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Diane Pataki
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Chief Scientist, National Wildlife Federation; Professor of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Ecology | Conservation | Nature | Environmental science. All opinions my own.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft rule narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act will protect fewer streams and wetlands from pollution and destruction than at any point since the law’s passage in 1972.

Read the press release 📲: https://ow.ly/wHEq50XtGe2
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?

Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
Voices for Conservation Rally · National Wildlife Federation
Together, we have raised our voices urging the federal government to protect conservation science. **Now, we ask you to stand with us in Washington, DC.** The sound science and public programs that ...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?

Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
Voices for Conservation Rally · National Wildlife Federation
Together, we have raised our voices urging the federal government to protect conservation science. **Now, we ask you to stand with us in Washington, DC.** The sound science and public programs that ...
mobilize.us
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Over recent weeks, many news agencies highlighted this review of DOE Climate Working Group Report. Now with doi.

Dessler, A.E. and R.E. Kopp (Ed.). (2025). Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report. doi.org/10.22541/ess...
@andrewdessler.com @bobkopp.net et al.
Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report
In response to the Department of Energy's recent climate report, more than 85 scientists came together to submit a detailed rebuttal. Our motivation was simple: the DOE report misrepresents the state ...
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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2 DAYS LEFT to speak out to save the Roadless Rule! ⌛🌲
Help us reach our goal of 20k comments to protect black bears, elk, salmon, trout, and other #wildlife from roadbuilding and development. #RoadlessRule

Take action today 📲: ow.ly/TCFz50WXGRX
Help protect wildlife from roadbuilding and development
Fish and wildlife depend on roadless areas for their survival. For more than two decades, the Roadless Rule has helped safeguard wildlife species while limiting roadbuilding and other industrial devel...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Climate scientists - sign on by Sept. 18 to oppose EPA's overturning of the endangerment finding.
Deadline extended to 18 Sept!

The Trump administration has proposed overturning the EPA’s endangerment finding, the science-based determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

Join 650+ of your peers who have signed AGU’s letter to defend climate science.

➡️ buff.ly/lLPmLZe
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Vast, wild, public lands for #wildlife are at risk. 🦅🌄🐺🦌🐾
Tell your senators to oppose efforts to revoke responsible land stewardship plans for millions of acres of #publiclands. #CongressionalReviewAct #Alaska #Montana #NorthDakota

📲 support.nwfactionfund.org/page/87935/a...
Speak out for bald eagles and public lands
Bald eagles, along with hundreds of other wildlife species, depend on the vast wild spaces that are stewarded by the federal Bureau of Land Management. But the U.S. House of Representatives just voted...
support.nwfactionfund.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Have you been meaning to comment on EPA’s proposal to overturn the endangerment finding, but haven’t gotten around to it? Here’s an easy and quick way to submit your comment:
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🚨 Only one week left to speak out and defend federal #climateaction!

Send a message to the EPA and tell them to honor decades of sound science and uphold their responsibility to protect people and wildlife from #climate pollution.
📲 ow.ly/OJIQ50WRkGi
Defend climate policy for the welfare of our wildlife and communities
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to abandon its duties to protect our communities and environment from pollution and climate change. Send in a comment today urging them not to go back ...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’ll be part of this panel along with several amazing colleagues and leaders - please join us!
September 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The federal government is about to abandon its duty to keep our air clean and our #wildlife and communities safe from a changing #climate. 🌳🐾

Tell the EPA NOT to go back on decades of #science & federal climate policy 📲: ow.ly/WQkq50WMizk
Defend climate policy for the welfare of our wildlife and communities
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to abandon its duties to protect our communities and environment from pollution and climate change. Send in a comment today urging them not to go back on decades of climate science and federal policy!
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August 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happening this week: “America’s Forum for Wildlife” - sign up to speak out in support of federal conservation science www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/82...
America’s Forum for Wildlife · National Wildlife Federation
The sound science and programs that protect our wildlife, air, and water are being quickly and drastically eliminated by the federal government, threatening the species and people we love. We will not...
www.mobilize.us
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you've been speaking up for science, Congress has been listening. But we're not over the finish line yet.

#Conservationscience needs your help. Sign up for America's Forum for Wildlife to hear testimony and comment about the importance of federal science programs

www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/82...
America’s Forum for Wildlife · National Wildlife Federation
The sound science and programs that protect our wildlife, air, and water are being quickly and drastically eliminated by the federal government, threatening the species and people we love. We will not...
www.mobilize.us
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Yes! Come talk to me about publishing in the Bulletin of the ESA! Have an essay or an op-ed about ecology burning inside you or on your computer? Send it my way! A poem? Pictures depicting ecology? Papers on ecology education? We take them all! Find me at #ESA2025 and ask me anything!
Attending #ESA2025 in Baltimore? Join our Editors in Chief & senior editors today (Monday) at 11:45 AM to learn about some of our journals’ less traditional article types!

“I can publish that?! Exploring publishing options with ESA’s journals"
August 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below.

Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
Notice of Availability: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) seeks public comment on the draft report produced by DOE's Climate Working Group (CWG), titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emi...
www.federalregister.gov
August 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Career Central starts tomorrow at 10:30 and we need volunteers! Help w/ resume & CV reviews, mock job interviews, & mentoring activities esa.org/baltimore202... #ESA2025
August 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social needs your input on a collective research agenda for actionable ecological science. Are you attending #ESA2025 in Baltimore? Join us on Monday August 11 for a community discussion about how we can help solve urgent socioenvironmental problems with sound science.
SS 15 - Advancing an Actionable Research Agenda for Ecological Science: An ESA Community Discussion - Details
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August 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Congress is threatening to take a wrecking ball to 3 Resource Management Plans using a little-known vehicle called the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Today we begin a series of videos to explain why using the #CRA is a terrible way to manage #publiclands.
August 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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It's not too late! 🐚🐙🌊
There is still time before the August 15 deadline to submit comments opposing proposed leases for commercial deep-sea mining in the waters of American Samoa.
Please take action to safeguard #coral reefs and marine #wildlife today: ow.ly/QHuT50WzEM2
Speak Out AGAINST Deep-Sea Mining and FOR Marine Wildlife
The Fai pe‘a (Samoan) or eagle ray inhabits the coral reefs and coastal waters of American Samoa’s 7 islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean—and is viewed as a symbol of strength and freedom in Samoan...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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For Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and poor and rural residents, #OneBigBeautifulBill is a major blow. ❌

The bill targets environmental and #climate programs created by recent climate laws like the IRA and the BIL.

Learn more on NWF blog 📲 ow.ly/1NN250Wy4sJ
Here’s How the Reconciliation Bill Affects Environmental Justice - The National Wildlife Federation Blog
The reconciliation bill, now H.R. 1, strips away environmental justice protections—from clean water to clean air and everything in between.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
forms.gle
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM