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Biden Thwarts Trump And Blocks Mining Road, Oil Drilling In Alaska - Huffington Post  (Apr 19) |
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Apr 19 · President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday safeguarded millions of acres in Alaska from fossil fuel drilling and mining - the latest in a frenzy of environmental actions in recent weeks that have drawn praise from green groups and condemnation from industry and Republican lawmakers. The Interior Department finalized a rule that bars oil and gas development across more than 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope. Established in 1923, the 23 million-acre reserve is the largest tract of federal land in the country and home to vast oil and gas deposits. Interior also moved to block construction of the Ambler Road, a proposed 211-mile ... Read more ... |
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Biologists Rescue Sawfish As Dozens Of Ancient Animals Die For Unknown Reasons - Huffington Post  (Apr 13) |
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Apr 13 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A large sawfish that showed signs of distress was rescued by wildlife officials in the Florida Keys, where more than three dozen of the ancient and endangered fish have died for unexplained reasons in recent months. The 11-foot (3.3-meter) smalltooth sawfish was seen swimming in circles near Cudjoe Key and reported by a member of the public to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, officials said Friday. It was loaded onto a specially designed transport trailer and taken to Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, where it is being rehabilitated. The unprecedented rescue of an animal like this is part of an “emergency response” led ... Read more ... |
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Critics Shred Chris Sununu Over His 'Truly Sad' Trump 180: 'All The More Pitiful' - Huffington Post  (Apr 15) |
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Apr 15 · New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who was recently a staunch critic of Donald Trump, changed his tune on the former president as he backed his 2024 campaign in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. “No other president in American history has contributed to an insurrection so please explain, given the fact that you believe he contributed to an insurrection, how you can say we should have him back in the Oval Office,” Stephanopoulos asked on ABC News’ “This Week.” “Because for me it’s not about him as much as it is having a Republican administration ...,” said Sununu, who predicted that Trump wouldn’t be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee but didn’t ... Read more ... |
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Iran Fires At Suspected Israeli Attack Drones Near Isfahan Air Base And Nuclear Site - Huffington Post  (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones, which were suspected to be part of an Israeli attack in retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. No Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility that Israel attacked, and the Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment. However, tensions have been high since the Saturday assault on Israel amid its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its own strikes targeting Iran in Syria. United States officials declined to comment as of early Friday, ... Read more ... |
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New Documents Reveal A GOP Senate Candidate’s Blatant Lies - Huffington Post  (Apr 16) |
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Apr 16 · Montana businessman Tim Sheehy built his aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace, on certain scientific realities - namely that global climate change is real and driving more extreme wildfires. He even touted it as a leader in the fight against planet-warming emissions. But when it came time to campaign for the U.S. Senate, the GOP hopeful quickly embraced partisan talking points on climate, repeatedly railing against what he calls the “climate cult” and “radical environmentalists,” while blaming the growing wildfire threat exclusively on forest mismanagement. And while the Trump-endorsed MAGA conservative flipped his script on climate, his company continues to ... Read more ... |
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New Photos Show Just How Bad Mass Coral Bleaching Is On The Great Barrier Reef - Huffington Post  (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of the most extensive and serious coral bleaching events in recorded history after a summer of extreme temperatures and oceanic heat effectively cooked the delicate corals that make up the iconic structure. The Australian Institute of Marine Science recently completed an intensive, large-scale survey of the reef, which is a system of about 3,000 individual reefs that stretches nearly 1,500 miles along the coastline. For the first time, extreme levels of bleaching have been seen along all regions of the Great Barrier and around 75% of the reefs surveyed showed signs of prevalent bleaching. Aerial photos released Wednesday ... Read more ... |
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Owner Of New York City’s Defunct Nuclear Plant Sues The State - Huffington Post  (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · The company that owns the shuttered nuclear plant that once provided the bulk of New York City’s zero-carbon electricity is suing the state over a law passed last year specifically to block the Indian Point power station from carrying out routine releases of treated wastewater into the Hudson River, HuffPost has learned. Virtually every nuclear power plant all over the world releases tiny volumes of a radioactive isotope known as tritium from its cooling water into surrounding waterways. Unlike the long-lasting and dangerous radioisotopes that form during the atom-splitting process, tritium ? an isotope of hydrogen ? laces into water, making it almost impossible to extract. ... Read more ... |
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RFK Jr. Denounced By Environmental Colleagues, Urged To End Campaign - Huffington Post  (Apr 19) |
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Apr 19 · Environmentalists who once worked with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are calling on him to drop his presidential bid, The New York Times was first to report Friday, while a number of green organizations are also denouncing the independent candidate for his anti-science beliefs. The push for Kennedy to exit the 2024 race comes from his ex-colleagues at the Natural Resources Defense Council, whose political arm is planning to run full-page newspaper ads in six swing states next week. Kennedy had served as a senior attorney at the climate advocacy group for around 28 years. The ads describe his campaign as benefiting presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, “the single worst ... Read more ... |
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