Rob Verchick

What you don't know about those Iranian tankers. I'm almost at 100 subscriptions! Help me break through. Thanks! When Ghost Ships Smuggle Oil open.substack.com/pub/robverchic…

Why Trump Has has the Hots for Greenland open.substack.com/pub/robverchic…

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/126513…

“Home insurance rates in Florida are among the highest in the nation, having increased by nearly 20 percent in 2023. The average homeowner there pays $10,996 per year; the national average is $2,377.” newrepublic.com/article/184746…

JOIN the conversation on tainted air and farmworkers! Next Wednesday, August 14 @ 2pm Eastern. Moderated by Member Scholar @MikeMendezPhD.

Mind-blowing new research from @NaomiOreskes shows definitively that climate change was on the minds of members of Congress as they drafted the Clean Air Act -- and that even schoolchildren were being alerted to the risks, way back in 1958: grist.org/science/lost-h…

@seantankerous Laughing gas? Maybe the Justice is trolling us.

Justice Gorsuch's opinion refers five times to "nitrous oxide" (aka laughing gas) rather than the entirely different chemical compound -- smog-causing "nitrogen oxides" -- actually at issue in the case.

There are far more serious problems with today's decision in the Ohio v. EPA staying EPA's Good Neighbor Rule, but ...

Conservatives say America's greatness comes from individualism & small govt. Shapiro (@WFULawSchool) & Tomain (@UCincinnatiLaw) argue otherwise in "How Government Built America." Join their webinar on June 26 for insight into govt role of public policy! 🇺🇲 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

For Black voters, climate action is a priority nytimes.com/2024/05/25/opi…

Congrats to the crew at Sea Change! They earned this Morrow Award with outstanding work on important issues to coastal Louisiana! wwno.org/wwno/2019-04-2…

Education just got more expensive. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

This is a great summer read! Govt is when people solve big problems together.

🚨 "Small gov't" myth debunked! 🚨 Gov't intervention has shaped the U.S. from the 18th century to the 2008 crisis. NEW BOOK: "How Gov"t Built America," by Member Scholars Shapiro @WFULawSchool & Tomain @UCincinnatiLaw. theconversation.com/the-us-has-alw… 📖 More in the @ConversationUS

"Journalists now know that Big Oil has a playbook, and it’s our responsibility to study it and factor that into our coverage." 🔥 @mollytaft @WeAreDrilled drilled.media/news/senate-he…

Great news! We gotta keep the pressure on keeping funding resilience. “Louisiana's new coastal plan gets final approval. Record spending included, but with a warning” nola.com/news/environme…

Rice’s Whales are a treasure trove of sci discovery. And also adorable! Endangered whale spotted in western Gulf faces industrial dangers - Verite News veritenews.org/2024/05/13/end…

“We already see nearly one-third of the world population exposed to deadly heat waves, a 9-fold increase in large North American wildfires, record-setting regional-scale megadrought, the Antarctic ice sheet losing…” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

#Exxon is hit with $726 million verdict over #benzene and #cancer. energyvoice.com/oilandgas/5534… via @energyvoicenews

Why can't we have nice things like reproductive choice & tough climate action? JUDICIAL ORIGINALISM. Learn about this "small, stupid, perpetually changing theory of legal interpretation" that's probably younger than you are. @Dahlialithwick slate.com/originalism