As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
Critical health and science research is on the chopping block as Trump actions trigger shutdowns and confusion
Universities that do breakthrough-level studies are scrambling to understand the effects as their funding agencies slash ...
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The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI
Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make ...
Inside Climate News11d
Trump Administration Scrubs EPA Staff’s Pronouns from Their Emails and Websites Without Their Knowledge
After receiving an order to remove “gender ideology extremism” from government materials, EPA staff realize “our pronouns are ...
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Here’s what EPA chief Lee Zeldin thinks about RFK Jr.’s herbicide theory: Scientists need to be ‘empowered’
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin told The Post Friday that he plans to defer to scientists on the safety of two common herbicides with residential and ...
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Ignoring accepted medical guidance, Texas governor tells agency heads to recognize only 2 genders
Jan. 31 (UPI) --Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday directed state agency heads to recognize only two genders -- male and female -- continuing a campaign against what Abbott called woke gender ...
Inside Climate News15d
Watchdog Groups Anticipate ‘an All-Out War on Science and Scientists’ by the Trump Administration
If President Trump’s first term was an indication, many government websites with environmental information on climate science will change drastically in the first months of his new administration.
The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go
The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera Rubin was edited to omit any recognition of the ...
The Hill16d
EPA dismisses clean air, science advisory boards
The Trump administration dismissed members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board on Tuesday, a day before the ...