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ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IS RISING IN AMERICA. AND MINORITIES AND THE POOR PAY THE PRICE
At a campaign stop in Ohio back in August 2016, President Trump asked minorities What do you have to lose ?... READ MORE›
OCELOTS TRY TO SURVIVE IN A WORLD THAT BARELY KNOWS THEY EXIST
The camouflage is one reason chicken farmers would have had trouble wiping ocelots out of Texas... READ MORE›
CONTRADICTING TRUMP TEAM, U.S. REPORT SAYS GLOBAL WARMING IS MOSTLY MAN-MADE
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt have repeatedly said carbon dioxide isn't the primary contributor to global warming... READ MORE›
NURSING HOMES RETHINK SHELTER-IN-PLACE REGIMEN AFTER DEATHS LAID TO HURRICANE-EVACUATION DELAYS
DALLAS - Murky water started seeping into a Port Arthur, Texas, nursing home four days after administrators decided to shelter in place... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP COMMENDS US EX-PRESIDENTS AS 'FINEST PUBLIC SERVANTS' IN A VIDEO
Updated October 22, 2017 5 03 pm A video message from President Donald Trump is played on the stage during a hurricanes relief concert in College Station, Texas, Saturday, October 21, 2017... READ MORE›
FIVE LIVING FORMER PRESIDENTS APPEAR TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2013 A TO RAISE MONEY FOR HURRICANE VICTIMSA
In it, George W. Bush says, People are hurting down here... READ MORE›
SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS WILL SEE 2 PERCENT BOOST IN 2018
In 2009, President Barack Obama persuaded Congress to approve one-time payments of 250 to Social Security recipients as part an economic stimulus package... READ MORE›
MOST AMERICANS BLAME WILD WEATHER ON GLOBAL WARMING
I don't think it's man-made climate change, Posey said... READ MORE›
HURRICANE NATE HEADS TOWARD THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO[1]
The NHC issued a hurricane watch from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border... READ MORE›
TROPICAL STORM NATE DRENCHING CENTRAL AMERICA, HEADING FOR U.S.
Tropical Storm Nate gathers strength as it churns toward U.S. landfall along Gulf Coast... READ MORE›
TRUMP MUST URGENTLY STEP UP PUERTO RICO HELP, DEMOCRATS SAY
Puerto Rico has the population of Connecticut and an economy smaller than Nebraska's... READ MORE›
MARIA LATEST THREAT TO PUERTO RICO AFTER $1 BILLION IRMA HIT
Hurricane Maria was on course to hit Puerto Rico just two weeks after Irma caused as much as 1 billion in damages on the bankrupt island... READ MORE›
OIL EDGES OFF RECENT HIGH AHEAD U.S. STOCK DATA, OPEC MEET
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down 30 cents at 55.20 a barrel by 2 30 p.m... READ MORE›
MARIA GAINS STRENGTH ON PATH TO VIRGIN ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO
A tropical storm warning is posted for Antigua, Barbuda, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Anguilla, St. Lucia and Martinique... READ MORE›
HARVEY RECOVERY CZAR FACES LIMITS TO 'FUTURE-PROOFING' TEXAS
After Hurricane Andrew caused 26 billion in damage to the Miami area in 1992, Florida installed the most stringent building codes in the country... READ MORE›
SUPPORTERS STICKING WITH HIM EVEN IF HE DOESN'T DELIVER ON DACA, BORDER WALL
Call him Teflon Don, because some Trump voters don't much care whether or not he delivers on promises like immigration reform or a border wall... READ MORE›
FLOOD-FUELLED SEWAGE SPILLS A NEW NIGHTMARE IN IRMA-BATTERED PARTS OF FLORIDA
We still have a leaky system, said Justin Bloom, executive director of Suncoast Waterkeeper, which sued St. Petersburg and Gulfport last year over repeated sewage discharges... READ MORE›
TRUMP ARRIVES IN STORM-HIT FLORIDA, 3.1 MILLION WITHOUT POWER
Florida officials including Governor Rick Scott and US Senator Marco Rubio greeted Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in Fort Myers, Florida... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP ARRIVES IN FLORIDA FOR HURRICANE IRMA TOUR
At a makeshift food stand in Naples, Trump wore a presidential windbreaker over his white dress shirt as he handed out hoagies... READ MORE›
AFTER IRMA, TAMPA AREA STILL AT RISK BUT NOT FULLY PREPARED
Said Tampa Bay is the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge flooding caused by a once-in-century hurricane... READ MORE›
AFTER HARVEY, DEMOCRATS SEE OPPORTUNITY IN A CONSERVATIVE DISTRICT
Steele told IBT that she absolutely supports instating the chemical safety rules that Babin and Arkema successfully delayed... READ MORE›
97-YEAR-OLD LAW MAY BE THE CAUSE OF HIGHER GAS PRICES
