Last month, bank officials met face to face with leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux, and this week they announced the bank had sold the loan at the request of tribal leaders.
Over 100 studies have shown that being in nature鈥攐r even watching it in videos鈥攂enefits our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions.
The Dakota Access pipeline is set and oil will flow. But this is not the only fight about water, and Standing Rock is only one chapter somewhere in the middle of a long story.
Pruitt鈥檚 approach to the EPA is likely to threaten farmworkers, who are highly exposed to the effects of climate change, including heat stress and increased pesticide use.
Since Trump鈥檚 election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.
The Senate just confirmed Scott Pruitt to run the EPA. But as residents reported major damage from fracking-related earthquakes, the then-attorney general closed his office鈥檚 environmental enforcement unit.