Juliet Eilperin
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A fight in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to keep old-growth trees to combat climate change
Old-growth trees in Tongass National Forest, which holds nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as the United States releases each year by burning fossil fuels, are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change. → Read More
Biden officials to propose road ban on much of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday will propose restoring roadless protections on more than 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a move that would overturn one of Donald Trump’s most significant changes to public lands. → Read More
Biden administration proposes sweeping protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday the administration will stop large-scale old-growth logging and bar road development on more than 9 million acres, in a move that would reverse one of Donald Trump’s biggest public lands decisions. → Read More
Biden officials move to reinstate Alaska roadless rule, overturning Trump policy
The Biden administration said Friday it would prohibit road building in half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, resurrecting 20-year-old protections Donald Trump had stripped three months before leaving office. → Read More
St. Croix refinery halts operations after raining oil on local residents once again
A troubled refinery in St. Croix announced Wednesday evening it would temporarily halt operations after raining oil on local residents for the second time in just over three months. → Read More
Adam Kolton, who helped fend off development in Alaska’s wild places, dies at 53
He held leadership roles at the Alaska Wilderness League, served as legislative director of the National Wildlife Federation and was instrumental in passage of pro-environment bills. → Read More
EPA, U.S. Virgin Islands officials launch probe after second St. Croix refinery accident
Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Virgin Islands officials are investigating a second accident at controversial refinery in St. Croix, which released noxious fumes into the air and forced some schools to close. The release of hydrogen sulfide, less than two months after the Limetree Bay refinery showered oil on a neighboring community, has raised fresh questions about the operation. → Read More
Transportation Department proposes letting states set their own tailpipe emission rules
The Transportation Department announced Thursday that it would withdraw its part of a Trump administration rule blocking states from setting their own tailpipe standards, which could help pave the way for a broader climate deal with the nation’s automakers. → Read More
Tyrannosaurs likely hunted in packs rather than heading out solo, scientists find
Tyrannosaurs probably hunted in groups, scientists announced Monday after analyzing fossils buried in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. → Read More
Limetree Bay refinery on St. Croix will test Biden’s environmental justice promises
On the island of St. Croix sits one of the first major tests for President Biden's commitment to environmental justice: a major oil refinery coaxed back to life in the final days of the Trump administration. → Read More
Judge throws out Trump rule limiting what science EPA can use
A federal judge on Monday vacated the Trump administration rule limiting which scientific studies the Environmental Protection Agency can use in crafting public health protections, overturning one of the last major rollbacks the agency enacted before President Biden took office. → Read More
The Energy 202: Biden puts Trump’s climate policies under a microscope — and career officials lend a hand
More than a dozen U.S. Geological Survey managers filed a complaint against a Trump appointee days before Biden's inauguration. → Read More
Trump officials moved most Bureau of Land Management staffers out of D.C. More than 87 percent quit instead.
The decision to relocate BLM headquarters to Colorado and redistribute jobs in the West prompted 287 employees to retire or find other jobs. → Read More
The Energy 202: Trump's EPA chief hopes Biden doesn't focus solely on climate change
Wheeler wants his successor to “build off” his work. Biden is pledging to reverse many of his most significant policies. → Read More
In confronting climate change, Biden won’t have a day to waste
In recent days Joe Biden has shown he is prepared to deliver on his promise to pursue a more ambitious environmental agenda than any of his predecessors — one that aspires to rapidly shrink the nation’s carbon emissions, give voice to the vulnerable communities hit hardest by pollution and create more jobs in clean energy.. → Read More
Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black female senator, eyes interior secretary post
Former senator Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), who served with President-elect Joe Biden, said in an interview that she is interested in serving as the next interior secretary. → Read More
Trump officials rush to auction off rights to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Biden can block it
The Trump administration on Monday called for oil companies to pick spots where they'd like to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, launching a leasing process it aims to finish just before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. → Read More
Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests
For years, federal and academic scientists have identified Tongass as an ecological oasis that serves as a massive carbon sink while providing key habitat for wild Pacific salmon and trout, Sitka black-tailed deer and myriad other species. It boasts the highest density of brown bears in North America, and its trees — some of which are between 300 and 1,000 years old — absorb at least 8 percent… → Read More
Long-delayed Trump administration study finds that climate change threatens polar bears
After stalling it for months, a top Trump official released a polar bear study Friday that highlights their vulnerability to climate change, saying he wanted to be "satisfied" with its underlying science before making it public. → Read More
How genetic science helped expose a coronavirus outbreak in Iowa
Workers at an Agri Star meatpacking plant in Iowa were left clueless as the coronavirus spread in their ranks. Genetic data held the answers. → Read More