Kirsten Stade is a CASSE staff writer and contributes articles to the Steady State Herald. Kirsten has spent the past three decades writing, speaking, and advocating at nonprofit organizations focused on the linkages between reproductive rights, population growth, and ecological overshoot; on protecting public lands from extractive industries; and on safeguarding the integrity of regulatory science. She has published extensively in outlets such as Newsweek, The Hill, The Guardian, Counterpunch, and Ms. Magazine, and in the peer-reviewed Journal of Population and Sustainability. She has also coauthored book chapters on reproductive responsibility, ecological overshoot, and animal liberation in published volumes. She has a B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University and an M.S. in Conservation Biology from Columbia University.
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Nuclear safety at risk: what’s changing under Donald Trump
As sweeping deregulation accelerates under Donald Trump, long-standing nuclear safety regulations are being rolled back with little public scrutiny, raising new concerns about risks to both human health and the environment.
April 10, 2026
