COMMENTARY | EPA’s Disgraceful Forever Chemicals Retreat
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Kyla Bennett | May 22, 2025
EPA’s retreat on PFAS not only betrays the agency’s mission but makes a mockery of the Trump Administration’s self-proclaimed pledge to Make America Healthy Again ...
COMMENTARY | Pesticides on Public Lands: A Short-Term Solution with Long-Term Harm
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Chandra Rosenthal | May 20, 2025
Any use of pesticides on public lands must be carefully weighed against the many risks they pose to human health, soil health, native biodiversity, wildlife, and aquatic ecosystems ...
COMMENTARY | Rebalancing Checks and Balances: How to Curb Executive Abuse
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Jeff Ruch | April 25, 2025
President Trump has conclusively demonstrated that the executive branch cannot be trusted to police itself in following the law ...
COMMENTARY | National Parks or Jurassic Parks? Conservation Trump Style
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Jeff Ruch | April 22, 2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests that technology can replace the role of habitat and intact ecosystems in the survival of wildlife ...
COMMENTARY | Climate Hope & Public Employees in the Age of Trump
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Laurie Williams | April 16, 2025
The Trump Administration’s assaults against efforts to preserve a livable climate are breathtaking in their ambition. What can public employees and ordinary citizens do to help maintain climate hope during this critical time ...
COMMENTARY | Public Lands Unprotected: The Impact of Department of the Interior Law Enforcement Firings
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Guest Contributor | April 11, 2025
With understaffing of law enforcement officers and rangers already a severe problem, the new wave of terminations is exacerbating under-enforcement into crisis status ...
