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President Trump said Tuesday he's thinking about pushing for a payroll ... all over the world not to dispose trash into the oceans," a Natural Resources and Environment Minister said "A pill isn't going to make you do better on a test...

After Amash dumped Trump, his district may do same to him
2019-08-19T04:28:00.0000000Z Washington Post Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment...

71 current members of Congress were there for the Clinton impeachment inquiries. Here’s what they think about impeaching Trump
2019-08-19T13:55:00.0000000Z Business Insider 21 years ago, the House voted to impeach Bill Clinton. Here's what the 71 sitting members of Congress who were there think about impeaching Trump. Politics 350 Read Article

Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump
2019-08-19T11:00:00.0000000Z The Hill The veterans are highlighting Trump's dealings with Russians ... Common Defense joins the nation's largest grass-roots impeachment campaign, which was launched in 2017 by Steyer, a billionaire ... Politics 393 Read...

Freshman rep Scanlon talks about gun control, immigration and impeachment
2019-08-19T08:57:00.0000000Z Delaware County Daily Times In an interview with the Daily Times staff Friday, Scanlon, D-5 of Swarthmore, covered a gamut of issues she's been pushing in the Capitol, from guns, impeachment and immigration ... she said of President Donald...

After Justin Amash dumped Trump, his district may do same to him
2019-08-19T05:09:00.0000000Z Detroit News Grand Rapids — Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin...

After Rep. Justin Amash dumped Trump, his district may do same to him
2019-08-19T13:56:00.0000000Z TribLIVE.com Before the year ended, several conservatives and Trump loyalists started talking about mounting primary challenge in 2020. Amash laid out his position on impeachment in May with a series of tweets ... Politics 427 Read...

Justin Amash’s district might abandon Trump, too
2019-08-19T13:28:00.0000000Z CBS News Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment...

Juan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts
2019-08-19T11:00:00.0000000Z The Hill Impeachment, Green told MSNBC, would result in Trump becoming “persona non grata to a good many of these wealthy people.” Green alleged that Trump’s wealthy donors saw him as a “beneficial ... Politics 393 Read...

Trump downplays threats of recession: 10 things to know for Monday
2019-08-19T12:24:00.0000000Z NOLA.com 5. HE DUMPED TRUMP, NOW THIS LAWMAKER'S DISTRICT MAY DUMP HIM Rep. Justin Amash was the first Republican on Capitol Hill to call for impeachment proceedings against the president. Now he finds himself a cautionary tale for GOP...

Former Republican Backing Impeachment Faces a Tough Fight
2019-08-19T14:16:00.0000000Z Courthouse News Service Michigan Congressman Justin Amash greets a crowd in Grand Rapids in late May, before he called for the impeachment of Donald Trump and left the Republican Party. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP) GRAND...

Exotic pet trade hurts Florida; Trump’s new unwelcoming Statute of Liberty message Letters to the Editor
2019-08-19T12:25:00.0000000Z Sun Sentinel To prevent additional species of nonnative animals from becoming established in Florida, a common sense first step would be for the FWC to stop the breeding and sale of animals that have the potential to cause harm to...
Navy could be torpedoing Trump’s ’20 chances
2019-08-19T15:06:00.0000000Z Stars and Stripes Sending large parts of the Environmental Protection Agency to Flint, Mich., or nearby locations would drive home the same message. Trump has the chance to drain the swamp while making government agencies much more attuned...

Farm and Food File: Summer fun with August numbers
2019-08-19T07:15:00.0000000Z Columbia Daily Tribune Clever, @mccarty17. The bearish USDA reports didn’t start the corn market snowballing south, however; the carbon-loving Trump Administration did that three days earlier. On late Friday, Aug. 9, the Environmental...

Extreme Rhetoric, Incitement to Violence by Certain Leaders: PM Modi to Donald Trump in J&K Context
2019-08-19T15:20:00.0000000Z India.com United States' President Donald Trump in conversation with PM Narendra Modi (File ... He highlighted the importance of creating an environment free from terror and violence and eschewing cross-border terrorism without exception....

