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Trump Administration Permits Oil Company to Harm Alaska’s Endangered Whales, Ice Seals

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Dec 19, 2019   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Trump Administration Permits Oil Company to Harm Alaska’s Endangered Whales, Ice Seals

  Liberty Would Be First Offshore Drilling Project in Federal Arctic Waters ANCHORAGE—The Trump administration Thursday announced the issuance of federal take permits that would allow Hilcorp Alaska to kill or seriously injure 14 whales and nine ice seals as it constructs the Liberty offshore drilling island. The controversial project would be the first offshore drilling […]

400,000-plus Blast Trump Administration Plan for Old-growth Clearcutting in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

By Randi Spivak | Biological Diversity on Dec 17, 2019   Featured, Southeast Alaska, State  

400,000-plus Blast Trump Administration Plan for Old-growth Clearcutting in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

JUNEAU― More than 400,000 people and dozens of local tribal, government, business and national recreation groups have flooded the U.S. Forest Service with comments opposing its plan to undo safeguards that prevent clearcutting and road building in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The comment period ends Tuesday. The Trump administration wants to gut longstanding protections for the nation’s largest national forest. This […]

Trump Rollback of Key EPA Water Protection Rule Denounced as ‘Callous’ and ‘Immoral’ Giveaway to Big Polluters

By Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams on Sep 13, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Trump Rollback of Key EPA Water Protection Rule Denounced as ‘Callous’ and ‘Immoral’ Giveaway to Big Polluters

Environmental and public health advocates blasted the Trump administration Thursday for finalizing its rollback of an Obama-era regulation designed to curb the pollution of waterways nationwide. “Fifty years after the Cuyahoga River fire that inspired the Clean Water Act, President Trump’s administration wants to turn back the clock to the days of poisoned flammable water,” declared Abigail […]

Murkowski Commends Administration for E-Cigarette Flavor Ban

By Karina Borger | Office of Senator Murkowski on Sep 12, 2019   Featured, Health, Politics  

Murkowski Commends Administration for E-Cigarette Flavor Ban

Prioritizes Health and Safety of Future Generations  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Wednesday commended the Trump administration for its announcement on banning flavored e-cigarettes. The U.S. Department of Human Services announced plans for the FDA to finalize a compliance policy, which would place a ban on all non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes. This announcement follows […]

North Korea Fires Projectiles Hours After Calling for Talks

By William Gallo / Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Sep 10, 2019   Featured, National/World, World  

North Korea Fires Projectiles Hours After Calling for Talks

SEOUL / WASHINGTON – North Korea fired two short-range projectiles Tuesday, hours after offering to resume nuclear talks with the United States. It is North Korea’s tenth round of weapons tests since early May, when Pyongyang resumed launching ballistic missiles following a year-and-a-half hiatus.  The launch suggests North Korea will continue pressuring the United States, […]

Judge Orders White House to Restore Correspondent’s Press Credentials

By VOA News on Sep 4, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Judge Orders White House to Restore Correspondent’s Press Credentials

WASHINGTON- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the press credentials of Playboy correspondent Brian Karem, whose hard pass was suspended after he got into a shouting match with conservative radio host and former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka in the Rose Garden following a social media summit in July. U.S. District […]

Trump Proposes Killing Methane Pollution Rule

By Rebecca Fucco | Center for Biological Diversity on Aug 30, 2019   National, National/World  

Trump Proposes Killing Methane Pollution Rule

WASHINGTON— Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to eliminate direct limits on methane pollution from new and modified oil and gas infrastructure. “This reckless rollback pours fuel on the flames of a world on fire,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute. “The EPA is now so determined to […]

Refusing to Take Real Climate Action, Trump Reportedly Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes

By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams on Aug 26, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Refusing to Take Real Climate Action, Trump Reportedly Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes

  “What if instead of dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes we just passed a Green New Deal and made fossil fuel billionaires pay for the devastation of climate disasters?” As he refuses to take action to combat the climate crisis, which scientists say is making extreme weather events more intense and devastating, President Donald Trump reportedly suggested […]

Trump EPA Abandons Science in favor of Politics with Clean Water Act withdraw; Bristol Bay left with the Toxic Consequences

By Alannah Hurley | United Tribes of Bristol Bay on Jul 30, 2019   Featured, Southwest Alaska, State  

Trump EPA Abandons Science in favor of Politics with Clean Water Act withdraw; Bristol Bay left with the Toxic Consequences

  DILLINGHAM, AK – As the EPA announced it would withdraw the proposed Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay, the region was left with the clear message that under the Trump Administration, biased politics, and not science, rule the day. The decision by EPA, which comes at the peak of the summer fishery when […]

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