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Tens of thousands of toxic DDT barrels found dumped in ocean
Marine researchers in the Pacific say they’ve unearthed an underwater dump of as many as 25,000 barrels — an estimated 350 to 700 tons — of toxic DDT in what they believe to be a long-forgotten waste site dating back to World War II.
Trump EPA Invited Companies to Revise Pollution Records of a Potent Carcinogen
Millie Corder didn’t know why there was so much cancer in her family. Her daughter, Cheryl, was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and 34 when the disease killed her in 2002. By that time, Millie’s husband, Chuck, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
More than three quarters of ocean shark and ray species are at risk of EXTINCTION
More than three quarters of ocean shark and ray species are at risk of EXTINCTION as overfishing causes numbers to plummet by over 70 per cent in 50 years From great white sharks to giant manta rays, our oceans are full of a range of weird and wonderful creatures.
How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet’s living beings have been purged by planetary catastrophes so extreme they make your typical Ice Age look like the geological equivalent of a stroll in the park.
WEF's top 5 global risks for 2020 are all about the environment
Economic and political polarization will rise in 2020, according to the World Economic Forum's latest Global Risks report, but severe threats to the climate account for all of the top five long-term risks.
'Nature Is Under Siege': Scientists Sound Alarm About Insect Apocalypse
A collection of new scientific papers authored by 56 experts from around the world reiterates rising concerns about bug declines and urges people and governments to take urgent action to address a biodiversity crisis dubbed the "insect apocalypse.
Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to an international group of scientists, who warn people still haven’t grasped the urgency of the biodiversity
The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage, risky oil transportation without regulation, pipeline permitting issues, and failure to produce profits. In 2008, the U.S.
PFAS Chemical Associated With Severe Covid-19
Elevated levels of a PFAS compound were associated with more severe forms of Covid-19, according to a Danish study now undergoing peer review.
‘Forever chemicals’ pollute water from Alaska to Florida
Tom Kennedy learned about the long-term contamination of his family’s drinking water about two months after he was told that his breast cancer had metastasized to his brain and was terminal.
Flint Has Clean Water Now. Why Won’t People Drink It?
The highest-profile public-works tragedy of the past decade has triggered a bigger breakdown in trust—and carries a lesson for post-Covid America. Derek Robertson is digital editor for Indianapolis Monthly. Follow him on Twitter @derek_j_rob.
Legislative committee strips key language from rules to prevent PFAS contamination
Republican lawmakers have blocked the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from enforcing new regulations designed to keep some “forever chemicals” out of the environment.
Trump Administration Rushes To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Starting Tuesday, oil and gas companies can pick which parts of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge they're interested in drilling. It's the latest push by the Trump administration to auction off development rights in the pristine landscape before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Enbridge Line 5 ordered shut down by Michigan Gov. Whitmer
LANSING, MI -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is ordering the controversial Enbridge Line 5 pipeline be shut down, citing multiple violations by the company of its 1953 easement along with the state’s duty to protect the Great Lakes.
U.S. Public Facing Huge Bill to Clean Up After Oil and Gas Industry
The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. While this number is alarming, it does not even include an estimated 1.
Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA
Updated at 6:15 p.m. David Legates, a University of Delaware professor of climatology who has spent much of his career questioning basic tenets of climate science, has been hired for a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
We Live On Another Planet Now
Wildfires are good. They are necessary for new growth of trees and for the health of ecosystems. We need fire, but not like this. As I type this, the bright white blue light of my laptop looks like a false beacon next to the dark orange haze outside my window.
Oregon Evacuation Map, Update as Half a Million Forced to Flee, 'Militia Checkpoints' Patrol Roads
Over half a million people have been evacuated statewide in Oregon due to wildfires, authorities have confirmed. According to the Associated Press (AP), The Oregon Office of Emergency Management reported that over "10 percent of the state's 4.
The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me
Let’s stop calling this the Sixth Great Extinction. Let’s start calling it what it is: the “first great extermination”.
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
Note: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. Listen to the episode here.
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic
Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found.
Air pollution is much worse than we thought
Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.
The global coffee crisis is coming
It’s getting harder and harder to grow coffee. Nearly 500 billion cups of coffee are consumed every year, making it easily one of the most popular goods in the world. It’s cultivated in dozens of countries by nearly 25 million farmers who depend on it to make a living.
E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected in the coming days to lift Obama-era controls on the release of methane, a powerful climate-warming gas that is emitted from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells.
EPA Destroys Water Quality Records, Deceives Archivist
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Climate crisis: Out-of-control wildfires in Arctic circle released more CO2 in two months than whole of 2019
Out-of-control wildfires north of the Arctic Circle have released more dangerous greenhouse gases in two months than all of the fires last year combined, scientists have said.
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Baghdad sets record with 125-degree day
Baghdad, Iraq, has seen high temperatures before, but not like this. The city recorded its two hottest days ever Tuesday and Wednesday at 125 and 124 degrees, respectively.
We Have Entered the "End Game" for Oil—With "Permanent Demand Destruction"
With many countries and regions trying to open up their economies after COVID-19 lockdowns, many in the oil industry had been hoping that as hundreds of millions of people resume as normal a life as possible, demand for oil would pick up to pre-COVID levels. This is not going to happen.
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun
Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%.
As Planet Edges Closer to Multiple Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Identify First Active Methane Gas Leak in Antarctica
Scientists have for the first time identified an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica, increasing the possibility that the planet is close to one of the "tipping points" that would put the impacts of global heating out of humans' control.
Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit?
Samantha Gross Samantha Gross is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings.
Arctic Hits Hottest Temperature on Record at 100.4 Degrees Fahrenheit
A small Siberian town north of the Arctic Circle reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, a figure that — if verified — would be the highest temperature reading in the region since record-keeping began in 1885. “This scares me, I have to say,” environmentalist and 350.
'Outrageous and Chilling': Police Condemned for Charging Peaceful Environmentalists With 'Terrorizing' in Louisiana
At least 40 U.S.
U.S. unveils vision for more development in national forests
In a memorandum to U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, Perdue said more was needed to relieve burdensome regulations on industries and make federal forests and grasslands more productive.
A brazen attack on the environment, Trump's order puts public health at risk
WASHINGTON ----- On June 4, President Trump issued an executive order that dramatically reduces environmental protections for infrastructure and other major projects. The Bill of Rights for the environment is poised to be shredded by Trump administration.
Trump’s EPA Finalizes Its Gutting of Clean Water Rules
Washington, D.C. — Today, as we prepare to celebrate Earth Day, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the final rule for the rollback of key parts of the Clean Water Rule.
After Dams Fail, Dow Admits Floodwaters in Midland, Michigan 'Commingling' With Toxic Chemical Storage Ponds
Floodwaters unleashed by a dam failure in central Michigan have reached a Dow Chemical facility and Superfund site, the company admitted Wednesday, raising the possibility that the flood could turn into a full-fledged environmental catastrophe.
'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological': While Pushing Big Oil Bailouts, Trump Slaps Wind and Solar Industry With $50 Million in Old Rent Bills
While giving fossil fuel companies access to relief funds ostensibly meant for small businesses struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Monday slapped solar and wind power firms with retroactive rent bills dating back two years.
'Shameful Does Not Even Begin to Describe' Trump EPA Decision on Chemical Known to Damage Children's Brains
Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump's EPA Thursday after the agency said it would propose that the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate does not need to be regulated, despite its links to cognitive damage in fetal and child development.
Trump to open more wildlife refuge land to hunting, fishing
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration plans to open 2.3 million acres of land for hunting and fishing at more than 100 national wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries under a proposal unveiled Wednesday that is aimed at giving Americans more recreational access on public lands.
Six Facts About Trump’s Clean Cars Rollback
The administration’s weak vehicle emissions standards hurt public health and harm the economy. They won’t hold up in court. It’s hard to believe. While we are in the middle of a global pandemic, the Trump administration is dramatically weakening safeguards that protect our health and welfare.
Ex-wildlife chief: Trump rule could kill billions of birds
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — At a former open pit copper mine filled with billions of gallons of toxic water, sirens and loud pops from propane cannons echo off the granite walls to scare away birds so they don’t land.
