Submissions from commondreams.org

• 'Kicking Ass for Her Generation': Applause for 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg as EU Chief Pledges $1 Trillion to Curb Climate Threat

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  Published on 22nd Feb 2019
• The real political danger to the Green New Deal is that Democrats will do what they did with healthcare—run from the issue and allow the Republicans to set the terms of the debate.

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  Published on 18th Feb 2019
• 'A Red Screaming Alarm Bell' to Banish Fossil Fuels: NASA Confirms Last Five Years Hottest on Record - "We're no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It's here. It's now."

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  Published on 7th Feb 2019
• Senators Demand Federal Limits for Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water Amid Reports of 'Unconscionable' Inaction by Trump's EPA: "We now face a serious challenge: aggressively addressing the health and environmental threats connected with PFAS."

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  Published on 3rd Feb 2019
• In 'Victory for Land and Water,' Canada's Supreme Court Rules Bankrupt Fossil Fuel Companies Must Clean Up Pollution Left Behind

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  Published on 1st Feb 2019
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's call to get off fossil fuel by the 2030s is hard but technically achievable; the guarantee of a job in the renewable industry to anyone who wants one would actually provide the labor required to make a transition of this magnitude

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  Published on 13th Jan 2019
• 'A Disaster': Critics Pounce on Trump USDA's New GMO Labeling Rule

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  Published on 30th Dec 2018
• Dairy Farming is Dying. After 40 Years, I’m Done.

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  Published on 26th Dec 2018
• Demands Grow for Republicans to Take 'Real Climate Action' as Death Toll From California Wildfires Hits Grim Record - "This is not the new normal. This is the new abnormal," said California Gov. Jerry Brown

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  Published on 14th Nov 2018
• 'Disaster Waiting to Happen' as Trump Quietly Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Arctic Waters Off Alaska Coast - "This project sets us down a dangerous path of destroying the Arctic. We'll keep fighting this project & any new ones that follow."

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  Published on 26th Oct 2018
• 'This Is a Scandal': With Hurricane Florence Barreling Toward US, Document Shows Trump Moved $10M From FEMA to ICE - "The administration transferred millions of dollars away from FEMA. And for what? To implement their profoundly misguided 'zero tolerance' policy."

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  Published on 13th Sep 2018
• EPA Exodus: Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office - "My feeling was I could do better work to protect the environment outside the EPA," says one former agency employee

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  Published on 12th Sep 2018
• In Win for Wildlife, Yellowstone Area Grizzlies Get 'Stay of Execution' - Federal judge grants temporary restraining order blocking planned trophy hunts in Wyoming and Idaho

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  Published on 4th Sep 2018
• 'Belly Flop': With Only One Percent of Leases Sold, Even Fossil Fuel Industry Understands Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Is Ridiculous

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  Published on 20th Aug 2018
• New Survey of 63,000 Scientists Across 16 US Agencies Details How Trump Is 'Sidelining Science' - "When you can't research threats & share accurate info with the public, there are real consequences. People depend on federal science to protect them."

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  Published on 15th Aug 2018
• Rhode Island Files Historic Lawsuit Against 21 Big Oil Companies "Here we are—the smallest state, the Ocean State—taking on the biggest, most powerful corporate polluters in the world"

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  Published on 4th Jul 2018
• As GOP Pushes Overhaul, Conservationists Mobilize to Save 'Endangered Species Act From Extinction' - "This bill is all about politics. It's not about science. It's especially not about better ways to conserve endangered species."

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  Published on 4th Jul 2018
• 'Unconscionable' & 'Shocking': Trump's Head of NOAA Proposes Axing 'Climate' & Conservation From Agency's Mission - "Redefining NOAA's mission is a serious threat to the breadth of science, services, & stewardship that NOAA provides," one scientist responded

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  Published on 26th Jun 2018
• Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling & Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy

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  Published on 21st Jun 2018
• Zinke & Lamar Alexander's Big Plan? We Must Kill the Planet to Save the National Parks - New joint op-ed touts legislation that'd fund national parks' infrastructure repairs with leases for oil & gas drilling

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  Published on 3rd May 2018
• With 'Merger From Hell' Reportedly Approved by Trump's DOJ, Warnings of Agrichemical Chokehold on Food System: Watchdog groups raise concerns over GMO and pesticide corporation Bayer-Monsanto

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  Published on 11th Apr 2018
• There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

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  Published on 5th Mar 2018
• Threatening the 'Warnings Upon Which the Country Depends,' Trump Budget Would Axe Nearly 250 Weather Forecasters

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  Published on 16th Feb 2018
• Earth Might Be Warming, Pruitt Finally Admits, But Would Be 'Arrogant' for Humanity to Act to Stop It - "There is no consistency at all to climate deniers' various arguments other than that we should continue to burn fossil fuels."

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  Published on 9th Feb 2018
• An 'Oil-Soaked Nightmare': New Analysis Shows Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Could Mean Over 5,000 Spills - "No president has ever pushed a drilling plan that would do so much damage along so many American coastlines. It's really astonishing."

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  Published on 2nd Feb 2018
• With Oceans Under Greatest Threat Ever, Trump Administration Urges Even Less Protection for Marine Life - "It shouldn't be too much to ask to protect 2% of the U.S.'s exclusive economic zone off the Atlantic coast for future generations."

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  Published on 4th Jan 2018
• Fayetteville Becomes 54th US City to Make 100% Renewable Energy Pledge

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  Published on 4th Jan 2018
• In Bid to Save Big Oil $900M, Trump Moves to Scrap Offshore Drilling Safety Rules - The BSEE proposes eliminating regulations that were put in place in response to the deadliest offshore drilling disaster in U.S. history

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  Published on 27th Dec 2017
• Trump Disbands Panel That Helped Cities Respond to Climate Threat - The president shutters group that was "one of the last federal bodies that openly talked about climate change in public"

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  Published on 7th Dec 2017