Jake Spring
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Climate & Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost. Send me tips on Signal at jspring.99 Ex-Reuters in Brazil/China Host of @foreignpod.
Washington, D.C.
Joined February 2008
š§µ 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
Restoring Brazilās rainforest has largely fallen to nonprofits. They're battling illegal land-grabbers, tight budgets, botanical mysteries ā and the clock.
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RT @maxinejoselow: Scoop: At least 15 coal plants and 4 chemical facilities emailed the EPA this spring to request exemptions from environmā¦.
nytimes.com
Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rules using a new Trump administration system to fast-track requests, documents show.
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āThe 1619 Projectā and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland could be pulled from shelves at national park gift shops, after staff flagged them and other books for possible review/removal.
washingtonpost.com
Among the books flagged for possible removal were āThe 1619 Projectā and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland.
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RT @eilperin: National Park Service gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War, scoops ā¦@jakespringā© as agency staff followā¦.
washingtonpost.com
Among the books flagged for possible removal were āThe 1619 Projectā and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland.
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RT @eilperin: SCOOP, from @jakespring @EPA has drafted a rule to strike down its 'endangerment finding,' which underpins nationwide limitsā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The agency proposes to overturnĀ the 2009 āendangerment finding,ā which underpins nationwide greenhouse gas emission limits on vehicles and power plants.
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Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects .
washingtonpost.com
The new requirement threatens to slow the approval process for renewable energy projects as they race to begin construction before the deadline for tax credits.
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This is a big deal. Brazil Congress guts environmental permitting, likely hastening the paving of a road through the Amazon and oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. It now goes to Lula's desk for signature or veto. @ffctt
reuters.com
Brazil's Congress passed legislation on Thursday loosening environmental licensing, a potential blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he seeks to burnish his country's green credentials...
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RT @eilperin: Trump officials have ordered National Park Service staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that āinapproā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The National Park Serviceās directive is part of a wider Trump administration effort to reshape how American history is told at federal institutions.
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RT @eilperin: The State Department just fired its remaining staff working in the office on global climate policy, reports @jakespring incluā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Departmentās Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.
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SCOOP: State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change.
washingtonpost.com
The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Departmentās Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.
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My last investigation with former employer @Reuters showed most carbon credit projects in Brazil involve illegal deforesters. We scoured thousands of pages of documents and spoke to a ringleader under house arrest w/ @bzbrad @brito_ricardo @jackie_botts
reuters.com
How a system designed to protect the worldās biggest rainforest is funding businesses with a track record of illegal deforestation.
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RT @eilperin: NEW: A 27 year-old conservative activist got President Trump to sign an executive order today that pledges to preserve publicā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The āMake America Beautiful Againā executive order represents a rare instance of President Donald Trump elevating environmental priorities.
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RT @eilperin: Trump officials asked visitors to single out woke signs at national parks. Instead, according to a @washingtonpost review, thā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The majority of comments reviewed by The Post were positive, though some visitors complained that there were too many mosquitos and ānot enough moose.ā
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RT @eilperin: BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced she will start the process of stripping protections from nearly 59 mā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.
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RT @kaleekreider: New legal memo re: Presidential authority under the Antiquities Act @jakespring reports.
washingtonpost.com
An opinion released by the Office of Legal Counsel concludes the president can abolish national monuments declared by past administrations.
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RT @therockyfiles: Green light to kill monuments? āIt signals that the president is prepared to do something dramatic and sort of at a scalā¦.
washingtonpost.com
An opinion released by the Office of Legal Counsel concludes the president can abolish national monuments declared by past administrations.
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RT @eilperin: People living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn had big hopes for how offshore wind could revitalize their neighborhood. After a 'surrā¦.
washingtonpost.com
Sunset Park moves ahead with plans for a ājust transitionā after the Trump administration lifts its stop-work order on the Empire Wind energy project.
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RT @eilperin: BREAKING: @Interior has allowed the $2.7 billion Empire Wind project, off the New York coast, to restart after slapping it wiā¦.
washingtonpost.com
The administration reversed course and will allow the Empire Wind project to proceed afterĀ lobbying by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Norwegian energy firm Equinor.
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RT @eilperin: "Every few miles, next to washed-out bridges, signs in MAGA red make the same plea: 'Trump Make this Bridge Great Again!'" Reā¦.
washingtonpost.com
After Hurricane Helene, a small crew of resident disaster responders went viral for attacking FEMA.Ā Trump officials jumped to attention.
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RT @eilperin: Exciting news to kick off 2025: We've hired @jakespring as a @washingtonpost Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter. Asā¦.
washingtonpost.com
Most recently, Spring has focused on unreported stories of environmental impacts of climate change and development across Latin America.
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Major career news! Iām elated to be joining The Washington Post at such a critical time for climate and environment coverage. Iāll be moving to Washington, DC for the job. Iāve had a great seven years in Brazil, thank you to all my friends and sources who made that possible.
š@jakespring is joining The Post as a Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter:
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