Trump to Kneecap Obama-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards, Hurtling Nation 'Toward a More Dangerous Climate'
As the nation grapples with the coronavirus outbreak crisis, the Trump administration intends to further threaten public health and advance its attacks on environmental regulations with a new rule neutering Obama-era vehicle mileage standards, according to multiple news reports Monday.
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
“This EPA statement is essentially a nationwide waiver of environmental rules for the indefinite future.
With Nation Distracted by Public Health and Economic Crises, Trump Moves to Allow GMO Crops in Wildlife Refuges
As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a public health emergency with the coronavirus, the Trump administration moved quietly on Friday to further threaten dozens of endangered species in the southeastern United States by proposing the planting of genetically engineered crops on wild public lands.
EPA Proposes Broad Science Restrictions in Midst of Coronavirus Pandemic
The Environmental Protection Agency moved today to restrict the types of research that can be used in public health protection decisions and scientific assessments.
Oil and Gas May Be a Far Bigger Climate Threat Than We Knew
Oil and gas production may be responsible for a far larger share of the soaring levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the earth’s atmosphere than previously thought, new research has found.
Trump admin writes itself a permission slip to ignore climate change and wreck the environment
The new Trump overhaul would put limits on public comment and environmental analysis, constricting the definitions and timelines for review of projects and allowing many projects to escape review altogether.
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Study Shows Big Oil Rewards Members of Congress With Cash After Anti-Environment Votes
It’s no secret that the oil and gas industry is in the pockets of our elected officials. I mean, a climate denier doesn’t sit in the White House by accident, right? A new study, however, confirms just how powerful contributions from the oil and gas sector can be.
Could the oil price war push the fracking industry into financial crisis?
Fracking for oil and natural gas has remade the global energy industry in America’s favor. But, much of the industry’s growth has been fueled by mountains of cheap debt and unrealistic forecasts. Might the entire enterprise be a financial crisis in the making — especially with an impending price war?
Fish All Gone! Gulf of Alaska Fishery to Close for the First Time Ever: No More Cod: Salmon All but Gone: Millions of Small Sea Birds Died Since 2015
November 2019, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters birds migrating from Alaska were washing up dead on Sydney’s iconic beaches. Extremely low cod numbers have lead feds to close the Gulf of Alaska fishery for the first time ever.
On mercury pollution, Trump's EPA goes beyond industry requests
For much of the last few years, Donald Trump's administration has taken steps to ease rules on mercury pollution from power plants, not simply as part of a general hostility toward environmental safeguards, but specifically to help the coal industry, which the president sees as a political ally.
Soto, Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Merkley Unveil Bill to Ban Fracking Nationwide
Today, Reps. Darren Soto (FL-09) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) introduced H.R. 5857, the Ban Fracking Act, a federal bill to phase out fracking nationwide in the United States. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Bernie Sanders (VT-I) and Jeff Merkley (OR-D).
Forest Service Paying Timber Industry to Pick Which Trees It Wants in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
We take on many of the biggest environmental and health challenges of our time and stick with them. The law makes change. Because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
What was alarming to many of the scientists: the rate of the loss of ice on all the Great Lakes. Bowling Green State University’s Dr.
EPA Can’t Kick Scientists Off Science Advisory Panels, Court Says
The ban was a clear attempt to stack the deck in favor of big polluters. April 15, 2020: Update! A federal judge in New York rejects the U.S.
2.5M Pounds Of Radioactive Waste Illegally Dumped In Oregon Landfill
The Oregon Department of Energy has issued a notice of violation to a hazardous waste facility for accepting more than 2 million pounds of radioactive materials east of the Columbia River Gorge. Chemical Waste Management, a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc.
Trump budget slashes EPA funding, environmental programs
President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2021 calls for significant reductions to environmental programs at federal agencies, including a 26 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The EPA’s New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash
Derrick Z. Jackson | February 3, 2020 Imagine you live next to a coal-fired power plant. Near the power plant, you may have seen heavy machinery dumping loads of greyish substance into an open pit or a pond.
Video Reveals Threat of "Wholesale Transfer and Privatization of America's Public Lands" on Trump's Agenda, Says Watchdog Group
Watchdog group Western Values Project said Friday that audio it obtained of a June 2019 event at Trump's Interior Department provides more evidence that public lands are under threat of being privatized by the former reality star and his crew of "anti-public land zealots.
Intercept : Canadian Fossil Fuel Company “Bought” Oregon Sheriff Department Unit
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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.
As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs
In over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S.
Trump oil and gas leases could equal half of China’s annual climate emissions, new report
Federal oil and gas leases sold under the Trump administration are set to dramatically impact the nation’s ability to fight climate change, and the administration continues to keep the American people in the dark about it, according to a new report from The Wilderness Society.
You’re Fired! Trump Administration Shows Experts the Door - EcoWatch
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‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—On a drizzly day in January 2018, Jeff Alson, an engineer at the Environmental Protection Agency’s motor-vehicles office, gathered with his colleagues to make a video call to Washington, D.C. They had made the same call dozens of times before.
West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines a Felony
Industry drafted legislation (HB 4615) that would make civil disobedience against a pipeline or other fossil fuel projects a felony is moving through the West Virginia legislature. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation February 10, 2020 at 8:30 am.
Trump has savaged the environment. The planet cannot afford a second term
What are the consequences of a second term of Donald Trump? To even consider the question sends the left-leaning mind into a paroxysm. Everything from nuclear war to the utter collapse of American democracy looms large in the imaginations of otherwise sober-minded people.
EPA’s New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in “poor biological condition,” and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this is a bad time to make a mockery of the Clean
These Maps Paint a Dark Future for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge If Trump Has His Way
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last pristine landscapes in America.
America’s Wetlands: Vital, Ignored, and Now Defined Away by the Trump Administration
Last week, the Trump administration finalized its rollback of the expanded definition of the waters of the United States. Now fewer water bodies, including wetlands and ephemeral streams, will be protected under the Clean Water Act.
After Protections Gutted, Audubon Society Dubs Trump Interior Dept. the 'Bird Killer Department'
Green groups and conservationists are accusing the Trump administration of taking instructions straight from the fossil fuel industry after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed rolling back a century-old law protecting birds from industrial accidents.
Firm Prepares To Mine Land Previously Protected As A National Monument
Last December, President Trump removed nearly half of the Grand Staircase-Escalante from protection, as well as part of the Bears Ears National Monument, which is also in Utah. The move was the largest reversal of national monument protections in U.S. history. Glacier Lake Resources Inc.
Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
This January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017.
How Trump helped pay the timber industry to attack wild forests in Alaska
The timber industry wants free rein to log and develop in the Tongass National Forest. Alaska politicians and the Trump administration want to help. New reports show those interests converged with a powerful trade group receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars drawn by the state from a U.S.
'Complete Wiping Away of Clean Water Act': Trump EPA Rule Would Free Corporations to Pollute Nation's Water as Much as They Please
In a move environmentalists are warning will seriously endanger drinking water and wildlife nationwide, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly gearing up to hand yet another gift to big polluters by drastically curtailing the number of waterways and wetlands pro
EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a series of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Cutting the Public Out of Public Lands
Under the Trump administration, the Interior Department has suppressed public involvement and input in management decisions impacting public lands, wildlife, and energy development.
Coalition forms to back Trump rollback of major environmental law
GOP operative Phil Cox is the chairman of the coalition, named Building a Better America. The former executive director of the Republican Governors Association also led Trade Works for America, a pro-trade group that pushed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
EPA Makes Rollback Of Clean Water Rules Official, Repealing 2015 Protections
The Trump administration is changing the definition of what qualifies as "waters of the United States," tossing out an Obama-era regulation that had enhanced protections for wetlands and smaller waterways.
Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits
In early 2018, a few months after the cities of Oakland and San Francisco sued several major oil companies over climate change, attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice began a series of email exchanges and meetings with lawyers for the oil companies targeted in the litigation.
