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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency. But a political scientist predicts that while EPA will face budget cuts, the agency isn’t going anywhere.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposed changes to Australia’s national environment act will significantly reduce judicial oversight on environmental decisions. Here’s why that matters.
The 5p plastic bag charge is making society more eco-friendly than ever before.
As more states legalize marijuana, growing pot indoors is consuming massive quantities of energy. Rules for this new industry should include requirements to use clean power or pay carbon fees.
When the GM crop debate is confined to the human risks, it limits who can participate in the decision making and privileges scientists.
All too often the environment’s advocates are portrayed as outsiders, elitist, out of touch.
From recycling to air pollution, eco-friendly European laws have a big impact.
Do environmental regulations help or hurt the economy? Ask the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and you’ll get starkly different views.
You can’t simply ‘value’ nature as though it were a commodity able to be bought and sold.
Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.
From the perspective of conservation scientists, the government’s inquiry into the tax-deductible status of environmental groups is a bad idea wrapped in naïveté.
The EPA is seeking to clarify the reach of the landmark Clean Water Act to cover tributaries, yet people in agriculture and homeowners worry it will lead to onerous permitting.
Malcolm Fraser may be remembered for his failure to intervene in the Franklin Dam campaign, but he otherwise led a government distinguished for its environmental action.
However they’re spun, environmental concerns are never far from the headlines – and coordinated global marches on the weekend attest to the public’s interest in this area. Whenever we’ve made contributions…
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Lecturer in European Politics, Queen's University Belfast
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, University of York
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Professor in Politics, University of York
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Professor, James Cook University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor of Law, Georgetown University
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University
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Researcher, Environmental and Social Psychology, Cardiff University
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Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Reader in Geopolitical Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD Candidate, Environmental Assessment & Policy, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor of Environment, University of York