Lisa Song

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Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots. Contact: lisasong.42 on Signal

A woman and her young daughter sit on a living room floor, in front of a doll house and surrounded by dolls. The woman is putting a gas mask on the girl.
A 1-year-old girl with red, puffy eyes looks at the camera while her mother kisses her on the cheek and wipes her face. Her father says "are you ok?" and puts his hands over his eyes.
CBP officers throw canisters of tear gas at a crowd of protesters at night. As the street fills with white smoke, one officer mutters "Fuck yeah," and "Woo!"
A handwritten poster that says: “Just cause now! It’s not hard. [Footnote: see NYT, Reuters, AP, etc]”
A person in an inflatable mouse costume, holding a picket sign that says "ProPublica workers love a fair contract"
Rectangular lemon cake with "Just Cause" spelled out in colorful fish-shaped sprinkles
A card with contact info for reporter Lisa Song (at ProPublica). "I cover how environmental regulations -- or the lack thereof -- affect communities. I'm interested in talking to current and former employees at the EPA, NOAA, USGS and similar agencies with tips on policy changes and political meddling in scientific research." Email: lisa.song@propublica.org. WhatsApp: 646-712-0120. Signal: lisasong.42
A special “I voted” nyc sticker with the words “Halloween voter 2024.” It shows a cartoon pigeon in a witch’s hat, holding a pumpkin shaped trick-or-treat bucket in its beak. There are bats flying behind the pigeon.
Screenshot from the story showing how mass balance works. First, you see the outputs of a steam cracker: it makes 13 pounds of propylene, 30 pounds of ethylene and 57 pounds of other chemicals. Propylene is used to make things like butter tubs, ethylene can be used to make yogurt pouches. All of these products are technically 10% recycled, because 10% of the feedstock that went into the steam cracker was recycled feedstock made from plastic waste.
A bar chart showing that 15% - 20% of the plastic that goes into pyrolysis becomes new plastic at the end. The rest becomes diesel fuel, hydrogen, methane and other chemicals.
Protesters holding posters in front of a sculpture showing plastic trash falling out of a faucet, next to the plastics treaty conference center in Ottawa. The posters say: "Let's cut production by >= 75% by 2040," "Would you negotiate with Marlboro?", "Imagine NOT listening to oil companies for once," and "Blink twice if big oil is holding you hostage." Two of the posters say "Greenpeace" on the bottom.
A child lying in bed wearing an oxygen mask, holding a teddy bear. The caption says “these plastics save lives”
A snow leopard sleeping in its enclosure on a pile of straw. It's lying on its back, front paws tucked to its chest and its tail spread out in a long fluffy line.
The sun during totality appears as a dark circle surrounded by a narrow ring of light. the rest of the sky is covered in gray clouds.