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Dunleavy Rollbacks Ignore Voters, Property Rights, and Tourism Dollars

By Bob Shavelson | Cook Inlet Keeper on Nov 27, 2019   At Sea, Featured, State  

Dunleavy Rollbacks Ignore Voters, Property Rights, and Tourism Dollars

HOMER—Local businesses, voters and property owners Tuesday responded to the Dunleavy Administration’s abrupt decision last week to unravel safeguards to Kachemak Bay. On November 19, ADFG staff notified its planning team the “governor’s office decided to repeal the PWC [Personal Watercraft] prohibition” for the Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area. The notice named right-wing radio personality […]

Trump Cancels California’s Auto Pollution Rules

By Steve Baragona | VOA on Sep 19, 2019   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Trump Cancels California’s Auto Pollution Rules

The state that made smog famous is losing its half-century-old authority to set air pollution rules.    President Donald Trump announced Wednesday on Twitter that the Environmental Protection Agency was withdrawing California’s authority to issue stricter vehicle efficiency rules than the federal government.    The move was the latest in the administration’s efforts to loosen regulations aimed at […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dunleavy Plans Increased Pollution in Cook Inlet Fisheries

By Bob Shavelson | Cook Inlet Keeper on May 23, 2019   At Sea, Featured, State  

Dunleavy Plans Increased Pollution in Cook Inlet Fisheries

  Toxic Discharges from Oil & Gas Facilities Would Increase HOMER, AK—Cook Inletkeeper today called-out the Dunleavy Administration for weakening a key Clean Water Act permit that would allow the oil and gas industry to increase toxic dumping in prime salmon, halibut, and beluga whale habitat.  The proposed permit covers oil and gas production wastes from […]

Trump’s Environmental Policy Roll-back Alarms Activists

By Patsy Widakuswara | VOA on Aug 30, 2018   Featured, National, National/World  

Trump’s Environmental Policy Roll-back Alarms Activists

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA — Environmentalists are alarmed that President Donald Trump is following through on his campaign pledges to roll back Obama-era rules that tightened restrictions on greenhouse gases, promising the moves would lead to more American jobs and economic growth. At a recent rally in Charleston, West Virginia, under a “Trump Digs Coal” banner, the […]

After Trump Rolls Back Environmental Rules, China Reaffirms Climate Change Fight

By Peter Heinlein | VOA on Mar 29, 2017   Featured, National, World  

After Trump Rolls Back Environmental Rules, China Reaffirms Climate Change Fight

China said Wednesday it is committed to honoring its pledges under the Paris climate change agreement, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order that would effectively dismantle environmental regulations put in place by his predecessor, Barack Obama. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said combating climate change is a challenge […]

Trump to Roll Back Obama-era Environmental Rules

By Peter Heinlein | VOA on Mar 28, 2017   Featured, National, Politics  

Trump to Roll Back Obama-era Environmental Rules

WHITE HOUSE — White House officials say President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Tuesday that would effectively dismantle Obama-era environmental regulations, rekindling the highly charged partisan debate about how human activity affects the earth’s climate, and deepening concern decades of work on global climate treaties may be unraveling. “Many agree that would be disastrous,” Dutch […]

Fool Me Once: A Fact Check on Those Slick Oil Ads

By Les Gara on May 22, 2014   Opinion, Opinions/Op/Ed/Letters  

Dear Friends and Neighbors: I’d like a world where people tell the truth during elections.  But wishing doesn’t work in this new world where outside corporations and groups are allowed unlimited election $pending.  With that money these special interests constantly violate the old adage that you’re entitled to your own opinions, but that you’re not entitled to your own […]



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