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    Six Ways Trump Has Attacked the Environment During the Holidays

    Six Ways Trump Has Attacked the Environment During the Holidays

    By Tara Lohan This holiday season just about everything was different. Vacations were postponed. Parties and family get-togethers were canceled or moved online as folks hunkered down at the request of public-health officials. But one thing continued as usual: President Trump’s attacks on the environment. In the weeks following the Nov. 3 election, Trump’s team […]

    New Dietary Guidelines Cater to Alcohol and Soda Industries

    New Dietary Guidelines Cater to Alcohol and Soda Industries

    By Sarah Reinhardt The federal government released new U.S. dietary guidelines Tuesday after three years of preparation, and it served a strong win to both alcohol and soda industries. Rather than adopting a new recommendation for men to limit alcohol intake to one drink per day, the Trump administration instead passed on science and yielded […]

    Trump Administration Sued Over ‘Outrageous Assault’ on Tongass National Forest Protections

    Trump Administration Sued Over ‘Outrageous Assault’ on Tongass National Forest Protections

    By Jessica Corbett A coalition of Indigenous groups, businesses, and conservation organizations on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its “arbitrary and reckless” removal of roadless protections for the nearly 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest in Alaska, warning that the rollback could devastate local communities, wildlife, and the climate. Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense […]

    Extreme Heat and the Border Wall Are Killing People

    Extreme Heat and the Border Wall Are Killing People

    The remains of at least 214 people who died attempting to cross the Mexico-Arizona border have been recovered so far in 2020, and advocates blame extreme heat, The Associated Press reports. The figure is just 10 shy of the overall annual record from 2010, according to the nonprofit Humane Borders and the Pima County Medical […]

    4 Ways Tyson Foods Made 2020 Even Worse

    4 Ways Tyson Foods Made 2020 Even Worse

    By Karen Perry Stillerman Tyson Foods is the nation’s largest (and world’s second largest) meat and poultry producer. It operates 110 processing plants with 121,000 employees in the United States and boasted $42 billion in revenue in 2019, putting the publicly traded, Arkansas-based company at #79 in the Fortune 500. As it seeks to maintain […]

    Five Climate Change Lessons From 2020

    Five Climate Change Lessons From 2020

    By Kristy Dahl In early January of this year, fresh off the experience of writing a year-end blog post for 2019, I started a project that I thought would make writing this year’s year-end post easier. I created a little 2020 calendar on which I planned to record the one big thing that happened in […]

    For a Path Forward on Climate, Let’s Learn From the Original New Deal

    For a Path Forward on Climate, Let’s Learn From the Original New Deal

    By J. Mijin Cha and Manuel Pastor You may not know it, but Democrats and Republicans share a growing concern about the climate and environment. With extreme weather events becoming more common, many young Republicans now question their allegiance to a party that denies the reality of climate change. After the destructive environmental policies of […]