Hurricane Irma 97-year-old law may be the cause of higher gas prices... READ MORE›
A $150 BILLION MISFIRE: HOW FORECASTERS GOT IRMA DAMAGE SO WRONG
Estimates for the damage Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean... READ MORE›
MEXICO RESCINDS OFFER OF AID TO U.S. AFTER SUFFERING ITS OWN DISASTERS
Last month, as Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston with days of record-breaking rains, Mexico issued a statement offering to send food, generators and medical aid to Texas... READ MORE›
FLORIDIANS RETURN TO STORM-BATTERED HOMES AS IRMA FLOODING SPREADS
At least one other possibly storm-related fatal car crash was reported on Sunday in Orange County, Florida... READ MORE›
'MONSTER' STORM CHARGES UP COAST AFTER HITTING MIAMI AND TAMPA
Hurricane Irma blasts Florida 'Monster' storm charges up coast after hitting Miami and Tampa... READ MORE›
IRMA BRINGS FEARS OF SURGE, SEWERS AND TOXINS TO TAMPA AREA
Said Tampa Bay is the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge flooding caused by a once-in-century hurricane... READ MORE›
HURRICANE IRMA: 3 MILLION WITHOUT POWER IN FLORIDA
RIVIERA BEACH -- More than 3 million people are without power as Hurricane Irma pounds Florida, FPL officials said Sunday morning during an emergency operations meeting... READ MORE›
HURRICANE IRMA BEGINS ASSAULT ON FLORIDA, MORE THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE LEFT WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
Hurricane Irma knocks out electricity to more than 1 million Florida homes and businesses... READ MORE›
EYE OF HURRICANE MAKES LANDFALL IN FLORIDA KEYS AS STORM BATTERS US MAINLAND
EPA 3 41 Storm clouds are seen over Fisher Island as Hurricane Irma approaches on 9 September 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida... READ MORE›
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BILLIONAIRE GREEN ACTIVIST STEYER VOWS TO BATTLE TRUMP, SAYS MONEY NOT AN ISSUE
Exclusive Billionaire green activist Steyer vows to battle Trump, says money not an issue... READ MORE›
WHY ARE THE CRUCIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HURRICANE HARVEY NOT BEING ASKED?
Hurricane Harvey has devastated a place in which climate breakdown is generated, and in which the policies that prevent it from being addressed are formulated... READ MORE›
HARVEY'S MADE THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT CHEMICAL A RARE COMMODITY
Ethylene and its derivatives account for about 40 percent of global chemical sales, said Hassan Ahmed, an analyst at Alembic Global Advisors... READ MORE›
WINDS WHIP FLORIDA KEYS AS HURRICANE IRMA TURNS SIGHTS NORTHWARD
Wind gusts near hurricane force began to batter the Florida Keys late on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said... READ MORE›
IRMA MENACES FLORIDA'S GULF COAST AFTER STRIKING CUBA
Irma, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms in a century, was expected to rip through the Florida Keys archipelago on Sunday morning... READ MORE›
IRMA MENACES FLORIDA'S GULF COAST AFTER STRIKING CUBA
Irma, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms in a century, was expected to rip through the Florida Keys archipelago on Sunday morning... READ MORE›
FEARS CHAINED-UP DOGS WILL DROWN AS HURRICANE WREAKS HAVOC
Roman Forest Police Department said its Chief Stephen Carlisle had watched a chained-up dog die during flooding last year... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER COULD LEAD TO MORE OFFSHORE DRILLING
Zinke said about 94 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf is off-limits for possible development of any type... READ MORE›
PENA NIETO DECLARES THREE DAYS OF MOURNING AFTER QUAKE
Pena Nieto said that 61 people were killed, including 45 who died in Oaxaca state, 12 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco... READ MORE›
TEXAS HOMEOWNER SHOOTS INTRUDER AS HARVEY MAKES LANDFALL
Corpus Christi police say the man had broken into the house and was shot by the homeowner... READ MORE›
HOUSTON FEARS CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE CATASTROPHIC FLOODING
Houston fears climate change will cause catastrophic flooding 'It's not if, it's when'... READ MORE›
'ONE BIG MASS GRAVE': MORE THAN 250 HUMAN SKULLS FOUND IN MEXICO
For more than two years, the group has searched for their loved ones at the Colinas de Santa Fe area, near the Veracruz harbor... READ MORE›
WELCOME TO THE BOOMING TEXAS PORT AT HEART OF U.S. OIL SALES
Once the dredging project is complete, Corpus Christi would be able to handle Suezmax tankers that load about 1 million barrels... READ MORE›
WHAT EXECUTIVE ACTIONS HAS TRUMP TAKEN?