Editorial: Trump’s proposed new environmental reviews rules are as bad as you’d expect
In what could be the administration’s broadest attack yet on federal environmental regulations, the Trump administration on Thursday proposed making it easier to approve major energy and infrastructure projects, including new highways and pipelines, without full consideration of their environmenta
Experts Say The Magna Carta Of American Environmental Law Is Under Siege
The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, headwaters for one of the largest and most costly Superfund cleanup sites in America and product of unregulated industry.
Stanford Researchers Have an Exciting Plan to Tackle The Climate Emergency Worldwide
Things are pretty dire right now. Giant swaths of my country are burning as I write this, at a scale unlike anything we've ever seen. Countless animals, including koalas, are perishing along with our life-supporting greenery. People are losing homes and loved ones.
Trump Moves to Open 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Refuge for Oil Drilling By End of the Year
The Trump administration has initialized the final steps to open up nearly 1.6 million acres of the protected Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to allow oil and gas drilling.
Duke Study: Rivers Contaminated With Radium and Lead From Thousands of Fracking Wastewater Spills
Thousands of oil and gas industry wastewater spills in North Dakota have caused “widespread” contamination from radioactive materials, heavy metals and corrosive salts, putting the health of people and wildlife at risk, research
Climate change will be devastating for US, hurting health and costing billi
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Unraveling Trump’s Toxic Agenda
Nobody had high hopes for Trump’s environmental policy. He had, after all, said climate change was a hoax and sent out more than 100 skeptic tweets even before running for president.
Feds reopen forests near Boundary Waters to mining
Updated: 8:18 p.m. | Posted: 11:40 a.m. The Trump administration has cleared the way for renewed mineral leasing — and potentially mining — in about 365 square miles of the Superior National Forest within the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. On Thursday, the U.S.
78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
Since his first days in office, President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority.
EPA drops rule requiring mining companies to have money to clean up pollution
President Donald Trump's administration announced Friday that it won't require mining companies to prove they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution, despite an industry legacy of abandoned mines that have fouled waterways across the U.S.
Assault Rifle Slaughter of Denali Wolves
Washington, DC, April 3, 2018 — The State of Alaska is scrambling to shut down hunting and trapping adjacent to Denali National Park over concerns that excessive kills may destabilize this iconic wolf population.
EPA Withdraws Air Pollution Policy
Agency reverses decades-old emissions policy that environmentalists and congressional critics called one of its bedrock regulations
At Pruitt’s E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules
The other day, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy.
E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient
The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide.
Scott Pruitt’s “Dirty Dealings” Stir a Campaign to Oust Him From the EPA
A coalition of 10 progressive and environmental groups are launching a campaign Wednesday saying President Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt needs to go.
Federal employees protecting public lands now wear oil rigs on their lapels
Under the Trump administration, the Bureau of Land Management has some new branding, one that prominently features oil rigs. The Bureau of Land Management gave out new identification cards for all its employees to wear out in the field — complete with illustrations of oil rigs and cowboys.
Ryan Zinke spent his first year in office selling off rights to our public lands
The Interior secretary is taking extraordinary steps to put public lands in private hands. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants the world to know when he’s in the building.
How the United States Looked Before the EPA
A selection of some of the best images that show the impact the EPA has had on the country in the last five decades.
Trump signs resolution to permit dumping mining waste into waterways
The resolution, signed Feb. 16, reversed an Obama-era rule aimed at blocking coal-mining operations from dumping waste into nearby waterways.
Trump picks Dow Chemical lawyer for key role at EPA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday tapped a chemical industry insider to run the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups of the nation's most toxic sites. The White House announced that Trump has nominated Peter C.
Trump directs EPA to begin dismantling clean water rule
President Trump stepped up his attack on federal environmental protections Tuesday, issuing an order directing his administration to begin the long process of rolling back sweeping clean water rules that were enacted by his predecessor.
Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show
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Pruitt tapes revealed: Evolution's a 'theory,' 'majority' religions under attack
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt dismissed evolution as an unproven theory, lamented that “minority religions” were pushing Christianity out of “the public square” and advocated amending the Constitution to ban abortion, prohibit same-sex marriage and protect the Pl
America dumps its fracking waste in my Ohio town
My county is poor and remote. Fracking companies think they can abuse it.
How to Prepare the Next Generation for Jobs in the AI Economy
Most of us regard self-driving cars, voice assistants, and other artificially intelligent technologies as revolutionary. For the next generation, however, these wonders will have always existed.
Trump administration plan would widely expand drilling in U.S. continental waters
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Arctic Refuge Just the Start of Trump’s Move to Unlock Alaska Oil
Drilling for crude in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be just the start as President Donald Trump seeks to revive Alaska’s beleaguered oil industry.
The Justice Department moves to dismiss youth climate lawsuit
A group of 21 youths is suing the US government for its failure to protect their future by preventing harmful global warming impacts, but the Trump administration says the case should be dismissed.
'It's a Monster': California's Thomas Fire Now Largest in State History
California's Thomas Fire has been raging for just over two weeks in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and it has already torn through hundreds of homes, more than a thousand structures, and over 273,400 acres of land.
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Ice Apocalypse
In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage.
Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more.
The “No More Parks Act” Could End National Monuments as We Know Them
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E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves
This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
Checkmate: how do climate science deniers' predictions stack up?
When the global temperature readings are in for 2017, it’s going to be a very hard sell for climate-science deniers: 2017 will likely be ranked either side of 2015 as the second or third hottest year on record, with 2016 still in top spot.
EPA Considers Allowing Bee-Killing Pesticide to Be Sprayed on 165 Million Acres of U.S. Farmland
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider allowing the bee-killing pesticide thiamethoxam to be sprayed on the most widely grown crops in the U.S.
Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s pick for a powerful White House environmental post, is backing away from her testimony before senators denying a role in under reporting radiation contamination in Texas drinking water.
France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories
France’s parliament has passed into law a ban on producing oil and gas by 2040, a largely symbolic gesture as the country is 99% dependent on hydrocarbon imports. In Tuesday’s vote by show of hands, only the rightwing Republicans party opposed, while leftwing lawmakers abstained.
E.P.A. Delays Bans on Uses of Hazardous Chemicals
The Environmental Protection Agency will indefinitely postpone bans on certain uses of three toxic chemicals found in consumer products, according to an update of the Trump administration’s regulatory plans.
Rick Perry’s fake grid crisis just got undermined by more grid experts
NERC sees reliability challenges, but no crisis and no need for giant piles of coal. Energy Secretary Rick Perry wants to bail out coal and nuclear plants.
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Trump Administration Rolls Back EPA Plan to Restrict Dangerous Household Chemicals
The Trump administration has quietly delayed action on dangerous solvents that the Environmental Protection Agency had previously planned to ban.
Senators Want EPA to “Immediately” Cancel Contract With Republican Research Firm
Update: An executive for Definers provided a statement to E&E News, announcing it was withdrawing from its contract with the EPA. Definers Corp., the Republican public affairs firm, has decided to forgo its media monitoring contract with @EPA. Here's the statement from @PounderFile.
Donald Trump to drop climate change from list of national security threats
Donald Trump is to remove climate change from the global threats listed in his National Security Strategy, due to be released on Monday.
EPA Refuses To Pay Claims After Mine Spill Dumps 3,000,000 Gallons of Toxic Waste Into Water on Native American Land
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has refused to pay more than $1.2 billion in claims filed against it in response to the Gold King Mine spill, reported the Farmington Daily Times.
Energy Fuels Resources Lobbied Trump to Reduce Bears Ears for Uranium Mining
Earlier this month Donald Trump announced reducing Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by 85% would be a great move for Americans. But it’s a Canadian based special interest that benefits far more, namely Energy Fuels Resources, a U.S.
Cashing Out From the Climate Casino
It’s hard to be optimistic about climate action, not in a week when federal scientists reported that “the Arctic shows no sign of returning” to the “reliably frozen region of recent past decades.
Study: Fracking Can Stunt the Growth of Your Baby
The practice of drilling into the ground to release natural gas—known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking—first made national headlines in 2011 when drinking water taps in fracking towns in Pennsylvania began catching fire because flammable methane was seeping into water supplies.
