Spotlight on green news & views: Mining OK'd for shorn nat'l monument; losing Greenland ice
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This is the 565th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the July 7 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it. OUTSTASpotlight on green news & views: Mining OK'd for shorn nat'l monument; losing Greenland ice
This is the 565th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the July 7 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it. OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIES ClimateDenierRoundup writes—Lamenting the Loss of a Loser: Deniers Mourn Pruitt’s Resignation: “No one likes a sore winner, but we’re not here to be liked. Here’s how the biggest denial outlets responded to Scott Pruitt’s long-awaited departure last week. The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial blaming the ‘permanent progressive state” for running Pruitt out, while also paradoxically noting that ‘Mr. Pruitt gave his enemies so much ammunition.’ Apparently, the Journal thinks it was wrong for reporters to “have examined every furl of Mr. Pruitt’s forehead.’ Normally, it would be weird for a free and independent media to criticize reporting on government officials, but that’s only if one were to consider the Journal’s editorial board to have standards and ethics and objectives outside that of supporting the GOP. As we’ve repeatedly shown, that’s a silly assumption. As for supposedly non-opinion coverage, let’s look at the Daily Caller’s Michael Bastasch, one the most successful Koch folk pretending to be a journalist.” Pakalolo writes—National monument Trump gave back to 'the people of the United States' to be mined by Canadian firm: “During a signing ceremony (along with the corrupt Ryan Zinke) at the Department of the interior in April of 2017, Trump said his executive order overturning the National Monument protections would end ‘another egregious abuse of federal power’ and ‘give that power back to the states and to the people where it belongs.’ Trump accused the previous administration of using the act to "’put millions of acres of land and water under strict federal control’ — a practice he derailed as ‘a massive federal land grab.’ Trump, a serial liar on every single issue imaginable, never intended to give the land back to the American people. He instead has handed over the sacred land of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to a Vancouver-based mining company — Glacier Lake Resources Inc. — after the site ‘recently became open for staking and exploration after a 21-year period moratorium,’ the firm said in a June 13 press release.” Read more