Saturday, March 11, 2017

Scott Pruitt Went on TV to Deny Climate Change

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Trump's EPA Budget Details Announced


Trump's draft EPA budget: a love letter to Big Energy
Smokestacks and pollution
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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.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

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!

Sunday, March 5, 2017

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.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service