Jake Spring

Climate & Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost. Send me tips on Signal at jspring.99 Ex-Reuters in Brazil/China Host of @foreignpod.

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

🧵 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/

https://t.co/vEryLX54mr

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

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 https://t.co/Oy1OqmYdZO

[Rocky Kistner @therockyfiles]

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 https://t.co/lI5zPdUKXz @washingtonpost

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

Worthwhile reading on the impact of the Trump admin's cuts to U.S. Forest Service research https://t.co/q9YJWLCjBf by @eniiler

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

SCOOP, from @jakespring and @JohnMuyskens - Trump’s expansion of the wall along the southern border with Mexico has damaged a rare Native American archaeological site in the Arizona desert https://t.co/EUkffB1UhJ

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

Why did Trump’s pick to lead the National Park Service withdraw his nomination? Read here: https://t.co/D6xMrVEWa5

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

This company claims that cloud seeding with drones could solve the problem of a parched West. @jakespring looks at what Rainmaker has done, and what it means https://t.co/4FEX51qvvX

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

Utah is betting on cloud-seeding drones to (partially) solve its water problems. The company behind it is claiming to be the first commercial operation to prove the technique works using physical evidence. My story today: https://t.co/dmofoP4raC

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

@chicoharlan @nytimes Congrats Chico!

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

Trump's expanding the border wall with Mexico on an unprecedented scale, reports @arelisrhdz @jakespring Thomas Simonetti and @JohnMuyskens and both Republicans and Democrats are angry over how it could disturb wild landscapes in Texas and the Southwest https://t.co/sI4Gn0xO4B

[Chico Harlan @chicoharlan]

After thousands of stories, this is the last piece I'll ever write in the @washingtonpost.

It's about Iceland, looking at the planet's future, seeing an existential threat.

https://t.co/NhmTtZN4pY

[Rocky Kistner @therockyfiles]

Trump's key #climate rule change hits a wall: “People see it right outside their windows. So they’re just not going to win on the science...It is EPA’s duty under the Clean Air Act to curb the emissions that are driving those disasters.” https://t.co/aPf1443eLK @jakespring

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

SCOOP via @jakespring WH officials at OIRA have warned that the Trump administration's strategy for wiping #climate rules off the books, repealing the endangerment finding, is based on science arguments that might not hold up in court, prompting a rewrite https://t.co/qWXEL4niMH

[Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48]

The special sauce of The Post has always been its collegiality & collaborative spirit. It's evident in the number of scoops & investigations that come from teams across the newsroom. Cuts to Metro, Sports, International, etc. will hurt the whole enterprise -- and our readers.

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

Another @jakespring scoop: Here’s how Trump officials have censored signs at the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park and elsewhere, on everything from climate change to the expulsion of tribes. https://t.co/IEJ4siyg3D

[Dan Eggen @DanEggenDC]

Yet another example: Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia. Staff dismantled an exhibit about George Washington’s slave ownership amid a wider push to remove info on racism, sexism and climate change, by @jakespring https://t.co/YZldI7965n

[Jake Spring @jakespring]

BREAKING: Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia, as it carries out President Trump's executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."

https://t.co/FqR4PHHnop

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

.@hannah_natanson is one of the most talented reporters at @washingtonpost and I am confident that The Post will do everything possible to allow her to continue to do the revelatory journalism she excels at, which relies at times on confidential sources. https://t.co/uCEQP90YGT

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

What to know about EPA’s move to limit ‘everywhere chemicals,’ and how it might fall short of what some scientists and #MAHA advocates are calling for, via ⁦@jakespring⁩ https://t.co/eG6ZRi6tD9

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

1/ More than 40 years ago EPA scientist Earl Gray found deformities in rats after they had corn oil laced with phthalates, which make plastics pliable. U.S. regulators ignored warnings from Gray and scientists, allowing the chemicals to spread @jakespring https://t.co/qqLDP7npSb

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

SCOOP, from @jakespring and @evanhalper A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases off California's coast, along with in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast. Read here to find out more. #climate https://t.co/2dmjf1xJHq