Tony Briscoe

🧵When the Eaton and Palisades fires razed thousands of homes, many survivors hoped that federal disaster agencies would give them a clean slate to rebuild upon. But months later, many people feel as though they have been short-changed. latimes.com/environment/st…

Excited to say that I’ve started this week as a climate and energy reporter at @latimes! Please share tips / goings on to blanca.begert@latimes.com. or, signal: bbegert.73

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s tariffs as illegal import taxes latimes.com/politics/story…

How's it going at the FBI's FOIA office?

I had the privilege of interviewing Rev. Jesse Jackson about the decades of disinvestment and broken promises that Chicago’s West Side had endured after the assassination of MLK Jr. and the 1968 riots. I’ll never forget how a Civil Rights icon made time for a fledgling reporter.

California oil and gas regulators have permanently closed one of the most infamous drill sites in Los Angeles, bringing an end to a decades-long community campaign to prevent dangerous gas leaks and spills. @_TonyBriscoe latimes.com/environment/st…

Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans Story by ⁦@whereishayley⁩ and ⁦@ByIanJames⁩ latimes.com/environment/st…

@ebarcuzzi @GustavoArellano Eight years in the making

@_TonyBriscoe @GustavoArellano These are still a thing?

California is banking $165 million on Tesla’s electric semi truck. But critics say the vehicle remains largely unproven — and in a test drive last year, drivers couldn’t even roll down the window. latimes.com/environment/st…

SCOOP: California officials set aside at least $165 million to offer steep discounts on the long-delayed Tesla semi-truck. The public funding was awarded despite of the vehicle's questionable certification status and dubious production timeline. latimes.com/environment/st… $TSLA

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A California lawmaker is pushing to end a fractured approach to post-fire contamination removal (via @nohaggerty and myself) latimes.com/environment/st…

A highly toxic pesticide that has been banned for decades is still showing up in Long Beach and port communities latimes.com/environment/ne…

Before her exit, California’s disaster czar waffled on whether post-wildfire soil testing was necessary. In Feb, she pleaded with FEMA to pay for testing to protect returning residents. By Oct, her office was considering ending state-funded soil testing latimes.com/environment/st…

Leaked memo reveals California debated cutting wildfire soil testing before disaster chief's exit latimes.com/environment/st…

I remember when “polar vortex” was a rare phenomenon and relatively unknown term. Back then, researchers were grilled for theorizing it was owed to global warming and could be more frequent. How the tables have turned …

EXCLUSIVE: FEMA to pay for lead testing at 100 homes destroyed in Eaton fire, after months of saying it was unnecessary latimes.com/environment/st…

LA Times has obtained more evidence of illegal toxic ash dumping in the rush to rebuild following the Eaton and Palisades fires: latimes.com/environment/st… via @_TonyBriscoe

Records obtained by the Times depict dozens of instances in which oversight personnel flagged federal workers cleaning up the Eaton and Palisades fires for disregarding cleanup procedures in a way that likely spread toxic substances. Read more here: latimes.com/environment/st…

Government reports allege the primary contractor hired to clean up the Eaton and Palisades fires ordered workers to dump ash and debris on a neighbor’s property, possibly in violation of state law. latimes.com/environment/st…

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