by Taylor Goebel | Mar 1, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday mentioned the environment only once in his 75-minute address to Congress, saying only that “my administration wants to work with members in both parties…to promote clean air and clean water.” Earlier in the day, he signed...
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by Shahzeb Ahmed | Feb 24, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON – It was the battle of the experts at a Cato Institute forum: The Trump administration’s promise of a government-neutral energy policy will give an overdue boost to fossil fuel production, one energy expert said. But another responded that regulations...
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by Nona Tepper | Feb 22, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON–Will the National Zoo change without Bao Bao? “Ask the bamboo,” joked Noah Tadele, 9, an aspiring veterinarian who was at the zoo Tuesday to say good-bye to Bao Bao, a panda cub headed home to China after four years as the big celebrity at the...
by Taylor Goebel | Jan 30, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON: The National Park Service is trying to keep exempt its safety personnel from President Donald Trump’s 90-day federal hiring freeze, but park advocates and former NPS employees worry that without the 10,000 seasonal workers who may be cut through attrition,...
by Jasmine Minor | Jan 25, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House late Tuesday to rally against President Donald Trump’s executive orders to revive two pipelines that go through North Dakota. Jasmine Minor reports for KVRR Local News....
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by Yu-Ning Aileen Chuang | Jan 12, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON—Outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says the department’s new policy protecting staff scientists and engineers as well as scientists who receive federal funding from political interference was in the works before Donald Trump won the presidency....
