WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced late Friday that he will not scrap the agency’s 2014 determination that a large-scale mining operation could irreparably harm Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed.
His decision, which falls short of blocking a proposed gold...
Nan Hauser, a marine mammalogist in the Cook Islands, thought she was being harassed by a 50-foot humpback whale on a dive off the island of Rarotonga. That was until she saw a dark figure swimming below, anyhow.
The grey shape was so big — 20 feet long — she thought it must belong to a Cuvier...
New Climate Censorship Tracker Comes Online
This is an important new resource to help us keep track of all the ways the Trump Administration is undermining our ability to
fight climate change, this is against the will of the vast majority of US citizens, we need science data and need to know...
The administration’s National Security Strategy document omits climate risks.
By Umair Irfan Updated Jan 12, 2018, 3:17pm EST VOX
a move that contradicted nearly three decades of military planning, the Trump administration in December backed away from calling climate change a national ...
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FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Regulators turn down proposal to boost coal, nuclear markets
By Evan Halper Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON» A Trump administration plan to force utilities to purchase more coal and nuclear powe...
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 ...
By Brady Dennis and Darryl Fears
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON» President Donald Trump made his mark in the energy and environment world during his first year in Washington. Many of his actions aimed to undo work from the Obama era. Trump all but abandoned the nation’s efforts to combat cl...
By Brady Dennis and Darryl Fears
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON» President Donald Trump made his mark in the energy and environment world during his first year in Washington. Many of his actions aimed to undo work from the Obama era. Trump all but abandoned the nation’s efforts to combat cl...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Hailstones the size of golf balls fell in Edgewater in May. Insured losses in the Denver area exceeded $2.2 billion, making it the most expensive hailstorm in state history. Seth McConnell, Denver Post file
WASHINGTON» With three strong hurricanes, wildfi...
Under the Interior Department's draft proposal, spanning 2019 to 2024, more than 90 percent of the total acres on the Outer Continental Shelf would be made available for leasing. It proposes 47 potential offshore lease sales, the most ever over a five-year period, including 19 sales off the Alaska c...
By Evan Halper Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON» A Trump administration plan to force utilities to purchase more coal and nuclear power was rejected Monday by federal regulators, undermining the president’s energy agenda and his promise to revive the coal industry.
The five-member Federal En...
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 ...
WASHINGTON» President Donald Trump made his mark in the energy and environment world during his first year in Washington. Many of his actions aimed to undo work from the Obama era. Trump all but abandoned the nation’s efforts to combat climate change, and he shrank national monuments th...
Joe Howlett was no stranger to the risky work of rescuing whales.
More than 15 years ago, the Canadian lobster fisherman co-founded the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, an “intrepid group of fishermen who care so much about whales that they are willing to risk their lives to save them.”
From the...
By Lauren Smith
Earlier this year a new species of deep water shark, Etmopterus lailae, was discovered in waters surrounding the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Measurements of external features, teeth, vertebrae and intestines, along with specific external markings and pa...
We, a group of more than 3,700 people, including concerned scientists, citizens from at least 88 countries and Nobel laureates, fundamentally disagree with R. Alexander Pyron’s Nov. 26 Outlook essay, “Species die. Get over it.” His views expressed are at odds with scientific facts and our moral...
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...
Reported by The Washington Post
16 of the nation's top retired military are urging congress to pass gun control legislation. They write"
there is no acceptable excuse for our elected leaders to avoid addressing this national crisis"
As American's, they say they find the level of gun violence unac...
The past year brought profound setbacks and unexpected silver linings in the world's quest to curb climate change.
The U.S. presidential election significantly altered the fight to keep Earth's temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius. Donald Trump entered the White House promising to "undo"...
At many Chinese restaurants in the United States, there's a special dish called shark fin soup. It's expensive — a delicacy and status symbol in Chinese culture that's served during banquets.
The soup is a hotly debated item in both the scientific and political communities, and it's illegal in 12 s...
