The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Tuesday it will exempt itself from having to comply with environmental and other laws to “ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads” near the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego, despite vehement objections from environmental groups that President Trump’s proposed project could endanger critical habitats and ignores […]
By Jessica Corbett As Senate Democrats stay silent on an energy bill that environmental groups call “a pro-fracking giveaway to oil and gas interests that would commit America to decades more of dangerous fossil fuel dependence,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is receiving applause for speaking out against it. “As a nation, our job is to […]
By Andy Rowell For months now America’s climate denying president, Donald Trump, has been manoeuvering to open up the Arctic to oil drilling, in another act of defiance against his predecessor, Barak Obama. Back in April, Trump signed an executive order to extend offshore oil and gas drilling to large parts of the Atlantic, Pacific […]
By Mike Ludwig As the Trump administration moves to gut Obama-era clean water protections nationwide, an environmental group is warning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft pollution discharge permit for offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico violates clean water laws because it allows operators to dump fracking chemicals and large […]
A federal court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the approval of fracking in federal waters off California. The suit—filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Wishtoyo Foundation—notes that the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act by failing to carefully study offshore fracking’s […]
A Trump administration proposal to continue allowing oil companies to dump unlimited amounts of offshore fracking chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico violates federal law and threatens imperiled marine wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity warned this week. In a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 6 office on its proposed wastewater-discharge […]
As the Trump administration’s “review” of 27 national monuments draws to a close, more than 2.7 million people have flooded the government comment website saying that they want national monuments to remain protected. “Millions of Americans have urged the Trump administration not to sell off our beautiful national monuments,” said Randi Spivak, public lands program […]
U.S. senators returning from their holiday break Monday received a package of Endangered Species Condoms to mark World Population Day, July 11, and to urge them to protect reproductive rights and family planning programs. The delivery is part of the Center for Biological Diversity’s project to raise awareness about human population growth and its effects […]
President Donald Trump has approved the construction of a new U.S.-Mexico pipeline that will go “right under” the controversial border wall. According to The Hill, the New Burgos Pipeline will carry up to 108,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products per day and cross the border between McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The […]
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