Zoya Teirstein
LATEST ARTICLES BY Zoya Teirstein
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Environment
Europe begins 2023 with record-setting heat wave
January 23, 2023Climatologists are calling it “the most extreme heat wave in European history."
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Environment
Supreme Court decision could withdraw vital Clean Water Act protections
October 5, 2022Sackett v. EPA could roll back protections for more than 50 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
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December’s tornadoes show a country badly in need of disaster reform
January 5, 2022"Until local agencies have their capacity substantially expanded in essentially every community across the country, we’re going to keep running into problems."
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Environment
A surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
December 1, 2021Wildlife groups, conservation nonprofits, and even hunting associations put pressure on Biden back when he was still a candidate for president to take a strong position on protecting biodiversity.
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Environment
Biden’s team is planning a massive climate and infrastructure bill
March 25, 2021Whatever ends up happening, one thing is almost certain: Climate change is back on the menu in Congress.
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Latest Trump EPA rule to get tossed? The ‘secret science’ ban
February 2, 2021“The ‘censored science’ rule was one of the Trump administration’s most brazen efforts to undermine the scientific foundations of regulatory policy."
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After Bloomberg, climate was public enemy no. 2 at Nevada Democratic debate
February 28, 2020One thing the Democrats on stage seemed to agree on was that climate change is an existential threat that needs to be addressed immediately, not decades in the future.
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Science is in crisis under Trump, new reports show
October 9, 2019The Trump administration has made efforts “to undermine the value of objective facts themselves."
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