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“The draft rule largely avoids making scientific arguments about climate change and instead focuses on making legal arguments saying that the agency does not have the basis to act on climate change under a certain section of the Clean Air Act, the two people familiar with the…

Philippines set for first coal power decline in 17 years amid rising LNG use reuters.com/sustainability…

The most interesting part of this news: “In calling to repeal the endangerment finding, the draft E.P.A. rule does not appear to focus on the science or try to make the case that fossil fuels aren’t warming the planet.”

Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004: “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭

🎤 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 2025 The momentum is building for #ptg2025 – and today we're pleased to introduce another group of speakers. @KatCraig1 @ahmarmaiga08 @RogerPielkeJr 👉playthegame.org/2025

How countries’ rankings vary between measures can be revealing about their societies. Those with very old or young population often do much better when incomes are adjusted for hours worked economist.com/graphic-detail…

Sofia Cantore with the beautiful set up and cross to secure the goal. 🤌 // @WEURO2025 @WashSpirit

Great post from @RogerPielkeJr again - Convincingly explained, informative, and reduces climate fear. #ClimateEvangelism

Nigeria’s economy 30% bigger after GDP recalculation ft.com/content/38b06d… via @ft

It is extremely amusing that in the same week the NCAA levied a $30,000 fine on Memphis for paying tutors to do homework for players, Memphis offered $200,000,000 to join the Big 12.

Did you know that in a 1.5°C to 2.0°C cooler world than today, central European megadroughts were a lot longer and more severe? The period 1770-1840 prior to most industrialization was a nightmare for agriculture. nature.com/articles/s4324…

BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76. trib.al/NRGiXel 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

The NWSL’s 16th team is coming to Denver in 2026 and today they unveiled their name and logo. “We are pleased to unveil Denver Summit FC as our name and to share our crest and colors with Colorado and the world,” said Denver Summit FC President Jen Millet. “It was vital for us…

One reason tariffs haven't affected the stock market more is that they primarily affect the "old economy". GM has $187B in sales but a market cap of just $50B, while Nvidia has $135B in sales and a market cap of $4.1 trillion. GM is much more exposed to tariffs than Nvidia.

Introducing, Denver Summit Football Club ⛰️

Denver Summit FC: Colorado's NWSL team has announced its new name and logo. ⁦@DenverChannel⁩ denver7.com/sports/womens-…

Bari Weiss seeks more than $200mn for media start-up “The Free Press has about 1.25mn subscribers on Substack, with about 155,000 of them paying... Annual subscriptions cost $100, implying subscription revenues of about $15.5mn” on.ft.com/450YHr9

"Make no mistake: the incredible progress in the reduction of overall deaths from disasters is one of the most incredible accomplishments of humanity... You probably haven’t heard much, if anything, about this very good news." rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/human-progre…

“You can clearly see that 2025 comes in well below any year of the past 25 years. Thus, we can conclude with some confidence that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any January-June this century.” open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielk…

Effective today, I have resigned from the Advisory Board of UATX. While I believe very much in the importance of competition and innovation in higher education, and see major problems with the lack of diverse perspective in elite institutions, I am not comfortable with the course…