"Senate Confirms MacGregor for Second-Ranking Interior Spot"
"Katharine MacGregor, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy Interior secretary, was confirmed 58-38 by the Senate on Tuesday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/26/2020
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"After Trump Mocks a Sea Wall in New York, Plan Is Abruptly Shelved"
"The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks after President Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the study’s most expensive proposal, a giant sea wall that could have cost billions of dollars."
Source: NY Times, 02/26/2020
Passionate Public Comments Slam Trump NEPA Rule Rollback Proposal
"It cost $1,000 for Patricia Qasimah Boston to fly from Tallahassee to Washington and stay in a hotel. She traveled 800 miles for a three-minute appearance at a public hearing held Tuesday by the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House agency that recently proposed to weaken the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act."
Source: Washington Post, 02/26/2020
"Mike Bloomberg Under Fire For 'Not Very Ambitious' Climate Plan"
"Mike Bloomberg has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental advocacy causes, but his campaign is coming under fire for a climate plan that lags far behind the other Democratic candidates for president."
Source: Guardian, 02/25/2020
"Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response"
"In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure."
Source: Foreign Policy, 02/25/2020
Trump Gas Wells Could Block 6,000 Year-Old Pronghorn Migration Route
"The Path of the Pronghorn is a 170-mile migration route that the antelope-like creatures have traveled annually for 6,000 years. It is one of North America’s last remaining long-distance terrestrial migration corridors. And it is at risk."
Source: Guardian, 02/24/2020
One Side of a Nuclear Waste Fight: Trump. The Other: His Administration
"The president, eyeing the battleground state of Nevada, has made clear he opposes a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, reversing a policy that was made in his name."
Source: NY Times, 02/24/2020
Climate Change Gets First Mention in G20 Finance Communique Of Trump Era
"Finance officials from the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) on Sunday referenced climate change in their final communique for the first time in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, but stopped short of calling it a major risk to the economy."
Source: Reuters, 02/24/2020
"Supreme Court Wades Into Battle Over Atlantic Coast Pipeline"
"The U.S. Supreme Court is set to wade into a long-running battle between developers of a 605-mile (975-kilometer) natural gas pipeline and environmental groups who oppose the pipeline crossing the storied Appalachian Trail."
Source: AP, 02/24/2020
"Revealed: Quarter Of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced By Bots"
"Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’" "The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a new analysis finding that a quarter of all tweets about climate on an average day are produced by bots, the Guardian can reveal."
Source: Guardian, 02/21/2020
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