Sell the trees or fix the forests…or both?
Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would sidetrack science and allow for less analysis under the country’s environmental law. Critics fear that approach could accelerate unnecessary logging in national forests, according to Rita Beamish and Kurt Repanshek report for National Parks Traveler May 11, 2025.
According to The Hill, today, “Political leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have told scientists there to apply to new jobs, implying that those who do not may be fired, according to an official with a union representing the agency’s employees.”
Source: The Hill, 05/13/2025
Amazon Catholics Hope the New Pope Will Protect the Rain Forest
According to AP, “The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment.”
“The Trump Administration Has All But Stopped Enforcing Environmental Laws”
Yesterday’s GRIST, reported that “The EPA is the nation’s top environmental cop. In the last few months, the federal agency has significantly scaled back pollution enforcement.”
