“Even though the interest in today’s sale was tepid, the new leasing still poses significant threats to habitat, iconic wildlife, and Indigenous ways of life,” said Earthjustice. In an embarrassment for President Donald Trump and his “drill, baby, drill” energy policy, Friday’s third oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge once again drew no bids from Big Oil—but […]
“Only Trump’s get-rich-quick bros would come up with this corrupt and moronic scheme,” wrote Democratic Sen. Ed Markey. A prominent US senator on Tuesday implored President Donald Trump to cancel his administration’s plan to give private companies enough plutonium to build around 2,000 nuclear bombs, warning the move raises “serious weapons proliferation concerns” along with potentially […]
“The president has chosen an official who has demonstrated not just willingness but eagerness to use the authorities of government to pursue political retribution,” said US Sen. Mark Warner. President Donald Trump shocked many observers on Tuesday when he appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to be his acting director of national intelligence, weeks […]
“Blinding the public to climate change won’t make it go away. It will only accelerate its profound consequences.” In what a number of scientists suggested was the Trump administration’s latest effort to stop tracking the changing climate in hopes of convincing the public that the climate emergency isn’t happening, the National Science Foundation announced Monday that it was dismantling […]