environmental-policy

Despite plunging border crossings, the Trump administration is circumventing laws to expedite building in a vast, pristine wilderness The Trump administration has waived a slew of environmental and historical preservation laws that would allow it to build a towering border wall that cuts through Big Bend national park, a vast protected wilderness in south Texas. Congress poured a whopping $46.5bn…

Salt, with its ability to seal liquid in, is uniquely suited to storing the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The residents' request was simple and, at the same time, the greatest challenge of the project: to preserve the local vegetation as much as possible. It was with this premise that the couple approached Studio Carlito and Renata Pascucci Architecture. The plot in Maresias, on the northern coast of São Paulo, spans 1,200 m² at the foot of the Serra do Mar. The challenge was not just to build, but t…

Nature Water, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00660-7 Wastewater-based epidemiology has been proposed as a faster, near real-time window into community substance use, but national-scale implementation in the United States has been elusive. A National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded pilot with Biobot Analytics spanning 76 sites across 41 states demonstrates that harmonized, n…

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has finalized a deal with Albanian officials to allow construction on Sazan Island in the Adriatic Sea. The $1.6bn project is expected to build luxury tourism real estate on the pristine island and surrounding waters and wetlands. Spurned by the potential environmental impact of the plan and the possibility of corrupt dealings, demonstrators have taken to…

US energy secretary Chris Wright featured in seminars to judges when he was a fracking executive As cities and states sue big oil for billions in damages over allegations that it covered up the dangers of its products, rightwing organizations are attempting to discredit the wave of litigation. They claim the lawyers behind it are teaming up with an environmentally focused legal education non-prof…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-54918-x Regression based hybrid machine learning model performance evaluation on air quality index prediction in Kolkata

Bursting the Academic Bubble: Why Scientists Must Bridge the Gap Between Research and Policy Jelis J. Sostre Cortés, AGU-sponsored CASE workshop participant and PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology As someone who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, I have been exposed to countless natural hazards. I have witnessed firsthand how a disconnect between scientists and policymakers can …

Scientific Data, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07604-6 HU-EnviroGrids: A Gridded Environmental Dataset for Spatial Analysis and Modelling at country scale in Hungary

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07886-6 Structural vulnerability and environmental advocacy: conditions for green alliance formation in global governance

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07759-y Strategic tiered governance for ecological risks in China: integrating spatial constraints with regionally differentiated policies

Nature Water, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00655-4 This study demonstrates a low-cost, self-powered capsule that integrates sensing and disinfection, achieving rapid water quality assessment and microbial removal without external power or chemicals.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56485-7 Coupled Geant4–SPICE optimization of a portable CdTe-based alpha detector for environmental radon monitoring

The East Sea is a maritime space of particular significance for economic development, energy security, maritime trade, coastal livelihoods, and the geo-economic structure of the Asia-Pacific region. Against the backdrop of increasing strategic competition among major powers, maritime economic cooperation in the East Sea offers both opportunities to promote a green economy, circular economy, marit…

Paper rejected from Environmental Science & Technology? 7 alternative journals by fit, scope, and APC, plus the ACS transfer route to ES&T Letters.

Paper rejected from Energy Policy? 6 alternative journals by fit, scope, and review speed, plus the Elsevier transfer route and what to fix first.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56080-w High-fidelity CNN-based surrogate modeling for wildfire spread forecasting

The Energy Policy cover letter is read at the editor's scope screen before review. Here is how to state your policy implication, prove journal fit, handle the over-8000-word merit line, and a template you can copy.

On May 26, as part of the FY 2026-27 budget, New York State enacted significant revisions to its 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA or Act). The amendments amount to a substantial rollback of the Act’s ambition. For the last seven years, the Act has served as the underpinning for New York’s climate […]

The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable Modern roads in the United States will last for decades. And yet the damage they cause in our national forests is immediate. Since 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected more than 58m acres of national forests from development, barring road construction and timber harves…