"How Big Insurance’s Investment in Fossil Fuels Came Back to Bite It"
"In a vicious cycle, the sector’s financing of oil and gas is having an impact on its bottom line."Climate ChangeEconomy & BusinessEnergy & FuelEnvironmental StudiesInfrastructureNational...
View ArticleTelling the Stories of the Silent Sentinels
To many, plants are a merely green backdrop, indistinguishable and inconsequential. But, freelancer Karen Mockler says that such “plant blindness” belies an urgent need for our notice. More than a...
View Article"Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires"
"Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the recent deadly fires around Los Angeles about 35 times more likely to occur, an...
View Article"EPA Fires Science Advisers"
"Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump’s administration the opportunity to reshape...
View ArticleFDA Purges Material On Clinical Trial Diversity, Under Trump DEI Ban
"An effort by the Trump administration to pull down Food and Drug Administration website pages focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring that clinical...
View ArticleDramatic Drop As Monarch Butterfly Count Nears Record 30-Year Low
"The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change...
View ArticleAI’s Importance in Journalism and Teaching — Part 2
In Part 2 of a two-part EJ Academy, SEJournal’s Emilia Askari examines changes artificial intelligence is bringing to journalism — among them possibilities for the analysis of data, including on...
View Article"Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway."
"The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to...
View Article"Federal Judge Grants Restraining Order On NIH Funding Cuts"
"A federal judge in Massachusetts has granted a restraining order against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its recent research funding cut after 22 states filed a lawsuit to block the...
View Article"NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears"
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate science agencies, has been ordered to identify grants related to global warming and other topics targeted by...
View Article"NOAA Imposes Limits On Scientists, Sparking Concerns Over Global Forecasts"
"The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has placed onerous new restrictions on its scientists that people within the agency say could hamper the quality and availability of the...
View Article"EPA Removes EJScreen From Its Website" (But Not From the Web)
"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. ... Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP)...
View Article"World’s Largely Unprotected Peatlands Are Ticking ‘Carbon Bomb’, Warns Study"
"The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already being emitted due to their destruction, a study has...
View Article"National Science Foundation Fires Roughly 10% Of Its Workforce"
"The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees on Tuesday. According to an NSF spokesperson, the firings are to ensure compliance with President Trump's executive order aimed at reducing the...
View Article"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs"
"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta”...
View Article"Trump’s Funding Freeze Is Wreaking Havoc On Climate Science"
"Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs. What happens when they disappear?"Climate ChangeEnvironmental PoliticsEnvironmental StudiesScienceNational...
View ArticleBLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale
"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and...
View Article"Trump’s CEQ Has No Nominee As It Tears Down NEPA Rules"
"President Donald Trump in recent days has relied on a White House policy shop — the Council on Environmental Quality — to take a sledgehammer to what’s known as the “Magna Carta” of environmental...
View Article"Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals"
"One of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.”...
View ArticleNPS Withdraws Black Community In Louisiana From Historic Landmark Running
"A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a...
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