Jake Spring

🧵 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/ reuters.com/investigates/s…

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 washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

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. wapo.st/4rFJRQs

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.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… @jakespring

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 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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.

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. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

.@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. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

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 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

SCOOP, from @jakespring and @AmudalatAjasa The changes Trump officials have made to @EPA -- including furloughs during the #shutdown have led to a drop in enforcement actions against polluters washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

White House rolls out concierge, white glove service for fossil fuels. Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed inside the Motel 6. Great scoop by @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

White House offers ‘concierge,white glove’ service to fossil fuel firms, a Trump official disclosed in a podcast interview hosted by a law firm with energy clients. By ⁦@jakespring⁩ washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Will mining destroy America’s most-visited wilderness? The Trump administration is moving quickly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area in Minnesota, by @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area @jakespring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

As Trump tries to advance a copper mine on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters, America's most visited wilderness, I spent a few days with people on both sides of the issue in far northern Minnesota wapo.st/4pN2VfE

SCOOP, from @jakespring and @hannah_natanson The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks, including a photo of an enslaved man's scars. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

SCOOP: Trump officials order a national park to remove an iconic photograph of the scars of a formerly enslaved man. It's one of multiple orders to remove information on slavery at parks. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…