This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump is planning a massive fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on July 3, despite a decade-long ban on pyrotechnics at the iconic spot because of concerns about public health, environmental and safety risks.Trump has wanted to stage fireworks at the national memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills since 2018, according to two individuals familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. But the idea was scuttled or delayed by a number of his advisers, these...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump is planning a massive fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on July 3, despite a decade-long ban on pyrotechnics at the iconic spot because of concerns about public health, environmental and safety risks.Trump has wanted to stage fireworks at the national memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills since 2018, according to two individuals familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. But the idea was scuttled or delayed by a number of his advisers, these...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHunters will soon be allowed to venture into national preserves in Alaska and engage in practices that conservation groups say are reprehensible: baiting hibernating bears from their dens with doughnuts to kill them and using artificial light such as headlamps to scurry into wolf dens to slaughter mothers and their pups.With a final rule published Tuesday in the Federal Register, the a five-year-old ban on the practices, which also include shooting swimming caribou from a boat and targeting animals from airplanes and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHunters will soon be allowed to venture into national preserves in Alaska and engage in practices that conservation groups say are reprehensible: baiting hibernating bears from their dens with doughnuts to kill them and using artificial light such as headlamps to scurry into wolf dens to slaughter mothers and their pups.With a final rule published Tuesday in the Federal Register, the a five-year-old ban on the practices, which also include shooting swimming caribou from a boat and targeting animals from airplanes and...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump signed a proclamation Friday that opened the Atlantic Ocean’s only fully protected marine sanctuary to commercial fishing, dismissing arguments that crab traps, fishing nets and lines dangling hooks can harm fish and whales.Fishing can resume at the off the coast of New England, Trump said. The Obama administration closed off nearly 5,000 square miles of ocean in September 2016 to save whales and allow marine life to recover from overfishing. The controversial decision was praised by conservationists and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump signed a proclamation Friday that opened the Atlantic Ocean’s only fully protected marine sanctuary to commercial fishing, dismissing arguments that crab traps, fishing nets and lines dangling hooks can harm fish and whales.Fishing can resume at the off the coast of New England, Trump said. The Obama administration closed off nearly 5,000 square miles of ocean in September 2016 to save whales and allow marine life to recover from overfishing. The controversial decision was praised by conservationists and...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration closed the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island on Monday in response to the coronavirus outbreak. It joined at least 10 other sites that were shuttered within the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Golden Gate Recreation Area in California over the weekend.According to the , visitors are now barred from popular sites such as the Washington Monument and Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site in Washington, as well as Alcatraz Island and Muir Woods National Monument in Northern...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration closed the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island on Monday in response to the coronavirus outbreak. It joined at least 10 other sites that were shuttered within the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Golden Gate Recreation Area in California over the weekend.According to the , visitors are now barred from popular sites such as the Washington Monument and Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site in Washington, as well as Alcatraz Island and Muir Woods National Monument in Northern...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareInterior Department Secretary , 51, tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Washington Post.Bernhardt was tested for the virus that causes covid-19 before President Trump held a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. As a result, the secretary did not attend the session.“He is currently asymptomatic and will continue to work on behalf of the American people while in quarantine,” Interior spokesman Nicholas Goodwin said in an email.Bernhardt’s infection has set off a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareInterior Department Secretary , 51, tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Washington Post.Bernhardt was tested for the virus that causes covid-19 before President Trump held a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. As a result, the secretary did not attend the session.“He is currently asymptomatic and will continue to work on behalf of the American people while in quarantine,” Interior spokesman Nicholas Goodwin said in an email.Bernhardt’s infection has set off a...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River Basin was the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, even more parched than during the disastrous Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a new study says.The drop in water level at the mouth of the Missouri — the country’s longest river — was due to rising temperatures linked to climate change that reduced the amount of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains in Montana and North Dakota, scientists found.The basin has continued to experience droughts this decade — in 2012, 2013 and 2017 —...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River Basin was the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, even more parched than during the disastrous Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a new study says.The drop in water level at the mouth of the Missouri — the country’s longest river — was due to rising temperatures linked to climate change that reduced the amount of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains in Montana and North Dakota, scientists found.The basin has continued to experience droughts this decade — in 2012, 2013 and 2017 —...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAn Interior Department official misused his position to get his son-in-law hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a government investigation released Friday.Assistant Secretary Douglas Domenech approached a top EPA official when they both attended a concert at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in fall 2017, according to by the department’s inspector general.“Please be aware [the family member] is actually applying for a job at EPA,” Domenech said, according to the investigation. In an...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAn Interior Department official misused his position to get his son-in-law hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a government investigation released Friday.Assistant Secretary Douglas Domenech approached a top EPA official when they both attended a concert at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in fall 2017, according to by the department’s inspector general.“Please be aware [the family member] is actually applying for a job at EPA,” Domenech said, according to the investigation. In an...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Tensions between the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spilled out into public view on Sunday as a top adviser to President Trump criticized the public health agency’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.The comments by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are the latest signal of how the Trump administration has sought to . The agency...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Tensions between the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spilled out into public view on Sunday as a top adviser to President Trump criticized the public health agency’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.The comments by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are the latest signal of how the Trump administration has sought to . The agency...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareA method used by fuel companies to avoid polar bear dens before they search for oil or gas works less than half the time, according to a study released Thursday. That failure could pose a grave risk to mothers and their cubs in the dens, which are hidden under ice, if the Trump administration finalizes its plan to expand drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.According to the study published in the journal PLOS One, infrared technology mounted on airplanes missed 55 percent of dens that were known to exist west...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareA method used by fuel companies to avoid polar bear dens before they search for oil or gas works less than half the time, according to a study released Thursday. That failure could pose a grave risk to mothers and their cubs in the dens, which are hidden under ice, if the Trump administration finalizes its plan to expand drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.According to the study published in the journal PLOS One, infrared technology mounted on airplanes missed 55 percent of dens that were known to exist west...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareEven with the stomach cramps, nausea and hurried trips to the bathroom several times a day, Gary Cuppels never suspected his tap water. He kept drinking it, brushing his teeth with it and bathing in it.Not until he came home one night and found a large pallet of water bottles on his porch did Cuppels start to worry. A note from his “friends at Mountaire,” the chicken processing plant up the road in rural Delaware, said he should drink the bottled water instead of the groundwater his deep well pulled from the northern...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareEven with the stomach cramps, nausea and hurried trips to the bathroom several times a day, Gary Cuppels never suspected his tap water. He kept drinking it, brushing his teeth with it and bathing in it.Not until he came home one night and found a large pallet of water bottles on his porch did Cuppels start to worry. A note from his “friends at Mountaire,” the chicken processing plant up the road in rural Delaware, said he should drink the bottled water instead of the groundwater his deep well pulled from the northern...WW…