Sunday, May 17, 2026

EPA finds two widely used pesticides harm majority of endangered species

Atrazine and glyphosate are both causing severe harm to many of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Remember This When You Talk About Standing Rock

Yes, everyone should be talking about climate change. But we deserve to survive because our lives are worth defending in their own right — not simply because “this affects us all.”

Trump’s Attorney General pick introduced first bill to exempt fracking from drinking water rules

Nominated for a federal judge position in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, Sessions did not receive approval 30 years ago due to what congressional members deemed his troubling record on civil rights issues.

A good idea, even if it’s from Republicans

That it’s being proposed by Republicans doesn’t make the idea any less worthy.

Dakota Access Pipeline CEO Kelcy Warren should face the music

Kelcy Warren is a Texas oil billionaire several times over, and might not be easily deterred by a threatened boycott.

US Coast Guard demands Taylor Energy clean up 14 year oil spill or face...

"The time to clean this up was 14 years ago. Taylor Energy has shown nothing but negligence all this time."

‘I think I know more about the environment than most people’: Trump says he’s...

“In a nutshell, I want the cleanest water on Earth. I want the cleanest air on Earth. That’s what we’re doing. And I’m an environmentalist.”

Trump administration is making ‘explicit attempts’ to suppress climate change science

The Trump administration “has sidelined scientists and experts, flattened the morale of the career staff, and by all accounts is bent on hollowing out the agency."

Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”

Governor of North Dakota: When Trump is president DAPL ‘will get its easement’

“I support the legal completion of this pipeline. Make no mistake, this infrastructure is good for our economy. And it's the safest way to transport North Dakota products."