TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil near Amherst, South Dakota, this morning — just 4 days before the Nebraska Public Service Commission decides whether to allow an expansion of this pipeline pushed by Donald Trump across the Oglalla Aquifer, one of AmericaR[...]
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November 16th, 2017 - 3:10 pm § in Donald Trump, Environment
Keystone Pipeline spills 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
November 16th, 2017 - 11:05 am § in Donald Trump, Environment
Trump vandalism
Donald Trump Jr. gloating over an elephant he just shot.[...]
Trump brings coal jobs back to King County
Trump wants coal jobs in King County again. The coal will be dug near Black Diamond and burned at a Seattle cement plant, producing “as much carbon dioxide … as driving 51,500 cars.” That’s okay with Trump’s EPA, which denies climate change even exists. Read story here.[...]
September 22nd, 2017 - 11:17 pm § in Donald Trump, Environment
The GOP’s environmental crime of the century
Bristol Bay is one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries. The Trump administration is preparing to sacrifice this priceless resource to mining interests. “(CNN) Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency direc[...]
July 15th, 2017 - 11:45 pm § in Donald Trump, Environment
Did Macron charm the Donald to endorse the Paris accords?
Trump may reverse decision on climate accord, France’s Macron says: JDD French President Emmanuel Macron said he was hopeful that U.S. President Donald Trump would reverse his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, according to weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanc[...]
July 11th, 2017 - 12:17 am § in Donald Trump, Environment
Where Climate Denial Leads
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future. NYMAG.COM Long but worth a read. The author tries to show a range[...]
June 15th, 2017 - 1:28 am § in Environment
Castro on Globalization
“After the last worldwide bloodbath in the forties, we were promised a world of peace, we were promised that the gap between rich and poor would be closed, and that the more developed would help the less developed. All that was a huge lie. A world order was imposed on us that cannot be justifi[...]
June 15th, 2017 - 12:46 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
ORCA IN CRISIS
WHEN OUR ORCA STARVE DAVID NEIWERT: Victoria photographer Mark Malleson took this photograph of the Southern Resident killer whale known as J-34, or Doublestuf, breaching while he was in the interior waters of the Salish Sea this spring. It’s a remarkable and frightening photo for orca lovers, bec[...]