"The U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal replacing NAFTA could make it harder in the future to restore pollution regulations that protect health and climate."
"Ryan Zinke knew exactly whom to blame for the catastrophic wildfires that have scorched California and the West this year."
"A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon."
"Climate scientists can’t say where or when the next big storm will hit, but all the evidence points to this: Global warming is bringing the planet into an era of wilder, more dangerous rains with ruinous and long-lasting consequences."
"With the Nov. 6 election looming, a state panel on Thursday shelved Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal to relax limits on lung-damaging pollution from some of the last coal-fired power plants in Illinois."
"A sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the petrochemical industry — which includes plastic, fertilizer and pharmaceutical companies — threatens to erode climate benefits from reductions in other sectors, according to a report being issued Friday."
"Scott Pruitt's attorney was working last year to set up a fund to pay the then-EPA administrator's legal expenses, months before ethics allegations exploded into a national scandal."
"When former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt launched an effort to limit what kinds of scientific studies could be used to protect public health, he left out some key experts: the Environmental Protection Agency’s own Office of the Science Advisor, according to an email exchange obtained by The Washington Post."
Fact-checking belies Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's claims about his judicial record on environmental cases.
The Society of Environmental Journalists congratulates SEJ member Ken Ward Jr. for receiving a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship — a $625,000, five-year, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential. Ken is an investigative journalist with the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia.
