Recent News
- ‘Have you seen our congressman?’ Angry Voters Press GOP For Answers.
- ‘Our people are hungry’: What Federal Food Aid Cuts Mean in a Warming World
- The End of the EPA’s Fight to Protect Overpolluted Communities
- Trump’s Fertilizer Tariffs Could Disrupt US Crop Production, From Tomatoes to Corn
EPA Defends Freezing $20 Billion in Climate Grants Without New Evidence
“These claims are not only misleading and undermining a critical effort to drive American energy independence, local resilience, and job creation in communities…”
Trump Signs Executive Order Handing U.S. Public Forests Over to Private Logging Industry
“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry.”
Rachel Carson, Cancer, and the NIH
While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.
‘A Weird Way of Making America Great’: Trump NOAA Purge Targets Scientists Working on Key Climate Models
“I worked to the last minute of my federal employment”
The Enduring Legacy of Hazel Johnson
Environmental history is Black history, and environmental justice leaders played a key role in connecting industrial pollutants to health issues caused by pollution in the air, water, and land.
The Rachel Carson Council in South Carolina
A land grant university with a founding mission of sustainable agriculture and a sustainable economy, the modern Clemson University has expanded its mission into a calling to operate the university and educate its students with a priority of social, economic and environmental well-being.