President Donald Trump announced the final rollback of the “Magna Carta” of U.S. environmental laws on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. The target of Trump’s latest rollback is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was signed into law by Richard Nixon 50 years ago, CNBC explained. It requires the federal government to consider […]
The U.S. has bought up almost all of the world’s supply of remdesivir, one of only two drugs shown to work against the new coronavirus. The move is in keeping with the Trump administration‘s “America first” buzzword towards the global pandemic and raises concerns about what the administration will do if and when a vaccine […]
Fire experts have already criticized President Trump‘s planned fireworks event for this Friday at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial as a dangerous idea. Now, it turns out the event may be socially irresponsible too as distancing guidelines and mask wearing will not be enforced at the event, according to CNN. The fireworks event at the iconic […]
The world passed two troubling milestones Sunday, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 10 million and the number of deaths surpassed 500,000. This means the death toll has doubled in less than two months, The New York Times pointed out, from 250,000 in early May. In April, it topped 100,000. The number of […]
In a move that seems particularly cruel in the midst of the growing coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, on Thursday, as CNN reported. If the move is successful, it would wipe out the landmark legislation that provided health insurance for 23 million Americans […]
For the last decade, fireworks have been banned at Mt. Rushmore due to environmental concerns and public health concerns. President Trump, however, is not somebody who seems to care about either, so he’s planning on going ahead with his fireworks show on July 3 at the iconic site. As The Washington Post reported, the National […]
President Donald Trump sparked the ire of conservationists earlier this month when he opened the country’s only marine national monument in the Atlantic to commercial fishing. Now, some of them are suing to stop him and preserve the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which protects 5,000 square miles of unique ocean habitat off […]
Anyone who attends a Trump rally in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic does so at their own risk. President Donald Trump is hosting his first rally since March at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma next week, CBS News reported. The venue seats more than 19,000 people, a clear violation of the Centers for […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose past two million Wednesday night, according to Johns Hopkins University data reported by CBS News. As of early Thursday morning Eastern Time, there were a confirmed total of 2,000,464 cases and 112, 924 deaths in the country that remains the world leader for both metrics. The news comes […]