climate movement

The Trump administration is advancing its critical minerals agenda into a region known as America's 'forgotten wildlife corridor', according to reporting by Inside Climate News. The push for domestic mining of minerals deemed essential to national security and clean energy technologies is raising concerns that expanded extraction could fragment habitat and disrupt wildlife movement in an ecologically significant stretch of the country.

Vox has published a piece examining why Democrats have largely stopped making climate change a central talking point. The article, built around an interview with William Lawrence, a climate activist from Michigan's 7th district associated with the Sunrise Movement, suggests the party has shifted focus toward other issues, including data centers and economic concerns, as climate politics have grown quieter in national debate.