Seas may rise by 8 feet this century, inundating land that's home to 236 million people
The amount of sea level rise that many of us will experience in our lifetimes may be more than double what was previously anticipated, unless we sharply curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study that factors in emerging, unsettling research on the tenuous stability of the Antarctic
Scientists Thought an Alaskan Weather Station Was Broken, But It Was Just Climate Change
That climate change is rapidly warming the Arctic is a given, but apparently the news hasn’t reached our algorithmic overlords. Scientists monitoring U.S.
World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction
The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas extraction within the next two years in response to the growing threat posed by climate change.
The United States of Petroleum
To ensure a steady flow of fuel, petroleum executives met regularly with federal officials in Standard Oil’s oak-paneled boardroom on Wall Street. The same industry broken up as an illegal monopoly in 1911 had become a quasi-arm of government.
Trump’s USDA to Withdraw Organic Animal Welfare Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced plans to withdraw a regulation that would have set animal welfare standards in organic agriculture.
Commuters lose transit, parking, biking benefits in tax bill
WASHINGTON — Count commuters among the losers in the Republican tax bill that the House and Senate are expected to vote on next week.
Zinke reprimanded park head after climate tweets
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Final GOP tax bill would allow Arctic refuge drilling
A tax cut compromise reached Wednesday by GOP negotiators contains a plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Sen.
More than 700 employees have left the EPA since Scott Pruitt took over
Since Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt took over the top job at the agency in March, more than 700 employees have either retired, taken voluntary buyouts, or quit, signaling the second-highest exodus of employees from the agency in nearly a decade.
EPA chief jets to Morocco to help promote fossil fuel use
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency flew to Morocco to help encourage the North African kingdom to import liquefied natural gas from the United States.
'No More Climate Tweets': Zinke Scolds Head of National Park for Tweeting About Scientific Reality
Back in November, the official Twitter account of Joshua Tree National Park sent out a series of tweets that included facts about climate change in general and how it's affecting the immense park in southern California.
The German Amateurs Who Discovered ‘Insect Armageddon’
KREFELD, Germany — In a nature preserve in western Germany, an elderly gentleman approached a tent-like structure that was in fact a large trap for flying insects.
The Interior Department Is Giving Business to Secretary Zinke’s Billionaire Pal
This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In late June, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met in Nevada with billionaire friend and political benefactor William Foley.
New, Major Evidence That Fracking Harms Human Health
Updated on December 13 at 6:30 p.m. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may pose a significant—but very local—harm to human health, a new study finds.
The Alps Are Melting. Climate Change Is to Blame
It took a long time for the Earth to create the Alps—a lot longer than it’s taking humans to wreck them. The Alpine mountain range first rose an estimated 44 million years ago, when the great African plate began creeping northward, breaking and upthrusting the European plate.
This city in Alaska is warming so fast, algorithms removed the data because it seemed unreal
If climate change is a fiery coal mine disaster, then Barrow is our canary.
Oceans under greatest threat in history, warns Sir David Attenborough
The world’s oceans are under the greatest threat in history, according to Sir David Attenborough. The seas are a vital part of the global ecosystem, leaving the future of all life on Earth dependent on humanity’s actions, he says.
Standing Rock Protest Groups Sued by Dakota Access Pipeline Company
If you want to experience 2017 in a nutshell, check out the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by an oil and gas company against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their roles in the Standing Rock protests.
EPA chief says public climate debate may be launched in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could launch a public debate about climate change as soon as January, Administrator Scott Pruitt said on Thursday, as the agency unwinds Obama-era initiatives to fight global warming.
Katharine Hayhoe: 'The true threat is the delusion that our opinion of science somehow alters its reality'
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science
How did this Alaska wildlife refuge migrate into the GOP tax bill?
Well, it’s believed that there is oil under the ground. That’s obviously the biggest issue. The estimates range — it’s five to 15 billion barrels of oil, they believe, are under the ground there. Oil companies have long wanted to drill there.
Uranium Company Lobbied Trump Officials To Shrink Bears Ears Monument
Despite repeated denials that mining or drilling played no part in Donald Trump’s decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, The Washington Post reports this morning that indeed, a uranium company launched a major lobbying effort to convince the government to scale back the protected land.
Proposed pipeline will cross through every single Indigenous community in country
While all eyes are on TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline, another far more ambitious oil project is quietly waiting for approval from Ottawa. If given the green light, the Matrix pipeline would cross through every single Indigenous community in Canada, sometimes two or three times.
Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment
At the outlet of Glacier National Park’s Lake McDonald, a lonely dock stretches into glassy water over kaleidoscopic gravels, framed by the reflection of fearsome mountains. The lake is only a few steps from a major parking lot, so it draws legions of tourists.
Map: This Is What Bears Ears Could Lose
At the time of writing, we still don't know exactly what Bears Ears will lose. But thanks to a leaked map from the administration, we can guess—and the changes are drastic.
Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments
SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history.
EPA scuttles rule on mining cleanup funding
The Trump administration said Friday it will not issue a regulation to ensure that hard-rock mining companies can pay for the costs to clean up their mines when they’re finished.
State ag department seeks no money from those responsible for fish kills
The Ohio Department of Agriculture has only issued warnings to two people and has left it up to a local authorities to issue a warning to a third party following its investigation of a combined 66,701 manure-based fish kills in the Maumee River watershed in August.
Is Donald Trump Using the DOJ to Crush CNN?
The Department of Justice may finally be getting tough on corporate mergers. But it picked a politically explosive case to bring back the forgotten art of trust-busting.
Cyclist Lost Her Job After Raising Middle Finger at Trump’s Motorcade
Juli Briskman, 50, was riding her bicycle on Lowes Island Boulevard after 3 p.m. on Oct. 28 when she found herself sharing a lane with President Trump’s motorcade, which was leaving the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Va.
Women’s Whisper Network Raises Its Voice
They called themselves the Glass Ceiling Club. A group of young and ambitious women in the 1990s from the investment bank Bear Stearns would gather at local restaurants every couple of months to discuss how to make the workplace more female friendly.
EPA names industry, state officials to advisory boards
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Property investors sue Toledo, health department over lead ordinance
A Toledo landlord and the Property Investor’s Network have filed a lawsuit against City of Toledo and the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department board calling the city’s lead safe ordinance unconstitutional.
Scott Pruitt Just Destroyed The EPA's Scientific Advisory Boards
Scott Pruitt signed a new directive at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this Tuesday that all but annihilated what was left of its scientific advisory boards.
The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
When it comes—and it will, eventually—it’ll be worse than necessary. Maybe it will start with a failed initial public offering, followed by the revelation of widespread fraud in Silicon Valley. Perhaps energy prices will spike, sapping the finances of anyone who drives a car to work.
Pruitt guts EPA science panels, will appoint new members
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he intends to replace the outside experts that advise him on science and public health issues with new board members holding more diverse views.
Scott Pruitt blocks scientists with EPA funding from serving as agency advisers
The unprecedented move could fundamentally shift the guidance EPA receives for crafting environmental regulations.
Russian spies targeted Hillary Clinton’s State Department, FBI files show
Even as federal investigators continue to look into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, recently released FBI documents detail how Russian spies worked to get close to Hillary Clinton.
First on CNN: Security costs skyrocket at ‘lightning rod’ EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is beefing up security measures surrounding Administrator Scott Pruitt to an unprecedented level, CNN has learned, as members of Congress are asking if the costs are a “potential waste or abuse of taxpayer dollars.
EPA yanks scientists’ conference presentations, including on climate change
Two staff members and a contractor were instructed not to speak as planned at a Narragansett Bay program.
Scott Pruitt suggests he will restrict scientists who get EPA grants from advising the agency
The administrator promises a directive in the coming week to “fix” the problem.
Inside the ‘adult day-care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump
Corker’s characterization of the White House underscores the difficulty managing an impulsive president.
EPA reversed salmon protection after CEO meeting
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The E.P.A.’s Smoke and Mirrors on Climate
The Trump administration has mangled the costs and benefits of one of the most significant climate regulations of the Obama years in an effort to justify its repeal, which Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced on Monday.
