Twenty states have filed a joint lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration for weakening regulations on methane emissions from the oil and gas industries. The plaintiffs say the fires raging on the West Coast are an example of the dangers of climate change. “Our climate emergency is increasingly a public health emergency. The…
President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to allow logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The proposal from the Forest Service would result in the cutting down of trees across more than 6,000 acres of forest, including 5,000 acres of old-growth forest that critics say is valuable in the fight against climate change. The…
A coalition of 21 states has sued President Donald Trump and his administration for rolling back the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), considered the nation’s premier environmental legislation that promotes the protection and enhancement of the environment. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North…
President Donald Trump attacked Democrat Joe Biden, his electoral opponent, after Biden announced a $700 billion economic plan that touts environmental protection measures as a means for restoring economic growth. “Our past vice president opposes — think of this — all of our permitting reforms,†Trump said to an audience in Atlanta during a speech…
The states, including California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, called the Trump administration proposal “unlawful” and “reckless” in a 143-page document reviewed by Reuters ahead of its filing later Friday. The states have vowed to sue if regulators move forward with the proposal.
If you care about the environment, education, gun control or any progressive values, Rick Scott has been a disaster as governor of Florida. Â And now this right-wing former CEO accused of Medicare fraud wants to go to Washington in the U.S. Senate so he can promote even more of Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda. #Florida Gov…
Democratic and Republican leaders were quick to push back against the Trump administration’s new plan to allow off-shore drilling virtually anywhere and everywhere.
Trump’s ignorance on this subject is obvious, but it’s neither new nor is it surprising.
Trump’s move will pave the way for this cherished land to be used for mining, oil drilling and other energy industry projects.Â
Trump issued a permit in March for Keystone XL’s construction – something that former President Barack Obama and other environmental activists had warned could do more harm than good.
On Wednesday, one federal judge reminded Donald Trump that hating Barack Obama is not a good enough reason to ignore key environmental protections.
Nearly a third of Iowa’s energy comes from wind power, and the Hawkeye State uses a greater percentage of it than any other state in the country.
It’s Saturday. Donald Trump is off golfing again and climate change protesters are filling the streets of the nation’s capital
Wind and solar have combined with natural gas to produce virtually all the nation’s major new electrical capacity; coal and nuclear are economically less competitive.
To ignore Earth Day “is to surrender to an ideology that has turned mere environmental indifference into a moral nihilism.”
It is time for all Americans to look and weep and try to explain to their children why they weren’t with her when it mattered.
The vote comes a day after Trump signed an executive order dismantling environmental protections enacted under President Obama.
Americans are more worried about the environment than they ever have been – just in time for Trump to gut climate funding.
Victor Davis Hanson mocks, “He did manage to lecture Americans about the evils of the Crusades, and promise to lower the seas and cool the planet.”
“My Republican colleague here is all about states’ rights – except the right to clean air & save lives from pollution”
Sanders showed how all Trump nominees should be questioned going forward.
The GOP move hampers the government’s ability to protect “public health and safety, the environment, workplace safety and consumer financial protections.”
Obama has protected more federal land and water than any single previous president.
“Arbitrarily limiting Ohio’s energy generation options amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our state’s near- and long-term economic competitivenessâ€
“Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor.”
If you wondered what kind of Energy Secretary Rick Perry would be, now you have your answer. He would be a dickish one.
Estimates of 250,000 gallons thus far, is being “held in a mine water retention pond†with no clue how or why the pipeline leaked.
The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied
Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky joined to sound the alarm about Republican being a threat not only to Americans but to human survival
President Obama got a big win today as a federal appeals court denied a Republican-led petition to block his administration’s clean energy plan.
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
In one fell swoop, the President took a concrete step to reduce all current and future threats to the Arctic region. The Administration cancelled new lease sales in the so-called “Polar Bear Seas,” the Chukchi and Beaufort, just off the north Alaskan coast.
Now that the Kochs own Congress and were able to install a willing anti-government Republican as Chairman of the House Natural Resources committee, they were thrilled to learn they succeeded in killing the LWCF in yet another step toward turning over government to corporate control.
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand development, production, and transport will have on…
The EPA triggered a toxic leak, but the pollution it unleashed is the result of an unregulated mining industry that can be traced to Congress
The campaign of Bernie Sanders scored a major coup Saturday, earning the first endorsement of any candidate by a national environmental group, Friends of the Earth. Granted, the field is limited to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, given that no living Republican candidate will ever earn the endorsement of any environmental group, local, state, or…
On Friday, President Barack Obama designated three new National Monuments in the Western United States.
