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Trump Administration Sued Over Controversial Arctic Drilling Project

Trump Administration Sued Over Controversial Arctic Drilling Project

Conservation groups are suing the Trump administration to halt construction of a controversial oil production facility in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, the first offshore oil drilling development in federal Arctic waters. Hilcorp Alaska received the green light from the Interior Department in October to build the Liberty Project, a nine-acre artificial drilling island and 5.6-mile underwater […]

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    Trump’s EPA Sides With Monsanto, Extends Dicamba​ 2 More Years

    Trump’s EPA Sides With Monsanto, Extends Dicamba​ 2 More Years

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it would allow farmers to continue spraying the controversial pesticide dicamba for the next two years. Dicamba is sold by Monsanto to be used on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to be resistant to the weedkiller. The problem is that it drifts on the wind, […]

    Arctic Oil Drilling Project Approved by Trump Administration

    Arctic Oil Drilling Project Approved by Trump Administration

    The Trump administration’s unrelenting quest for Arctic oil and gas took a major step on Wednesday as it approved an energy company’s controversial production plan. Hilcorp Alaska received the green light to build the Liberty Project, a nine-acre artificial drilling island and 5.6-mile underwater pipeline, which environmentalists warn could risk oil spills in the sensitive […]

    Former Monsanto Executive Picked by Trump to Lead Wildlife Agency

    Former Monsanto Executive Picked by Trump to Lead Wildlife Agency

    President Donald Trump said he will nominate a former Monsanto executive to head the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Aurelia Skipwith, who Western Values Project Executive Director Chris Saeger called “a darling of corporate special interests,” worked at the agribusiness giant for more than six years. She has since worked […]

    Big Bluefin Tuna Recovering Due to Conservation, But Species Still at Risk

    Big Bluefin Tuna Recovering Due to Conservation, But Species Still at Risk

    Although Pacific bluefin tuna remains a fraction of its historic population, the giant fish is making a comeback off the California coast after a eight-decade hiatus, due to global conservation efforts, Reuters reported. The world’s love of sushi and rampant overfishing has nearly decimated the species. Its population recently bumped to a meager 3.3 percent […]

    Trump Plan to Ramp Up Fracking, Mining in National Forests Threatens Climate

    Trump Plan to Ramp Up Fracking, Mining in National Forests Threatens Climate

    The Trump administration’s plan to make it easier for industry to frack and mine in national forests would endanger the climate, wildlife and watersheds, the Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups said in comments submitted Monday to the U.S. Forest Service. “The Forest Service shouldn’t be complicit in the Trump administration’s assault on […]

    EPA Considers 300,000-Acre Expansion for Bee-Toxic Pesticide

    EPA Considers 300,000-Acre Expansion for Bee-Toxic Pesticide

    The Center for Biological Diversity Thursday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny Bayer CropScience’s request to allow the highly bee-toxic pesticide flupyradifurone to be sprayed on tobacco in states like Kentucky and North Carolina. Although flupyradifurone is known to harm pollinators like bees and freshwater invertebrates like mussels, the pesticide maker is asking […]

    Help Save Creatures Great and Small on World Animal Day

    Help Save Creatures Great and Small on World Animal Day

    On World Animal Day, we celebrate all the furry, scaly, winged and finned creatures that inhabit our planet. On this international day of action, participants aim to “raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe,” according to organizers at the UK-based charity Naturewatch Foundation. The occasion was first celebrated […]

    Publisher: Roundup Studies Failed to Fully Disclose Monsanto’s Role

    Publisher: Roundup Studies Failed to Fully Disclose Monsanto’s Role

    A scientific journal issued a rare “Expression of Concern” and requested corrections from authors involved in a group of papers that determined Monsanto‘s controversial herbicide glyphosate is safe, Bloomberg reported. The editor-in-chief and publisher of Critical Reviews in Toxicology said Wednesday that the five articles, which were published in the journal’s 2016 supplemental issue, failed […]