Gov/Politics
President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One
WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2021 (ENS) – “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear,” President [...]
Gov/Politics
Air/Climate
Day One: President Biden to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
WASHINGTON, DC, January 19, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden has a busy day planned for Inauguration Day Wednesday, January 20. A series of executive orders expected from President [...]
Air/Climate
Biden’s Green Team Takes Shape With Race, Gender Firsts
WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his [...]
Gov/Politics
Electoral College Affirms Biden Headed for White House
WILMINGTON, Delaware, December 15, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Electoral College has formally elected the Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California [...]
Air/Climate
John Kerry to Head Biden Administration’s Climate Team
WASHINGTON, DC, November 23, 2020 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden today announced key members of his foreign policy and national security team including, for the first time, a Special [...]
Air/Climate
President-elect Biden to Restore U.S. Climate Leadership
WASHINGTON, DC, November 8, 2020 (ENS) – Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared President-elect of the United States on Saturday after slow, meticulous vote-counting that kept the nation on [...]
Air/Climate
Trump vs Biden: Environment in the Final Debate
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, October 23, 2020 (ENS) – Republican President Donald Trump and his challenger in the November 3 election former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, faced [...]
Gov/Politics
Legal? Trump’s Raid on Military Funds for Border Wall
WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to rule on whether the Trump administration must stop building sections of the southern border wall [...]
Gov/Politics
Back at White House, Infected Trump Tears Off His Mask
WASHINGTON, DC, October 5, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening aboard his helicopter just before seven, and his first actions alarmed health [...]
Gov/Politics
India Halts Amnesty International’s Human Rights Work
NEW DELHI, India, October 5, 2020 (ENS) – The freezing of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Government of India on September 10 has brought all the work [...]
Gov/Politics
President Trump Hospitalized for COVID-19 Treatment
WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump is in a military hospital under treatment for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. A statement from [...]
Gov/Politics
Trump Rude, Biden Cool in First Presidential Debate
CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 30, 2020 (ENS) – Climate change and environmental protection were two of the many flashpoints during the first 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and [...]
Air/Climate
Climate High Priority for Biden-Harris Democratic Ticket
WILMINGTON, Delaware, August 14, 2020 (ENS) – In their first campaign appearance together as running mates, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President, and his newly announced [...]
At Risk
Capitol Hill Shivers as Lawmakers Test Virus Positive
WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2020 (ENS) – Senate Democrats voted down a $1.8 trillion coronavirus aid package Sunday evening with five Republican senators absent. Senator Rand Paul of [...]
At Risk
Trump’s Far-Reaching Rollbacks of Environmental Rules
NEW YORK, New York, February 3, 2020 (ENS) – New York State Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general and the City of [...]
Gov/Politics
Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston Arrested at Green New Deal Demo
WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2019 (ENS) – Actors Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston were both arrested Friday in Washington, DC, during a demonstration protesting government inaction on climate [...]
Air/Climate
Big City Mayors Support Global Green New Deal
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, October 14, 2019 (ENS) – The mayors of many of the world’s largest cities have announced their support for a Global Green New Deal and declared [...]
Gov/Politics
Trump Disrupts France’s Effort to Green the G7 Summit
BIARRITZ, France, August 26, 2019 (ENS) – The seven industrialized countries that make up the Group of Seven (G7) – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom [...]
Air/Climate
Democratic Debaters Wrestle With Climate Change
MIAMI, Florida, June 29, 2019 (ENS) – Climate change was on the formal presidential debate agenda for the first time as 20 Democratic presidential candidates with their hopes [...]
Gov/Politics
Public Lands Critic to Oversee Fish, Wildlife and Parks
WASHINGTON, DC, June 11, 2019 (ENS) – The Secretary of the Interior keeps illegally shuffling political officials into jobs requiring Senate confirmation, according to a legal complaint filed [...]