Farmers Feeling the Pain After Conservation Funding Frozen The Trump administration, with DOGE, is pulling the rug from under growers and producers across the country By Juliet Grable March 12, 2025 In this story: agriculture, Trump, politics, conservation
Trump Tries to Reverse Engineer the Social Safety Net With Funding Freeze The order is far-reaching, from health-care policies to low-income energy assistance By Alexander Nazaryan January 29, 2025 In this story: politics, Trump, Policy, congress
Trump Attacks Climate Action, Environmental Protections on First Day Back in Power His executive orders signal a national realignment away from progressive racial, social, and climate policy By Dana Drugmand January 21, 2025 In this story: climate change, Trump, federal policy, international climate policy, politics
Six Climate and Environment Takeaways From the Election Trump is coming back to power. Now what? By Jason Mark November 7, 2024 In this story: climate change, politics
The Most Important Environmental Stories of 2023 A year-end roundup of the good and the bad—and some glimmers of hope By Jason Mark December 22, 2023 In this story: Roundup, environment, climate change, politics, saving wild places
New House Speaker Mike Johnson Holds Extreme Views on Climate Change and Science Louisiana legislators and progressive activists warn that Johnson’s polite demeanor masks dangerous ideas By Delaney Nolan October 30, 2023 In this story: politics, climate change, Inflation Reduction Act, methane gas
Some Questions for House Speaker Mike Johnson The DC press corps should push him on these issues, among others By Sierra Staff October 30, 2023 In this story: politics, climate change, Inflation Reduction Act, methane gas
What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for the Environment and Public Health? Most national parks will close, EPA will shutter, food inspections will cease By Juliet Grable September 30, 2023 In this story: congress, national parks, politics
Latest Threat to the Electricity Grid: White Supremacists Neo-Nazi "accelerationists" hoping to hasten the collapse of society are targeting electrical substations By Tristram Korten June 25, 2023 In this story: politics
How Environmental Standards Could Become a Casualty of the Debt Ceiling Standoff A deal to raise the debt ceiling could include faster permitting for fossil fuel projects By Grace van Deelen May 25, 2023 In this story: fossil fuels, Inflation Reduction Act, politics, clean energy