
Alexa St. John
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Reporting @AP_Climate 🌱🌎⚡️🔋 | Previously @insidertranspo @Automotive_News @WSJ @michigandaily
Joined April 2016
I’m thrilled to join the talented team at @AP_Climate, reporting on climate solutions. It’s a privilege to be able to cover a beat this vital and dynamic, and to have the opportunity to learn from such an impressive group of reporters and editors. So excited to get going!.
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Though people in the United States might associate earthquakes more often with the West Coast, scientists say these types of incidents on the East Coast are not unlikely:
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A relatively mild 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. The earthquake hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10...
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump EPA moves to repeal landmark scientific finding that underpins US action to fight climate change.
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RT @mjphillis: For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given. Great to work w/ @travisloller and @mkwildeman….
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Millions of people living in mobile home parks don't enjoy the same drinking water protections that Americans are accustomed to.
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RT @ChrisMegerian: Trump says his trade deals are supposed to help U.S. manufacturers. But American car companies said the latest agreement….
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U.S. automakers worry that President Donald Trump’s agreement to tariff Japanese vehicles at 15% would put them at a competitive disadvantage, saying they will face steeper import taxes on steel,...
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RT @AP: BREAKING: In a landmark climate decision, the UN's top court says a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right.….
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The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and...
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: EPA eliminates Office of Research and Development, begins layoffs .
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: Trump admin order requires Interior Sec. Burgum to sign off on all wind and solar projects. Advocates say policy will d….
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All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
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RT @AP_CorpComm: .@AP climate reporter @alexa_stjohn outlines how Trump's budget bill could reshape US energy supply on @NewsHour: https://….
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Happy to share some thoughts on @NewsHour with @timmcphillips3 about the big bill and what it means for clean energy. Thanks for having me.
Blackouts and power outages could be 100 times more common in the U.S. in just five years, according to a Department of Energy report released this week. The report found that rising demand and an aging power generation infrastructure threaten U.S. capacity. The news comes as
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For @AP_Climate: The Republican megabill headed to Trump supports oil, coal and gas - largely driving Earth’s warming and increasingly deadly and costly extreme weather - while slashing tax credits for clean technologies including wind and solar energy.
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Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.
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In a big bill that hurts clean energy, residential solar likely to get hit fast. Via @mjphillis for @AP_Climate:
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RT @MatthewDalyWDC: Senate GOP removes tax on solar and wind energy but dismantles climate law passed by Democrats. .
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RT @borenbears: Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
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Websites displaying legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared. The reports tell state and local governments and everyday people what to expect in a warming world and...
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RT @AP: BREAKING: Senate Republicans pass Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill after a turbulent all-night session. Follow live up….
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Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 1, 2025
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The proposal that emerged over the weekend was more aggressive in ending clean energy incentives than a previous Senate version & would even impose new taxes on wind & solar projects while boosting production of coal used in steelmaking. @MatthewDalyWDC:
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A Republican plan heading to a vote in the Senate would quickly end incentives for clean energy and impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects, while boosting production of coal used to make...
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RT @mjphillis: Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale to other cities. https://t.….
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Experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites, the latest Trump administration move with potential consequences for the quality of forecasting. For @AP_Climate:
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Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.
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RT @peterprengaman: If you are just about anywhere on the East Coast, you know it's hot. @AP colleagues Seth Borenstein and Kiki Sideris. h….
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The temperature in New York City has reached 100 degrees as the eastern U.S. sweltered under an extreme heat wave.
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Thank you to the team at AN for putting Lindsay’s legacy so well into words. I’m so grateful to have had him as one of my first editors & a dear mentor. Very special person. Heartbreaking to hear this today. Thoughts are with his family & the many others whose lives he touched.
Lindsay Chappell, Automotive News’ longtime Nashville bureau chief and then senior editor who covered the transplant auto industry almost from its very beginning, died June 20 in Tennessee at age 67.
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RT @borenbears: 60 international Scientists update on warming that's getting hotter faster: “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re gett….
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A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the Earth will be pretty much locked into hitting the internationally agreed...
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