Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
Climate Change
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Lawmakers, Lobbyists and the Administration Join Forces to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act
In the past two weeks, more than two dozen pieces of legislation, policy initiatives and amendments designed to weaken the law have been either introduced or voted on in Congress.
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Baltimore Sues 26 Fossil Fuels Companies Over Climate Change
The city’s waterfront revitalization has become a model for urban development, but sea level rise and extreme weather are putting its future at risk.
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Plastic Is Killing our Oceans. Here’s What You Need To Know
Every minute, an amount of plastic equal to a full garbage truckload is deposited in our oceans. That is set to increase tenfold by 2020, and by 2050, the weight of all the plastic in the oceans will exceed the weight of all the fish.
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The Climate Crisis Is Here
The world is not only facing climate “change,” we are facing a climate crisis. For 30 years, scientists have warned that we were changing the climate. Now those predictions are coming true with a vengeance.
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Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put 80,000 Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds
The authors used EPA’s own risk assessments to estimate the number of illnesses and early deaths prevented by clean air and water rules Trump is now trying to erase.
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Florida Kids Sue Gov. Scott Over Climate Change: You Have 'Moral Obligation' to Protect Us
The case, connected to the federal Our Children’s Trust climate lawsuit, is one of nine pressuring states to take action on global warming and fossil fuels.
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Earth Day: Conflict Over the Future of the Planet
The environmental crisis and the mishandling of climate change are issues that are going to make the 2020s a decade of transformational change.
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Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline
Environmental and indigenous groups are cheering after Kinder Morgan announced it was halting most work on its controversial Trans Mountain expansion pipeline project, citing continuing opposition.
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The First Signs of a Global Climate Change Immigration Crisis Are Here
The Mekong Delta region is the canary in the coalmine – one of the first places in the world to feel the real and lasting effects of climate change, and a grim indication of what's to come.
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Is Drinking Water in the U.S. Safe? Not By a Long Shot
That nasty tasting water from the faucet that you’ve been rejecting in favor of an unhealthy soda might actually have unsafe quantities of lead, nitrates, arsenic and disease-causing pathogens.
