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Supreme Court’s Stealth Attack on the Clean Water Act Was Too Extreme for John Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts with the associate justices of the Supreme Court.Brendan Smialowski/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This past Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 shadow docket order reviving a Trump-era ruling that radically limited the ability of states and tribes to restrict projects,…

The Careless Display of Ill-Gotten Human Remains

A 1794 etching of Charles Byrne and three “normal” men. John Kay/Wellcome Library This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the Spring of 1782, a 7-foot-7-inch man known as the Irish Giant came to London, advertising himself in the newspapers as a “modern colossus” and “the greatest…