The Trump administration has cleared the way for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile, a judge has rejected the weakening of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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Bonus Episode: Bill McKibben on the divestment movement
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There’s a growing understanding that racial disparities in the U.S. extend beyond policing, to public health and the environment.
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Worker safety, farmers' fears, euthanizing pigs - it’s all part of the complicated story of the food supply chain in the time of corona.
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Last week the Trump administration announced a major change to a landmark regulation that has reduced toxic air pollution like mercury from coal-fired power plants. The vast majority of these plants have already complied with the rule. So why did the EPA roll it back now?
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How does doubt about science play out in a moment like we’re experiencing now where public health and millions of lives depend on good science and trusting scientists?
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Citing the coronavirus, the agency announced that it would suspend enforcement of many environmental laws
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A sweeping tale of big oil’s influence over global politics, from the 1850s until Trump.
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The 100-year-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects more than 1,000 bird species. Now it’s being gutted. And once again, industry is the winner.
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Did the Trump administration manipulate wildfire science to promote the logging industry? An investigation in the Guardian newspaper says yes.
Trump’s weakening of NEPA will leave the public in the dark. And it’s not great for the environment either.
A doctor weighs in on the future of science in EPA rule-making
President Trump came into office promising to save coal and coal jobs. Instead, the industry has continued to slide. The question now is--how far will it go?
As the Trump administration creates policies to prop up coal and nuclear power plants, meet the man who is looking beyond fossil fuels to power the grid.
President Trump says a key phone call at the center of the Ukraine scandal was Rick Perry’s idea. Is he throwing his Energy Secretary under the bus?
How do you change the minds of climate deniers and people -- say the President -- who doubt the scientific process in general? We ask a philosopher of science for some answers.
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It was substantive. And it was long. Leah Stokes, a professor of environmental politics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, read all the candidates' climate plans, watched all 7 hours, and has a lot to say about it all.
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A top climate scientist resigned from the Agriculture Department this month. Lewis Ziska says the USDA buried his research.
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