"Storm Eowyn Brings Hurricane-Level Destruction To Ireland"
"With hurricane-force winds of 84 mph, gusting to 114 mph, Éowyn was the strongest storm on record for Ireland."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 01/28/2025
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As Trump Targets Environmental Justice, Activists Gear Up for Legal Fights
"Activists across the United States say they’re preparing to take the federal government to court after President Donald Trump unveiled a series of executive orders that seek to undo much of his predecessor’s climate and environmental justice legacy."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/28/2025
"Trump Fires EPA Watchdog Who Closely Scrutinized Biden's Agency"
"The surprise dismissal of the EPA’s inspector general has left agency veterans puzzled, given Sean O’Donnell’s track record in recovering money and scrutinizing waste within the agency."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/28/2025
Burgum Hosted ‘VIP Dinner’ for Oil, Gas, and Coal Execs Last Year: Emails
"Doug Burgum, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, held a dinner for fossil fuel CEOs at a private event during the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, held in Bismarck, ND, from May 14 to 16, 2024, emails obtained by the research group Fieldnotes and shared with DeSmog show."
Source: DeSmog, 01/28/2025
"Trump Looks To Seize Control Of California Water"
"The Trump administration is weighing how to take control of water in California — including setting aside endangered species protections — framing its mission in a new executive order as necessary to prevent future wildfires like those that recently swept across Los Angeles."
Source: E&E News, 01/28/2025
Grist Wins 2024 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting
The winner of the 2024 Nina Mason Pulliam Award is "Misplaced Trust" by Tristan Ahtone, Clayton Aldern, Marcelle Bonterre, Eliseu Cavalcante, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Robert Lee, Maria Parazo Rose, Amanda Tachine, Bean Yazzie and Parker Ziegler for Grist. Honorable mention goes to a Reuters team for "The Bat Lands," a five-part multimedia investigative report.
#SEJSpotlight: Amber X. Chen, Freelance Journalist
Meet SEJ member Amber X. Chen! Amber is a freelance journalist and a student writing fellow at The Nation focusing on climate change. She is also a student at the University of California, Berkeley. She covers the climate and environment, with a focus on environmental justice and the intersection of climate change and politics.
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"The Songs of Ancient Trees"
"Over the past century, the biodiversity of apple trees has declined sharply in the United States. Monoculture orchards have erased the mature forested orchards that once served as habitat for dozens of bird species such as bluebirds, northern flickers, and scarlet tanagers. There once were some 16,000 named apple varieties in the US alone. We’ve now lost more than half of those varieties, with only 3,000 remaining."
Source: Sierra, 01/27/2025
EPA Proposal For Pesticide Tied To Reproductive Harm Lands Back With Trump
"US environmental regulators are planning to change allowable levels of a weedkiller linked with reproductive health problems to a concentration critics say discounts years of documented health and environmental risks — potentially marking a new battlefront within the Trump administration."
Source: The New Lede, 01/27/2025
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