"How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill"
"The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S."
Source: NYTimes, 05/27/2025
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"Trump Signs Executive Orders To Boost Nuclear Power, Speed Up Approvals"
"President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly unlikely to reach."
Source: AP, 05/27/2025
"DOGE Appointee Sparks Turf Battle At Interior: ‘Ignore The Email From HR’"
"The Interior bureau that holds the key to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda is riven by feuding between career staff and an emissary from Elon Musk’s budget-cutting operation."
Source: Politico, 05/27/2025
"Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants"
"The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times."
Source: NYTimes, 05/27/2025
#SEJSpotlight: Alessandra Bergamin, Freelance Journalist
Meet SEJ member Alessandra Bergamin! Alessandra is an Australian freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, whose work focuses on environmental violence and human rights around the world.
Life on Mars and Other Space Oddities
When an ecologist and a cartoonist team up to explore the realities of colonizing Mars, the result is a humorous and highly informative book on whether humans are truly up to settling space. They detour into the intimacies of zero-gravity intimacy and the challenges of ensuring a food supply. From BookShelf contributing editor Melody Kemp, a review of “A City on Mars.”
In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People
On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.
Mapping Out Local PFAS Risk, As Federal Rules Waver
As the Trump administration rolls back Biden-era rules limiting the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water, an updated data mapping tool helps pinpoint local angles on the PFAS story. The latest TipSheet outlines the basics on this class of widely used chemicals, their risks to humans and the challenges of regulating them, plus provides a half-dozen story ideas and questions to ask.
Texas Cattle Industry Braces For An Imminent Screwworm Infestation
"Multiple efforts are underway to stop a parasitic fly from swarming Texas and the rest of the U.S. and wreaking havoc on the nation’s multi-billion-dollar cattle industry."
Source: Texas Tribune, 05/23/2025
"Global Forest Loss Hit a Record Last Year as Fires Raged"
"The planet lost a record amount of forests last year, driven by fires that raged around the world, data shows."
Source: NYTimes, 05/23/2025
