by Annie Klingenberg | Oct 19, 2021 | Environment, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Viewing climate change as a traditional threat dangerously misjudges how it affects the United States’s national security, experts told the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology during a public meeting on Tuesday. “Climate change is...
by Annie Klingenberg and Allison Novelo | Oct 14, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Some oil companies have evaded paying for their inactive offshore infrastructures, and American taxpayers could find themselves in hot water if they wind up with the clean-up costs, some lawmakers and experts agreed on Thursday. “Without stronger...
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by Ariel Gans and Isabel Miller | Oct 12, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters marched to the White House on Monday, calling for President Biden to divest from fossil fuels and declare a national climate emergency. Participants paraded from Freedom Plaza to the White House, where leaders and members of...
by Cristobella Durrette | Oct 6, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—Experts recommended to lawmakers on Wednesday that the federal government adopt a proactive approach to monitoring and treating emerging environmental contaminants in water supplies used for consumption and leisure. Elizabeth Southerland, the former...
by Hannah Schoenbaum | Oct 5, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — A month after Hurricane Ida flooded her district and killed 13 New York residents, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., reintroduced legislation on Tuesday to prepare federal agencies for worsening natural disasters. “We need to plan for the next Ida,” Maloney...
by Isabel Miller | Oct 5, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — U.S. mining companies came to the hill on Tuesday to testify against a proposal in the reconciliation bill that would end their free use of federal land. David Brown, the CEO of WYO-BEN Inc., which mines sodium bentonite, told the Senate Energy and...