EPA To Kill Off Obama's Signature Plan To Fight Climate Change
Update: On the morning of October 9, the EPA officially confirmed that it will repeal the Clean Power Plan this coming Tuesday.
Interior Department whistleblower resigns; bipartisan former appointees object to Zinke’s statements
Interior Department whistleblower Joel Clement, a scientist and climate policy expert, had been reassigned to an accounting job in retaliation for speaking out, he says
Watch a Top EPA Nominee Embarrass Himself With Feigned Ignorance of Basic Facts
William Wehrum is the Trump administration’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation. “Bill,” the first line of his bio at his law firm, Hunton & Williams, boasts, “is well known for his thorough grasp of environmental issues.”
Trump Nominates a Coal Lobbyist to Be No. 2 at E.P.A.
Unloading coal at a power plant in Kentucky. The nominee, Andrew R. Wheeler, has worked as a lobbyist for Murray Energy, one of the largest coal companies in the United States.Credit...Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPresident Trump on Thursday nominated Andrew R.
Rex Tillerson Is Running the State Department Into the Ground
On November 10, 2016, my colleagues and I at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations gathered on the top floor of the building, which overlooks the U.N. General Assembly.
E.P.A. Chief’s Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home
WASHINGTON — For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation’s largest coal-burning electric utilities, at Equinox, a white-tablecloth favorite of Washington power brokers.
DOJ releases overruled memos finding it illegal for presidents to appoint relatives
The legal opinion that cleared the way for Kushner and Ivanka Trump appointments reversed earlier advice.
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts
WASHINGTON — At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday.
This nifty GOP trick will punish the poor and increase the deficit — at the same time!
A mini-audit of applicants for the earned income tax credit would strain the Internal Revenue Service’s resources.
EPA chief on Irma: The time to talk climate change isn’t now
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told CNN in an interview about Hurricane Irma on Thursday that the time to talk about climate change isn’t now.
Department stores have lost more jobs than coal mines
America's long-standing love affair with shopping at malls and department stores may be nearing an end. "The traditional mall as we know it is doomed," said according to Greg Portell, a retail consultant at A.T. Kearney.
Christine Todd Whitman
I have been worried about how the Environmental Protection Agency would be run ever since President Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, to oversee it. The past few months have confirmed my fears.
Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election
The company told congressional investigators that it has discovered it sold ads totaling $100,000 to a Russian “troll farm.”
Crisis Is Over at Texas Plant, but Chemical Safety Flaws Remain
CROSBY, Tex. — Residents have returned to their homes here in the shadow of the Arkema chemical plant now that the fires at the plant are out and the immediate safety hazard has passed.
Denver and Colorado are completely covered in wildfire smoke, EPA map shows
Dozens of wildfires burning in western U.S. states that sent smoke into cities from Seattle to Denver — prompting health warnings and cancellations of outdoor activities for children by many school districts. By Gillian Flaccus and Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
The best way to drink whiskey, according to science
Scotch drinkers say adding water makes the spirit taste better, and a new study shows why.
Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act
President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an “amnesty-first approach” and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months.
Top Trump Organization executive asked Putin aide for help on business deal
Michael Cohen’s email to Putin spokesman came during the U.S. presidential campaign.
The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math
In the late spring of 2011, Dale Schultz walked the short block in Madison from his State Senate office in the Wisconsin Capitol to the glass-paneled building of Michael Best & Friedrich, a law firm with deep ties to his Republican Party.
Health department modifies lead-safe law certification date
A sign posted by the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department covers the door at 530 Acklin Avenue warns people to stay out. May 4.
A black man went undercover online as a white supremacist. This is what he learned.
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Jeff Sessions is dramatically reshaping Justice Department policy
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Interior Secretary Proposes Shrinking Four National Monuments
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah — Parts of this sprawling region of red-rock canyons and at least three other national monuments would lose their strict protection and could be reopened for new mining or drilling under proposals submitted to President Trump by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on T
US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Users
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has formally requested that the IP addresses of 1.3 million people that visited an anti-Trump protest organizing website, disruptj20.org, be handed over – along with their contact information, email addresses and content, and photograph uploads.
Toledo receives $2.9M in federal grants for lead hazard-related repairs, upgrades
Toledo has received nearly $3 million in federal grants for lead hazard-related residential repairs and improvements, city officials said Monday. The $2.9 million award, announced Monday, will come from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Most of it, $2.
Errors cost Toledo chance at $1.1M grant for job training
Toledo’s onetime grant writer was demoted to the city’s water department with a substantial pay cut after a snafu that cost the city and the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority any chance of landing a $1.1 million grant to start a jobs training program.
Behold the Trump boomerang effect
For every malignant or bigoted action, there will be an opposite reaction.
Justice Department Says Rights Law Doesn’t Protect Gays
The Justice Department has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.
Forget work-life balance — living 'the good life' means being successful in these 4 metrics
Eric Barker is the author of "Barking Up The Wrong Tree." In this video Barker reveals the four areas you need to fulfill in order to be happy. The following is a transcript of the video. In terms of a big thing everybody deals with today is work-life balance.
Your Grandkids Might Not Ever Ski… EPA Study Forecasts Crippling Changes to Ski Areas within 7o-Years
dripping icicles. image: blog.thomaslaupstad.comA new climate study, funded by the EPA and performed by a group of Colorado scientists, came to some scary conclusions… They predict that the majority of ski resorts in the U.S. might not be able to operate by 2090, at the very worst.
The Clitoris: This Adorable Animation Explains Clitoris Like No One Else
It was celebrated in ancient Greece, ignored during the Middle Ages, and rediscovered by scientists over and over before the scientific community finally agreed that it exists. What are we talking about? Clitoris, the glorious part of the female reproductive system, of course!
EPA chief met with Dow CEO before deciding on pesticide ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's top environmental official met privately with the chief executive of Dow Chemical shortly before reversing his agency's push to ban a widely used pesticide after health studies showed it can harm children's brains, according to records obtained by The
Poll shows U.S. tumbling in world’s regard under Trump
According to a new Pew survey of 37 countries, just 49 percent view the United States favorably.
Trump EPA Dismisses the People in Charge of Scientific Integrity
President Donald Trump with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after announcing his decision for the United States to pull out of the Paris climate agreement in the Rose Garden at the White House June 1, 2017. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The GOP’s hard, messy options for destroying Trumpism
Its options include a primary challenge in 2020, launching a third party or waiting the guy out.
The Interior Department’s First Memo For Donald Trump Is A Real Howler
In April, with an eye toward selling off public land, President Trump issued an executive order calling for a review of federal land set aside using the Antiquities Act of 1906.
Justice Department: Trump Can Take Payments From Foreign Governments
The Department of Justice is trying to persuade a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming that President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting payments from foreign governments without congressional approval. A Friday filing in U.S.
New Evidence Links The Collapse of Aztec Society to a Deadly Salmonella Outbreak
When Spanish forces arrived in Mexico in 1519, the native population was estimated to be around 25 million. A century later, there were only around 1 million left, following several devastating outbreaks of disease brought in from overseas.
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This Simple Blood Test Can Predict Cancer Years Before Symptoms Appear
The technology, which involves scanning the blood for bits of DNA shed by tumours, is also referred to as a 'liquid biopsy', and these new results are getting us one step closer to a major upgrade in cancer diagnostics.
“Show them a body”: Senate Republicans prepared to take a failed vote on Obamacare repeal
It’s not their first choice, but it may be their only option. Senate Republicans are pushing desperately this week to find a health care plan they can coalesce around — but hopes are fading, even among lawmakers.
The Latest Report on the White House's Education Budget Is Bleak
The White House is expected to make steep cuts to the Department of Education's budget in an effort to direct the money toward promoting school choice, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation
WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr.
EPA asked the public which regulations to gut — and got an earful about leaving them alone
"Know your history or you'll be doomed to repeat it,” one commenter wrote of air and water pollution in the United States.
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
The president was boasting of the “great intel” he receives when he discussed intelligence provided by a U.S. partner.
Under Trump, inconvenient data is being sidelined
Workplace violations, climate, animal welfare and ethics records are less accessible.