President Donald Trump has wasted little time in taking advantage of this privilege... READ MORE›
EYE OF HURRICANE IRMA HITS FLORIDA ISLANDS
Eye of Hurricane Irma hits southern Florida islands as category four storm, US meteorologists say... READ MORE›
HARVEY AFTERMATH: MORE FLOODING THREATENS BEAUMONT
Floodwaters are receding in parts of southeast Texas, but the situation remains grim in Beaumont as fears grow over flooding from the Neches River... READ MORE›
BP SET TO PAY LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL FINE IN US HISTORY FOR GULF OIL SPILL
The settlement ends all litigation between BP the states and the US government and allows the company to pay over 18 years... READ MORE›
U.S. OWNS 700 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL. TRUMP WANTS TO SELL IT
Just 412,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian light crude stashed in a Southeast Texas salt cavern... READ MORE›
HARVEY HITS U.S. OIL HUB WITH MASSIVE WINDS, TORRENTIAL RAIN
Gasoline futures settled at a three-week high Friday as the storm approached... READ MORE›
HERE ARE THE WORST HURRICANES AND FLOODS IN U.S. HISTORY
Miami Hurricane, September 1926 The storm hit Miami when residents of South Florida were less familiar with hurricanes... READ MORE›
HARVEY LASHES COASTAL TEXAS WITH HEAVY RAIN, STRONG WINDS
The fierce hurricane made landfall the previous night about 48 kilometres northeast of Corpus Christi as a Category 4 storm with 209 km h winds... READ MORE›
'A NEW AND DIFFERENT NORMAL': THOUSANDS DRIVEN FROM HOMES AS HARVEY HAMMERS HOUSTON
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned Houstonians to brace for a long period of disruption... READ MORE›
NORTH DAKOTA'S PIPE DREAMS ARE THE KEY TO ITS FUTURE
Without the Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota's abundant but hard-to-reach oil resources likely won't be fully developed, potentially leaving millions of barrels in the ground... READ MORE›
TOP EXECUTIVE BEHIND DAKOTA ACCESS HAS DONATED MORE THAN $100,000 TO TRUMP
Trump has holdings in Energy Transfer Partners and Phillips 66, a joint owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, through mutual funds, according to financial disclosure records... READ MORE›
TRUMP SEES 'A LOT OF LOVE' IN HARVEY-RAVAGED HOUSTON BEFORE LANDING IN LOUISIANA
Trump sees 'a lot of love' in Harvey-ravaged Houston before landing in Louisiana... READ MORE›
THE MEXICAN CITY WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF QUAKE DEATHS MOURNS AND GETS TO WORK
But the earthquake seemed to have concentrated its furies in Juchitan and surrounding towns in the isthmus region in Oaxaca, where Mexico's waist narrows... READ MORE›
OVER-THE-TOP POLITICAL CORRUPTION CASE ENRAGES MEXICANS
As power was decentralized from the federal government in Mexico City, state capitals became destinations for ambitious politicians, Estevez said... READ MORE›
FLOODING REPLACES HIGH WIND AS HARVEY THREAT TO TEXAS GULF COAST
This is catastrophic, said Greg Waller, a service coordination hydrologist with the National Weather Service's West Gulf River Forecast Center in Fort Worth... READ MORE›
HURRICANE HARVEY COULD DUMP AS MUCH RAIN AS SEATTLE HAS HAD ALL YEAR LONG
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Parts of Texas hit by Hurricane Harvey could get more rainfall in a week than Seattle has since Jan. 1... READ MORE›
8 STATES RUNNING OUT OF WATER
Exceptional drought 0.0 percent With more than one-quarter of the state's land under severe drought conditions, nearly 2.8 million people in South Carolina live in drought areas... READ MORE›