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Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines. Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The […]
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Friday termination notices, abrupt reassignments and the erasure of key environmental websites put the future of policing polluters in doubt. When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time. When […]
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Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects Read at The Guardian Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found. Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought […]
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Long before the Rose Garden disaster, a fly-fishing campaign trip that featured few masks produced a high-profile COVID-19 case—and some pissed-off residents. When Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for COVID-19 before Donald Trump’s July Mount Rushmore speech, it seemed like the result came back just in the nick of time. She and her boyfriend, who happens to be the president’s […]
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“Life is what is important right now. I wouldn’t take that risk. I just wouldn’t,” one Bureau of Indian Education educator told the agency in mid-July. The U.S. Department of the Interior – Indian Affairs, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Education, announced last week that it would reopen “brick and mortar schools” under its […]
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The pandemic has hit Native American communities particularly hard. A Bureau of Indian Affairs employee is the first Interior Department staffer to die from COVID-19, according to internal numbers obtained by HuffPost. The death, reported Tuesday, comes as the number of cases at the Interior Department has continued to increase. The unnamed Bureau of Indian […]
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Internal data reviewed by HuffPost reveals how widespread the coronavirus has become within the department. At least 40 employees across the Department of the Interior have tested positive for COVID-19 and are considered contagious, resulting in mandatory employee quarantines, office closures and deep cleanings, according to internal data reviewed by HuffPost. Almost every bureau of […]
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LOS ANGELES — Industry groups are pushing for California regulators to delay new environmental measures, including those meant to promote clean air. Their reason: the economic stress the COVID-19 pandemic is putting on their businesses. Groups have sent at least six letters to California officials in the past two weeks requesting delays or modifications to […]
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Major parks remain open. And despite rangers and employees testing positive, the government is encouraging use of the parks as a social-distancing solution. Frustrated by what he considered inadequate answers about why some staff could telework while others had to show up to work, Lyndon B. Johnson Historic Park maintenance worker Trevor Wright took matters […]
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