Adam Federman

About Adam Federman

Adam Federman is a reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and the author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray.

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Leaked memo: Government scientists warned Trump’s oil plan would threaten Alaska’s polar bears

In an internal memo circulated within the Interior Department earlier this year, government scientists issued a stark warning: The Trump administration’s plans to allow oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could further jeopardize the region’s already fragile polar bear population.

State Of The Animal

News | December 11th 2018

Land defenders and water protectors gather on April 7, 2018 near an exclusion zone on the site of a proposed terminal in Burnaby, B.C., for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion. Photo by Dylan S. Waisman

The private intelligence firm keeping tabs on environmentalists

When big oil companies want to monitor activists, they turn to Welund which has even secured contracts with the Canadian government.

News, Energy | September 14th 2018

President Donald Trump, State of the Union address, House chamber, U.S. Capitol,

Lawmakers want to know why the Trump administration demanded sensitive oil data

Lawmakers are demanding answers from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about why political appointees in his department asked for early access to data from a study of oil and gas deposits on Alaska’s North Slope—a request that led to the resignation of a top scientist at the US Geological Survey.

News, US News, Energy, Politics | March 1st 2018