Last Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that could expand offshore oil and gas drilling along America’s coastlines. This move could even bring oil rigs to the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington, where new drilling hasn’t been allowed for decades.
Speaking truth to power — that's what I had the opportunity to witness last week in San Francisco when environmental justice leaders from across California and Arizona highlighted the pollution their mostly black, brown, Native, and low-income communities are facing to a room of officials from the Environmental Protection Agency.
There's been a major development in our campaign to protect Indonesia's forests. IOI, one of the largest palm oil traders in the world, has just made a significant commitment to protect rainforests. If put into practice, this would address the problems on the company's own plantations and set new standards for the whole industry.
The IOI Group, one of the world’s largest palm oil traders, has today made a significant commitment to address deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain. [1]
Donald Trump has the potential to inflict serious harm on the practice of science in the United States, but this weekend scientists (and science lovers of all stripes) will be showing the president what resistance looks like.
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