to pay for the president’s July 4th plans, including a massive fireworks display. By @jakespring @ddiamond and @NaemaAhmed washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Excellent reporting: booming data centers spew poisonous gases putting VA communities at risk: "The 10,500 generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health even if used rarely" @evanhalper @kcrowebasspro washingtonpost.com/business/… @washingtonpost
Worthwhile reading on the impact of the Trump admin's cuts to U.S. Forest Service research nytimes.com/2026/04/30/clima… by @eniiler
