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Trump’s USDA Suspends Honeybee Survey

Trump’s USDA Suspends Honeybee Survey

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 […]

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    CEO of Major Shale Oil Company ‘Has Second Thoughts’ on Fracking Rush

    CEO of Major Shale Oil Company ‘Has Second Thoughts’ on Fracking Rush

    By Sharon Kelly On Monday, The Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, whose company is known among investors for its emphasis on drawing oil and gas from the Permian Basin in Texas using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Back in 2014, Sheffield told Forbes that […]

    Trump’s EPA Signs ‘Deadly’ Clean Power Plan Replacement

    Trump’s EPA Signs ‘Deadly’ Clean Power Plan Replacement

    Former coal lobbyist and Trump-appointed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a rule Wednesday that officially replaces the Obama-era Clean Power Plan with a new regulation that Wheeler said could lead to the opening of more coal plants, the Associated Press reported. While the Obama administration plan would have established national limits […]

    Total Ban on Fracking Urged by Health Experts: 1,500 Studies Showed ‘Damning’ Evidence of Threats to Public Health, Climate

    Total Ban on Fracking Urged by Health Experts: 1,500 Studies Showed ‘Damning’ Evidence of Threats to Public Health, Climate

    By Jake Johnson A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,500 scientific studies, government reports, and media stories on the consequences of fracking released Wednesday found that the evidence overwhelmingly shows the drilling method poses a profound threat to public health and the climate. The sixth edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating […]

    Supreme Court Upholds Virginia’s Ban on Uranium Mining

    Supreme Court Upholds Virginia’s Ban on Uranium Mining

    In a blow to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a Virginia ban on mining uranium, Reuters reported. The Trump administration had backed a lawsuit brought by Virginia Uranium Inc. and other companies who own the nation’s largest-known uranium deposit, valued at $6 billion. But that deposit is on private land […]

    Landmark Coal Ash Bill Signals Hope for Midwest Communities

    Landmark Coal Ash Bill Signals Hope for Midwest Communities

    By Jessica A. Knoblauch Summers in the Midwest are great for outdoor activities like growing your garden or cooling off in one of the area’s many lakes and streams. But some waters aren’t as clean as they should be. That’s in part because coal companies have long buried toxic waste known as coal ash near […]

    Forest Service Wants to Fast-Track Logging Without Environmental Review

    Forest Service Wants to Fast-Track Logging Without Environmental Review

    The U.S Forest Service unveiled a new plan to skirt a major environmental law that requires extensive review for new logging, road building, and mining projects on its nearly 200 million acres of public land. The proposal set off alarm bells for environmental groups, according to Reuters. The proposed changes, released by the US Department […]

    How ‘Freeway Revolts’ Helped Create the People’s Environmental Law

    How ‘Freeway Revolts’ Helped Create the People’s Environmental Law

    By Teju Adisa-Farrar & Raul Garcia In the summer of 1969 a banner hung over a set of condemned homes in what was then the predominantly black and brown Brookland neighborhood in Washington, DC. It read, “White man’s roads through black men’s homes.” Earlier in the year, the District attempted to condemn the houses to […]