Eve Zuckoff

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Reporter at WBUR News

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If elected mayor, Kraft says he’d lean on philanthropy and improve community engagement

1 week ago | wbur.org | Eve Zuckoff

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and her lead challenger Josh Kraft both agree that federal funding cuts will hit the city’s education, health care and climate sectors hard. But Kraft, the former CEO of Boston Boys & Girls Clubs and son of the Patriots owner Robert Kraft, is trying to make the case that he’s the right person to lead the city through changes the Trump administration might bring.
As Trump bears down on Boston, Wu says she'll keep the focus on city residents

1 week ago | wbur.org | Eve Zuckoff

As Trump bears down on Boston, Wu says she'll keep the focus on city residentsBoston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks during the WBUR Festival. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has heard and seen what she described as the Trump administration’s "attacks" on the city, and she's worried about the long-term effects they could have. But as she runs for a second term, she said she's focused on the nonpartisan work of supporting Bostonians in their everyday lives.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 month ago | wshu.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Eve Zuckoff

Published May 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM EDT The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 month ago | nepm.org | Eve Zuckoff

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tim Cole/NOAA Fisheries, NEFSC Two North Atlantic right whales photographed by the NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Center aerial survey team in May 2016. The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 month ago | mainepublic.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Pocasset Mental Health Center may get financial boost after closure fears

1 month ago | capeandislands.org | Eve Zuckoff

After facing sudden closure this winter, the Pocasset Mental Health Center could soon open up to more patients. An amendment in the state budget from Falmouth Representative David Viera proposes $50,000 to convert office space at the 16 bed facility into two additional beds. The rooms are currently used as office space and would need to be furnished and converted into safer spaces. In February, Gov. Maura Healey proposed cutting mental health case workers and shuttering the Center for underuse.
More than a quarter of staff gone at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Gilda Geist |Eve Zuckoff

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an office in Woods Hole—has seen a 27 percent reduction in staff since President Donald Trump took office, according to current and former NOAA employees, who asked not to be named in this story for fear of retaliation. In addition to the lab in Woods Hole, the NEFSC has four other offices—one each in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maine.
Fighting climate change: WHOI wins EPA approval to experiment with carbon storage off Provincetown

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed off on a long-planned experiment that aims to fight climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean for thousands of years. It took two years — and two public comment periods — for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to earn the permit for the LOC-NESS project that’s set to take place this summer, 60 miles northeast of Provincetown.