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Bloomberg Tax
Plastic pollution rules stall amid federal efforts boosting oil
"No product is more useful—and troubling—than plastic. From construction, transportation, fashion, food and medicine, plastic is used in almost every industry and in products from cars and phones to cosmetics and clothing. Given the goals of the Trump administration, the collapse of treaty talks, and the slow progress by companies, solutions to plastic pollution will be generated at the local and state levels, both through the legislatures and courts," writes law professor Sarah Morath.
April 8, 2025
Mongabay
Tree rings reveal mercury pollution from illegal gold mining
New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining, offering an alternative to expensive air monitors. “The takeaway is that now we have a way to monitor Hg [mercury] in the air anywhere in the world, making a problem that was difficult and expensive cheap and accessible,” said biology professor Miles Silman, who wasn’t involved in the study.
April 8, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Cynthia Erivo, Mitt Romney, Magic Johnson highlight next season of ‘Face to Face’ series
"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo, NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson and former Utah senator and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will headline the fifth season of Wake Forest University's "Face to Face" series. Also on the schedule for the next season is retired Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. Romney, who will speak at Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest campus on Nov. 6, served as a senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025.
April 8, 2025
The Charlotte Observer
Trump, Musk DOGE cuts to EPA clean air grants worry Charlotte communities
“These are cuts that are going to have the potential to really adversely affect the health and welfare of people throughout the Charlotte metropolitan area,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest's Sabin Family Center. “And in a time when environmental quality is so important to everyone, I think regardless of the party, it’s a real concern.” Charlotte is close to not attaining ozone air quality standards, Meiburg added.
April 7, 2025
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Triad professors make the case for getting rid of pennies
What if someone offers a penny for your thoughts … but there aren’t any pennies to provide? “If we got rid of the penny, it would save the taxpayer not an immense amount of money but we’re talking $100 million, a couple hundred million,” said economics professor Robert Whaples. ”But the savings add up, so you keep doing this year over year, and it’s good for the government to do things as efficiently as possible and this is clearly an inefficient thing.”
April 3, 2025
Tucson Sentinel
Trump announces worldwide tariffs as fears of global recession & trade war grow
“I do think that we are headed for a recession, and an inflationary/stagflationary one at that,” said Mark Vail, a political economist at Wake Forest. “The sad thing is that the recession and the spike in inflation that is certain to come if these tariffs are implemented and maintained will be entirely self-inflicted.”
April 2, 2025
Bloomberg Tax
J&J’s failed bid to end talc suits is bankruptcy voting lesson
“Nobody saw this coming,” said Samir Parikh, a law professor at Wake Forest who has been tracking J&J’s baby powder litigation. “This is not good news for the company and its investors.” The issues pinpointed will “reverberate throughout the aggregate litigation ecosystem.”
April 2, 2025
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
John Legend is Wake Forest’s final Face to Face speaker for the season
The 2024-2025 season of Wake Forest University's Face to Face Speaker Forum wraps up with EGOT-winner and critically acclaimed, multiplatinum singer-songwriter, John Legend.He has garnered 12 Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
April 2, 2025
Canary Media
The newest hurdle for offshore wind: Trump’s EPA
“The value of the Environmental Appeals Board as an institution has derived from the fact that they are seen as independent,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. “And they want to make sure to preserve that independence and integrity because that’s the basis of some of their credibility.”
April 1, 2025
Psychology Today
2 ways to pick positivity from life’s challenges
As stated at the outset of a new study by psychology professor Christopher Waugh and colleagues (2025), “people often experience positive emotions during stressful situations.” Wake Forest researchers suggest it might be necessary to poke around inside an experience to dig out the elements that serve a positive function to some people.
April 1, 2025
Scientific American
Is there a plus side to mental labor?
"Contrary to the popular belief that managing the invisible family load is entirely negative, we found potential benefits. Some people told us that they “enjoy and get benefit from being the ‘leader’” of their family, “find joy in caring for” their families and that it brings them closer to their family members," writes business professor Julie Wayne. "On average, people find a sense of meaning and purpose when taking on more of the remembering and deciding work of cognitive load, fostering a sense of enrichment in their family and greater satisfaction with their family lives. This doesn’t mean the emotional load is not hard or frustrating, but people may also experience benefits from doing the cognitive load.
March 31, 2025
South Africa Today
Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated
"Vattenfall, the Netherlands’ third-largest energy producer, has announced it is abandoning plans to build the country’s largest wood pellet burning power plant. Forest advocates, who launched a campaign to derail Vattenfall’s plans in 2019, declared victory. They note that burning wood pellets to make energy produces more carbon emissions per unit of energy than coal, despite industry claims that the technology is carbon neutral," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso.
March 31, 2025