Environment

"All over the country activists are now being energized."

“During any given year, climate hazards such as heatwaves, droughts, frosts and floods can each affect coffee yield.”

Grassroots and citizen opposition to the pipeline, which has been ongoing since the project’s original proposal in 2014, has intensified in recent months.

The upcoming months promise intense new fronts of conflict as tribal nations are united as never before and taking action.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that DNB was “reconsidering its participation” in the financing of the pipeline if “concerns raised by Native American tribes against its construction are not addressed.”

The ardent supporter of fossil fuels also wants to bring back the Keystone XL and announced plans to undo President Obama's climate change and environmental policies.

“We know that Shell is a climate criminal, destroying people’s lives and the planet for profit.”

“The FDA oversight over the sales and marketing of these harmful products has languished for too long."

Environmental advocates and public health groups say the Trump administration’s plan to weaken federal limits on “forever chemicals” in tap water could leave millions exposed to contaminants linked to cancer, liver damage, and other serious illnesses.

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.