(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Washington D.C. — The long anticipated day and time has finally arrived: January 20, 2017, high noon. Those are the exact coordinates; when and where Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. You…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — In the hours leading up to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, outgoing President Barack Obama made a $500 million contribution to the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund. The dollars were approved last year as part of a $1.9 billion package that Congress appropriated to…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Washington D.C. — During Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s Senate confirmation hearings for nominee of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bernie Sanders asked him to discuss his response to earthquakes caused by fracking wastewater injection in Oklahoma. CNN reports that scientists from…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Washington D.C. — Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) pressed Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) Scott Pruitt to clarify his stance on anthropogenic climate change during a Senate confirmation hearing on January 18, 2016. Pruitt is Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Washington D.C. — On January 18, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Representative Tom Price (R-Georgia), underwent a rocky courtesy hearing, ahead of his official senate confirmation hearing, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts)…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Fort Myers, Florida — Harriet the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and her mate M15 (short for Male 2015) are now the proud parents of one healthy chick and are awaiting the emergence of another in their nest near Fort Myers, Florida. The…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass — and outlast them all.” That was the response by President-elect Donald Trump, according to MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, when she asked him about his inflammatory Tweet…
(EnviroNews USA Headline News Desk) — Love him or hate him, President-Elect Donald Trump went so far into left field with his latest comments on Russia’s reported election hacking, that not even Fox News would get behind him. In a Fox News segment hosted by Shepard “Shep” Smith…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — “It is not a question any more: radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to the lowest doses,” says the late Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkley, in the book Nuclear Witnesses: Insiders…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Jobs, jobs, jobs — that’s about all anyone ever heard from supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline before that project went down in flames at the hands of the State Department earlier this year. Opponents continuously pushed back that Keystone XL would have…
(EnviroNews Oregon) — Tillamook County, Oregon — Seaborne cesium 134, the so-called “fingerprint of Fukushima,” has been detected on US shores for the first time researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said this month. WHOI is a crowd-funded science seawater sampling project, that has been monitoring…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EDITORIAL: Sometimes large segments of the human race seem to contract collective amnesia. That is apparently the case with the already-approved, Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project on India’s west coast. But if one thing’s for sure, it’s that greed for electricity profits knows no…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EDITORIAL: On Nov. 6, 2012, President-Elect Donald Trump tweeted, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” Throughout his campaign, he repeated climate change was a fallacy. If you believe media headlines…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — A man with a black briefcase attached to his hand by a cord shadows the President of the United States (POTUS) whenever he leaves the White House. Much like the center on an offensive line, this military officer holds the “nuclear football,” until…
(EnviroNews Washington) — Olympia, Washington — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced October 19, 2016, that it would spare the remaining four members of the now demolished Profanity Peak Wolf Pack, after already having killed seven of its wolves (Canis lupus) to appease cattle ranchers.…
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