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EXECUTIVE ORDER TAKES AIM AT CLIMATE SAFEGUARDS By Trip Van Noppen| Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Capital Watch   In a potentially devastating blow to the Earth’s climate, President Trump’s new executive order ends the Interior Department’s moratorium on coal mining on public land and begins a...
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Long Legal Battles Ahead Over Trump’s Climate Order By John Upton       Published: March 28th, 2017 Environmental groups and progressive states are vowing to battle President Trump in court over his push to repeal federal climate protections, and expe...
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AUGUST 18, 2015 | 12:00 PM TEN CLEAR INDICATORS OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING How do we know our climate is changing permanently, rather than just going through a normal period of flux? Let’s look at 10 major changes scientists have seen in our climate system to help set the record straight. Few global...
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Salt keeps icy roads safe; it also puts America’s freshwater lakes at risk By Ben Guarino The Washington Post In the 1940s, Americans found a new way to love salt. Not simply for sprinkling on food — we had acquired a taste for the mineral long before that — but for spreading on roads and sidewalk...
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Labor and Other Clean Power Groups Prepare for New Chapter.  (from Texas Lawyer, March 27, 2017)  With President Donald Trump poised to upend one of his predecessor's signature enviromental policies this week, lawyers in the long legal battle over the Obama administration's Clean Power P...
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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...
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Dr Jesse D Berman, PhD , Keita Ebisu, PhD, Prof Roger D Peng, PhD, Prof Francesca Dominici, PhD, Prof Michelle L Bell, PhD The Lancet Planetary Health April 2017  Summary Background Occurrence, severity, and geographic extent of droughts are anticipated to increase under climate change,...
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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 ...
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I was alarmed to read in THE DENVER POST today, April 3 that several bills are being proposed to limit the right for peaceful protest. Here is the digest of the article Note Warning is from United Nations.  UNITED NATIONS WARNING   Is Americans’ right to protest in grave danger? &nbs...
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  (Originally published in the Jewish Advocate at http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2017-02-17/Editorials/Why_Jewish_communities_need_to_join_the_Peoples_Cl.html) Over my years of volunteer work for the Jewish Climate Action Network in the Boston area, I have witnessed a groundswell of co...
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    For Immediate Release, March 14, 2017 Contact: Collette Adkins, (651) 955-3821,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 2.7 Million Animals Killed by Federal Wildlife-destruction Program in 2016 Ignoring Calls for Reform, Wildlife Services Continues Killing ...
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Release: 3 Bipartisan Groups of Military and Security Leaders Urge New Course on Climate by  CAITLIN WERRELL AND FRANCESCO FEMIA IN CLIMATE AND SECURITY ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2016. USS AlbanyRelease: Three Bipartisan Groups of Military and National Security Leaders Urge Robust New Course on Cl...
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Weather Channel: 13 years of military planning for sea level rise Navy Norfolk Virginia USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, VA. (U.S. NAVY PHOTO, MASS COMM SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS TYLER FOLNSBEE)   Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board member, Brigadier General Gerald Gallowa...
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Opinion piece originally published in The Denver Post November 20,2016 with permission of Author Auden Schendler, VP Aspen Skiing Company and board chair of Protect Our Winters  On the day after Trump won, I walked with my family to a melting glacier in New Zealand. A waterfall several hundred...
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This month, the Maryland Senate voted 32-13 to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a major clean energy bill after an outcry of bipartisan public support for the bill.  It’s a big victory for Maryland and for all of us who want to see more clean energy and less burning of fossil fuels.  ...
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Corals reefs are dying around the globe due to warmer and more acidic oceans, harming ocean life but also creating economic disaster and food security risks for fisherman and people whose protein source is largely dependent upon the sea plus undermining tourism. Add to this the depletion of one...
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  A GROUP of Republicans provided a refreshing message to Washington on Wednesday: Climate change is a threat that deserves serious attention, and the GOP should embrace smart ways of dealing with it.The group — which calls itself the Climate Leadership Council and includes two former secretar...
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The Denver Post, Bruce Finley, reported on Feb 1st the results of a poll showing strong voter support for protecting water, air and wildlife and opportunities for recreation over increased drilling and mining on public lands. Voters surveyed were from  Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, N...
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Chemicals in Food Children’s diets are an important pathway for exposure to some environmental chemicals and other contaminants. Children may be at a greater risk for exposures to contaminants because they consume more food relative to their body weight than do adults. Additionally, children’s dieta...
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Ben Goldfarb of Writers on the Range wrote an eye brow raising Opinion piece in The Denver Post on February 12, bringing to our attention the effect on the borders wild inhabitants, saying the proposed border wall will be a catastrophe for the natural world. Habitat connectivity is well established ...
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