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“The “State of the Air” 2025 report finds that even after decades of successful efforts to reduce sources of air pollution, 46% of Americans—156.1 million people—are living in places that get failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. This is nearly 25 million more people breathing unhealthy air compared to last year’s …
Global Legal Post: “More than a third of top law firms are exacerbating the climate crisis by supporting some of the world’s biggest polluters through their advisory work, according to the latest Law Students for Climate Accountability report. The sixth annual climate scorecard found that while the number of firms receiving a top A grade …
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PHYS.org: “The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of “harm” to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ecologically sensitive environments. The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of “harm” in the …
Mental Floss – Here’s What To Do Instead. Ensuring everything you put in the bin belongs there helps make the most of your recyclables. “The United States falls behind many of its peers when it comes to recycling. According to Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI), the U.S. ranks 105th in the world, recycling only …
The New York Times [no paywall] “The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more. At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. …
Grist: “The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an invaluable resource Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has called “America’s balance sheet.” His membership in a …
Scientists are increasingly using birds as research assistants. “Birds’ “perpetual movement and proclivity for remote locations” meant they used to pose many mysteries to science, Audubon reported, but growth in animal-tracking technology lets researchers not only learn about their movements and behaviors, but also use them to study other phenomena: High-flying frigate birds with GPS …
Abby André, Director of the Impact Project | Doctoral Fellow, Lawyer, Professor, Data Visualization Expert – “I wanted to share this 91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio story about The Impact Map, a tool I created to help visualize how federal employment, funding, and policy decisions affect our communities. With more than 5,300 data points—and growing—the map is …
The Crucial Years – Hands off…the future. So many ways to wreck an economy, and Trump is trying them all…”Mark Gongloff and Elaine He at Bloomberg produced a remarkable timeline [no paywall] the other day showing in enormous detail how the Trump administration had, in a matter of weeks, undone twenty years worth of efforts …
Climate Central: KEY CONCEPTS Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, bringing heavier rainfall extremes and related flood risks across the U.S. Some 126 U.S. cities (88% of 144 analyzed) have experienced an increase in hourly rainfall intensity since 1970. Across these 126 locations, hourly rainfall rates are now 15% higher on average than in …
