Recent News
• Samuel Alito Gained Up to $2.9m From Oil and Gas Assets Since Joining Supreme Court, Analysis Shows
• Ghost Tribe of the Texas Delta
•California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show
• A New Type of Levee is Taking Root in Northern California
Importance of Canada’s Boreal Forest
The boreal forest is the world’s largest intact forest, covering around 33% of total forested area in the world. Learn more with RCC’s Fact Sheets “Bamboo Toilet Paper and the Boreal Forest”, “Understanding Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest” and “The Boreal Forest at Risk: Why Protection Matters.”
Florida, Rachel Carson and the Birds
The long, frigid winter and the political climate in Washington has driven me to flee south to Florida, not to Mar-a-Lago, but to visit my wife’s sister, a birder and nature lover, who lives in Clearwater Beach along the Gulf Coast.
The RCC is Building the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
From July 19-23, 2026, the Rachel Carson Council welcomed a national cohort of emerging environmental leaders to Washington, D.C., for its 2026 American Environmental Leadership Institute (AELI).
Redrawing the Map of California’s Premier Wine Region
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia Highlands was registering a noontime temperature Steve McIntyre couldn’t quite believe: 104 degrees.
The EPA’s Data on Cancer Risk From Air Pollution Has Gone Dark
For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it’s missing.