Beyond Defense or Change: Environmental Groups in the Climate Crisis

Beyond Defense or Change: Environmental Groups in the Climate Crisis

The Defender’s Dilemma Environmental advocacy is experiencing an unprecedented moment. While scholars have long studied how movements evolve from challengers to defenders of institutional processes, today’s environmental groups face a unique challenge: they must simultaneously defend environmental protections while driving rapid transformative change to address climate change. This isn’t just about choosing between insider or…

America the Beautiful Gets a Boost
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America the Beautiful Gets a Boost

The Biden-Harris administration has been on a tear recently passing multiple important rules tightening vehicle emissions standards, regulating PFAS in drinking water, increasing royalties for drilling on public lands, and launching a new conservation website. Another big announcement was made Thursday, April 18th, 2024 and made national news headlines when the BLM finalized a new…