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 […]
Governors from 24 states, including two republicans and four states won by Trump in 2016, are standing together to ask President Trump to put the brakes on his plan to weaken the federal clean car rules, the New York Times reported. The governors are backing California officials who are asking the White House to implement […]
By Elizabeth Henderson In February, a dairy farmer friend sent me a note confiding that a few farmers she knows are living on cereal until their milk checks arrive. Yet, the recently released census of agriculture shows that the number of young farmers is growing even as the average age of farmers also increases, and […]
Do the daily climate change headlines make you feel stressed, afraid or powerless? If so, you’re certainly not alone. A growing number of people report feelings of loss, grief, worry and despair amid news that climate change is making natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires worse and more common, that polar ice is melting faster […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) annual honeybee count has fallen victim to budget cuts, CNN reported Saturday. The suspension of the Honey Bee Colonies report is at least the third bee-related data set to be halted or reduced under the Trump administration, and comes three weeks after Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the […]
Despite cutting more than 80 environmental regulations, appointing a climate change denier to the National Security Council and giving senior administration roles to people who worked for the fossil fuel industry, President Donald Trump will deliver a speech Monday that a White House spokesman said will “recognize his administration’s environmental leadership and America’s role in […]
President Donald Trump‘s “Salute to America” Fourth of July event will divert almost $2.5 million from national parks, two sources familiar with the situation told The Washington Post Tuesday. Previous Independence Day celebrations have had a total price tag of around million, former National Park Service Deputy Director Denis P. Galvin told The Washington Post. […]
So little time, so much damage done. That’s the legacy left by Bill Wehrum who spent only one and a half years as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA‘s) top air quality official before announcing that he will step down this weekend under the cloud of a federal ethics investigation over possible conflicts of interest. […]
The federal government is looking into the details from the longest running oil spill in U.S. history, and it’s looking far worse than the oil rig owner let on, as The New York Times reported. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico received little public attention when it happened in September 2004, but it […]