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While the Bear Cam bears hibernate, the Trump admin weighs a big plan to mine their world

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

When the peak of summer arrives in Alaska and the radiant midnight sun hangs in the northern sky, tens of millions of salmon make their move. They race up rivers, leap over waterfalls, and clog narrow streams with their hefty, five-pound bodies. It is then that Alaska’s Bristol Bay — home to the largest run of sockeye salmon on the planet — comes to life. Wolverines, foxes, lynx, and bald eagles descend upon this untrammeled realm. And the most dominant creature of the land, the brown bear, saunters down to these rivers. It’s here that the bears grow fat, stripping the skin off of salmon like it’s string cheese and devouring the pink flesh and fatty brains. Read more…

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The EPA has lost its mind

sudshr47 November 29, 2018

There’s something truly out of place amid a slew of uneventful news releases on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website: Six bizarre sentences, accusing the Obama Administration of distorting climate science.
Posted to the federal a…

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Trump administration changes EPA website to be kinder to fracking

sudshr47 November 18, 2018

At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its website pages on fracking.

A watchdog group known as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative tracked those changes across the EPA’s site and just released a report documenting the group’s findings. The result of the changes has left an official U.S. government website looking more like an extension of the fossil fuel industry than a federal agency with a mission to protect the environment.

The most obvious EPA website change from the report is the very title of the fracking page. Previously called “Natural Gas Extraction – Hydraulic Fracturing,” the EPA webpage on fracking is now titled “Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Development.” Read more…

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Don’t worry, your cereal probably won’t poison you with pesticides

sudshr47 August 17, 2018

It may seem like an alarmist local news story to declare your breakfast could kill you, but a new independent study claims that some of your favorite cereals could contain unsafe levels of a chemical used in a popular weed killer.
The report, from th…

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Trump just announced Scott Pruitt’s resignation from the EPA on Twitter

sudshr47 July 5, 2018

It seems Scott Pruitt suffered one scandal too many as Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday afternoon that he’s accepted Pruitt’s resignation effective Monday.

I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this. The Senate confirmed Deputy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018

…on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018 Read more…

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A landmark climate change ruling could go up in smoke after Justice Kennedy retires

sudshr47 June 30, 2018

After 30 years on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy will leave the nation’s highest courthouse at the end of July.
With Kennedy’s departure comes much uneasiness. One cause for concern is over the paramount climate decision Massachuset…

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Salty EPA spokesman slams journalist as “a piece of trash” for doing her job

sudshr47 June 6, 2018

Okay, everybody, this latest Scott Pruitt scandal has gotten a little out of hand.

When The Atlantic‘s Elaina Plott reached out for comment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — you know, the government organization Pruitt is running like his own personal bingo hall — EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox told Plott, “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash.”

Whoooooaaaaaaa there, Jahan.

A bit much, don’t you think?

Apparently, Wilcox has had a rough day answering questions about the impending departure of EPA aide Millan Hupp. Read more…

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In a surprise to scientists, gains in tackling dirty air have stagnated

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

In the 1950s, Los Angeles residents raised signs protesting the region’s filthy air. One woman’s sign, at an anti-smog committee meeting in 1954, mocked that Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley had been transformed into the inhospitable “Death Valley.”&#…

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Scott Pruitt dislikes the EPA logo because he thinks it looks like a marijuana leaf

sudshr47 April 12, 2018

Maybe you can see it better than we can.

According to the New York Times, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt isn’t happy with the organization’s seal, which has been in place for nearly 50 years.

The reason: He thinks it looks like a marijuana leaf.

It features a flower bloom representing all the elements of the environment, coupled with four leaves. It was produced for no charge by an ad agency in 1971 and was illustrated by Ken Bloomhorst, who died in January.

It’s wild that Scott Pruitt thinks the @EPA seal looks like a “marijuana leaf,” because it’s clearly the fire flower from Super Mario Broshttps://t.co/gmi0IhdTnz pic.twitter.com/ceEr3tGv3n

— Jory Heckman (@jmheckman) April 11, 2018 Read more…

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Apple voices opposition to Clean Power Plan repeal

sudshr47 April 6, 2018

The Clean Power Plan is shaping up to be the latest Obama-era legislation on the Trump administration chopping block. In fact, Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt has been quite open in his intentions to kill the plan focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Apple is among the first — but likely not the last […]

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Scott Pruitt just tried to explain those raises and it went oh so terribly wrong

sudshr47 April 4, 2018

It’s been a helluva few days for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt.
After controversy on top of controversy, Pruitt was found to have used a little-known provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act to give sizable raises t…

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Here’s a running list of all the Scott Pruitt scandals

sudshr47 April 4, 2018

News broke Tuesday that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt used a provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act to give significant pay raises to two political aides. It was pretty shocking, but hardly surprising given Pruitt…

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