Trump's EPA Budget Details Announced

Trump's draft EPA budget: a love letter to Big Energy Become a monthly donor to help us fight back every day for wildlife, for your health, and for the health of our families. GIVE MONTHLY >> Dear Larry - Trump's draft EPA budget is in -- and it's one giant, water-poisoning, coal ash-spilling, asthma-inducing love letter to his Big Energy cronies. The truly draconian document puts wildlife and human health in serious jeopardy by (among other things): Halting the Clean Power Plan and its first-ever carbon emissions limits on dirty, coal-fired power plants. Decimating the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which protects the planet's largest freshwater source, by slashing its funding from $300 million to $10 million. Threatening the Chesapeake Bay, the country's largest estuary, by cutting funding for monitoring and compliance with environmental laws from $73 million to $5 million. Stripping funding for toxic cleanup in communities contaminated by industrial waste.

Time for a corruption inquiry in BC

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The sheer scale of fossil fuel influence revealed in the new research is shocking to us, even by Wild West standards: Story here.

Melting at the roof of the world. Climate change comes knocking. Again. Louder.

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The most dramatic warming of the planet is happening in its coldest regions. Story here.

The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America

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In deep-red white America, the white Christian God is king. Story here.

Planet in Peril - a Video Newscast.

Preventable diseases threaten the world's children. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels loom on Earth's horizon. Please watch!

Environmental advocates disturbed by logging activity in Quebec caribou habitat

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News this week that there are no more than 15 caribou left in a threatened herd near Val d’Or, Que. is giving new urgency to the fight to protect caribou in the neighbouring Broadback River valley. Story here.                                              An Alaskan caribou.

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Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release

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Study shows 52,000 square miles (135,000 square kilometers) in rapid decline, with sediment and carbon threatening the surrounding environment and potentially accelerating global warming. Details here.

Please also read; "Only Heroic Efforts Will Spare Earth's Mighty Boreal Forest From the Worst Ravages of Climate Change."

Will This Tidal Project Spark a Global Energy Revolution?

EcoWatch

Ambitious plans have been drawn up for a network of "tidal lagoons" around the UK coast that could provide up to a quarter of the country's electricity—and there is potential to roll out the technology in many parts of the world. Story here.

Let's Stop Plastic Pollution (Video)

Blogger Dubs Disastrous Alberta Flooding "Harper Deluge."

In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business

YaleEnvironment360

Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands in Honduras — and paid for it with her life. She is one of hundreds of victims of a disturbing global trend — the killings of environmental activists who try to block development projects. First in a series.