"The Biden administration’s decision to include restrictions in the auction of oil drilling rights in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is legally vulnerable as the state looks to the next administration to allow more oil development."
"Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump’s first presidency are taking a different approach to his second."
"The extent of the world’s land affected by excess salt is set to increase rapidly with potentially devastating impacts on food production, research has found."
"Kennedy has spread misinformation about the deadliest and most debilitating diseases of the modern era."
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to pull the United States out of the Paris climate treaty and to maximize U.S. fossil fuel production. And as the transition to his incoming administration unfolds, he has named a cabinet replete with climate action skeptics. But will all that stop the transition to cleaner power? The latest EJ TransitionWatch has an assessment.
Amir Khafagy is an award-winning New York City-based journalist. He is currently a Report for America corps member with Documented. Much of Amir's beat explores the intersections of labor, race, class, immigration, environmental justice and urban policy. You can help SEJ support journalists like Amir by giving to SEJ programs, Fund for Environmental Journalism, annual conference travel fellowships, members-in-need fund or creating a legacy with a free will.
"One of the most visited national parks is also one of the most vulnerable". "Mount Desert Island is a rare place on the Atlantic coast where mountains rise directly above the ocean, their pink granite shoulders studded with glacial kettle ponds."
"A $200bn wave of new gas projects could lead to a “climate bomb” equivalent to releasing the annual emissions of all the world’s operating coal power plants, according to a report."
"Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate.""
"The Biden administration will double tariffs on certain solar panel components that are made in China, it announced Wednesday."
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