(EnviroNews Polls) — On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. The move by itself, though only done once before by a U.S. president (Bill Clinton), is within the rights of the office. But after Trump canned Comey, three words began to circulate almost…
(EnviroNews Polls) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides funds to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), costs the American taxpayer $445 million every year, or about $1.37 per U.S. citizen; four Marine B-class F-35 fighter jets cost those same taxpayers $490…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Washington D.C. — The spotlight remained on Russia and recently confirmed Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions, at a confirmation hearing for Deputy AG nominee Rod Rosenstein, in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 7, 2017. On January 10, 2017, at then-Senator Sessions’ confirmation…
(EnviroNews Polls) — The nation’s capitol has been in a state of near upheaval this week following a controversial executive order signed by President Donald Trump to ban travelers from seven Muslim countries. If the news week hadn’t been eventful enough, on January 31, 2017, Trump, in a…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Well, it’s finally arrived: January 20, 2017 — the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony — and has it ever been an unprecedentedly wild ride for the last two months over the transitionary period. Spurred by civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, a movement of…
(EnviroNews Polls) — In the catastrophic 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in Ukraine, only four percent of what could have been released, actually was released — and that accident has caused substantial damage to the environment and human health, both told and untold. On the flip side of…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Well, it’s happened again. For the second time in less than two decades, and the fifth time in American history, a candidate for President of the United States has won the popular vote across the country, but failed to take the White House. The reason:…
(EnviroNews Polls) — It’s hard to conceive of anything more “fascist” than a leader imprisoning his or her political opponents, but that is exactly what America’s new President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly to do to “Crooked Hillary” if he were to become the leader of the free world.…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Well, it’s happened again. That is, another presidential debate has flown by without a single substantive question about either the environment or climate change. It certainly isn’t the first time, and likely won’t be the last. The culprit moderators this time around: CNN’s Anderson Cooper…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off in their most vicious encounter yet at the second of three head-to-head presidential debates on October 9, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis. The event was moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, and was…
(EnviroNews Polls) — 2016 vice presidential candidates Mike Pence (R) and Tim Kaine (D) squared off in a debate for the first and last time on October 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Kaine came out early by firing at Donald Trump’s positions repeatedly and relentlessly. Pence…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Hempstead, New York — The two most unpopular presidential candidates in U.S. history squared off on September 26, 2016, for the first of three debates at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York’s Hempstead Village. Despite the two candidates holding the worst favorability ratings since…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Nearly two million wild horses (Equus ferus caballus) once roamed the American landscape. Today, the number is a far cry from that, with the population hovering somewhere around 67,000. But the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an ancillary arm of the Department of Interior…
(EnviroNews Polls) — On September 3, 2016, residents near Pawnee, Oklahoma were jolted by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake as a result of oil and gas production activities. The quake officially ties another 5.6 wastewater temblor from 2011 in Prauge, Oklahoma as the largest manmade earthquakes ever in the…
(EnviroNews Polls) — 3.2 million animals. That is the amount of critters and creatures brutally eradicated by Wildlife Services (WS) in America last year alone, by way of traps, snares, bullets and poisons — all with your tax dollars of course (at least if you are a U.S.…