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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant
The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.
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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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More Than a Lens: Centering Justice Now and Post-Pandemic

Expert BlogUnited StatesRob Friedman, Yukyan Lam, Khalil Shahyd
Historically, the environmental movement has largely failed to prioritize in its work the creation of strong social safety nets. Now, more than ever, we must assume this responsibility if we hope to build a just, equitable and livable future for…

Giving Away Our Lands as Americans Shelter in Place

Expert BlogJosh Axelrod
While the public is terrified, grieving, and distracted by a worldwide health emergency and economic collapse, the U.S. government is taking the opportunity to sell our public lands at rock bottom prices.

Columbia Basin EIS Missed Orca in the Room

Expert BlogGiulia C.S. Good Stefani
Yesterday the public comment period ended on a nearly 8,000 page draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Columbia River System Operations, which includes fourteen federal dams and reservoirs in the Columbia River Basin.

We Must Prevent Future Viruses by Ending Wildlife Trade

Expert BlogInternationalElly Pepper

The bottom line is that the wildlife trade is a threat to our public health that only stands to become greater, meaning that we could have greatly reduced the risk of all of this—maybe even prevented it altogether—by stopping wildlife…

Pebble Mine: Going for Broke

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Northern Dynasty Minerals (aka Pebble Partnership) ignores plea for help from coronavirus-stressed Bristol Bay communities, choosing instead to spend millions on top-dollar DC lobbyists urging rushed, flawed permit decision.

ABA Article Calls for a Federal Flood Protection Standard

Expert BlogJoel Scata
In A Rising Tide Lifts All Damage Costs: The Need for a Federal Flood Protection Standard, a new article in the Spring edition of American Bar Association’s environmental law magazine, the threat to America’s public infrastructure from more frequent and…

Bail Out the American Public, Not Big Oil

Expert BlogJacob Eisenberg
The Interior Department should reject calls to grant royalty relief and other favors to the oil and gas industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a bailout would put corporate profits above the emergency response required to mitigate…

MI Governor Leads the Way with Water Reconnection Order

Expert BlogCyndi Roper
For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm telling us that handwashing is the number one thing we can do to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But as thousands of Michiganders know, you can’t wash your…

Chile Signals Urgency of Climate Action with Updated NDC

Expert BlogInternationalCarolina Herrera
Chile formally submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) yesterday, making it one of the first countries in the world and, to date, the only one in Latin America to submit an updated climate action commitment as required by the…