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Lacy M. Johnson

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Writer, Survivor, Professor, Founder

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The Reckonings, The Other Side, Trespasses, More City Than Water | Up Next: Uncollected Wonders | she/her

Houston, TXlacymjohnson.comJoined January 2009

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A few years ago I learned about a nature center in Houston that had once been a luxury housing development for wealthy oil executives. Decades of groundwater extraction from the nearby refinery caused the peninsula to subside 9 feet, going from 11 feet above sea level to 2...

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Texas companies have had 21,000 unexpected pollution releases that emitted 400,000 tons of air pollution over six years, according to a new report. But only 1% of them prompted action by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the report found.

texastribune.org

Environmental group says Texas fails to hold repeat polluters account…

A new report found that companies in Texas have had 21,000 unexpected pollution releases that emitted 400,000 tons of air pollution over six years, but only 1% of them prompted action by the Texas Co…

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“As sea level rises, coastal groundwater also rises, and so if the groundwater happens to be not that far from the surface, then as sea level rises, it can cause all kinds of trouble.”

Rising Groundwater Threatens New York City — Researchers to Study How Much

Water tables that rise with sea levels can inundate basements, ruin underground infrastructure and render anti-flooding strategies ineffective. After a nearly decade-long hiatus, the feds are...

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Black residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” filed a landmark lawsuit Tuesday to end all new fossil fuel & petrochemical plants in St. James Parish citing “an environmental and public health emergency" rooted in "a legacy of slavery and white supremacy."

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Todays severe storm risk is a big deal. Long-lived, large tornadoes are possible and damaging winds are expected. If you have friends or fam in the highlighted area, give them call and make sure they have a plan.

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NWS Storm Prediction Center

7:52am CDT #SPC Public Severe Weather Outlook #PWO concerning #arwx #lawx #mswx #tnwx spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo

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On the same day

@EnviroIntegrity

's new report concludes that

"routinely declines to use its existing legal authority to crack down on this illegal air pollution," the #txlege will be meeting to discuss the agency's performance. environmentalintegrity.org/news/systemic-

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@EFrost_Wildwood

"The United States Geological Survey estimated that across the conterminous U.S., carbon emissions from logging of federal forests were more than double those from fire on those lands."

climate-forests.org

The Significance of Carbon Emissions from Logging on Federal Forests

Scientific research indicates that logging on federal forests is a substantial source of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere that is at least comparable to and likely greater than levels...

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

Here are the big takeaways from the

Synthesis Report released today. First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

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Bayou City Waterkeeper

Over the weekend a federal district judge temporarily halted the new science-based rule revising the definition of “Waters of the United States” from taking effect in Texas and Idaho. Read more:

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Texas blocks WOTUS within our watershed - Bayou City Waterkeeper

Decision blocks common-sense rule that protects nation’s wetlands Houston, Texas — Today, a federal district court in Texas issued an extraordinary decision halting the new science-based rule...

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“Last Friday, Senator Bettencourt… introduced a bill that would rename the HCFCD the Gulf Coast Resiliency District and place it under the control of a five-member board appointed by Governor Abbott.”

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“Bettencourt said that he sees SB 2431 as the first step toward creating a regional district. But that’s not what his bill does. Instead, it replaces local elected officials with unelected bureaucrats appointed by the governor.” texasmonthly.com/news-politics/

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I live for conversations, truly. This one hit home in so many ways. Can't tell you how fortunate I feel to have conversed with Terry Gross on

about the hospital I love, the patients that have stuck with me, and how to make healthcare in this country better

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"I like that I have the time to be able to hear my patients' stories, that I don't have to think about billing all the time," @riconuila says. He works at a safety-net hospital in Houston. npr.org/sections/healt

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Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85% A quick summary:

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Application deadline tomorrow!

baldwinforthearts.org

Apply for fellowship | Baldwin for the Arts | A place to dream

Applications are accepted from January 15th to March 15th, 11:59 PM EST. Artists may apply only once every 24 months. BFTA will only accept applications for the upcoming deadline.

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"What strikes me here today, more than it did before, is that sometimes we try to protect the places we love and end up losing them anyway: a neighborhood, a peninsula, a marsh upriver, a riverine woodland." #longreads

@emergence_zine

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@Orion_Magazine

Working on a piece of fiction or creative non-fiction in which science plays a major role? Write your science novel amongst an international community of scientists and scholars with the

fellowship. Learn more here: fictionmeetsscience.org/ccm/content/pr

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Sarah Boon, PhD

"We live in what Gramsci called “a time of monsters,” when the “the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.”"

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We must stop the state's hostile takeover of HISD. The same people who gutted education funding at the expense of Black & Brown students have no business taking over our schools. We must fight back. #HISDTakeover

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Bayou City Waterkeeper

Seven more days left to apply for our open Policy & Partnerships Manager position! Learn about this and our Communications Manager on our website. bayoucitywaterkeeper.org/jobs-internshi

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Emergence Magazine

@emergence_zine

In this week’s essay, longtime Houston resident

considers: When is it time to reconstruct, and when is it time to mourn what’s been lost and make way for what will take its place? Read “What Survives.” emergencemagazine.org/essay/what-sur Photo by

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"(S)ometimes we try to protect the places we love and end up losing them anyway: a neighborhood, a peninsula, a marsh upriver, a riverine woodland. We need space and time and ritual to grieve these losses, but we also have to love whatever emerges in their place."

