(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — On September 12, 2019, the Trump Administration announced its plan to open up Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to commercial oil drilling for the very first time. The victory for the oil industry came in a Department of the…
(EnviroNews Headline News Desk) — In June of 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would leave the Paris Climate Agreement (the Accord/Agreement) unless the terms were changed to be more favorable for America. That decision has become a point of contention in trade negotiations with the…
(EnviroNews Nature) — Washington D.C. — You’ve probably never seen a Canada lynx (Lynx Canadensis) in the wild. And if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) pulls off its plan to remove Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the elusive wildcat, conservationists say you might never get…
(EnviroNews California) — Santa Rosa, California — “The fires came down and burned night and day. All we could do is watch and pray. They left the landscape all black and grey — Alleluia anyway.” Those were the words sung on December 10, 2017, by soloist, conductor and…
(EnviroNews Colorado) — Special-interest politics — not sound science — decides the fate of species on the brink of extinction in the U.S., according to a new expose’ from the Endangered Species Coalition. The report, Suppressed: How Politics Drowned Out Science for Ten Endangered Species (Suppressed), profiles ten…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — On Thursday, November 16, 2017, operator TransCanada spilled 210,000 gallons of crude oil from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota. The spill brings more attention to a project fraught with controversy for years. Work crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning while…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — On July 3, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shot down the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and its administrator Scott Pruitt, on their attempt to halt implementation of an Obama-era clean air rule that will clamp…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — On June 12, the first leg of the Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys) into Arctic climate change was canceled due to hazardous ice conditions induced by climate change. The four year, $17 million, University of Manitoba-led project, brings together 40 scientists on…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Park City, Utah — In the view of environmental advocate and Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the oil industry is trying to hold back the future. “The only way they can maintain market dominance is by controlling our political system, because…
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(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Park City, Utah — Is nuclear power the answer to global warming? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. doesn’t think so. In this interview with EnviroNews Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry, the well-known environmental activist explains his position on the contentious issue. “I’m all for nuke if…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — A seafood industry that brought nearly 600 million pounds of fish to the table in 2015, put 97,000 people to work and added $4.8 billion to the economy is now at risk due to a changing climate. Warming seas and ocean acidification are…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — A spate of new research studies has confirmed a disturbing pattern: climate disruption is confusing migratory birds, causing trees to relocate and allowing tropical diseases to spread northward. “Human society has yet to appreciate the implications of unprecedented species redistribution for life on…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EnviroNews Exclusive: Warmer, shorter winters due to climate change are a boon for the ticks that harm people, their pets and wildlife, scientists told EnviroNews in a series of exclusive interviews for this report. A walk in the woods can be refreshing, fun…
(EnviroNews Utah) – A segment discussing farmers, farming, and the urgency surrounding Climate Change from our full feature interview with Utah Republican Governor Gary R. Herbert in the Governors Office on Capitol Hill. The hour and fifteen minute interview covers issues exclusively pertaining to the environment, energy, and…
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