Environment
Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback
June 5, 2025Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress—and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
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Supreme Court curbs ability to clean up environmental disasters
June 3, 2025Court limits reach of environmental impact statements, delivering a blow to workers and their communities.
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Kentucky tornadoes spur mounting anxiety over weather service warning systems
May 30, 2025Trump weakened understaffed National Weather Service offices. Some people in the storms' path wonder if budget cuts contributed to the death and destruction.
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House Republicans vote to repeal landmark climate legislation
May 28, 2025House lawmakers just voted along party lines to dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act.
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New section of Trump’s border wall will threaten wildlife in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley
May 21, 2025Construction of the 30-foot fence will make the area impassable for many animals, interfering with a critical migration route between Arizona and Mexico.
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