EPA WATCHDOG SUGGESTS AGENCY RECOVER $124,000 IN PRUITT’S “EXCESSIVE” TRAVEL EXPENSES. WASHINGTON »The Environmental Protection Agency should consider recovering nearly $124,000 of improper travel expenses by former EPA chief Scott Pruitt, the agency’s inspector general recommended Thursday.
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Thanks to all the different voices claiming this and that – including fossil fuel interests and deniers spreading all kinds of myths – many people don’t know the truth of what’s happening or what we can do. So let’s get up to speed with answers to some foundational climate qu...
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By Brian Melley The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES» The nation’s most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in ba...
All the recycled water-bottle sneakers, organic cotton tote bags, and mushroom-leather belts on retailers’ shelves last season weren’t enough to turn back the dial on the fashion industry’s environmental footprint. The industry’s progress on improving its environmental and social impact isn’t moving...
https://www.changetheclimate2020.com/, See where the 2020 Presidential Democratic Candidates stand on climate change, all in one place. Vote to support those with aggressive initiatives to mitigate this extreme threat to our well being and the well being of all living beings on Earth. Earth Pro...
Scale of Loss of Nature
Gains from societal and policy responses, while important, have not stopped massive losses.
Since 1970, trends in agricultural production, fish harvest, bioenergy production and harvest of materials have increased, in response to population growth, rising demand and technol...
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Fireboats battle a blaze at the BP Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010, off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven people died in the disaster and more than 3 million barrels of cru...
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PORTLAND, MAINE » The tradition of releasing balloons at weddings, birthdays and
memorials may soon get deflated by lawmakers in more than half a dozen states.
Critics say the helium-filled balloons pollute the environment, and t...
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“Elevated threat risk”
Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods
By Adrian Sainz and Jeff Martin
The Associated Press
Adrian Sainz, Associated Press file
MEMPHIS, TENN.»An arsenal of new technology is being put to the t...
BIOLOGISTS FIND TRASH IN BELLY OF STRANDED BABY DOLPHIN.FORT MYERS BEACH, FLA. » A rare deep-water dolphin stranded on a Florida beach and later euthanized had a stomach full of trash.
Biologists said they found two plastic bags and a shredded balloon during a necropsy of the young r...
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...
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Editorial
The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in southern China has one of the world’s fastest melting glaciers. Sam McNeil, The Associated Press
This editorial was written by The Washington Post.
“And yet it moves” was Galileo’s famous response after...
By DAVID VON DREHLE | The Washington Post
April 7, 2019 at 7:06 pm
Missouri Farm Bureau members were likely startled by the recent “Commentary” in their email queues. The farm bureau’s Eric Bohl reported on his visit to a St. Louis-area Burger King, where the fast food giant is testing a v...
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Seychelles president makes plea to protect oceans in underwater speech
In a striking speech delivered from deep below the ocean's surface, the Seychelles president on Sunday made a global plea for stronger protection of the "beating blue heart of our planet."
President...
48 Pounds of Plastic in Dead Whale
MILAN » A 26-foot sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 48.5 pounds of plastic in its belly, prompting the World Wildlife Foundation to sound an
alarm Monday over the dangers of waste in the Mediterranean Sea.
The environmental group said the g...
First Annual Drive Electric Earth Day Celebrates Electric Vehicles
Friday, April 5, 2019
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Nationwide -- This April, the first annual Drive Electric Earth Day is being held, with o...
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DROUGHT CONTINGENCY PLAN
Congress OKs Colorado River agreement
By The Associated Press
PHOENIX» A plan to address a shrinking supply of water on a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West is headed to President Donald Trump.
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It took four years and a crew over 600 to make this 8 part series narrated by David Attenborough. The opener was April 5 but its Netflix so you can catch it and catch up. Its an astounding and amazing look at the natural wonders of our world and an urgent message that the planet is in our hands. Wat...
WHO Global Ambient Air Quality Database (update 2018)
Air pollution affects all regions of the world. However, populations in low-income cities are the most impacted. According to the latest air quality database, 97% of cities in low- and middle- income countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants ...
By: CNN Newsource
Canada is warming up faster than the rest of the world, according to a report commissioned by the Canadian Environment and Climate Change Department.
The report -- titled "Canada's Changing Climate Report" -- says, on average, Canada's climate has been and will continue to warm a...
