Environment mostly relates to environmental policy, or action human beings take (or do not take) to prevent or moderate our impact on nature.
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'Let Kids with Asthma Suffer': Trump to Reverse Landmark EPA 'Endangerment Finding': 'BradCast' 2/11 Guest: Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity Also: Mysterious El Paso, TX airport closure Bondi unravels in Congress... There is, as usual, too much going on at once. That is, of course, by design of the sick, criminal gangster in the Oval...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Feb 11, 2026 at 07:21 PM PST
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With allies embedded at the highest levels of the Trump regime, a small, disciplined cadre of conservative ideologues stands close to what one calls “total victory” in demolishing federal climate initiatives. Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow reported...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Feb 11, 2026 at 09:00 AM PST
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Sacramento, CA - Big Oil pumped $34 million into influencing lawmakers in Sacramento in 2025, allowing fossil fuel corporations to stonewall and roll back critical health and climate policy in a year marked by the LA Fires and climate disasters across...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Feb 10, 2026 at 09:29 AM PST
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State law that prioritizes public health over fossil fuel extraction could win the day for suburban activists fighting drilling plan. By� Jennifer Oldham �for Capital & ...
by Capital and Main
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on Tue Feb 10, 2026 at 06:00 AM PST
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If people still believe the false narrative that California is the nation’s “green” and “progressive” leader, as many folks who haven’t looked at the actual data might believe, here’s some sobering news for them. In 2025, permit approvals for drilling...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 05, 2026 at 05:23 PM PST
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Every February, the nation indulges in a strange ritual: crowds huddle, a portly rodent is hauled out of his den, and a prediction about the coming weeks of weather is announced. Like clockwork, Punxsutawney Phil emerges, peers at the landscape, and...
by AshleyBell4Congress
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on Tue Feb 03, 2026 at 10:14 AM PST
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This winter’s extreme weather in the United States is associated with the weakening of the polar vortex. The weak polar vortex is a consequence of this being a La Niña winter in a warming world. The winter weirdness has both natural and man-made...
by FishOutofWater
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on Thu Feb 05, 2026 at 05:02 AM PST
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As the very wise George Carlin once said so well, “The U.S. is an oil company with an army.” That has never been truer than this nation under the erratic, authoritarian regime of Donald Trump, who after bombing 8 countries in the first year of his...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Feb 03, 2026 at 06:26 AM PST
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Sacramento — In the latest episode in the Trump regime’s attacks on climate protections across the nation, the Department of “Justice” filed a complaint against Senate Bill 1137, California’s landmark health buffer zone law. The Justice Department’s...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sun Feb 01, 2026 at 07:41 AM PST
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The Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed the “Climate Working Group” (CWG) and tasked it with writing a dangerously slanted report that the administration then used as the basis of its proposal to overturn the Endangerment...
by annieli
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on Sat Jan 31, 2026 at 11:17 AM PST
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I am a member of the National Wildlife Federation, having certified my backyard as a wildlife habitat ; and as such I receive their quarterly magazine. So I decided to start out by sharing one of ...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Jan 31, 2026 at 05:09 PM PST
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Environmental roll backs and slight rewrite of the Merchant of Venice * 66 Environmental Rollbacks In One Year: https://democraticunderground.com/1127187434 Slight rewrite of the Merchant of Venice I am a Republican. Hath not Republicans eyes? Do...
by Ranting Randy
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on Fri Jan 30, 2026 at 07:31 AM PST
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The Susan Collins Award: Best BS concern from top Centrist Dem contenders. Buynott! NBF ~~~ There have been a couple of diaries this past week that focused on statements made by Democratic principals regarding the nightmare unfolding in Minneapolis,...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Jan 29, 2026 at 08:01 AM PST
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Good morning, Gnusies! Well, it feels�like another year has gone by since my last GNR two weeks ago. The distraction-a-minute news churn has become truly insanity-inducing. Focusing on good news is ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Feb 03, 2026 at 04:00 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Tue Jan 27, 2026 at 02:05 PM PST
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The U.S. Department of the Interior yesterday celebrated the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s Executive Order 14181 that would increase water diversions from the Sacramento River watershed and California Delta by approving the Record of...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Jan 24, 2026 at 11:14 AM PST
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The weather forecast is predicting that "A monster winter storm is sweeping across much of the U.S. through this weekend, dumping up to a foot of snow onto the New York City area and unleashing havoc across the country." At least 13 states have already...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Jan 23, 2026 at 02:00 PM PST
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Every week, Dan McCarthy at Canary Media provides us with a new chart. This week it’s about our Outlaw Prez’s promises of huge gains in manufacturing, which he asserted would be advanced by his big beautiful tariffs. Instead, his efforts are helping to...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Jan 23, 2026 at 01:09 PM PST
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Renee Good. Who’s next? To melt ICE, freeze your buying. Boycott & Buynott! Defund fascists. ~~~ My junior high school had a small library that was like a safe-haven to me. Much of my time there was spent looking at art and natural history picture...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Jan 22, 2026 at 08:59 AM PST
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In early January, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it would accept mail and messaging, and hold two online public virtual scoping meetings, for feedback on the Cascade Renewable Transmission project, a $1.5 billion project to run a...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 07, 2026 at 04:34 PM PST
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