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Jeff Nesbit

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Personal account. Former HHS, NSF, FDA, SSA & WH comms; Climate Nexus founder; author/27 books; former NYT, Time, US News & Axios contributor/columnist
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Jeff Nesbit was the National Science Foundation’s director of legislative and public affairs in the Bush and Obama administrations; former Vice President Dan Quayle’s communications director; the FDA's public affairs chief; and a national journalist with Knight-Ridder and others. He's the executive director of Climate Nexus and the author of 24 books, including Jude and The Books of El. His latest novel, Perfect Ambition, was released in June 2015.

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Trump’s $4.50 Gas Price Tar Pit

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By Jeff Nesbit
| contrariannews.org
By Jeff Nesbit In the summer of 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump stood before a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and made a signature promise: He’d get your energy prices “down by 50 percent.” In North Carolina a few days earlier, he said he’d “slash prices” of energy and electrcity “by half within 12 months.” Trump characterized the then-current gas prices as a personal failure of the Biden-Harris administration.
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The Evisceration of the American Mind

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By Jeff Nesbit
| contrariannews.org
By Jeff Nesbit One Friday afternoon last month, 22 of the nation’s most distinguished scientists, engineers, and researchers received a digital pink slip. It wasn’t a policy debate or a requested resignation. It was a curt, impersonal email from the Trump White House’s Presidential Personnel Office. With a single “effective immediately,” the Trump administration decapitated the National Science Board (NSB), the independent governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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A Snowless March is a Warning We Can No Longer Ignore

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By Jeff Nesbit
| contrariannews.org
By Jeff Nesbit As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day Wednesday, it’s worth noting that the State of the Global Climate report sounds an alarm, even if our government would prefer to ignore it. In the American West, March is traditionally the month of the “peak”—the moment when the mountain snowpack reaches its zenith, acting as a frozen reservoir that sustains millions through the heat of summer. Photo by Fateme Alaei on Unsplash But this year, the satellite images tell a different story.
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