Environmental Studies

June 27, 2009 to June 30, 2009

10th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment

The central theme of this event is "Environmental Communication as a Nexus."
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BLM Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale

"After stripping consideration of environmental justice issues and climate costs from its final analysis of the project, President Donald Trump’s administration opened one of its first sales of oil and gas leases on federal land Thursday."

Source: Inside Climate News, 02/21/2025

"Trump Moves To Claw Back Almost 50 Years Of NEPA Regs"

"The Trump administration is moving to pull back almost five decades’ of rules crafted and imposed under the National Environmental Policy Act, a foundational statute widely known as the “magna carta” of environmental laws."

Source: E&E News, 02/20/2025

"National Science Foundation Fires Roughly 10% Of Its Workforce"

"The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees on Tuesday. According to an NSF spokesperson, the firings are to ensure compliance with President Trump's executive order aimed at reducing the federal workforce in the name of efficiency."

Source: NPR, 02/19/2025

"World’s Largely Unprotected Peatlands Are Ticking ‘Carbon Bomb’, Warns Study"

"The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already being emitted due to their destruction, a study has warned."

Source: Guardian, 02/14/2025

"EPA Removes EJScreen From Its Website" (But Not From the Web)

"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. ... Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) released a reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen."

Source: EDGI, 02/13/2025

"NOAA Imposes Limits On Scientists, Sparking Concerns Over Global Forecasts"

"The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has placed onerous new restrictions on its scientists that people within the agency say could hamper the quality and availability of the world’s weather forecasts, among other key services."

Source: Guardian, 02/13/2025

"NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears"

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate science agencies, has been ordered to identify grants related to global warming and other topics targeted by President Trump’s executive orders, raising fears that those grants are at risk of being canceled."

Source: NYTimes, 02/12/2025

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