Trump Victory Is a ‘Gut Punch’ to U.S. Climate Action – Scientific American
President-elect Trump vowed to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse Biden administration climate efforts..
Trump Wins, Planet Loses – Grist Magazine
With control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans are poised to upend U.S. climate policy…
Your 2024 Election Rundown, from Immigration to Education – Scientific American
The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could set the climate agenda, reshape public education and shift the dynamics of global science collaboration…
Explainer: Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate – the Guardian
Second Trump term would restore climate denialism to an Oval Office efficiently dismantling protections…
Environmental Policy Disaster: The Supreme Court Takes Sweeping Control – Kim Steinhardt | Op-Ed
A recent, controversial Supreme Court decision sets off alarm bells for anyone interested in the emerging policies, programs, and plans intended to address the pressing problems of climate change and sea level rise, as well as other governmental action across a wide swath of American life…
To restore coastal marine areas, we need to work across multiple habitats simultaneously – PNAS
Restoration of coastal marine habitats—often conducted under the umbrella of “nature-based solutions”—is one of the key actions underpinning global intergovernmental agreements, including the Paris Agreement and the 2021–2030 United Nations (UN) Decade of Restoration. To achieve global biodiversity and restoration targets…we need methods that accelerate and scale up restoration activities in size and impact. Part of the solution is cross-habitat facilitation—positive interactions that occur when processes generated in one habitat benefit another…
Ocean Sand: Putting Sand on the Ocean Sustainability Agenda – ORRAA Report
Sand is a fundamental feature of modern society…
Globally, the consumption of aggregates has increased three-fold over the last two decades, reaching an estimated 40-50 billion tons per year – an extraction far quicker than the rate at which they can naturally be replenished…
The Jury is Out: Has the Supreme Court Just Shredded the Environmental Policymaking Safety Net?
Remember what it was like as a kid when a grownup told you “Because I said so”?
Well, a newly constituted majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has recently flexed its ideological muscle, upending 50 years of precedent guiding its decisions, and basically told us “Because I said so.”
This quiet revolution by an activist majority, deciding cases based on primarily political grounds rather than on the constraints of facts and legal precedent, will have grave impact on environmental policymaking – as well civil rights, healthcare, safety, education, elections, technology, finance, and economics…