How Americans Could Lose Their Voice in the Push to Build Big Projects Efforts to update the National Environmental Policy Act put its future in doubt By Hannah Story Brown April 21, 2026 In this story: federal policy, environmental law, environmental justice, public health, Trump
What Happens When a Workforce Is Gutted? Researchers reflect on what was lost a year after the Trump administration dismantled scientific research By Caroline Van Hemert March 29, 2026 In this story: Alaska, federal policy, Trump, science, conservation
Why Mike Lee Is Waging War Against America’s Public Lands A man, a monument, and the battle for the future of conservation By Ash Sanders March 25, 2026 In this story: public lands, congress, federal policy, saving wild places, monuments
This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing By Kea Krause March 1, 2026 In this story: marine ecosystems, oceans, monuments, federal policy, saving wild places
Forced Coal Plant Openings Throw Communities Into Chaos The federal government is ordering plants to stay open over the objections of locals and plant operators By Nick Engelfried February 10, 2026 In this story: coal, beyond coal, federal policy, Policy, fossil fuels
This Backdoor Legislative Tool Could Unravel Public Lands How the Congressional Review Act is being used to erase protections for America’s shared lands and waters By Lindsey Botts February 6, 2026 In this story: federal policy, monuments, conservation, public lands, wildlands
These Pacific Northwest Groups Feed the Region When It Needs It Most How gleaners are reducing food waste and helping families make ends meet By Amal Ahmed December 31, 2025 In this story: food and drink, agriculture, federal policy, activism
Protecting Threatened and Endangered Species Could Get a Lot Harder Proposed changes to Endangered Species Act regulations would defang our best defense against extinctions By Ian Rose December 12, 2025 In this story: endangered species, animal rights, wildlife, saving wild places, federal policy
This Ecologist Lost Her Grant for Studying Diversity—of Insects The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch By Hannah Richter October 28, 2025 In this story: insects, federal policy, Trump, wildlife, science
The Real Reason the Feds Want to Revive Coal Attempts to bring back a dying industry could increase your energy bills By Ian Rose October 15, 2025 In this story: federal policy, fossil fuels, coal, Trump