Science Scuttled at EPA as Fed Report Warns of Environmental Disaster
As a government report warned of a coming climate change disaster, it was revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans...
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Bob Gatty
Aug 21, 20182 min read
A Killer Environmental Strategy
President Trump and his buddies in the administration today rolled out yet another new initiative that is part of his killer...
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Bob Gatty
Aug 7, 20183 min read
EPA's Clean Car Rollback: an Unhealthy, Unnecessary Plan
The Trump administration's plan announced last week to weaken the 2020-2026 auto emissions and mileage requirements has been blasted by...
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Bob Gatty
Jul 4, 20182 min read
Selling of our National Treasures for the Sake of Greed
A Canadian mining firm is planning to mine for minerals on land that was protected as a national monument until Donald Trump came to...
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Bob Gatty
Jun 10, 20182 min read
'Gator' Eats Woman in Florida; 2nd Thoughts about Kayaking on SC River
Most of the body of a missing woman was found Friday in a lake near where she was walking her dogs. Her arm was found inside an alligator...
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Bob Gatty
Jun 2, 20182 min read
Scott Pruitt & the Coal Baron
Scott Pruitt loves his perks, whether he's really entitled to them or not, and regardless of whether they involve an obvious conflict of...
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Bob Gatty
May 25, 20182 min read
Guarding EPA's Pruitt Costs Millions as He Wreaks Havoc on Environment
The cost of protecting Scott Pruitt, the EPA dirtbag administrator who is carrying out Trump's policies of dismantling protections of our...
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Bob Gatty
May 18, 20182 min read
GOP Congressman Suggests Rocks Causing Seas to Rise, not Climate Change
A Republican Congressman from Alabama suggested during a Congressional hearing Wednesday that rocks and erosion, not climate change, may...
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Bob Gatty
Apr 29, 20182 min read
Trump DOT Maps Plans to Undo Obama Auto Emission Standards
In yet another attack on our environment, the Trump administration is planning to roll back auto emission standards established under...
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Bob Gatty
Apr 26, 20182 min read
French President Macron: 'There is No Planet B'
Yesterday, in a historic speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, French President Emmanuel Macron warned against President...
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Bob Gatty
Apr 17, 20182 min read
Will Plastic Pollution Kill the Ocean?
Plastic never goes away, and increasingly it is finding it way into the oceans, where it is killing marine life and polluting our...
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Bob Gatty
Apr 16, 20182 min read
A $43K Soundproof Phone Booth for Pruitt: GAO Says Nope
Scott Pruitt, President Trump's high flying administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the law by having a...
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Bob Gatty
Apr 13, 20182 min read
Trump Launches New Attack on the Environment, Plus Tales of Another Swamp Rat
Yesterday, President Trump signed a new executive order designed to make it harder for states to protect the environment, all in the name...
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Bob Gatty
Mar 6, 20182 min read
Trump Admin. Breaks Elephant Trophy Promise
Why should I be surprised that the Trump administration has broken its promise to ban the importation of wild elephant trophies from...
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Bob Gatty
Mar 4, 20182 min read
Pampered Backyard Chickens: the Latest Humblebrag
Want some news besides shootings, the gun debate and President Trump's latest rants? Check out this story from the Washington Post about...
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Bob Gatty
Jan 6, 20182 min read
Trump on Drilling: Greed Rules
President Trump, in decreeing that the federal government will dramatically expand drilling off the coasts of most states, once again...
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Bob Gatty
Jan 4, 20182 min read
Climate Change Threatens CHOCOLATE!
Officials at Mars, the candy company best known for M&Ms and SNICKERS, are worried that 40 years from now the cacao plants used for...
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Bob Gatty
Nov 16, 20172 min read
Another Fox in the Chicken Coop
President Trump's nominee for the top environmental position within the White House says the impact of human activity on climate change...
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Bob Gatty
Nov 4, 20172 min read
Climate Change, Rick Perry, and How Coal Can Stop Rape
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who clunked his way across the Dancing With the Stars stage after dropping out of the GOP presidential...
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Bob Gatty
Oct 7, 20172 min read
Scared? No, Ready to Fight
BY A GUEST BLOGGER —In the midst of all we have to think about: A terrible aftermath of the confluence of three hurricanes in the US,...
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Lean to the Left provides liberal political commentary about important developments involving Republicans and Democrats in power, and supports efforts to resist those who would subvert democracy and impede freedom of the press. We also present the Lean to the Left podcast and videos, with newsmaker interviews and progressive commentary.
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