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Robert Kopp is a professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.
The incoming Biden administration needs to rebuild the federal government’s capacity to respond to the climate crisis after four years of denial by the Trump administration, a leading climate scientist from Rutgers University urged.
And the federal government must help universities advise communities on how to manage the effects of climate change, said Robert Kopp, who works with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But it will not be so easy to reverse some of the Trump administration’s rollbacks of environmental regulations because they are more likely to be upheld by newly appointed conservative judges than they were under previous administrations, Kopp warned.
Soil farm odors. Screenshot from soil farm controversy in March 2017. Credit: wlfa.com., News Channel 8.
Ever since my mom got me my first library card, Iâve been an avid reader. Like a lot of dedicated readers, I keep a running tally in my head of books with great titles â titles that are so intriguing they make you want to read the book regardless of the topic.
My favorite title is probably âThe Fools in Town Are On Our Sideâ by Ross Thomas, but a close second is âToxic Sludge is Good for You!â by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton. The first is a novel about small town corruption, while a reviewer called the second “a chilling analysis of the PR business.â
A coalition of environmental groups have sued to prevent a new EPA rule from going into effect, saying that by allowing Florida to manage the permit process for wetlands development, the EPA "is lowering the bar to allow a state, for the first time, to run the federal wetlands program without meeting federal standards.”
A coalition of environmental groups Thursday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a potentially far-reaching move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to shift permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.