The Trump Administration’s New Environmental Justice Adviser Has a Plutonium Problem
iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year ago, the man who founded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice resigned. In a lengthy letter, Mustafa Ali asked newly sworn-in EPA Administrator…
These Companies Created a Lead Paint Crisis—and Refuse to Clean It Up
Selman Design Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1998, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, a young associate at the Motley Rice law firm, was wrapping up her work on the groundbreaking $246 billion national tobacco settlement when a new case landed on her desk. The state of Rhode Island—which had a disproportionate number…
Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pope Francis sparked a media frenzy in 2015 with the release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si. One of the highest forms of official Catholic Church teaching, the…
Report: Trump Administration Making Controversial “Expedited Plans” for Utah’s Grand Staircase
Mint Images/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Federal authorities at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are moving forward to create new plans for managing the area, despite several legal challenges to the monument’s boundaries. Conservationists say they are…
America’s Newest Weather Satellite Is a Game-Changer for Forecasting Catastrophic Natural Events
United Launch Alliance Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by WIRED and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 2017 was a grievously good year for cataclysms. Infernos engulfed not just California, which suffered its most destructive wildfire season on record, but the greater American West. A hyperactive…
The East Coast Is Bracing for Yet Another Bomb Cyclone
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite captured a deepening storm off the East coast of the United States on Jan. 4, 2018.NOAA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The infamous bomb cyclone may be back. Winter Storm Riley, set to slam into the East Coast this weekend, is predicted to be…