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Molly Taft
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Writing about climate change, renewable energy, and Big Oil/Big Gas/Big Everything for Earther. Formerly of the Center for Public Integrity & Nexus Media News. I'm very tall & have a very short dog.

SuBastien ahahahaha!

jokes aside, these images are amazing. Read more

I work designing refrigeration. Read more

People are giving the writer shit, but if a fraction of journalism involved this much investigation, the world would be a better place.  Read more

Feel free to let them know that the data crop readers immediately notice! Read more

on a very tight turnaround”

I wonder why the bosses think that’s the priority.  I wish they’d stop that so that the staff can have the time necessary to flesh these things out. Read more

I really feel we’re in the dark days of obesity medicine. I’m obese. I have been since I was four years old. I put myself on my first diet: I was 7. I was in a medically supervised weight management program at 11. Weight Watchers at 14. Atkins at 15. I have never known a conscious moment in which food and my body were Read more

What kills me is that I’ve seen, first-hand, newspapers cutting newsroom staff while bringing in marketing staff. Without fail, they surprise pikachu when subscribers drop due to lack of content, which cycles into more newsroom cuts.
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Thank you for covering the information vs. disinformation about this. I live in Ohio and have had to do a lot of digging to figure out what is real vs. not real, and this has actually been getting decent coverage locally. Read more

I knew this was going straight to the top of the conspiratorial pile the moment I saw the images of the burn cloud. And sure enough, within 24 hours of the incident I scrolled through dozens of tiktoks, shorts, and reels of people making any claim they could shoehorn into the trainwreck.

This is a real tragedy and so Read more

Well in their defense, when you google “Danny Devito oil”, the only image you get is this, so maybe they had to get creative.

I just wanted to say that I heard you this morning on MarketPlace (NPR). Keep up the good work and you did great in that interview. Hopefully they will have you on now and then for some of the Earther view of Economics. Read more

I liked this article. It’s good to be proud of what you are. Read more