Thanks to fellow Disney fan Shaun McKinnon for spotlighting my Autopia reporting in azcentral's climate newsletter. If you're not following Arizona Republic's environment journalism, you're missing out. Brandon Loomis Joan Meiners, PhD 🐝🚴‍♀️ Deb Krol & co are amazing. azcentral.com/story/nletter/…

'Salmon is king.'
For today's Boiling Point, I wrote about salmon and the people who depend on fishing for them along the California coast. Low salmon numbers led to a shutdown of the fishing season last year, and the outlook this year isn't much better. latimes.com/environment/ne…

NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! Disney's Bob Iger won BIG, garnering about 94% of the shareholders' vote, triumphing over Nelson Peltz who received support from about 31% of the shareholders. Still, enormous challenges remain for the Mouse House. latimes.com/entertainment-…

#Disney 's board's 'No. 1 priority' is finding a successor who can eventually step into CEO Bob Iger's big shoes. We look at four Disney executives in the running. w/ Ryan Faughnder Samantha Masunaga Stephen Battaglio Los Angeles Times latimes.com/entertainment-…

New network of air monitors confirms electric cars are driving down planet-warming pollution in the Bay Area -- just not fast enough to meet California's climate goals, at least not yet. Details from my Los Angeles Times colleague Tony Briscoe: latimes.com/environment/st…

Miwok tribe buys Sacramento’s landmark 301 Capitol Mall | Sacramento Bee The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians reclaimed a piece of its lost history Tuesday by purchasing landmark property in downtown Sacramento’s entryway sacbee.com/news/local/art…

Check it out- should be a great webinar! #RxFire

How the last 20 years of Sierra snowpack stack up — in one superb graphic by Sean Greene latimes.com/projects/calif… Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics

Toxic Dust Threatens CA Salmon, Lawmaker Seeks Solution

Diane Papan may have a solution for at least 1 part of the salmon deaths: purifying highway runoff of toxic dust from tires that enters streams & rivers during storms

@kqednews KQED Science

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The amount of money they're spending to arrest fare evaders could be spent giving every poor person in New York City an unlimited ride MetroCard for a year.

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It seems the deaths of 6 likely undocumented bridge construction workers should shine light on why the US is bringing in so many undocumented workers.

Also, on the importance of unions.

Thank you BrooklynStoryLab for supporting my new book A Weed Grows in Boston!

Need a 420 gift for the aging stoner? My new book A Weed Grows in Boston is out NOW amazon.com/Weed-Grows-Bos…

Native American activists criticize Springfield College for keeping some Indigenous names on campus nepm.org/regional-news/…

On The Japan Times' front page today, billions of yen are pouring into 'climate resilient' infrastructure projects in #Cambodia – with a keystone focus on water.

I dig into how these features are meant to overcome the 'climate crisis hotspot' that is Southeast Asia ⬇️

This is a great article by journalist ⁦Jim Boren⁩ who, as a teenager, worked picking cantaloupes in 1965 after the end of the Bracero program. Give this a read for for some good insight on #FarmworkerAwarenessWeek . calmatters.org/uncategorized/…

'Incredible place to be': First Indigenous woman in space hopes to inspire young explorers azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via azcentral

My latest story for CalMatters goes in-depth into the high-stakes and big money battle between competing gambling interests:

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