"From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action." "The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder."
"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands."
"Groups now worry about FBI probes as they struggle to rebound from federal spending freeze enacted under President Donald Trump"
"Funding for the BIA, IHS and the Bureau of Indian Education represents the lion's share of the government's obligations to tribes and last year those departments made up less than a quarter of 1% of the federal budget"
"Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses."
"Cheryl Johnson, who took charge of People for Community Recovery in 2010, just before her mother’s death, says MAGA can’t end a decadeslong fight that affects poor white communities as well as communities of color."
"Nearly five years after a pipeline spewed poison gas across a Mississippi town, federal regulators appeared ready in recent weeks to institute new safety rules aimed at preventing similar accidents across the U.S.’s fast-growing network of carbon dioxide pipelines.
But the proposed rules, unveiled five days before the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, were quietly derailed during the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term."
"Growing research suggests that “black snow,” a byproduct of the sugarcane harvest, is harming residents’ health. The politically powerful sugar growers say the air quality meets standards."
"The Justice Department on Friday celebrated its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community, saying the dismissal showed that officials are “delivering on President (Donald) Trump’s promise to dismantle radical DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs and restore integrity to federal enforcement efforts.”"
In his ambitious first book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence,” journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores how climate change explains conflict, even war. BookShelf editor Tom Henry calls it a deeply researched volume that makes a strong case for the connections between global warming, political instability and violence, not just in poorer regions but for the richer West as well.
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