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Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation

Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation

By Jake Johnson President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet’s largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the “lungs […]

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    Trump Campaign Is Selling Plastic Straws to ‘Make Straws Great Again’

    Trump Campaign Is Selling Plastic Straws to ‘Make Straws Great Again’

    The campaign to re-elect President Donald Trump has found a new way to troll liberals and sea turtles. The campaign website is selling packs of 10 plastic straws for $15, Trump re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted on Thursday, as USA Today reported. “Liberal paper straws don’t work. STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP and buy your […]

    10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year

    10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year

    By Elliott Negin On July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record. The following day, coincidentally, marked the one-year anniversary of Andrew Wheeler at the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), first as acting administrator and then as administrator after the Senate confirmed him […]

    Trump’s Misleading Speech on His Environmental Record Is a ‘True “1984” Moment’

    Trump’s Misleading Speech on His Environmental Record Is a ‘True “1984” Moment’

    President Donald Trump delivered a speech Monday on “America’s environmental leadership” that failed to even once mention climate change, The New York Times reported. The speech was also riddled with inaccuracies, as the president took credit for environmental achievements enacted by previous administrations and downplayed the impacts of his deregulatory agenda. “This speech is a […]

    Climate Crisis Lawsuits Expanding Worldwide: ‘A Global Phenomenon’ to Hold Governments and Corporations Accountable

    Climate Crisis Lawsuits Expanding Worldwide: ‘A Global Phenomenon’ to Hold Governments and Corporations Accountable

    By Jessica Corbett An analysis published Thursday details how lawsuits that aim to push governments to more ambitiously the address the climate emergency and make polluting corporations pay for the damage caused by their sizable contributions to global warming are growing in popularity around the world. The new report from the Grantham Research Institute at […]

    Trump Weakens Rules Meant to Prevent Next Deepwater Horizon Spill

    Trump Weakens Rules Meant to Prevent Next Deepwater Horizon Spill

    The Trump administration announced Thursday it was rolling back offshore oil drilling regulations put in place after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest ocean spill in U.S. history. Officials announced changes to the Well Control Rule on the Louisiana coast, not far from where the 2010 oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and […]