Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Sunday, January 28, 2018

To just about everybody's surprise it appears that even the Trump Administration has serious concerns about the opening of Pebble Mine in Alaska.

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Courtesy of The Hill : The Trump administration is reviving a controversial Obama administration proposal to block a massive gold mine ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

EPA chief Scott Pruitt may be the king of paranoia.

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Courtesy of the AP :   The head of the Environmental Protection Agency used public money to have his office swept for hidden listening d...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

EPA chief comforts fossil fuel companies by assuring him that new report which specifically blames climate change on humans will not impact his policy decisions.

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Courtesy of USA Today :   EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said a newly released government report that lays most of the blame for the ris...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Trump's EPA may be working to find a way to green light the Pebble Mine. Have I told you how much I dislike the people in this administration?

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Courtesy of CNN :   Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed h...
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Friday, August 11, 2017

Well now Donald Trump's ignorance about climate change is directly impacting Alaska.

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Courtesy of The Guardian : The Trump administration has moved to dismantle climate adaptation programs including the Denali Commission, ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

The once dead Pebble Mine project has now been resurrected, thanks to Donald Trump.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   Plans to mine alongside Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay, where half the world’s salmon are fished, had appe...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Did the much reviled Pebble Mine project just die with a whimper and not a bang?

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   A 15-year fight to mine for gold along Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay might have just ended — with a whimp...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm concerning Donald Trump's threat to the environment.

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Courtesy of HuffPo :   Rachel Maddow said scientists who scrambled to save their data and copy it to non-government databases in the fin...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Among those who are hopeful about a Trump presidency, the folks behind the Pebble Mine.

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Courtesy of ADN :   The companies behind a decade-long effort to build a massive gold and copper mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay region...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Before leaving office President Obama protects the Arctic by declaring portions of it off limits for oil exploration.

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President Obama in Kotzebue, Alaska. Courtesy of Phys.org :   US President Barack Obama on Friday declared portions of the Arctic off-...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Sarah Palin gets herself all excited and has herself a gusher over the possibility of a Trump administration raping the planet a little harder.

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Courtesy of the fracking moron's Facebook page :   Drill, Baby Drill! American Made Energy Makes America Great Again (Not to be all ...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Another reminder as to why Alaskans can never honestly deny the existence of man made climate change.

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Courtesy of Truth Out : In late June, due to glaciers melting at unprecedented rates, the side of a mountain nearly a mile high in Alask...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Last oil company relinquishes oil drilling leases in the Chukchi Sea.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   Repsol, a Spanish oil company which owned a significant portion of the drilling leases for Alaska’s Chukc...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Obama administration cancels drilling leases. There will be no more drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean.

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Courtesy of The Hill :   The Obama administration took a number of actions Friday to restrict future offshore drilling in the Arctic Oce...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

President vetoes Republican bill to build Keystone XL project.

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Nice try GOP. Courtesy of the Washington Post :   President Obama vetoed a bill authorizing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Robert Reich explains why we should urge President Obama to veto the Keystone XL pipeline for good.

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Courtesy of MoveOn.org :   President Obama says he’ll veto the latest attempt by Congress to push through the Keystone XL pipeline, but...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

President will veto bill for Keystone XL pipeline if it comes across his desk. Now we're talking.

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Courtesy of CNN :   President Barack Obama will veto the Keystone XL bill if Congress passes a measure green-lighting the oil pipeline,...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Well great now we are on the cusp of starting another war with the Native American people. Over a stupid pipeline yet.

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Courtesy of Lakota Voice :   In response to today’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to authorize the Keystone XL tar sands pi...
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Thursday, November 06, 2014

Elections have consequences. Thanks to the Republican takeover of the Senate this guy will now be in charge of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Courtesy of The New Republic :   In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party'...
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Sunday, July 06, 2014

Conservatives are now modifying their diesel trucks into "coal rollers" which purposefully emit more pollutant in order to piss off liberals. WTF?

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Courtesy of Business Insider : "Coal Rollers" are diesel trucks modified with chimneys and equipment that can force extra fuel...
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