By Joe Davidson7 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – When Mike Cox quit, he did so with gusto. After 25 years, he retired last week from the Environmental Protection Agency with a tough message for the boss, Administrator Scott Pruitt. “I, along with many EPA staff, are becoming increasing alarmed about the direction of EPA […]
Irvine, California, 1 March 2017 (UCI News) – The combination of prolonged hot spells with poor air quality greatly compounds the negative effects of each and can pose a major risk to human health, according to new research from the University of California, Irvine. “The weather factors that drive heat waves also contribute to intensified […]
By Dan Merica29 March 2017 WASHNGTON (CNN) – President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday at the Environmental Protection Agency, which officials said looks to curb the federal government’s enforcement of climate regulations by putting American jobs above addressing climate change. The order represents a clear difference between how Trump and former President […]
By Aileen Wagner29 March 2017 (Second Nexus) – Eight West Coast leaders have issued a statement defying President Donald Trump’s environmental policy rollbacks and committing to continuing to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions and pollution. […] The group disputed the president’s repeated statements that environmental protections are causing job loss, saying “There is […]
By Lucy EJ Woods17 March 2017 (Climate Home) – Chinese investments are speeding up new coal developments in the Thar region of Pakistan, despite local water scarcity and pollution and an abundance of solar energy potential. The CEO of Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECM), Shamsuddin Ahmad Shaikh, said on Thursday that with government and […]
By Henry Belot7 March 2017 (ABC News) – The Government has no comprehensive national plan to protect Australia’s landscape to the year 2050, according to a report, which also warns of the potentially irreversible impact of climate change and the threats of coal mining, invasive species, rubbish, urban growth and habitat destruction. The State of […]
11 March 2017 (White Wolf Pack) – Thousands of Native American demonstrators and their supporters marched to the White House to voice outrage at the Dakota Access Pipeline project. The protest follows months of demonstrations in a remote part of North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux tribe demonstrated in an attempt to stop the […]
By Elias Meseret12 March 2017 (Associated Press) – A landslide swept through a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, killing at least 35 people and leaving several dozen missing, residents said, as officials vowed to relocate those who called the landfill home.Addis Ababa city spokeswoman Dagmawit Moges said most of the dead […]
By Justin McCurry8 March 2017 (The Guardian) – Barely a fifth of the way into their mission, the engineers monitoring the Scorpion’s progress conceded defeat. With a remote-controlled snip of its cable, the latest robot sent into the bowels of one of Fukushima Daiichi’s damaged reactors was cut loose, its progress stalled by lumps of […]
By Kacy Burdette28 February 2017 (Fortune) – Back in 1970, then-President Richard Nixon signed an executive order establishing the Environmental Protection Agency. Just after its creation, the EPA created a photo-documentary project called Project Documerica. Its purpose? To “record the state of the environment and efforts to improve it.” Similar to the famous photography program […]
