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Bureau of Land Management to D.C. Employees: Go West or Get Lost
The forced relocation of hundreds of staffers is seen by many as a precursor to the agency’s dissolution—and a sell-off of public lands to the states.
The Conniving at the EPA Has Gotten Kafkaesque
The agency aims to stop citizens from challenging pollution permits—while continuing to allow challenges from polluters who want to pollute more.
Week 130: Trump Takes His War on Science on the Road
The administration relocates science jobs, refuses to fill others, and tosses a lifeline to polluters (while silencing citizens).
Japan Goes Rogue and Resumes Commercial Whaling
The nation’s departure from the International Whaling Commission was followed immediately by the slaughter of two minke whales.
Watch These Young Spoken-Word Poets Take On Climate Change
The Climate Museum’s poetry slam at Harlem’s Apollo Theater was equal parts grief, anger, and hope.
Week 129: Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Chooses a Pseudo-Italianate Urban Planning Nightmare Over an Endangered Bird
Plus, the USDA stops counting bees, and Rick Perry is wrong on carbon emissions.