New Books About Public Lands, the Threats They Face, and Their Importance
"These new books cover challenges to our shared land, ranging from Indigenous appropriation to current corporate grabs."
Source: The Revelator, 04/22/2025
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"Sludge Contaminated 10,000 Acres of Farmland. What Should Be Done?"
"For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”"
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2025
"The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas"
"An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that a single year of greenhouse gas emissions from tankers carrying LNG from the United States more than cancels out the annual reductions achieved through driving all the electric vehicles currently on U.S. roads."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/22/2025
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Climate Change and More
"By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades."
Source: ProPublica, 04/22/2025
"Interior Secretary Puts DOGE Representative In Charge Of Department Cuts"
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given a former oil executive and aide to Elon Musk broad latitude to cut costs and consolidate work within his vast department, which oversees more than 500 million acres of land across the United States."
Source: Washington Post, 04/22/2025
"Trump Touts ‘Clean Coal’ — But Cuts Programs That Protect Miners"
"A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts."
Source: Washington Post, 04/22/2025
"Indigenous River Campaigner From Peru Wins Prestigious Goldman Prize"
"An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood."
Source: Guardian, 04/22/2025
"Zeldin A ‘No’ On Targeting Climate Groups’ Tax-Exempt Status"
"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he does not think the government should broadly reconsider climate advocacy groups’ tax-exempt status." "The EPA administrator also signaled that he was not in a rush to announce reduction-in-force plans, saying,“We’re just trying to get it right.”"
Source: E&E News, 04/22/2025
"Wave of Earth Day Protests As Americans Mobilize Against Trump"
"Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”."
Source: Guardian, 04/22/2025
‘Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet
"Pope Francis’ care for the environment was telegraphed early in his papacy. His chosen name honored St. Francis, the Italian friar who proclaimed “Praise God for all his creatures.” As pope, Francis called for immediate action on climate change and exhorted the world’s Catholics to “better recognize the ecological commitments which stem from our convictions.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/22/2025
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