COMMENTARY | Dumbing Down America’s Best Idea: National Parks in Free Fall
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Jeff Ruch | August 16, 2025
Even as the National Park Service sets new all-time visitation records, no one could claim our national parks are basking in a golden age ...
COMMENTARY | New Wave of Personnel Actions Threatens National Parks
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Kaylee Rodriguez | August 7, 2025
With peak visitation season underway, the National Park Service is struggling to keep up amid increasing uncertainty and understaffing ...
COMMENTARY | Commercial Space Activities and the Elimination of Science at NOAA
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Tim Whitehouse | August 5, 2025
The Trump Administration is doing everything in its power to limit or eliminate science-based oversight of industry activities and is using the threat of "pocket rescissions" to prevent harm to favored industries ...
COMMENTARY | Idiocracy: Loyalty Displaces Competence in Trump World
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Jeff Ruch | August 1, 2025
In his second term, Trump has assembled perhaps the least distinguished Cabinet in modern history, abandoning any pretense of picking people based upon competence ...
COMMENTARY | Trillion Dollar Return on Public Lands – Harvesting Hot Air
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Jeff Ruch | July 2, 2025
The Burgum-backed plans for Department of Interior lands promote a frenzy of extraction, overuse, and hasty disposal ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s Attack on Science Will Leave Us All Sicker
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Tim Whitehouse | June 23, 2025
The Trump administration’s evisceration of the federal agencies that protect our health and environment is a full-throttled attack on science that will set our nation back for years, if not decades to come ...