17 July 2018 (Silencing Science Tracker) – On 13 July 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an After Action Report on the 2017 hurricane season. The report notes that the 2017 season was especially damaging, with “three major hurricanes in quick succession.” The report does not, however, discuss the impact of climate change […]
By Jon Campbell 12 July 2018 (The Daily Beast) – The Trump Administration is planning to eliminate a vast trove of medical guidelines that for nearly 20 years has been a critical resource for doctors, researchers and others in the medical community.Maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], part of the Department […]
By Fintan O’Toole 26 June 2018 (The Irish Times) – To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be […]
7 July 2018 (Desdemona Despair) – Journalism has never been a safe profession, but in 2018, it’s more than three times as dangerous as it was 2001. According to data collected by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), murders and disappearances of reporters worldwide have increased from a low of 34 in 2002 to a […]
2 July 2018 (Silencing Science Tracker) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury removed references to “climate change” from its 2017 sustainability report. Notably, in a departure from the department’s 2016 report, the 2017 version no longer lists “climate change resilience” as a goal. The 2017 version also omits discussion — which had appeared in […]
28 June 2018 (We Can Solve This) – As a Congressman, Jim Bridenstine spent years as a vocal climate change denialist. It took him less than a month leading NASA to change his mind. #YEARSproject We Can Solve This
By Oliver Milman 19 Jun 2018 NEW YORK (The Guardian) – Thirty years after a former NASA scientist sounded the alarm for the general public about climate change and human activity, the expert issued a fresh warning that the world is failing “miserably” to deal with the worsening dangers.While Donald Trump and many conservatives like […]
By Rong-Gong Lin II 21 June 2018 (Los Angeles Times) – A new directive from the Trump administration instructs federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey to get approval from its parent agency before agreeing to most interview requests from reporters, according to employees and emails from officials with the Department of the Interior and […]
By Hiroko Tabuchi 19 June 2018 NASHVILLE, Tennessee (The New York Times) – A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee’s one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on Antioch, a quiet Nashville suburb, armed with iPads full of voter data and a fiery script. The group, […]
By Darryl Fears 7 June 2018 (The Washington Post) – The Trump administration issued a stern reply to Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Daniel Wenk’s offer to retire next year to avoid a reassignment to Washington: Leave your post by August or retire now.As first reported by The Washington Post, Wenk submitted a letter to National […]
