Jake Spring

🧵 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/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

SCOOP, from @jakespring @EPA has drafted a rule to strike down its 'endangerment finding,' which underpins nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks and power plants washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced she will start the process of stripping protections from nearly 59 million acres of untouched areas in national forests, to boost economic development. By @annamphillips and @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

BREAKING: @Interior has allowed the $2.7 billion Empire Wind project, off the New York coast, to restart after slapping it with a stop-work order last month, reports @jakespring @GovKathyHochul had directly appealed to President Trump to save the venture. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

From now on I’ll be anchoring a weekly Brazil Climate newsletter every Thursday on @brazilianreport. Issue one out now, with a fascinating story on an overlooked shipping practice that poses severe environmental risks in Brazil and around the world. newsletters.brazilian.report/p/santos-port-…

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

This is a big deal. Brazil Congress guts environmental permitting, likely hastening the paving of a road through the Amazon and oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. It now goes to Lula's desk for signature or veto. @ffctt reuters.com/sustainability…

Trump officials have ordered National Park Service staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living,” scoops @jakespring @hannah_natanson and @AnushaMathur4 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

The State Department just fired its remaining staff working in the office on global climate policy, reports @jakespring including its last #climate negotiators washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

SCOOP: State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

My last investigation with former employer @Reuters showed most carbon credit projects in Brazil involve illegal deforesters. We scoured thousands of pages of documents and spoke to a ringleader under house arrest w/ @bzbrad @brito_ricardo @jackie_botts reuters.com/business/envir…

NEW: A 27 year-old conservative activist got President Trump to sign an executive order today that pledges to preserve public lands, wildlife and drinking water. Here's how it happened, and what it might do. By @jakespring and @maxinejoselow washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Trump officials asked visitors to single out woke signs at national parks. Instead, according to a @washingtonpost review, they praised the staff and the sites' beauty -- but complained about too many mosquitos and “not enough moose." By @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

New legal memo re: Presidential authority under the Antiquities Act @jakespring reports. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Green light to kill monuments? “It signals that the president is prepared to do something dramatic and sort of at a scale that we’ve never seen before with respect to national monuments, which encompass many of our most cherished public lands” @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

People living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn had big hopes for how offshore wind could revitalize their neighborhood. After a 'surreal' several weeks, an unexpected development has given them reason for optimism, @jakespring reports. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

"Every few miles, next to washed-out bridges, signs in MAGA red make the same plea: 'Trump Make this Bridge Great Again!'" Read this dispatch from the NC mountains, from @bri_sacks & @jakespring about a personal appeal - and what it means for its recovery washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0…

Exciting news to kick off 2025: We've hired @jakespring as a @washingtonpost Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter. As someone who's admired Jake's work out of Brazil for years, I'm thrilled that he's joining our team. washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/01/03/…

Major career news! I’m elated to be joining The Washington Post at such a critical time for climate and environment coverage. I’ll be moving to Washington, DC for the job. I’ve had a great seven years in Brazil, thank you to all my friends and sources who made that possible.

Why was Nacoça Pio, longtime leader of the Cinta Larga Indigenous group, accused of ordering the massacre of 29 diamond prospectors in the Amazon? I tell the story in my new book, excerpted today as a @guardian Long Read (link in the next tweet)

Lula urges G20 leaders to move faster on net zero climate targets. By ⁦@jakespring⁩ & ⁦@JarrettRenshaw⁩ - reuters.com/world/g20-lead…