By Brett Wilkins With President Donald Trump’s re-election very much in doubt, his administration is rushing to ram through regulatory rollbacks that could adversely affect millions of Americans, the environment, and the ability of Joe Biden—should he win—to pursue his agenda or even undo the damage done over the past four years. Reporting by the […]
A new report finds that criminal prosecutions for polluting the environment in violation of the Clean Water Act or the Clean Air Act have dropped to their lowest levels in decades under the Trump administration, as The New York Times reported. The report was written by David Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of […]
Climate emergency activist Greta Thunberg on Saturday endorsed Democrat Joe Biden, urging climate voters to make their voices heard in the U.S. presidential election. “Fridays For Future and the youth climate movement are striking again around the world, in a safe way and following Covid-19 guidelines, to demand those in power treat this like the […]
By Michael Svoboda, Ph.D Like the amplifying effects of climate change, which is already delivering once-in-a-century storms every four or five years, America’s increasingly divided politics have created three once-in-a-lifetime elections in just the past 20 years. But the stakes in 2020 seem another order larger than in 2000, 2008, or 2016. And who Americans […]
By Andrea Germanos Days after federal data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program was sued Thursday over what conservation advocates decry as a cruel and misguided annual extermination spree. “Wildlife Services is infamous for the scope and cruelty of its […]
By Jon Queally Even as Vice President Mike Pence was busy “polluting the atmosphere with lies” about the climate crisis during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, Democratic nominee Sen. Kamala Harris came under considerable criticism of her own after repeatedly highlighting Joe Biden’s commitment to “not ban fracking” and an overall lackluster defense of the […]
The climate crisis was discussed for roughly 10 minutes at Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate in Salt Lake City, Utah between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence. The first question about the climate crisis came about 40 minutes into the debate when moderator Susan Page turned to Pence and brought up the record number […]
A federal judge in a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California vacated a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dredge and fill salt ponds in Redwood City, a town on the San Francisco Bay, as the AP reported. The judge in the case, William Alsup, determined on Monday that […]
By Jeff Berardelli At the first presidential debate on Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden said point-blank that he does not support the Green New Deal — a progressive plan which not only aims to aggressively tackle climate change but also encompasses many other issues like social justice, jobs, housing and health care. In […]
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