His executive orders aim to boost logging on federal lands, increase tariffs on Canadian lumber, and expedite timber approvals to reduce wildfire risks and support the timber industry. Environmental ...

Agriculture consumes more water than any other use. As food production increases to feed 9 billion people by 2050, the links ...

And lastly, Democratic senators from western states ask the administration to preserve water funding and staff. “Reclamation is already a primarily operational rather than regulatory agency, and staff ...

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A plastic pipeline supplies water to energy developers in the Permian Basin, the place where supply and demand for water ...

Beneath the exhausting Sonoran sun, an hour’s drive west of Phoenix, heavy machines are methodically scraping the desert bare ...

And lastly, staff reductions continue at federal agencies, as do legal challenges to the administration’s orders. “I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of ...

Attacking the virtue and validity of research science is nothing new in certain corners of American culture. A century ago, in the famous Scopes trial, a high school teacher in Tennessee was ...

The Republican effort to rid the federal government of initiatives promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion is expanding to publicly funded research, ensnaring in its wide net scientific endeavors ...

And lastly, Republicans from the western states set out their legislative priorities. “We’re working all angles to promote Western energy dominance, and now we have the opportunity to do it in a way ...

In mid-December 2020, a month before he left office, President Donald Trump quietly signed the Save Our Seas Act to put the federal government’s shoulder to the work of developing alternatives to ...

In parts of the United States, there’s no relief from climate change. A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region, forecasters are warning of four days of terrible ...