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Trump Replaces Rex Tillerson With Someone Who May Be Worse

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

Twitter is now the accepted format to make major political announcements. President Trump announced on the social media site that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Trump’s tweet proclaimed that “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson…

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The EPA’s Plans to Gut the Clean Water Rule

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

President Trump vowed “to promote clean air and clear water” in February 2017. Flash forward a year and that promise seems to be a flimsy one at best. The Trump administration has recently made it clear it will gut an Obama-era rule designed to protect smaller bodies of water in the U.S. On January 21, 2018, the EPA and the…

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Trump's EPA has one less environmental predator leading the charge

Trump Nominee Withdraws Nomination To Lead EPA’s Chemical Safety Program

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

Michael Dourson, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety program, has reportedly withdrawn his nomination. Dourson worked 15 years at the EPA, but he has also consulted for chemical companies, Bloomberg reports, and for that work, he has received criticism. Dourson led Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, a non-profit consulting firm. An investigation by the Center…

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Don't allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in GOP Budget Crosshairs

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Tell your Senator to remove drilling in the Refuge from the budget Contact your Senator now! A Medium post published by the Wilderness Society lays out the new threats facing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Congress is set to vote this month on a provision in the proposed budget allowing drilling activity in the refuge. The last refuge The Arctic…

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Pruitt's war on the EPA and the Clean Power Plan

The EPA Repeals the Clean Power Plan

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a notice proposing to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP is the cornerstone of former President Obama’s climate change policy. In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized new standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, developed under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court…

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Blasting Scott Pruitt's leadership to protect human health and the environment

Former EPA Employee Once Again Blasts Scott Pruitt for Failure of Leadership

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

“To protect human health and the environment” The following open letter from former EPA employee Michael Cox. After 25 years with the agency, Cox retired last March. Upon his departure from EPA Cox wrote a withering letter to newly appointed EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Among his many criticisms, Cox zeroed in on Pruitt’s confounding statements on EPA’s mission, his outright…

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Clean Power Plan Executive Order

Executive Order Guts Clean Power Plan : Trump’s Imaginary War on Coal has just Begun

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

This morning, under the cover of “energy independence,” U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a rewrite of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The Plan is the cornerstone of U.S. commitment to curbing emissions under the Paris climate agreement, so the rewrite represents a significant rollback of U.S. global warming mitigation as a whole. Unlike the rhetoric surrounding health care,…

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"Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died"
First the Caribbean, where coral is "trashed"; then the Florida Keys with 3 % left from what was "acres and acres of golden coral" in the 1980. Now the Great Barrier Reef. #anthropocene https://t.co/OCEdQO7rTY

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Fisheries can be the lifeblood of seaside communities. But what happens to those economies when fisheries go under? A team from @NOAA 's Northeast Fisheries Science Center has developed a model to predict economic impacts of fishing closures https://t.co/k6Vswc3lf3 @SeafoodSource

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PaulEDawsonPaul Dawson@PaulEDawson·
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We live in a world where sea level is rising, heat waves & precipitation events are becoming more extreme. If you’re the agency tasked with preparing for natural disasters, deciding to not take this into account is the definition of insanity
#ActOnClimate https://t.co/BkYBqtIiJI

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Now he’s going after the century-old Migratory Bird Act.
Where do you stand? https://t.co/2XvcvKEjb8

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