During his first moments in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Biden returned the United States to the Paris climate accord and directed federal agencies to begin unraveling Donald Trump’s environmental policies. The Washington Post reports: Biden’s executive order recommitting the United States to the international struggle to slow global warming fulfilled a campaign promise and represented a stark repudiation of…
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Trump Auctions Arctic Refuge To Oil Drillers In Last Strike Against US Wilderness
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In one of its last strikes against the American wilderness, Donald Trump’s administration will on Wednesday auction off portions of the Arctic national wildlife refuge to oil drillers. The lease sales are the climax to one of the nation’s highest-profile environmental battles. The lands on the northern coastal plain of Alaska are…
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies in a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. That sets up a potential sale of leases…
Trump administration to approve Arctic wildlife refuge for oil and gas drilling
The section of the refuge poised to be leased is a key habitat for Arctic wildlife. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oil-drilling-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge.html
Have you seen Venus and Mercury? Photos here
Venus and Mercury – the 2 worlds orbiting closer to our sun than Earth – have been closest this week for all of 2020. Photos from the EarthSky community here. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photos-mercury-venus-conjunction-may-2020…