Huckabee raged and attempted to contradict the President telling Fox News that, “I assure you that one beheading is much worse than a sunburn.”
It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that “denying it (climate change), or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. Anything less is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty and it undermines the readiness of our forces,” he was describing and referring to Republicans.
It appears that although Earth Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection, only Republicans are capable of using the day to perpetuate their anti-environment agenda in service to the Koch brothers.
To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes of daily is pumped into the aquifer and poisons the diminishing underground supply at an alarming rate; so much so that well over a hundred (at last count) drinking-water wells have been shut down by state water regulators and the EPA due to oil waste-water contamination.
Boehner and Republicans are also intent on defeating President Obama’s climate change initiatives on myriad fronts such as stripping the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired electricity generating plants, or the air and water pollution related to coal mining. If Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are so intent on comparing America to China, they should embrace the President’s climate change agenda and follow the communist nation’s latest effort.
Rick Scott’s administration banned use of terms like global warming and climate change, but denial won’t turn sea level rise into a nuisance
In the final analysis this is government of, by, and for the people, not a group of oil-drenched Koch-whores in Congress
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on America, and particularly its President, to approve construction of a pipeline Canada is well aware is an environmental and ecological disaster.
To ensure that the “right kind of scientists” are doling out advice on environmental protections, Republicans in the House passed legislation to guarantee that oil industry scientists loyal to the Kochs, and not independent scientists, serve on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board.
Since Republicans have relentlessly obstructed jobs programs for America’s Veterans, the President took it upon himself to enact the program at American military bases and provide job training for at least 50,000 veterans.
This week, yet another report reveals that fracking in California has contaminated aquifers during a historical drought.
The anti-science crowd loves science that gave them automobiles, medicine, electricity, sanitation, and ability to communicate easily with any location on Earth, and they depend on medical science to eliminate threats to their lives. It is curious, then, that when the preponderance of scientists from around the world warn them of an existential threat to their health, well-being, and their nation’s survival, the extremists claim it is “an attack on their way of life.”
Some stories that hit the web this past week include political affiliation based on geography, driverless cars, recycled water in California and five ways humans may become extinct.
Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered power plants that they are threatening to withhold previously agreed-on funding for the government unless the EPA regulations are eliminated by September 30.
It was little surprise then, that Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the new House Majority Leader to use his position of power to thwart California’s environmental leadership and repay his primary campaign donors in the process.
In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of man-made climate change, they signaled to the world they are smarter than climate scientists and officially denied that what 97% of climate scientists say is wrong and that there is no climate change threat.
In a relatively new form of Republican fascism and regulatory overreach, Republican states have told consumers what they can and cannot purchase, and enacted regulations forbidding one company from conducting business in their states.
Republicans are methodically defunding the Environmental Protection Agency to either abolish the agency or eliminate its ability to protect Americans from poison in the water they drink and toxins in the air they breathe.
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory knows the dirty coal industry is polluting the environment in North Carolina because his state’s environmental regulators are not doing their jobs. It is why he expects his god to clean up what he knows will be more toxic spills.
Freedom Industries knew the 70 to 80 year-old tanks were in desperate need of replacement and did not want to spend the money to repair them because regulations did not require them to.
The tea party wants to sell what doesn’t belong to them, stealing our heritage to enrich themselves and the corporations that own them
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is throwing a fit that the League of Conservation Voters is including him in an ad campaign because he questions the validity of global climate change.
It is mindboggling there are so many Americans opposed to science and steeped in myth and superstition in the 21st century.
2012’s weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the Dirty Weather Report
Neil Cavuto thinks if we drill our record heat will be a problem of the past and that while our economy is sucky the climate is just ducky
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.
Republicans are fighting light bulb socialism, trying to save the old fashioned light bulb without mentioning a single relevant fact
Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems
House Speaker John Boehner spins his tired old talking points, a more than metaphorical raspberry to any real discussion of either problems or possible solutions
It is patently un-American to take Americans’ tax dollars and give them to extremely profitable oil companies when the country’s infrastructure is crumbling and millions of Americans are in poverty.
The Dirty Thirty New Year’s Edition updates our survey of the GOP’s war on women, the environment, education, voting rights and more
We can laugh at Sean Hannity every time he says cold weather in winter disproves global warming but what does 60 degrees in Minot tell us?
Fox News contributor Bill Kristol was on Special Report with Bret Baier tonight defending off shore drilling, when he made perhaps the stupidest statement of all time. He said offshore drilling is quite safe, “and very environmentally clean, except where there is a disaster like this.” Essentially Kristol is saying that offshore drilling is safe, until the oil rig bursts into flames.
