The Trump Administration Is Dismantling One of America’s Greatest Strategic Assets: Its Scientific Workforce
The loss of US scientific expertise will be measured in discoveries and medical advances never made, and lives that might have been saved.
Cumulative Impacts: From Assessment to Action
A cumulative impacts approach to environmental protection can lead to better policies and better outcomes. But cumulative impacts analysis is not the destination—it’s the way we get from evidence to effective action. If we want cumulative impacts to change conditions on the ground, we need to change the way we talk about them—and who we
Extended Drying of The Rio Grande Affects Bosque
The unprecedented drying of the Rio Grande has made this year one of the hardest summers for the bosque. About a month ago, my co-worker Tucker and I were heading out to conduct routine...
Turning Field Guides into Works of Art
If you're like me, you have a lot of field guides lying around. And I mean a lot. I have, of course, the guide that I still use regularly of the eastern birds of North America, but I also have field...
The greenest building is the one still standing after a disaster
A ‘green’ building has to last for its intentionally small carbon footprint to pay off. That includes surviving flood, storm or wildfire damage.
Data center projects in Pennsylvania face stronger local scrutiny after Shapiro’s executive order
The Environmental Rights Amendment of the PA Constitution guarantees the right to clean air, pure water and to the preservation of the aesthetic values of the environment.
Protecting Science from Government Intimidation
In an era where people can easily publish ideas and find an audience online, how much damage can a travel and immigration policy actually do to the integrity of science and industry? Lots.
How Climate Change Is Drying up the Western US
The West has always been dry, requiring complicated mechanisms to deliver water for residents (and Big Agriculture). But why is it even drier now, and what's at risk?
California’s Costly, Energy-Islanding Regulation: Why Big Oil Wants to Keep It
Is keeping an outdated regulation solely to make sure oil companies can extract maximum profits from consumers a good idea?
3 Ways Scientists Can Help Hold Major Polluters Accountable Under the Trump Administration
The impacts of climate change have been on full display this Danger Season, from record-breaking heatwaves to devastating wildfires, making evident the urgent need for accountability for the harms caused by supercharged extreme events and long-term changes. These harms have been inescapable across the western US, particularly when it comes to water. As fossil-fueled climate
As Data Centers Drive Boom in Fossil Power Generation, EPA is Slashing Pollution Standards to Clear their Path
Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused its energies on examining and expanding all the things it cannot do for the people of the United States. The standards it cannot set, the deadlines it cannot hold, the public it cannot consult, the experts it cannot employ, the grants it
Five Laws the Trump Administration’s Offshore Wind Buyouts May Have Broken
Deals to buy wind developers out of their leases are a grand pay-to-delay scheme aimed at taking offshore areas out of consideration for wind turbine placement for the foreseeable future, or forever.