State Department under fire for promoting Ivanka Trump’s new book
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Justice Department turns against CFPB in constitutionality case
The Justice Department told a federal appeals court on Friday that President Trump should have the authority to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but stopped short of asking for the bureau to be abolished.
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
4 in 10 Americans Live in Places Where It Is Unhealthy for Them to Breathe
In his America First Energy Plan, President Donald Trump boasts that “protecting clean air” will “remain a high priority” during his presidency.
Leaked Trump administration plan to close Chicago EPA office puts 1,000 jobs at risk
Great Lakes threatened by reported move to close regional office.
Scott Pruitt hails era of environmental deregulation in speech at coal mine
Scott Pruitt, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, heralded a new era of environmental deregulation on Thursday, in a speech at a coal mine that was fined last year for contaminating local waterways with toxic materials.
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'The Most Dangerous Justice Department in Decades'
This post originally appeared at Mother Jones. On a rainy Thursday morning, several members of Congress joined civil rights activists, policy experts and former Obama administration officials for a forum on the future of civil rights in the Trump era.
Green groups fillet 'five fatal defects' of Trump's legal claims in EPA case
Environmentalists and Democratic state officials on Wednesday hit back at President Trump's attempt to stop a federal court from finishing its review of Obama-era climate regulations by detailing to judges the "five fatal defects" of his legal arguments to do so.
EPA shutting down climate adaptation program
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is shutting down a program at its headquarters that helps states and localities adapt to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels.
Trump’s EPA moves to dismantle programs that protect kids from lead paint
Environmental Protection Agency officials are proposing to eliminate two programs focused on curbing the environmental dangers lead paint poses to children.
Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions
A new effort to pass the Republican health care bill has been propelled by an amendment that would allow states to waive certain insurance regulations in Obamacare. We examined the probable effects when the idea surfaced in April.
Jeff Sessions Is a Disgrace to the Justice Department
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rightfully in hot water for lying to Congress about his contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign.
'Nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this trainwreck': Los Angeles Times editorial tears into Trump
President Donald Trump.Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles Times skewered President Donald Trump in an editorial on Sunday, calling him "untethered from reality" and "full of blind self-regard.
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
This map shows how the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures
The Fourth of July celebrates American independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. During that time, the US was divided into 13 distinct colonies, which later grew and expanded into the 50 states we have today.
“Irrational,” “Reckless,” “Irresponsible”: The EPA Just Accidentally Told the Truth About Trump’s Climate Plan
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump visited the Environmental Protection Agency, where he signed an executive order dismantling key Obama-era policies aimed at fighting climate change.
UPDATED: Trump’s EPA Just Greenlighted a Pesticide Known to Damage Kids’ Brains
UPDATE (3-29-2017): EPA director Scott Pruitt signed an order denying the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, according to a Wednesday afternoon press release.
Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’
The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.
The Trump Administration’s War on Science
“Think of the marvels we can achieve if we simply set free the dreams of our people,” President Trump said in his speech to Congress last month, after summoning a list of technological triumphs from America’s past.
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Why Dentistry Is Separate From Medicine
The divide sometimes has devastating consequences. Doctors are doctors, and dentists are dentists, and never the twain shall meet. Whether you have health insurance is one thing, whether you have dental insurance is another.
The State Department Rewrote Its Climate Change Page
Within a day of Rex Tillerson's swearing in as secretary of state, the State Department's climate change website began to change. The changes signal a shift away from leading international climate actions that the Obama administration pursued and a pivot toward a more passive role.
Nunes’s grandstanding proves he can’t lead the Russia investigation
The House intelligence chairman has lost credibility. We need an independent commission on Russia.
Senate Republicans Just Voted to Kill Internet Privacy
From health-care coverage to environmental protections, Republicans are moving quickly to erase Barack Obama’s presidential legacy. The latest Obama-era policy to be rolled back are guidelines protecting consumer Internet privacy.
Read President Trump's Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods
President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career. This is a transcript of the exchange, with some minor edits.
Trump’s EPA Chief May Face Discipline for Lying to Congress in Confirmation Hearings
An environmental watchdog group has paired with a law professor to file a formal complaint against Donald Trump’s EPA Director Scott Pruitt.
Trump to GOP critics of health-care bill: ‘I’m gonna come after you’
The president met with House Republicans behind closed doors to sell the revised health-care bill as it races toward an expected vote on the floor by the end of the week.
Neil Gorsuch’s mother once ran the EPA. It didn’t go well.
Anne Gorsuch slashed the EPA's budget, scaled back on fighting polluters and alienated the agency's scientists during her short tenure.
Elizabeth Warren questions the hiring of for-profit-college officials at the Education Department
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to explain the hiring of two officials with ties to the for-profit-college industry, questioning their roles and potential conflicts of interest.
Donald Trump's budget director calls efforts to combat climate change 'waste of money'
President Trump’s proposed budget plan calls for a $100 million cut in funding for climate change programmes. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget is proposed to be cut by 31 per cent, but the $100 million reduction in spending will target climate change programmes across agencies.
Fighting climate change isn’t a ‘waste of money’ — it’s a good investment
Scientists say that climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. But if you ask policy makers, you might hear them argue that combatting it is just too expensive a battle to fight.
Report: Trump budget will slash the EPA, State Department, Amtrak, Meals on Wheels grants
US Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Administrator Donald K. Steinberg, left, reviews US food aid in Djibouti, on July 8, 2011. Food aid from USAID is reportedly targeted in the budget outline.
State Department Rewards Reporter Who Wrote Tillerson Puff Piece With Sole Seat On His Plane To Asia
The only reporter traveling with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during this week’s trip to Asia recently authored a puff piece on Tillerson’s close relationship with President Donald Trump that was based almost entirely on an anonymous Tillerson aide.
Ohio EPA releases lead maps for 1,860 water systems
The state has posted maps showing water systems with lead or potential lead service lines from 99 percent of Ohio's 1,878 water systems. Maps and other information on those water systems are available online here. Information was released today by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Obamacare's flaws could be repaired far more simply and cheaply with a single-payer plan: Robert Needlman (Opinion)
CLEVELAND -- I am proud to be a pediatrician at MetroHealth Medical Center. I think a lot about health and health care. I'm an educated person, with undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale.
‘Don’t Be So Desperate to Rub up Against Russia’
America’s most senior diplomat just hit the exits from President Trump’s melting-down State Department after 40 years of being the man in the room when Russia was involved.
Sue While the Conflicts Are Hot
The president’s son Eric probably said it best: “I think our brand is the hottest it has ever been.” No surprise there — nothing like a presidency to boost business.
Deadly fungal infection that doctors have been fearing now reported in U.S.
Since federal health officials alerted U.S. clinicians last June, 35 cases of the infection have been reported.
EPA’s Environmental Justice Head Resigned After 24 Years. He Wants to Explain Why.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office on Environmental Justice submitted his resignation on Tuesday.
Guess Which Word the EPA Just Deleted From Its Science Mission Statement
This story was originally published by the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When President Donald Trump took office in late January, his administration began tweaking the language on government websites.
Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr.
Scott Pruitt's First Big Test at EPA: Flint-Style Lead Contamination in Indiana
EPA Administratr Scott Pruitt speaks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 28, 2015. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Things look bleak for liberals now. But they’ll beat Trump in the end.
He and his movement will fade, and the values and priorities of the left will eventually triumph.
Briarwood Presbyterian Church asks for its own police department
Briarwood Presbyterian Church and Briarwood Christian School want their own police department and a bill proposing it passed 9-2 in the House Public Safety Committee on Thursday, Briarwood's attorney said.
Department of Justification
One night in September 2014, when he was chief executive of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon hosted cocktails and dinner at the Washington townhouse where he lived, a mansion near the Supreme Court that he liked to call the Breitbart Embassy.
Trump Team’s Links to Russia Crisscross in Washington
WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump’s second campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had regular communications with his longtime associate — a former Russian military translator in Kiev who has been investigated in Ukraine on suspicion of being a Russian intelligence agent.
