Alabama power plant
Gov/Politics

Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS – The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. […]

President Trump, RFK JR. Oval Office
Health

3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

SACRAMENTO, California, September 4, 2025 (ENS) – To ensure that their states’ residents’ access to vaccines remains protected by science, not politics, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson are launching a new West Coast Health Alliance. […]

EPA ORD Rhode Island
Gov/Politics

U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of a “reduction in force” as the agency continues its “comprehensive restructuring efforts” by closing the EPA Office of Research and Development, commonly called ORD. […]

Oval Office Trump
RSS

President Trump’s First 100 Days = Environmental Destruction

WASHINGTON, DC, May 1, 2025 (ENS) – President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term as President. His 100th day in office was April 30, 2025. This chronology documents the most important of his presidential actions that have impacted the environment of the United States in his first 100 days. […]

Kathy Hochul
AmeriScan

NEW YORK: Invests $1 Billion in Climate Action, Nuclear Power

ALBANY, New York, March 18, 2025 (ENS) – It was more than two months ago, on January 14, during the last week of President Joe Biden’s administration, when New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State address. […]

President Trump, Lee Zeldin
Gov/Politics

Trump EPA Chief Zeldin Brags: ‘EPA Ends the ‘Green New Scam’

WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2025 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced  31 actions the agency has taken to deregulate the American system of environmental protections across the country. Zeldin says he took these actions “to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” […]

oryx seized in Iran
Latest News

365 Suspects Busted for Wildlife, Timber Trafficking

LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]

Panama Canal
Business

U.S. Firm Pays HK Conglomerate $23B for Panama Canal Ports

WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2025 (ENS) – The Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings said Tuesday that it will sell all shares in its subsidiaries Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Group Holdings to a consortium that includes the U.S. company BlackRock Inc. in a deal valued at close to US$23 billion that carries $5 billion in debt. […]

wildfire smoke, Montana
Gov/Politics

Harris-Trump Disconnect on Climate Is Glaring

The question to you both tonight is what would you do to fight climate change? Vice President Harris, we’ll start with you.” “Well, the former president had said that climate change is a hoax,” Harris said. “And what we know is that it is very real.” […]

Biden, Harris Johnson SOTU 2024
Gov/Politics

Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – President Joe Biden entered the House of Representatives Thursday night to deliver the final State of the Union address for this term with a brilliant smile and a long list of accomplishments to promote. The environment was barely there, mentioned just twice, but Biden’s two comments were strong. […]

U.S.-Mexico border wall
Gov/Politics

Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of an emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, used to justify building a border wall. […]