I explore Congress' environment committee hearing titles over time, running a phrase frequency analysis with Spacy. Public Congressional hearings, especially the House, are an especially great proxy for overall political messaging; this analysis reveals which phrases are most commonly used to describe environment committee hearings depending on the party in power.
How does the presidential election result shape who moves to Washington D.C.? This project explores the states from which people move to Washington, D.C. in the years following presidential elections. How much is the local "vibe shift" after an election year actually reflected in state-to-state migration patterns?
Grant recipients under EPA’s Solar For All program are sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s strategy in litigation challenging the termination of those grants, arguing that the government’s push to stay a case that was filed in the administration’s preferred venue amounts to a delay tactic.
Conservative lawyers and other critics are lobbing a range of attacks at the Biden EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas standards that could preview forthcoming legal arguments, including elaborating on claims that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not sufficiently “demonstrated” to serve as the basis for the rule’s strictest requirements.
Great Lakes researchers warn that changing Lake Ontario’s name is a costly waste of time that complicates longstanding collaboration to manage and protect an iconic water body named by indigenous people before either the United States or Canada were founded.
DUBAI -- Negotiators here have reached a landmark climate agreement calling, for the first time, to “transition away” from fossil fuels but officials are warning that its success depends on how strongly countries choose to implement it, especially given what some have criticized as the document’s “loopholes.”
Two oilfield services companies and three more Republican-led states are filing lawsuits challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) climate disclosure rule, starting what could be a weeks-long fight over which appellate court will consider litigation over the measure.
The Energy Department (DOE) is finalizing efficiency standards for residential water heaters that would spur widespread adoption of heat pump systems and generate massive energy savings and associated carbon emissions cuts, though officials are deferring action on controversial standards for “tankless” models.
Antarctica. Feburary, 2026.
Theth, Albania. July, 2024.
Antarctica. Feburary, 2026.
Theth, Albania. July, 2024.
Torres del Paine, Chile. Feburary, 2026.
Torres del Paine, Chile. Feburary, 2026.