Kavanaugh, Said, Court

This is the seventy-seventh post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.

Caption from CNN: “At left, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. At right, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Supreme Court Justice, appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, who called Scalia, “an apostle of restraint and an apostle of engagement.””

Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (August 13 – August 19, 2018):

Trump's Supreme Court Pick Has a History of Ruling Against Environmental Protectionshttps://t.co/IzlG7DWjJD

— ScienceAsFact (@ScienceAsFact) August 12, 2018

Monday: “Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Has a History of Ruling Against Environmental Protections” by Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson, Science Alert

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ICYMI— maybe ⁦@FLGovScott⁩ didn’t want to talk to the press or public about his history of gutting the Department of Environmental Protection and of appointing his friends to the South Florida Water Management District. 🤔 #sayfie #flapol https://t.co/WGP6tuBOcu

— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) August 14, 2018

Tuesday: “Gov. Rick Scott left St. Lucie River without meeting with the public so he could campaign” by Ali Schmitz, TC Palm

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Environmental groups warn of Kavanaugh’s history defending corporate polluters https://t.co/qiK0kf3lmD via @thinkprogress

— Karen Kohls (@klkolz) August 15, 2018

Wednesday: “Environmental groups warn of Kavanaugh’s history defending corporate polluters” by Mark Hand, ThinkProgress

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https://twitter.com/shihtzuman/status/1029884990622973953

Thursday: “Environmental groups warn of Kavanaugh’s history defending corporate polluters” by Mark Hand, ThinkProgress

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An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city https://t.co/rmHIDbXATa #histtech #envhist #wxhistory #climhist #architecture

— NiCHE (@NiCHE_Canada) August 16, 2018

Friday: “An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city” by Rowan Moore, The Guardian

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Gary Fields, "Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror" (U California Press, 2017) https://t.co/zFZFu48Z2J #envhist #histgeog

— Dr. Jessica DeWitt (@JessicaMDeWitt) August 17, 2018

Saturday: “GARY FIELDS; Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” by Nadirah Mansour, New Books Network

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History includes the enormous changes we’ve created in our natural environment, from drainage to poaching to pesticides. https://t.co/P88jBdCsvw

— LWMA.org (@IncLwma) August 19, 2018

Sunday: “Tampa Bay History Center to launch environmental exhibit,” Tampa Bay Times

Top Words

1. Kavanaugh

2. said

3. Court

4. Supreme

5. environmental 

6. groups

7. EPA

8. wrote

9. Kavanaugh’s  

10. public

11. one