
Jake Spring
@jakespring
Climate & Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost. Ex-Reuters, Brazil, China. @opcofamerica & @coveringclimate award winner. Host of the @foreignpod podcast
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Exciting news to kick off 2025: We've hired Jake Spring as a The Washington Post Climate and Environment Enterprise Reporter. As someone who's admired Jake's work out of Brazil for years, I'm thrilled that he's joining our team. washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/01/03/…


"Every few miles, next to washed-out bridges, signs in MAGA red make the same plea: 'Trump Make this Bridge Great Again!'" Read this dispatch from the NC mountains, from Brianna Sacks & Jake Spring about a personal appeal - and what it means for its recovery washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0…

BREAKING: US Department of the Interior has allowed the $2.7 billion Empire Wind project, off the New York coast, to restart after slapping it with a stop-work order last month, reports Jake Spring Governor Kathy Hochul had directly appealed to President Trump to save the venture. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

People living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn had big hopes for how offshore wind could revitalize their neighborhood. After a 'surreal' several weeks, an unexpected development has given them reason for optimism, Jake Spring reports. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

New legal memo re: Presidential authority under the Antiquities Act Jake Spring reports. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Green light to kill monuments? “It signals that the president is prepared to do something dramatic and sort of at a scale that we’ve never seen before with respect to national monuments, which encompass many of our most cherished public lands” Jake Spring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced she will start the process of stripping protections from nearly 59 million acres of untouched areas in national forests, to boost economic development. By Anna Phillips and Jake Spring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Trump officials asked visitors to single out woke signs at national parks. Instead, according to a The Washington Post review, they praised the staff and the sites' beauty -- but complained about too many mosquitos and “not enough moose." By Jake Spring washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

NEW: A 27 year-old conservative activist got President Trump to sign an executive order today that pledges to preserve public lands, wildlife and drinking water. Here's how it happened, and what it might do. By Jake Spring and Maxine Joselow washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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/ Brad Haynes Ricardo Brito Jackie Botts reuters.com/business/envir…


The State Department just fired its remaining staff working in the office on global climate policy, reports Jake Spring including its last #climate negotiators washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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 Jake Spring Hannah Natanson and Anusha Mathur washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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. Fabio Teixeira reuters.com/sustainability…



National Park Service gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War, scoops Jake Spring as agency staff follow a Trump directive to yank material that disparages Americans washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…


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 Sierra Club and shared w/ The New York Times. They all won the exemptions. nytimes.com/2025/07/29/cli…