A new directive from the US Interior Department will cut environmental reviews for drilling and mining projects on public lands from years to weeks, citing an emergency order from President Trump. Environmental groups argue the move silences public input and undermines legal protections, and they have promised legal challenges.
For beekeepers, the problem isn’t just climate change and extreme weather: It’s also DOGE, the trade war and the immigration crackdown.
Kathleen Sgamma, an advocate for oil and gas whom President Trump had tapped to run the Bureau of Land Management, has abruptly withdrawn her nomination after a memo surfaced in which she sharply criticized the president.
The levies are expected to drive up costs for US companies that rely on renewable energy technology from abroad and scramble supply chains worldwide.
Recent findings, which compared blood samples of firefighters working the recent California wildfires against those taken from other firefighters after past fires, suggest unique risks to blazes that burn in populated areas.
A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years.
Completion of the world’s largest dam removal project—which demolished four Klamath River hydroelectric dams on both sides of the California-Oregon border—has been celebrated as a monumental achievement, signaling the emerging political power of Native American tribes and the river-protection movement. A happy ending is in sight. What could stop it?
In the United States, perhaps no bug has been counted as often as the butterfly. Since 2000, butterfly abundance dropped in every part of the country, across a wide variety of species.
From three Former Environmental Protection Agency heads under both Republican and Democratic administrations: “Every year, more than $4 billion, about 40% of the agency’s funding, goes to states, local governments, tribal nations, and other entities…Abandoning them will have ripple effects on businesses that clean up pollution and will slow down communities working to strengthen grid … Read more
An attempt by the agency to claw back billions in climate funds has led to confusion and the resignation of a top prosecutor.