David Legates, a meteorologist who claims that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for plants and that global warming is harmless, has been tapped to run the federal agency that oversees a major scientific report on how climate change is affecting the United States. Legates, a […]
The image above reflects the nearly Endangered Narwhal, the unicorn of the sea, which is now losing some of its protection by the USA. The Trump administration unveiled final regulations that weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on in August, just three months after the United Nations warned of the […]
In June, the Trump administration tossed out a rule on marine protection for whales and sea turtles caught in fishing nets off the West Coast. The rule change was made despite the fishing industry’s having proposed the measures in the first place, according to the Associated Press. The […]