Jan 13, 2021 | Environment
Environment Policy Brief # 105 Trump’s EPA Seeks to Hide Science with New “Transparency” Rule By Jacob Morton, 1/11/2021 Policy On January 5, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new rule requiring that any scientific evidence that is to be...
Jan 4, 2021 | Environment
Brief # 104 Environment The Trump Administration’s Last Push to Open Land to Energy and Mining Companies By Jacob Morton January 4, 2021 Policy As the Trump administration’s single term nears its end, top agency officials are attempting a last-minute push to approve a...
Dec 14, 2020 | Environment
Brief # 100; Environment Policy Trump, Pressured to Reject Mining Permit in Alaska, Races to Sell Drilling Leases in the Arctic By Jacob Morton 12/7/2020 Policy Since the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has had his eye on Alaska, hoping to expand extraction...
Dec 4, 2020 | Environment
Written by: Shannon Q. Elliott Thursday, November 19, 2020 Policy On Monday November 9th, 2020 Amy Comey Barrett heard her first case as a justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. (SCOTUS) The conservative justice, a former Notre Dame Law School graduate,...
Nov 17, 2020 | Environment
By Jacob Morton Policy The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it will no longer provide federal protections to the gray wolf and will remove the species from the Endangered Species List. The announcement came just days before the presidential...
Nov 9, 2020 | Environment
By Todd Broadman November 9,2020 POLICY The Tongass forest, referred to as “America’s Amazon,” was designated a National Forest by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The Tongass is one of the largest, relatively intact temperate rainforests in the world. U.S....
