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Mehdi Hasan just tweeted this: Back in March, @GretaThunberg told me she wasn't impressed with the Biden administration's progress on climate change. She still isn't - from today's @MehdiHasanShow: “This administration is not ready to act as seriously...
by e2247
on Sun Aug 22, 2021 at 06:37 PM PDT
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Sample Script: Hi, I'm [NAME], I'm calling from [PLACE], and I'm calling because I am extremely concerned about the possibility of construction on the Line 3 pipeline. The pipeline is still facing enormous legal...
by e2247
on Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 11:36 AM PST
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This victory is to celebrate, in keeping with the prophetic mission of The Condor and The Eagle Trump administration denies Pebble Mine permits Army Corps of Engineers 24 Nov 2020 statement says that the permit application to build...
by e2247
on Thu Nov 26, 2020 at 11:11 PM PST
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Team of British Antarctic Survey, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ. and Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences in U. of Washington led by Paul R. Holland published their New study reveals the first evidence of a direct link between...
by e2247
on Fri Aug 16, 2019 at 04:25 PM PDT
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John Bolton, The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Adviser (NSA) or at times informally termed the ...
by e2247
on Wed Apr 24, 2019 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Oversight Committee Held Two Key Hearings on Climate Change on April 9, 2019, both presented here.
Afternoon Congressional Hearing hosted by House Committee on Oversight And Reform, Subcommittee on Environment: Climate Change, The History of...
by e2247
on Wed Apr 24, 2019 at 06:48 AM PDT
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The classic climate science denial line: it's cold outside, we really could use some of that global warming ... It is such a standard tactic that the Washington Post's Capital Weather gang, in association with warnings of serious (record-breaking (in...
by A Siegel
on Fri Dec 29, 2017 at 05:10 AM PST
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In May, the Trump administration began staging weekly policy themes like “jobs,” “technology,” and “infrastructure.” Not a bad idea, but inevitably each topic has been eclipsed by the self-generated cloud of chaos that is the hallmark of this...
by Michael Brune
on Mon Jul 03, 2017 at 02:29 PM PDT
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President Trump may have decided he wants to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, but the rest of the country isn’t ready to give up quite so easily.
More than 270 U.S. mayors representing 58 million Americans have now announced that they...
by Michael Brune
on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 03:27 PM PDT
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On Thursday, President Trump announced he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. If that makes you mad, good. If that makes you outraged and disgusted, even better. We have good reason. Even for a president whose...
by Michael Brune
on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 02:55 PM PDT
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Donald Trump signed another executive order last week and, no surprise, it was awful. This one aims to expand oil drilling off our coasts, in Arctic seas, and in marine sanctuaries. It also seeks to revoke safety regulations that were implemented after...
by Michael Brune
on Fri May 05, 2017 at 01:43 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Real-estate-developer-in-chief Donald Trump’s executive order just told the Department of the Interior to review at least 22 national monuments created by Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. That’s not only a brazen attack on the...
by Michael Brune
on Mon May 01, 2017 at 03:48 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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The order directs Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke to provide an interim report to Trump within 45 days of the order (no later than June 5) and a final report to the President within 120 days of that order. The bookends are the Grand...
by e2247
on Fri Apr 28, 2017 at 02:34 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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The 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency falls this Saturday (an occasion we’ll be marking with a giant march of resistance), but pundits already are labeling him as a do-nothing failure. Given that his party also controls Congress, it’s actually...
by Michael Brune
on Tue Apr 25, 2017 at 02:57 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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Yup, this is, in fact (or is it a fact? who knows anymore), the year 2017 we find ourselves in, and thanks to the extraordinary verbal manure spreading machine posing as president that is America’...
by citisven
on Sun Apr 23, 2017 at 02:30 PM PDT
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As the Trump administration lurches from failure to incompetence to disaster and back again, it’s important to keep pointing out that there is progress still happening in this country—it’s just not originating from Congress or the White House. And a...
by Michael Brune
on Thu Apr 13, 2017 at 02:14 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Last Monday, President Trump signed H.J. Res. 69, a joint House/Senate resolution that nullifies a Fish and Wildlife Service rule published last year. The overturned rule banned “predator control” on or near federal wildlife refuges in Alaska unless,...
by Michael Brune
on Thu Apr 06, 2017 at 12:42 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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After botching last week’s attempt to take away Americans’ health insurance, Donald Trump dusted himself off yesterday and launched an all-out attack on clean air, clean water, clean energy, public lands, and our climate. Typically, the results are...
by Michael Brune
on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Halfway through the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s chaotic, scandal-plagued, reality-challenged presidency, the organic fertilizer is really hitting the fan. He has issued executive orders to undermine the Clean Water Actand roll back fuel-economy...
by Michael Brune
on Mon Mar 20, 2017 at 12:46 PM PDT
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The new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, addressed the agency’s employees for the first time on Tuesday morning, and a widely reported viewpoint is that he at least tried to be conciliatory. No talk about downsizing...
by Michael Brune
on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 12:54 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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