'Just racist': EPA cuts will hit black and Hispanic communities the hardest
Planned cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency are set to fall heaviest upon communities of color across the US that already suffer disproportionately from toxic pollution, green groups have warned. Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a 25% reduction in the EPA’s $8.
At Oil-Friendly States' Behest, Pruitt Cancels EPA Methane Emissions Inquiry
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday fulfilled environmentalists' fears with a gift to the oil and gas industry, in the form of canceling an Obama-era request for information regarding methane emissions from fossil fuel facilities.
Rex Tillerson skips State Department’s annual announcement on human rights, alarming advocates
In a break with long-standing tradition, the secretary of state is absent for release of the annual report.
Exclusive: Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.
The Heritage Foundation has a plan for gutting EPA and the Energy Department. It’s eerily plausible.
Right now, the Trump administration is crafting a budget proposal that envisions steep cuts to a number of federal agencies — including, reportedly, a 24 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency that would eliminate one-fifth of its 15,000 jobs.
The State of Trump's State Department
The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon. “It’s normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness.
Donald Trump Really Hates the State Department
Donald Trump spent weeks trying to decide on a secretary of state before he finally chose Rex Tillerson—and then made it clear that he was partly motivated by the fact that Tillerson looked the part. And that was Tillerson’s high point.
An English Sheep Farmer’s View of Rural America
MATTERDALE, England — I am a traditional small farmer in the North of England. I farm sheep in a mountainous landscape, the Lake District fells. It is a farming system that dates back as many as 4,500 years. A remarkable survival.
Labor Department proposes 60-day delay of retirement savings rule
Under the proposal, the rule requiring brokers to put their clients' interests first would become fully effective June 9.
Trump takes hatchet to EPA
President Trump has launched the opening salvo in his assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Trump is tearing into the EPA’s budget by a reported 24 percent, which if approved by Congress would slash the agency’s $8.1 billion budget to George H.W.
Trump Orders EPA to Dismantle Clean Water Rule
Throwing the weight of his office behind the nation's biggest polluters, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing his administration to dismantle the Obama-era Clean Water Rule. Surrounded by other foes of environmental regulation, including the newly confirmed U.S.
AG Sessions Says DOJ to 'Pull Back' on Police Department Civil Rights Suits
Donald Trump's attorney general said Tuesday the Justice Department will limit its use of a tactic employed aggressively under President Obama — suing police departments for violating the civil rights of minorities.
Trump Order Will Aim to Roll Back a Clean Water Rule
WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at rolling back one of former President Barack Obama’s major environmental regulations, a clean water rule known as Waters of the United States. But on its own, Mr.
http://fortune.com/2017/02/28/how-the-united-states-looked-before-the-epa/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE
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We No Longer Have Three Branches of Government
For more than a dozen years, teaching government classes to graduate students at Harvard and Princeton, I filled my students’ heads with facts that no longer seem to be true. They have become “alternate facts,” or perhaps just outdated ones.
Scott Pruitt Vows Rapid, 'Aggressive' Attack on EPA Regulations
Newly confirmed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt on Saturday vowed quick and "aggressive" gutting of Obama-era regulations addressing climate change and the nation's waterways. "I think there are some regulations that in the near-term need to be rolled back in a very aggressive way.
Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
What was alarming to many of the scientists: the rate of the loss of ice on all the Great Lakes. Bowling Green State University’s Dr.
This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned everything up
Given the fact that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt spent the better part of his career suing the EPA, it should come as no surprise that he has announced plans to cut back on environmental protections in an “aggressive way.
EPA administrator lied about private email use in Senate testimony
Thousands of emails Scott Pruitt sent to oil and gas companies still haven’t been disclosed.
U.S. detains and nearly deports French Holocaust historian
Henry Rousso, whose family was exiled from Egypt in 1956, had arrived in Houston to speak at a nearby university, but he was held for more than 10 hours for no clear reason.
The readers’ editor on exposing fake news and lies
Here are some headlines. “Nine Italian nuns pregnant after offering shelter to north African immigrants”. “Scientists in Saudi Arabia say women should be categorised as mammals, not humans”. “Man falls from bridge while playing Pokémon Go”.
ABC News Releases Proof Trump Never Separated Himself From His Businesses
Donald Trump never separated himself from his business interests. A new report by the Associated Press reveals that President Trump retains control of his business through a trust controlled by one of his children and a longtime Trump Company executive.
Turns Out You Can’t Confirm Someone Who Wants to Destroy the EPA Without Angry Voters Showing Up
On Wednesday, two GOP lawmakers from Nevada faced angry voters who complained about Trump, the GOP agenda, and Sen. Dean Heller’s vote to confirm Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Department Of Justice Announced It Will Start Using Private Prisons Again
Last summer, the Obama Department of Justice announced it would no longer use private prisons. Shortly after the DOJ announcement, the Department of Homeland Security also said it would reevaluate its use of private prisons.
Emails Reveal EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s Dirty Dealings With Oil and Gas Industry
Emails released Tuesday night illustrate the remarkably close relationship between EPA head Scott Pruitt and the oil and gas industry while he served as Oklahoma’s attorney general.
Trump administration rolls back protections for transgender students
The move rescinds a federal directive requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Thousands of Scott Pruitt’s Emails Just Hit the Internet. Here Are the Wildest, Scariest Bits.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Thousands of emails detail EPA head’s close ties to fossil fuel industry
The release comes days after Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“We Will Never Stop”: An EPA Employee Blasts the Trump Administration
As we embark on month two of Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s hard to imagine a group of federal employees facing more uncertainty than the staff of the Environmental Protection Agency.
These 4 Koch-Funded Congressmen Are Behind the Bill to Abolish the EPA
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz turned heads when he introduced a bill on Feb. 3 to "completely abolish" the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep.
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Without One Mention of Climate Change, Scott Pruitt Greets EPA Employees
Newly sworn-in EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, whose nomination was ardently opposed by environmentalists and who is poised to roll back major climate and clean water regulations, addressed his employees for the first time Tuesday afternoon. Environmentalists were not impressed.
Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War'
The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss. But no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.
Scott Pruitt, longtime adversary of EPA, confirmed to lead the agency
The vote came despite strong pushback by Democrats and environmentalists.
Scott Pruitt, longtime adversary of EPA, confirmed to lead the agency
The vote came despite strong pushback by Democrats and environmentalists.
These Two Democratic Senators Just Sided With Trump On Gutting The EPA
Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp (ND) and Joe Manchin (WV) voted to confirm Scott Pruitt to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, installing an anti-environment lunatic to head the agency tasked with protecting it.
What Scott Pruitt’s confirmation means for the EPA
Of all Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, it’s hard to find anyone who’s been more overtly hostile toward the agency he’s about to lead than Scott Pruitt has been toward the Environmental Protection Agency.
Senate Confirms Trump's Controversial EPA Pick—Without Reading His Emails
Scott Pruitt was confirmed Friday as the nation's 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, despite the fact that a trove of emails between Pruitt's office and fossil fuel interests have still not been made public.
Scientists' Group Launches Website to Help Federal Whistleblowers
Many of President Donald Trump's words and actions have federal scientists worried their work will be politicized or suppressed. Now, one advocacy group is responding with a step-by-step guide for scientists to securely share information about any foul play.
A new bill would kill this government agency in 2018
So much for ponderous legislation that's too lengthy for lawmakers to read before voting. A new bill that would have sweeping consequences for every resident of the U.S., and in fact the world at large, contains just a single, all-important sentence.
Oregon takes big step toward privatizing Elliott State Forest
The Elliott State Forest took another big step toward being sold Tuesday. Gov. Kate Brown had made a last-minute proposal to maintain public ownership of the 82,500-acre forest in the Coast Range northeast of Coos Bay.
Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms
The Council for National Policy calls for “restoration of education in America.”
From Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open
WASHINGTON — President Trump and his top aides coordinated their response to North Korea’s missile test on Saturday night in full view of diners at Mr.
EPA Officials Yanked From Alaska Event as Trump Team Weighs In
Just three days before this week’s environment conference in Alaska, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in Anchorage called the organizer with some news: The agency had been instructed by the White House to slash the number of EPA staffers who could attend.
