Crane-fly Orchid On December’s forest floor a solitary leaf erupts: Tipularia discolor its conspicuous greenery soaking sunlight through the bare scenery never letting on that its single mottled leaf is royal purple underneath its summer stem emerges as a splurge of winged blooms and namesake

Since 2023, the city has drawn between $70 million and $90 million of an approximately $325 million federal loan for lead service line replacements that expires next year via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

A local group in Iowa, fed up with nitrate crisis and threats to drinking water, will start putting up billboards this week urging the local community to Know What You Drink and testing for nitrate. Nitrate pollution is a national problem. iwla.org/fed-up-with-...

In an effort to keep Nature in balance, Fairfax County Va lets archers help to manage the local deer population | FFXtnow www.ffxnow.com/2025/09/08/f...

Federal public lands have attracted & inspired generations. The US created the template for saving wild places worldwide. But threats persist from Congress & this administration to privatize the land & prioritize extraction. What's at stake, from Outdoor America magazine. iwla.org/why-we-fight...

Any USDA reorganization needs to preserve the priority on conservation programs that promote protection and health of our soil and water quality. iwla.org/preserve-con...

High nitrate levels result in preventable suffering the Midwest. Izaak Walton League's Nitrate Watch helps volunteers keep tabs on dangerous levels in drinking water and wells. www.thegazette.com/environment-...

Bayer, maker of Roundup pesticide, boosted spending on lobbying since introduction of a pesticide labeling bill in 2024. Bayer has spent more than $10B settling lawsuits in which customers claim Roundup, which contains glyphosate, gave them cancer. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/07/31/b...

High nitrate levels result in preventable suffering the Midwest. Izaak Walton League's Nitrate Watch helps volunteers keep tabs on dangerous levels in drinking water and wells. www.thegazette.com/environment-...

Des Moines Banned Lawn Watering, but Polluted Tap Water Keeps Flowing: Inside Iowa’s Nitrate Problem. Residents use the League's Nitrate Watch tools to monitor local drinking water - sentientmedia.org/inside-iowas...

Ag fertilizer runoff likely will force more drinking water restrictions. Stateline story mentions Izaak Walton League's Nitrate Watch program to monitor levels in waterways stateline.org/2025/07/10/a...

The Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate law ever to pass the US Congress, is now almost entirely repealed. Again, a nail in the coffin for the hope that projects in red states would protect the law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Excess salt in our drinking water supplies can be corrosive to water pipes and cause metals -- like lead -- leach into drinking water for homes and schools. Read about this NRDC map based on EPA data about the locations of lead pipes. www.nrdc.org/resources/le...

#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #booksky 📚🌱💙

Last month we stopped a dangerous House effort to allow sale of a half million acres of public land in the West—land that belongs to us all. Now it's back resurfaced in the Senate and it’s worse, mandating disposal of up to 3 million acres of public lands. Help us stop it! iwla.org/conservation...

Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel wapo.st/4kNWKVh

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Staff at FEMA were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, sources said. with @tedhesson.bsky.social and Nathan Layne: www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel wapo.st/4kNWKVh

New York Times featured the Green Crew, a youth-led program created by an Izaak Walton League chapter in Minnesota, in the Times' series on climate change, 50 States, 50 Fixes. The Crew plants trees, restores natural areas, monitors water quality among other things. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

$900 million in Virginia data center projects have been blocked, according to a new report, and $45.8 billion in projects have been delayed. Researchers say it's due to local opposition by bipartisan advocacy groups, like the Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition. virginiamercury.com/2025/05/21/r...

The Senate must remove the anti-conservation provisions in the budget package. iwla.org/league-urges...

Featured in the @nytimes.com today, Minnesota youth tackle climate change through the Green Crew, a youth-led environmental program that leverages volunteer action developed several years ago as a part of the Izaak Walton League and Scouts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

Featured in the @nytimes.com today, Minnesota youth tackle climate change through the Green Crew, a youth-led environmental program that leverages volunteer action developed several years ago as a part of the Izaak Walton League and Scouts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

Science matters! Urge Congress to prevent the Trump administration from eliminating the US Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area. Attend the May 22 Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science; sign up here. www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

NEW: Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

The Republican tax proposal emerging in the House of Representatives would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, according to nonpartisan estimates and budget experts.

Great reporting on the link between climate and water pollution, quality by @dinamaron.bsky.social

Through all eight sessions in the #Virginia General Assembly, I've earned 100% ratings from @virginialcv.bsky.social for my voting record supporting our environment. In 2026, I'll keep leading the legislative fight against data center sprawl to protect our land, wildlife and electric bills. #valeg

📢Excited to announce I have a climate book in the works! #climatechange

My piece in morning's New York Times about the unlikely activists who are fighting to turn off the tap on forever chemicals— and making serious headway, even as the Trump camp is dismantling environmental regulations. #PFAS @crownpublishing.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

Breathing shouldn't kill you. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

I'm no political strategist but is it good to be so publicly pro-food poisoning www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.

For sport or food, love of birds is saving grace for America’s wetlands

The Trump administration is racing to become the most environmentally hostile government in American history

My take of course applies to a lot more than the Climate Smart Commodity Partnerships. Rushed, non transparent and ideologically driven action isn’t how you make good policy.

To erase climate as a concern tools in Trump's administration deleted FEMA’s extreme weather risk tool which housed years of work aimed at preparing for the worst effects of the climate crisis. Thankfully @olliemilman.bsky.social @theguardian.com reconstructed it: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Follow @ejtodaynews.bsky.social, one of SEJ’s publications, for top environment news. Subscribe here to receive EJToday in your inbox every weekday: www.sej.org/headlines/list

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

Across the hundreds of agencies that regulate nearly every aspect of American life, from flying in airplanes to processing poultry, Trump administration officials are working with Elon Musk's team to launch a new phase in their quest to dismantle much of the federal government: mass deregulation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that large landfills monitor and capture methane, a greenhouse gas, but some landfills in Iowa are going a step further and “upgrading” the landfill gas into renewable natural gas, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/14/i...

As President Trump seeks to dismantle whole agencies, college seniors have been terminated from internships and others have had job offers rescinded after the administration froze hiring across the federal government.

We should be thinking smarter about our drinking water: EPA needs to update the standards for nitrate in drinking water. Op-ed from the Izaak Walton League in Cedar Rapids gazette lays out the key issues www.thegazette.com/guest-column...

I'm honored to have been mentioned and quoted on Dr. Francis Collins's interview on Robin Young's NPR program "Here and Now," discussing the recent MIT conference on how to build trust in science. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Citizen scientists take to Iowa’s waters to monitor nitrate levels iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/11/c...

Congress: Don't sell future generations short by selling off our public lands to pay for a tax package! It won’t significantly decrease the deficit & will only exacerbate issues like wildfire, invasive species, preserving sources of drinking clean water. Full statement: www.iwla.org/publications...

What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.