Environment
Trump agenda ignores economic value of national parks
April 27, 2018The Trump administration has proposed massive budget cuts to the National Park Service, including the firing 1,835 employees at a time when park visits are at record highs.
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Earth Week 2018: Environmental losses and solutions
April 26, 2018“We must focus more on making the environment a political issue so that people will vote for candidates who will protect it and fight climate change."
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EPA staffers, supportive lawmakers demand Pruitt ouster
April 26, 2018Speakers at the rally in front of agency headquarters in downtown D.C. alternated between slamming Pruitt’s ethics and President Donald Trump’s policies, which they said would befoul the nation’s air and water all to enhance polluters’...
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Charges dropped against railroad for Lac-Mégantic catastrophe
April 16, 2018This was the story not of careless, lazy workers but of a railroad carrying hazardous cargo that cut corners on safety and maintenance wherever it could.
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California offshore oil firms rack up nearly 400 violations
April 11, 2018Critics have long said state regulators were too cozy with oil interests and had gone easy on enforcement.
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