Federal Budget Cuts Impact Environmental Jobs: Students Are Scared

Gemma Mueller ‘27muellergal@lakeforest.edu Staff Writer Environmental studies students depend on healthy ecosystems for their future careers — and income. Now, with the Trump administration disrupting the EPA and environmental initiatives nationwide, students like Zoey Young fear for their professional futures.   “This is definitely a scary time to be a climate-based scientist,” said Young, a Lake Forest College senior majoring in Biology and Environmental Science.  To date, President Trump has exited the Paris Agreement, an international treaty…

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