Trump Repeals Essential Environmental Protections

In 2019, President Donald Trump stated that “right now [the United States is] at the cleanest we’ve ever been,” although that year’s State of The Air report recorded an increase of particulate pollution. In 2013, Trump tweeted that “global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax,” but in the eight years since this tweet, […]

Palm Oil: Better Off Banned

Palm oil, when passed from one palm to the next—the workers who create it, the consumers who purchase it—creates a devastating chain impacting the people, the ecosystem, and the entire planet itself. While an undoubtedly widespread and profitable export, its impacts are not so fruitful; in turn, the EU’s delay of the Indonesian palm oil […]