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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RELEASES NEW PLAN FOR WHAT’S LEFT OF BEARS EARS Trump’s plan fails to provide meaningful protections — while he offers the other 85% of the monument to extractive industries

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 15 August 2019 in General Environment

JULY 26, 2019 Washington, D.C. — The Trump Administration released its final management plan today for the 15% of Bears Ears National Monument it didn’t strip of monument status. It allows the “chaining” of thousands of acres of forest, and rights of way for new roads and utility lines thro...

Trump’s EPA Skipped Ethics Reviews for Several New Advisers, Government Watchdog Finds The EPA’s boards, including its Science Advisory Board, now have more industry members and consultants and fewer academic scientists.

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 19 July 2019 in General Environment

BY MARIANNE LAVELLE The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has sidestepped the agency's process for ensuring quality and balance in its advisory committees, and numerous appointees are serving without having undergone the required federal ethics review, the Go...

EPA Former Leaders Question Current EPA Direction

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 21 June 2019 in General Environment

Shared from the 6/12/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Environmental Protection Agency heads under three previous Republican presidents joined their Democratic counterparts Tuesday in telling lawmakers they were concerned by the Trump admini...

Sustaining Planet Earth’s Life Is in Our Hands,

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 04 June 2019 in General Environment

Sustaining Planet Earth’s Life Is in Our Hands, by John H. Fitch, Ph. D., Affiliate Full Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources and Morgan Libraries, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 4, 2019. The newly released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiver...

Earth Day Celebrated Across the World

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 24 April 2019 in General Environment

What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish? A message from our president, Kathleen Rogers: On April 22, 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development. In the U.S. and around the world, smog was becoming deadly and ev...

PLASTIC PLATES, CUTLERY, CUPS TO BE BANNED IN EUROPE AS OF 2021.

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 29 March 2019 in General Environment

European Union decided to ban plastic consumer items including plates, cutlery and straws as of 2021 to help clean up oceans. The prohibition on single-use plastics approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday in Strasbourg, France, also applies to beverage cups, food containers and cotto...

The Most Important Environmental Stories of 2018

Posted by stephanie on Saturday, 22 December 2018 in General Environment

Hanukkah is over, Christmas is right around the corner, and the calendar is about to flip a digit to bring us into 2019. Which means it’s time for Sierra magazine’s annual roundup of the most important environmental stories of the past year. “Most important” doesn’t necessarily mean...

Breaking down the new clean energy bill

Posted by stevenbcohen on Tuesday, 31 July 2018 in General Environment

The Clean Energy Bill approved by the Legislature on Tuesday adopted the go-slow approach favored by many of the state’s business groups and utilities, leaving a price on carbon and stronger support for solar and wind on the cutting room floor while greenlighting a number of less flashy provisions d...

Trump's Supreme Court pick could come back to bite him

Posted by shanewatson on Monday, 16 July 2018 in General Environment

July 13, 2018 from Weekly Climate Review, MacArthur Foundation President Donald Trump's pick to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court generated a lot of consternation among environmentalists and Democrats this week, but no one talked about the potential downside for the Nominator-in-Chie...

Humans Account for Little Next to Plants and Bugs

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in General Environment

WASHINGTON » When you weigh all life on Earth, billions of humans don’t amount to much compared to trees, earthworms or even viruses. But we really know how to throw what little weight we have around, according to a first-of-its-kind global census of the footprint of life on the planet. Humans only...

Nat GEO Provides a Running List of How Trump Has Changed the Environment

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 in General Environment

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/#close Trump administration’s tumultuous first year has brought a flurry of changes—both realized and anticipated—to U.S. environmental policy. Many of the actions roll back Obama-era policies that aimed to curb c...

Kids teach adults how to protect the earth

Posted by momneed on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 in General Environment

What were you doing when you were nine years old? Where would you be in 2100? In 2007, Felix Finkbeiner, a 9-year-old primary four student in Germany, had to do a project on climate change. He eventually found the inspiration to launch a global movement called Plant for the Planet. Its initial targ...

MALIBU BANS PLASTIC UTENSILS AND STRAWS

Posted by jenna1352 on Wednesday, 28 February 2018 in General Environment

MALIBU, CALIF. » It’s the last straw for this beachside city. The City Council unanimously voted to ban all plastic cutlery and straws on Monday, citing concerns over keeping its famous beaches clean and protecting the environment. The move builds on the city’s previous bans of plasti...

Earth Protect TV

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 15 February 2018 in General Environment

Earth Protect TV is the first On Demand channel exclusively offering feature films, VR, games, live events and digital content to inform, engage and inspire a community that cares about environmental solutions and a sustainable future. Please take a moment to look at our website, here: https:...

TRUMP Tells CDC Words It Cannot USE

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 22 January 2018 in General Environment

CDC GETS LIST OF FORBIDDEN WORDS. The Trump administration is forbidding officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any documents prepared for next year’s budget. Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control ...

Uranium firm sought Bears Ears cuts By Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 14 December 2017 in General Environment

A uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Interior Secretary...

It’s #GivingTuesday. Here’s why people are giving more than ever.

Posted by Fischerman7229 on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 in General Environment

People are donating more than they ever have to charities. There’s no time when such giving is more on display than today, Giving Tuesday, a day when celebrations of generosity on social media have helped turn an idea into a global happening in just six years. The day was created in 2012 by t...

Leaked documents reveal just how President Donald Trump plans to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency and cut 31 percent of its funding.

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 06 April 2017 in General Environment

Leaked documents reveal just how President Donald Trump plans to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency and cut 31 percent of its funding. The more detailed vision for the EPA appears in an internal memo by its acting financial officer that was shared with Vox. It includesthe elimination of m...

TRUMP/PRUITT move to industry not science for EPA

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 05 April 2017 in General Environment

More industry, less science for EPA By Lauren Coleman-Lochner Bloomberg News Congress and the Trump administration are planning sweeping changes in how science is used to govern public health. Controversy over climate change is getting a lot of attention right now, but legislation under ...