California is Burning—And It’s Going to Get Worse
California is no stranger to natural wildfires—the state’s mostly dry, windy, and hot climate is the perfect recipe for fires—but in the past few years, climate change has caused warmer temperatures,...
View ArticleNew Interior Rule Would Restrict Which Scientific Studies Agency Can Consider
The Department of the Interior is moving forward with a new proposal aimed at increasing the agency’s transparency, but critics allege that it is another attempt by the Trump administration to limit...
View ArticleThis Land Is Your Land, But Who is You? Atlantic Coast Pipeline Proposes to...
The Supreme Court is considering the consolidated cases U.S. Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Assn. and Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Assn. to determine if the Dominion Energy...
View ArticleDeath Comes for the Monarch; an American Tragedy
On a clear day in September 2014, a large cloud sailed above St. Louis, Missouri. The radar showed a butterfly-shaped formation, morphing as it moved. The meteorologists assessment of the radar...
View Article50th Year Anniversary of EPA is Celebrated With Budget Cuts and Health Risks
The core mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is protecting human health and the environment. Budget cuts proposed every year of the Trump administration are putting that mission in grave...
View Article“With Love, Please Stay Away…”
For many of us right now, the call and desire to get back to nature has never felt stronger. Amidst confusion and fear unprecedented in our lifetimes we crave those simple pleasures: birds chirping,...
View ArticleTrump's Rollback of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, “To lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset,...
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