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Maria Akchurin

@makchur.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago | Environmental and Urban Sociology

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Farmers sue USDA after agency deletes climate change data The lawsuit says the Agriculture Department is hindering farmers from using the data to make “agricultural decisions” while they also face a recent funding freeze.

More cases against the Trump Administration. The is one by farmers who are dealing with funding cuts and the dearth of climate data that they had come to rely on:

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

25.02.2025 14:36 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert Global demand for lithium and copper is rising, fueled by the renewable energy transition. Chile is the top producer of copper and the second-largest producer of lithium in the world. It is also recog...

I wrote an essay on mining, water, and climate change in Chile's Atacama desert. For anyone new to the topic, it offers a short introduction to water conflicts around intensifying copper and lithium extraction. doi.org/10.1525/curh...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

20.02.2025 21:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

10.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 12964    🔁 5514    💬 553    📌 579

Don’t worry; we and our collaborators at Public Environmental Data Partners have stood up a copy of EJScreen, the environmental justice mapping and screening tool taken down by Trump's EPA last week.

You can access it here: screening-tools.com

10.02.2025 18:49 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now.

And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

07.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 175    🔁 82    💬 1    📌 6
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The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."

“One of the things that’s worrisome is when you start to take down resources like this, you start to construct a knowledge sphere that doesn’t acknowledge that environmental or climate injustices exist”. - EDGI's @ericnost.bsky.social

grist.org/politics/the...

05.02.2025 19:47 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0