Jessica McKenzie
Founder and Writer at Pinch of Dirt
Associate Editor at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Articles
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3 weeks ago |
peoplesworld.org | Jessica McKenzie
The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community made no mention of climate change as a security threat for the first time in 11 years, according to Sen. Angus King. Much of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last Tuesday was taken up by questions about the use of a private, encrypted messaging app by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community to discuss the details of an upcoming attack on Yemen.
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3 weeks ago |
thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie
Since President Trump was inaugurated in January, he has unleashed a barrage of attacks on federal institutions, employees, laws, and regulations. Agencies that deal with climate, energy, and environmental policy have been on the receiving end of many of these attacks, more than a few of which are of dubious legality and go far beyond anything Trump attempted in his first term.
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3 weeks ago |
thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie
In September 2019, I had been on the air for nine hours of wall-to-wall coverage as Hurricane Dorian tied a record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to hit land, striking the Bahamas with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. When it began crawling west toward Grand Bahama as a Category 5 monster, I could see that people in South Florida were getting nervous. They were desperate to know whether the buzz saw hurricane would spare the state or not. Did they need to evacuate?
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4 weeks ago |
thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie
There’s an important battle brewing over university overhead rates. Sounds boring, right? But hang with me and you’ll see why this is so crucially important to America. It will determine whether breakthrough technologies emerge in American labs or Chinese ones. Last week, the Department of Energy slashed university overhead rates to 15 percent.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Jessica McKenzie
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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