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From Premature Deaths to Planet-Heating Emissions, Analysis Reveals Costs of Trump’s Fossil Fuel Giveaways

“Tell me Donald. Exactly how much is a human life being sold for?” —Joda Latour While the report, published Sunday, estimates that the fossil fuel industry could save up to $11.6 billion, other consequences include up to 1,400 more premature deaths per year, a jump of about a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions that …

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Polluters’ Friend to Take Reins of Fish and Wildlife Service

SWAMP WATCH: “Skipwith will always put the interests of her old boss Monsanto and other polluters ahead of America’s wildlife and help the most anti-environmental administration in history do even more damage,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity.   Polluters’ Friend to Take Reins of Fish and Wildlife Service  …

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With Corporate Interests at the Helm, EPA Polluter Fines Down 85%, Hitting Lowest Level in 25 Years

SWAMP WATCH: When you have friends in high places….. On social media, the national legal advocacy nonprofit organization Public Justice announced plans to file suit against one corporate polluter in the coming days. “If the government isn’t going to do its job and protect the environment, we will,” the group wrote. With Corporate Interests at …

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Scientists say Trump’s first 2 years have been fatal for a livable climate

“The most destructive action on Trump’s part has been his efforts to thwart the international Paris climate agreement by threatening unilateral withdrawal of the United States from an agreement that every other country in the world has signed on to,” said Mann. “This has provided an excuse for other major carbon emitters, like China, to …

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Toxic Tragedy: Andrew Wheeler Has Betrayed Congress and Shamelessly Cooked the Books to Help Coal Barons | Sierra Club

SWAMP WATCH Crony Capitalism:  “……Andrew Wheeler, who decides that the control of mercury is not “appropriate or necessary.” Tell that to the nursing mother whose infant’s neurological system has been compromised by mercury poisoning (according to Mr. Wheeler, that poisoning is worth just a few thousand dollars). Wheeler proposes to reverse course on air toxics …

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Trump administration orders wildlife refuges employees back to work so hunters can hunt

Trump administration orders wildlife refuges employees back to work so hunters can hunt Kerry Eleveld Daily Kos Staff As furloughed federal workers are being forced to choose between paying for cancer medications or food, the Trump administration is ordering staffers at dozens of wildlife refuges to return to work so that hunting season isn’t disrupted.  …

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