Tik Root

NEW: I’ve spent over a year investigating the private U.S. adoption industry for @TIME & @Newsy. With virtually no federal regulation and loophole-riddled state laws, baby brokering has become an extremely lucrative business rife with exploitation (THREAD) time.com/6051811/privat…

This is my final request that you read my many-months-long investigation into the far-right militias masquerading as emergency preparedness/relief orgs and why that doesn't bode well for a future plagued by super-charged natural disasters. #EMGTwitter grist.org/extreme-weathe…

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

Incredibly smart and powerful reporting from @hannahdreier nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

State cannabis regulator seeks information about alleged ties between Russian oligarch and Vermont dispensaries vtdigger.org/2023/02/17/sta… via @vtdigger

@GreenMtnPower Thanks!

@TikRoot Hi -The reason is because the Middlebury district was ground zero for the whole storm – that is where it hit hardest. It was a bomb cyclone - ripping trees out by the roots. We had external crews here to help in advance & pre positioned- tripling our field force to get folks on.

Storm Update: Outages are now down to 7000. With so much progress, here are updated high level restoration times by town so everyone can plan and be safe: greenmountainpower.com/news/storm-upd… #vt

@GreenMtnPower A brief description of the issues in each district would be appreciated.

Please check out this beautifully written and visually stunning piece about an aviator’s race to photograph glaciers as the climate clock clicks. By my @AP enterprise team colleagues ⁦@NatCasta⁩ and Bram Jannsen. apnews.com/article/07730d…

Must-read story from @MarkOlalde, @mrsimon22 and @Amierjeski of @propublica propublica.org/article/uraniu…

New: How China, the world's biggest annual emitter of greenhouse gases, avoids paying for #climate damages because of its classification as a developing country. w/ the great @michaelbirnbaum @lilkuo washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Vermont banned rental application fees decades ago, but they remain rampant - and no one appears to be enforcing the law. (My latest for @vtdigger) vtdigger.org/2022/11/01/i-w…

Sometimes journalism answers questions you never thought to ask. Like, "could one of the biggest bears in the world sit in coach?" His story (and more) here: washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…

Since 1954, the @WMO has retired the names of 94 particularly destructive Atlantic hurricanes. But the majority of those storms have occurred in the 21st century, and the rate of retirements has been markedly higher in recent decades. Could #hurricaineIan be on the 2022 list?

Breaking: ANTS! There are a lot of them Nearly 20 quadrillion — a 2 followed by 16 zeros — are marching across the Earth, according to a new estimate out today Even one of the scientists behind the staggering total called the number "unimaginable" washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

NEW from me-> How coal-loving Poland became an unlikely leader in the heat pump revolution. The war in Ukraine is pushing Poles to embrace green measures. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Oklahoma authorities found multiple human remains on a compound w/links to a violent white supremacist gang. Reporting on the discovery led to a rural vortex where people vanish, their families too terrified to hang “missing person” signs. (Thread) wapo.st/3QGWRT3

Two Christian ranches in Wyoming are accused of forcing teens to do hard labor. One man says he was branded with a cross. Three women say they were tied to a goat as a punishment. @tylerkingkade reports: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/w…

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making propublica.org/article/new-me… (@MarkOlalde)

INVESTIGATION: I traveled deep into Mexico's jungle & mountains and found BP has been paying a "pittance" for carbon offsets produced by subsistence farmers’ forests in more than a dozen communities 🧵 bloomberg.com/features/2022-…