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Cutting NOAA Isn’t Just About Climate and Satellites. It’s About Coastal...
A budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leaked to the Washington Post would slash coastal science and resilience programs. It would limit natural disaster preparation...
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Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department has issued a press release announcing the opening up of all currently unleased federally-owned areas of the Gulf of Mexico: 73 million acres. The Department is planning...
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A fast way to slow global warming is to chase methane. A potent greenhouse gas, in the short term, it warms the planet as much as 86 times more efficiently than does carbon dioxide, even if it only...
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Dark Money, 45 and the 115th Congress: Why Jane Mayer Matters Now
If the rush since January 20th to gut the country’s environmental laws and scientific agencies makes no sense to you, allow Jane Mayer to explain. Since her landmark 2010 New Yorker profile of the...
View ArticleCadiz Needs Scrutiny by the USGS
DONALD Trump’s ascendancy to the White House has been good to Cadiz, Inc, a private company whose scheme to sell Mojave Desert groundwater to Southern California cities has soared from the brink of...
View ArticleThe Waiting is the Hardest Part: The Trump Uncertainty Principle
Do you know the old exchange? “The future is on the horizon,” one person says, brightly. “The horizon is an imaginary point that moves as you approach it,” a second retorts. At the end of last month,...
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In praise of Dean Baker as Las Vegas moves, again, on rural Nevada’s water
Dean Baker in 2007 in Snake Valley near Big Springs, a water source targeted by Las Vegas. The last time that I saw Dean Baker as a well man, it was 2008. His frantic pacing in the back of a hearing...
View ArticleThe Best Reads on Paris
The Trump administration has sown major confusion around the Paris Agreement — what it is, what it does, and what it has meant for the United States. Luckily, a lot of smart people are writing to...
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Waving goodbye to laws at the border…again
Seems like all we do lately when it comes to our government is contemplate the unprecedented. So it’s almost a relief to find familiar ground. Almost. The Department of Homeland Security says it will...
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Enforcing border checkpoints during Hurricane Harvey could leave people in...
What does immigration enforcement have to do with natural disasters? Plenty. As the Federal Emergency Management Agency is telling people that the window for evacuating from #HurricaneHarvey is...
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