Leaked Proposal Shows Trump Administration Planning to Kill Crucial Protections for Threatened Animals
The wolverine is a species currently proposed for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. CREATISTA/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Trump’s Department of the Interior is seeking to “revise” key, 40-year-old regulations which currently protect more than 300 threatened plant and animal species listed under the 1973 Endangered…
The Trump Administration Is Pushing to Sell Offshore Drilling Leases, and It’s Tanking Profits for Taxpayers
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in US history, which included all available areas in the Gulf of Mexico, garnered only tepid interest from oil and gas companies on Wednesday. Industry and government representatives called the results encouraging and consistent. Critics…
The Koch Brothers Tried to Spread Fake News in Black Churches. It Did Not Go Well.
Amelia Bates/Grist Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rev. Paul Wilson fastens enough buttons on his jacket to stay warm on a chilly fall afternoon but still keep his clergy collar visible. He’s whipping up a crowd of…
This California City Is About to Put Big Oil’s Bad Science on Trial
Ariel Waldman/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a vision: Scientists would clash onstage in a televised debate over the already-established science of climate change as one side poked for weaknesses in the…
Coal Country Rebelled Against Trump’s Candidate Last Night. Here’s Why.
Brian Cahn/ Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days before Democratic candidate Conor Lamb eked out a narrow lead over Republican opponent Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s special election for the House, President Trump was on the campaign trail repeating a familiar tune to crowds of his supporters. “By the…
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted A Live TV Debate Questioning Climate Change
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt, the polluter-friendly chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has already amassed a lengthy list of extreme, fringey accomplishments. As Rebecca Leber wrote in her recent Mother Jones cover story, Pruitt has set out to demolish one EPA policy after another during…