🧵 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/ https://t.co/vEryLX54mr

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

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

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

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 https://t.co/4Dk7AtH1OZ

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

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

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

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

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.

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. https://t.co/c1I9YDSBYV

Scoop: At least 15 coal plants and 4 chemical facilities emailed the EPA this spring to request exemptions from environmental rules, according to documents obtained by @SierraClub and shared w/ @nytimes. They all won the exemptions.

“The 1619 Project” 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. https://t.co/D181aLAcqJ

National Park Service gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War, scoops ⁦@jakespring⁩ as agency staff follow a Trump directive to yank material that disparages Americans

SCOOP, from @jakespring @EPA has drafted a rule to strike down its 'endangerment finding,' which underpins nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks and power plants

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects https://t.co/glAqFOsW9k

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

Trump officials have ordered National Park Service staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living,” scoops @jakespring @hannah_natanson and @AnushaMathur4

The State Department just fired its remaining staff working in the office on global climate policy, reports @jakespring including its last #climate negotiators

SCOOP: State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change https://t.co/G4u48rUDSl

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