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    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

    The Trump administration has moved one step closer to opening Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest to logging. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service announced it would draft an environmental impact statement exempting Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres […]

    Google Funds Climate Deniers

    Google Funds Climate Deniers

    Google has continued to curry political favor with staunch conservatives by making substantial financial contributions to more than a dozen groups that deny that the climate crisis is real, as The Guardian revealed in a bombshell investigation. The tech behemoth recently boasted about its net-zero emissions targets, its billions of dollars in wind and solar […]

    ‘You Are Failing Us’: Greta Thunberg Rips Into World Leaders for Lack of Climate Action, Glares at Trump

    ‘You Are Failing Us’: Greta Thunberg Rips Into World Leaders for Lack of Climate Action, Glares at Trump

    Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who was instrumental in launching the Fridays for Future school strike movement, refused to let world leaders off the hook in an emotional speech at the start of the UN Climate Action Summit Monday. “This is all wrong,” Thunberg said, according to a transcript published by The Guardian. “I shouldn’t be […]

    Bahamians in Humanitarian Crisis After Dorian Now Denied Ability to Live and Work in U.S.

    Bahamians in Humanitarian Crisis After Dorian Now Denied Ability to Live and Work in U.S.

    The Trump administration will not grant temporary protected status to people evacuating the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, the White House announced Wednesday. On the same day, Bahamian authorities said that around 2,500 people are listed as missing after the strongest storm to ever hit the country. Temporary protected status would have allowed Bahamians displaced by […]

    NOAA Officials Backed Trump’s False Dorian Claims Under Threat of Firing, Sources Say

    NOAA Officials Backed Trump’s False Dorian Claims Under Threat of Firing, Sources Say

    On Monday, EcoWatch reported how National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials had sided with President Donald Trump‘s false claims that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama and against the National Weather Service (NWS) office that moved swiftly to correct the record. Now, new information reported by The New York Times Monday reveals that the NOAA […]

    NOAA Directed Staffers Not to Contradict Trump on Misleading Dorian Claims

    NOAA Directed Staffers Not to Contradict Trump on Misleading Dorian Claims

    Can the U.S. under President Donald Trump still trust government-issued weather reports? That’s the question at the heart of a Saturday report from The Washington Post that leadership at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) directed staff not to contradict Trump’s claims that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama. The controversy began Sept. 1 when […]

    Trump Admin Reverses Standards for Energy Efficient Light Bulbs

    Trump Admin Reverses Standards for Energy Efficient Light Bulbs

    The Trump administration is rolling back energy efficiency standards for light bulbs that would have kept millions of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, CNBC reported Wednesday. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday it would reverse a requirement that three-way, recessed can, candle-shaped and round bulbs switch from incandescent and halogen bulbs […]