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Topic: environmental protection

A common frog with its head out of the water (Getty Images/Manuel ROMARIS)

Will America's waters lose protection?

Lylla Younes - Grist
Tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. (Getty Images)

Clean Water Act’s 50th anniversary

Rona Kobell - The Revelator
Aerial view of the Transamazonica Road (BR-230) near Medicilandia, Para State, Brazil on March 13, 2019. - According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazonia increased in a 54% in January, 2019 (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

Deforestation in the Amazon, explained

Catesby Holmes - The Conversation
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 15 year old student from the Tla'Amin First Nation on Vancouver Island, in BC, Canada. (Disney)

Indigenous hunters: Protecting the earth

Mylène Ratelle, Jeffrey Fabian - The Conversation
A leatherback turtle (Mark Dodd / Wildlife Resources Division, State of Georgia)

Trump reopens "longline" fishing

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Getty/Wikimedia/Salon)

Trump's bizarre version of free speech

Bob Cesca
David Bernhardt (AP/David Zalubowski)

Zinke's replacement: No better

Matthew Rozsa
Brett Kavanaugh; Jair Bolsonaro (Getty/AP/Salon)

A really bad week for the climate

Carl Pope
Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Kavanaugh could destroy the EPA

Amanda Marcotte
Scott Pruitt (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Scott Pruitt: Still a hero to the right

Jerry Taylor
Scott Pruitt (Getty/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Scott Pruitt: Not the real problem

Amanda Marcotte
(Shutterstock)

NC's endless coal ash nightmare

Lauryn Higgins - Salon Young Americans
Scott Pruitt (Getty/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

Let's focus on Pruitt's real scandal

Justin Anderson
(AP/Salon)

Trump's latest judge wants to gut EPA

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/jeancliclac)

GOP farm bill: Attack on public health

Amanda Marcotte
(Explore.org via AP)

Marine mammals would be in danger

Elizabeth Hogan - Alternet
Ryan Zinke (Getty/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump policy: More wasteful pollution

Amanda Marcotte
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Ryan Zinke: Tool of the drilling class

Amanda Marcotte
FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2016 file photo, a giant panda named Nuan Nuan is shown at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The giant panda has been reclassified as vulnerable from endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's list of endangered species, which was released Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016 at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File) (AP)

The Endangered Species Act is endangered

Mark Karlin - Truthout
Bill Clinton (Getty/Stephen Jaffe)

Back to the progressive future

Paul Rosenberg
(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash., aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. (AP)

OBAMA bans drilling

Matthew Rozsa
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