Nicole Greenfield

Investigative reporter @ConsumerReporters
Environmental health, food, chemicals, sustainability
Past: Senior writer @NRDC, 2022-23 fellow @ReligionEnviro

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

My latest for @NRDC features @risestjames's fight to halt petrochemical expansion in so-called Cancer Alley—and to help usher in a cleaner, healthier future starting with solar development. Both have been an uphill battle. https://t.co/5C8ipjIGLS

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

@All4Energy thanks for sharing!

[Alliance for Affordable Energy @All4Energy]

"Electric bills keep going up—seemingly with no limit in sight...But utilities can’t just raise prices on their own—they must seek approval from public utility commissions, or PUCs," reports @nmgreenfield. Read more on @ConsumerReports ⤵
https://t.co/SVh6EkF5lK

[Lisa Elaine Held @lisaelaineh]

Scoop: In the notice, USDA said the regs are “obsolete,” but they were also one of the only potential sources of data on when, where, and how “restricted use” pesticides are used. @CivilEats https://t.co/SnBtMFrbcp

[Chris Zizo (she/her) @ChristieZizo]

"During President Donald Trump’s administration, they said, their managers at the EPA began pressuring them to make new chemicals they were vetting seem safer than they really were. They were encouraged to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms..." https://t.co/3JyJ7l5LVk

[ProPublica @propublica]

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life.

https://t.co/aIDgs2S2Ph

[EJTodayNews @EJTodayNews]

Incarcerated People Are Drinking Unsafe Water in #Illinois State Prisons
#news #environment #pollution

@nmgreenfield reports for @Sierra_Magazine

EJ Today Headlines: https://t.co/nnLS0bOV3X

https://t.co/tvZuKMj81c

[Katherine Bagley @Kat_Bagley]

Today, @grist published a 5-part series in collaboration with @voxdotcom and @19thnews on how climate change is impacting reproductive health, from menstruation to conception to birth.

This is a brilliant, critical package. Please read and share: https://t.co/rn23oIxIZz

[Sharon Lerner @fastlerner]

For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... https://t.co/vsBSK04gY3

[nina st. pierre | she•her @ninastpierre]

In 1971, my mother was part of a dual self-immolation. For the ⁦@latimes⁩ I wrote about how today mirrors that time and where to place my mother’s act in a lineage of burning—a question I explore fully in my memoir, Love is a Burning Thing, out May 7 https://t.co/iUkje9u9xu

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For @TheAtlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: https://t.co/kbiQnMW7Ri

[𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 @dharnanoor]

new: plastic producers have known for 30+ yrs that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. but they promoted it anyway, a new @climatecosts analysis shows.

the report is full of new docs & evidence.

https://t.co/XDBBVZAcWB

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

@lsjamison My 7yo loves Zoey & Sassafras and Isadora Moon.

[eve andrews @eefandrews]

since july, i've been talking with residents of east palestine about their efforts to confirm whether pollution lingers in their homes, and how it will affect the rest of their lives. this is the story: https://t.co/cCnLMg28RU

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

@TedZukoski @NRDC Thanks, Ted. Appreciated your insights!

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

For more on "chemical recycling" (which isn't actually recycling, but plastic incineration): https://t.co/N57nfVuRtZ

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Ahead of a groundbreaking treaty to reduce plastic pollution, a group of independent scientists fear that the United Nations is legitimizing industry-backed proposals such as chemical recycling. https://t.co/i8gLb3aDS2

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

People who work in restaurants, factories, and schools could all be exposed to dangerously hot conditions, which can cause heat-related illnesses—and even be fatal. These workers urgently need protections from extreme heat indoors. https://t.co/gIAYxGl3ne

[Jake Bittle @jake_bittle]

This week's Record High newsletter is about why FEMA doesn't respond to heat waves. The law that governs the agency doesn't recognize heat as a disaster, and the costs of heat are often invisible, making it harder for states to access federal resources. https://t.co/DB5hBid2Pl

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

Thankfully, @NRDC scientists, lawyers, and advocates have been on top of this issue for years. One critical solution: Regulate *all* PFAS as a single class of chemical, not one by one: https://t.co/bh8OuSORef

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

As if @joshritter weren’t already swoonworthy enough, I just realized he sings about #PFAS in Stuck to You. 🧵https://t.co/8eBExYo7M0

[Nicole Greenfield @nmgreenfield]

Meanwhile, way too many people have no clue that PFAS contaminate their drinking water—or even what the chemicals are! https://t.co/58ynMay1jK