Melina Walling

Simply reducing beef and lamb consumption to one serving a week -- as recommended by EAT-Lancet -- could reduce emissions by almost 3 billion tons CO2-eq. The equivalent of all of Russia's annual emissions.

Thanks to @melinawalling.bsky.social for including my thoughts in this article.

With AI plan, Trump keeps chipping away at a foundational environmental law When big infrastructure projects spring up, one crucial law — the National Environmental Policy Act — has for decades been a key way the government has required powerful industry interests to consider...

A look at how Trump's AI data center expansion plan takes aim at the 55-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), by @melinawalling.bsky.social and @matthewdalyap.bsky.social apnews.com/article/nati...

EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

"In a letter made public Monday, the employees wrote that the agency is no longer living up to its mission to protect human health and the environment." @melinawalling.bsky.social

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Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Trump #EPA Rolling Back Rules Projected To Save Thousands Of Lives

@borenbears.bsky.social M.K. Wildeman @melinawalling.bsky.social @joshuabickel.bsky.social and @matthewdalyap.bsky.social reports for @apnews.com

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Trump EPA moves to roll back rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

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Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars, thousands of lives.
My @apnews.com story with @borenbears.bsky.social @melinawalling.bsky.social @joshuabickel.bsky.social and MK Wildeman

Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore webpages related to climate change after it was sued earlier this year over the deletions.

Who, us, delete #climate info?

USDA has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over their deletions by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of NY and others,
@melinawalling.bsky.social reports:

Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they're getting less Public funding for agricultural research in the U.S. has been declining for the last two decades, a process Trump has rapidly accelerated by freezing or pausing support for a variety of research progr...

"The U.S. needs more publicly funded research and development on agriculture to offset the effects of climate change...But instead the U.S. has been investing less." Great reporting by @melinawalling.bsky.social

Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped?

Scientists are still studying the long-term effects of the plastic that’s been found in human organs.
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What this week's winter wallop means for farmers across the U.S. This week’s winter wallop across the U.S. means different things to farmers in different places. In Kansas, the biggest blizzard in more than a century had livestock producers scrambling to safeguard ...

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