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"Threatened And Endangered Parks: National Parks And The Mines Next Door"

"As far as the Biden administration is concerned, a proposed Alaska mining road through a U.S. national park and adjacent federal land is kaput. Rejected. Case closed."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 01/13/2025

"D.C. Area On Alert After Bird Flu Detected In Poultry In Maryland, Delaware"

"Bird flu outbreaks have been detected at three poultry operations in Maryland and Delaware, impacting more than 500,000 chickens and leading to heightened alert among officials in the Washington region."

Source: Washington Post, 01/13/2025

"Trump Revives Threats To Withhold Disaster Aid For Political Foes"

"The deadly Los Angeles area wildfires were turned into a political conflagration on Wednesday as President-elect Donald Trump rekindled past threats to withhold disaster aid to Democratic opponents in California."

Source: E&E News, 01/13/2025

"Global Warming Surges Well Past 1.5-Degree Mark in 2024"

"Nearly all major global climate datasets agree that, in 2024, human-caused global warming for the first time pushed Earth’s average surface temperature to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for a full calendar year, a level that countries around the world had agreed to do all they could to avoid."

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/13/2025

There Has Never Been a Better Time for Environmental Journalism

Environmental devastation. Corporate capture. Disinformation’s diffusion. Hostility to news media. All this may seem overwhelming for environmental reporters. But for WatchDog Opinion, it means that journalism must rise to the challenge, take the truth seriously, report with conviction, cover corruption and tell the stories of the many whose stories are not being told. A case for why Trump 2.0 presents that opportunity.

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