In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST, for short) disappeared from ...

The potential power of environmental data science hit David Flaspohler, dean of the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (CFRES), during a conversation with his daughter—then a PhD ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. In a quiet but urgent race against time, groups of ...

Our leaders must rein in data centers’ harms to our environment, economy, and society. Until then — no more new data centers! Update (December 8, 2025): Today, more than 230 organizations nationwide ...

Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. A couple weeks after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, a group of federal data-watchers gathered in Denice ...

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