Trump’s Minion Prepares to Gut Consumer Watchdog
"Personnel is policy," says Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs recently named to head President Trump’s National Economic Council.
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general, will be a massive setback for civil rights
A man who once allegedly said the KKK “was okay until I found out they smoked pot” will guide the nation’s top law enforcement agency. But he said he was taken out of context.
Final phase of Dakota Access pipeline to be approved, a major blow to Standing Rock Sioux
The US government is set to allow the final phase of construction of the Dakota Access pipeline to begin as early as Wednesday, dealing a major blow to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
Rep. Massie Introduces Bill to Abolish Federal Department of Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Thomas Massie introduced H.R. 899, a bill to abolish the federal Department of Education. The bill, which is one sentence long, states, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.
Trump’s F.D.A. Pick Could Undo Decades of Drug Safeguards
President Trump’s vow to overhaul the Food and Drug Administration could bring major changes in policy, including steps to accelerate the process of approving new prescription drugs, setting up a clash with critics who say his push for deregulation might put consumers at risk. Mr.
Ebell: Purge Necessary at EPA to Rid 'Scientists Who Believe the Global Warming Alarmist Agenda'
In various interviews on Thursday, former U.S.
His mother’s huge early ’80s EPA scandal taints Judge Neil Gorsuch’s name
Gorsuch hasn’t been a household name in the nation’s capital for more than 30 years, not since the late Anne Gorsuch Burford stood at the center of the worst scandal in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Leaked Memo Silences Department of Interior
A memo leaked today orders all of the bureaus of the Department of Interior, which includes the Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Bureau of Indian Affairs, and others, to clear nearly every decision or correspond
The Daily 202: 11 stories from President Trump’s first 100 hours that deserve more attention
Watch what they do, not what they say
Trump Administration Restricts News from Federal Scientists at USDA, EPA
Pres. Donald Trump’s administration moved quickly this week to shore up its control over communications with the public and the press, as officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.
Trump team prepares dramatic cuts
Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending. Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators
WASHINGTON — A legal fight to clean up tons of chicken manure fouling the waters of Oklahoma’s bucolic northeastern corner — much of it from neighboring Arkansas — was in full swing six years ago when the conservative lawyer Scott Pruitt took office as Oklahoma’s attorney general.
The candy diet
The bestselling novel of 1961 was Allen Drury's Advise and Consent. Millions of people read this 690-page political novel. In 2016, the big sellers were coloring books.
Fracking Can Taint Drinking Water, EPA Report Finds
Environmental agency’s study on hydraulic fracturing walks back earlier findings
EPA study confirms what many said all along—fracking can sometimes contaminate drinking water
From almost the first moment that drilling companies began using hydraulic fracture to extract previously unrecoverable deposits of oil and gas, those who lived near the drill sites began to complain of well levels that dropped, water that changed in color or taste, tests that indicated the presen
EPA Finally Concludes Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed on Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminates drinking water—but claimed a lack of information makes it impossible to determine how widespread the risks are.
Donald Trump’s EPA Team Will Be Run by Fossil-Fuel Industry Advocates
Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he wants the Environmental Protection Agency to be run by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a longtime ally of the oil and gas industry who has led litigation efforts to overturn the EPA’s rules to address climate change.
Trump Picks Climate Denialist Currently Suing The EPA To Head The EPA
As reported by the Washington Post, President-elect Donald Trump wishes to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Trump’s EPA pick is an ardent foe of virtually everything Obama’s EPA has done
Donald Trump plans to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency — a pro-industry, anti-regulation pick that suggests big, big changes could be in store for environmental policy.
Forgiveness Ceremony Unites Veterans And Natives At Standing Rock Casino
On Monday, Native Americans conducted a forgiveness ceremony with U.S. veterans at the Standing Rock casino, giving the veterans an opportunity to atone for military actions conducted against Natives throughout history.
12 photos showing indigenous activists' celebration of historic Standing Rock victory
CANNONBALL, ND — On Sunday evening, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers effectively halted construction on the Dakota Access pipeline, announcing that it would look into alternative routes instead of burrowing under Lake Oahe.
The Array of Conflicts of Interest Facing the Trump Presidency
Donald J. Trump’s global business empire will create an unprecedented number of conflicts of interest for a United States president, experts in legal ethics say. Mr.
Sheriffs Across US Refusing to Send Police and Equipment to DAPL as Outrage and Costs Grow
In response to an increasingly furious public outcry, sheriffs from around the country have refused to send personnel and equipment to assist the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in guarding construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Did the EPA Prosecute and Jail a Mississippi Lab Owner Because of Her Activism?
On a muggy Thursday morning in June, I drove through the gates of the Federal Correctional Institute in Tallahassee to meet a convicted criminal who, as far as I can tell, is the only person connected to two huge environmental contamination cases in Mississippi to ever serve prison time.
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Jeff Sessions, as Attorney General, Could Overhaul Department He’s Skewered
WASHINGTON — Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, as the courtly senator from Alabama used to be known, was a stalwart Justice Department prosecutor for almost 15 years, a job he called the adventure of a lifetime. Today, Mr.
Hopeful and relieved, evangelicals see Trump’s win as their own
For months, Rose Aller kept her support for Donald Trump a secret from her colleagues at the Northern Virginia school where she works as a substitute teacher. So Aller stayed quiet.
Immigration hardliner says Trump team preparing plans for wall, mulling Muslim registry
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON An architect of anti-immigration efforts who says he is advising President-elect Donald Trump said the new administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval.
Meet Myron Ebell, the Climate Contrarian Leading Trump’s EPA Transition
President Barack Obama has called climate change a threat to national security and to future generations. As president, he championed the Paris climate agreement, which aims to tackle global warming by committing more than 190 nations to reducing heat-trapping emissions over the coming decades.
The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency
Saddam Hussein was allied with al-Qaeda, and helped finance the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Hussein regime had sought uranium from Niger. Iraq had obtained aluminum tubes to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. All of those assertions turned out to be false.
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition
Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.
DISASTER: Trump Picks Climate Change Denier To Lead His EPA Team
The Republican President-elect just named Myron Ebell to head the campaign’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team.
#StandingRockSyllabus
NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective. 2016. “#StandingRockSyllabus.” https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/.
The Coming Separation Of Conservatives From The Republican Party
Martin Longman over at Washington Monthly points to an interesting interview with Samuel Goldman, a professor of political theory at George Washington University.
Startup Aims to Help Cities Separate Smart Hype from Solid Smart City Solutions
In the rush many municipalities feel to become a "smart city" — one that collects immediate data on everything from traffic patterns to home water use, analyzes it, and uses that information to improve performance and outcomes — cities have struggled to separate what’s helpful from the hype.
http://edscoop.com/education-officials-announce-financial-aid-for-students-enrolled-in-non-traditional-higher-ed-programs
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3 Tiny Houses That Let You Live Green—and off the Grid
The tiny-house fad appears to be here to stay, fetishized in a stream of articles and fueled by a fascination with living a less materialistic lifestyle.
Fred Wahpepah - About the Lawampi Healing Ceremony
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Prepare for a good end of life
Thinking about death is frightening, but planning ahead is practical and leaves more room for peace of mind in our final days. In a solemn, thoughtful talk, Judy MacDonald Johnston shares 5 practices for planning for a good end of life.
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*NEW* The Katydid Stove: Soon to be EPA Certified
The new Katydid Wood Stove is the latest innovation from Unforgettable Fire, and this baby packs a punch! Still compact and designed for smaller spaces, but taller and almost twice as powerful, the Katydid takes the eco-friendly small wood stove into SUPER HERO status.
Sun Safety
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How to Design an Unforgettable Party
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Organizational Arete
A few years ago I stumbled across an ancient Greek word that simultaneously brought into focus and defined my philosophy of how an organization should function. The word is arête, which simply means excellence, but there’s nothing simple about it.
The Depressing State Of Social Media Marketing
How do you think brands are doing when it comes to social media marketing? My friend, Chris Brogan (co-author with Julien Smith of Trust Agents and The Impact Equation), laments the state of social media marketing in one of his latest blog posts, The Bare Truth About Social Media Marketing.