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It's an eerie and beautiful and unsettling place. I wrote about it for @emergence_zine emergencemagazine.org/essay/what-sur

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Replying to

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@virginiahanusik

A few photos I took in what was once Brownwood in 2016

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We're still reflecting on "A Tree's View of History: A Conversation with

" co-hosted with

@Orion_Magazine

. Our musings and the recorded video are available ➡️ yff.yale.edu/news/notes-tre Photo 2 credit: John Maxwell for USFWS.

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many thanks to

@ChelseaScudder

and Michelle Moore for the careful and patient editing, and especially to

for the invitation.

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It's an eerie and beautiful and unsettling place. I wrote about it for

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The neighborhood was destroyed so often by hurricanes & storm surges that eventually it was condemned & over a few more decades, transformed into the wetland preserve it is today. When you visit the nature center, you can still see the old foundations; the trails are old roads.

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Emergence Magazine

@emergence_zine

In this week’s essay,

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Illinois Sierra Club

We are sad to learn that the Rockford International Airport proceeded with the destruction of the Bell Bowl Prairie today. Activists across IL led by

@BellBowlPrairie

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worked hard over the past 2 years to #SaveBellBowlPrairie & the creatures that call the prairie home.

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Mary Annaïse Heglar

💫some personal news💫Over the summer, I got the idea for an all-Black climate essay collection. I told another Black woman about it and she asked, “do you think you could find enough people?” So I went home and wrote the proposal.

saw the vision, and it’s happening!

Climate justice writer Mary Annaïse Heglar's 'TIL EARTH AND HEAVEN RING, a collection of essays by Black writers, activists, and intellectuals on topics including the relationship between climate and colonialism, environmental racism, the climate movement as a natural progression of the Civil Rights movement, climate change and hip-hop, and more, to argue that the history and future of climate change are inextricably linked to the Black experience, to Lisa Lucas at Pantheon, in a pre-empt, by Adam Schear at DeFiore (World).

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Univ of Texas Press

Whether or not you're at #AWP23, we're offering 30% off + free shipping on

's book MORE CITY THAN WATER! Use code UTXAWP23 on our website and make room on your shelves for a "beautiful, moving, and, most fundamentally, provocative" book! #AWP utpress.utexas.edu/9781477325001/

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In his first book, Houston physician and writer

argues that publicly funded institutions don’t deserve their reputation and offers a model for mending our broken health-care system. Read our review, here:

texasmonthly.com

Texas’s “Safety Net Hospitals” Are Better Than You Think

In his first book, Houston physician Ricardo Nuila argues that big-city “safety net” hospitals don’t deserve their awful reputation.

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reading news about FEMA floodplain maps is not that fun ! but it is pretty much essential info you need to understand if you live anywhere near houston & that's why i wanted to write about what's happening >> free link/no paywall 🌧️

houstonchronicle.com

New Harris County flood maps will be first in the nation to show more accurate risks

The update is a direct response to Hurricane Harvey, a storm so ferocious it forced the...

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TheShipmanAgency

@shipman_agency

I'm privileged to run a speaker's agency that promotes Trans voices. If you're in a position to book a Trans person, we'd love to help make that happen. We won't take commission. Flood the zone with truth, love, shared humanity+fight these fucking nazis w/everything we've got. 🔥

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Since Michael Knowles genocidal statements of "eradicating transgenderism entirely" are trending and people are just now paying attention. 3 days ago, he said you "can't genocide transgender people because they are not a legitimate category of being."

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POV: You're walking through the woods when you encounter a righteously angry yet merciful deer god, who lets you off with a steamy warning 🦌😤 📹Adam Earhart twitter.com/buitengebieden

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"In the United States, the richest 10% pollute 16 times as much as the poorest 10%." And "Nearly everyone in the United States, even those in the lowest income brackets, produces a lot of climate pollution relative to everyone else in the world."

The American Exception

When it comes to climate footprints, rich people in the United States are in a class of their own.

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Still stunned. More to come, but thank you to

, to the judges for your empathetic reading, to my fellow nominees, to

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The 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography goes to Dan Charnas (@dancharnas) for DILLA TIME (@mcdbooks). Congratulations! #PENLitAwards

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The 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography goes to Dan Charnas (

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The 2023 PEN Open Book Award goes to Hafizah Augustus Geter (

@RhetoricAndThis

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Holy wow. I just realized that my first AWP was TWENTY YEARS AGO

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If you're heading to AWP, or if you already live in Seattle, join

next Friday night for a fun offsite party with a very silly showdown between craft experts

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, Robin Black, and

@bethminhnguyen

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