Immigrants Cleaning Up Wildfire-Stricken LA face Exploitation, Hazards
"Advocates say workers risk their health and fear speaking out about conditions amid Trump’s immigration crackdown"
"Advocates say workers risk their health and fear speaking out about conditions amid Trump’s immigration crackdown"
"Over the past two months, the Trump administration has taken steps to eliminate regulations addressing climate change, pull back funding for climate programs and cancel methods used to evaluate how climate change is affecting American society and its economy. Now it is directly undermining the science and research of climate change itself, in ways that some of the nation’s most distinguished scientists say will have dangerous consequences."
"Leaning on President Donald Trump’s declared energy emergency, the department aims to limit fossil project reviews to 28 days."
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed Friday the administration is reviewing the boundaries of several national monuments — meaning it eventually could move to shrink them."
"China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that an executive order President Trump signed a day earlier to accelerate the permitting process for seabed mining in international waters “violates international law and harms the overall interests of the international community.”
"A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects."
"Even though Liberal candidate Mark Carney has a lengthy climate policy résumé, Trump’s threats have nearly drowned the issue out of the campaign."
"Scott Vlaun has been working with his school district in western Maine to cut back how much energy it uses and helping his town come up with a plan to deal with climate threats from things like rising temperatures and worsening floods."
"The abrupt cancellation of a beloved farm-to-school grant program threatens food access, school gardens, and small farms nationwide."
"Donald Trump has denied federal disaster relief funds to the people of Arkansas, which saw dozens of people die from a series of deadly tornadoes last month, as legislators plead for him to reconsider."