Believe it or not, good news: Trump’s counterattack against clean energy is collapsing
2019-08-19T15:26:00.0000000Z The Raw Story The agreement made clear that the Trump administration’s refusal to negotiate with ... as well as to clean up the environmental disaster left behind by many of their operations. And since Republicans in Congress had allowed...
SANDOVAL SORRY FOR MOCK TRUMP ASSAULT — HARDIMAN takes on TRUMP — PRECKWINKLE’S son in hot seat
2019-08-19T12:10:00.0000000Z Politico Donald Trump needs the competition,” Hardiman told Playbook ... Nowhere are the long-term costs of short-term thinking more detrimental than with the environment & global climate change. How can policymakers overcome the political...
Trump tests a materialistic message to voters
2019-08-19T11:33:00.0000000Z NBC2 A recession does not appear to be an immediate danger in the US but signs of a global slowdown are sprouting up everywhere, hinting that Trump could face a more difficult political environment in 2020 than expected. A successful...

Interior: Disputed ANWR area won’t be sold to oil and gas
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Trump administration plan for Bears Ears slammed as ‘recklessly’ weakening protections
2019-08-19T11:49:00.0000000Z YAHOO! (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday released a plan for the newly reduced Bears Ears National Monument that it says would protect the Utah site's cultural resources, but some Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups...

Interior: Disputed ANWR area won’t be sold to oil and gas
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Navy could be torpedoing Trump’s ’20 chances
2019-08-19T15:06:00.0000000Z Stars and Stripes Sending large parts of the Environmental Protection Agency to Flint, Mich., or nearby locations would drive home the same message. Trump has the chance to drain the swamp while making government agencies much more attuned...

Extreme Rhetoric, Incitement to Violence by Certain Leaders: PM Modi to Donald Trump in J&K Context
2019-08-19T15:20:00.0000000Z India.com United States' President Donald Trump in conversation with PM Narendra Modi (File ... He highlighted the importance of creating an environment free from terror and violence and eschewing cross-border terrorism without exception....

Illinois state senator apologizes for mock Trump assassination photos taken at fundraiser
2019-08-19T16:41:00.0000000Z YAHOO! The place to make our voices heard against Trump is at the ballot box ... Department of Veterans Affairs and Environmental Protection Agency. In an emailed statement to WCIA, he apologized for the episode. "The incident that took...

A funeral for Iceland’s Okjokull glacier, and what are nurdles?
2019-08-19T16:20:00.0000000Z MarketWatch visited by President Trump in recent days. According to reporting by Quartz ... What’s more, those small spheres often escape into the environment before they have a chance to be molded into a useful shape. With roughly 22,000...

Trump administration plan for Bears Ears slammed as ‘recklessly’ weakening protections
2019-08-19T11:49:00.0000000Z YAHOO! (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday released a plan for the newly reduced Bears Ears National Monument that it says would protect the Utah site's cultural resources, but some Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups...

Believe it or not, good news: Trump’s counterattack against clean energy is collapsing
2019-08-19T15:26:00.0000000Z The Raw Story The agreement made clear that the Trump administration’s refusal to negotiate with ... as well as to clean up the environmental disaster left behind by many of their operations. And since Republicans in Congress had allowed...

With ‘America First,’ some foreign companies in the U.S. fear Trump is putting them last
2019-08-19T11:00:00.0000000Z The Beaumont Enterprise Trump tweeted. Much of that investment ... ‘we invest and we get tariffed and we get threatened.’ So it’s a difficult environment.” The president’s emphasis on “American-owned” companies “definitely puts a chilling...

POLITICO Playbook: Trump: ‘We already have a lot of background checks’
2019-08-19T10:56:00.0000000Z Politico “‘I’m not happy with it’: Trump hits Fox News over poll results” … The offending poll CLIMATE CHANGE – THE BORDERLESS THREAT - Nowhere are the long-term costs of short-term thinking more detrimental than with the environment &...

Farm and Food File: Summer fun with August numbers
2019-08-19T07:15:00.0000000Z Columbia Daily Tribune Clever, @mccarty17. The bearish USDA reports didn’t start the corn market snowballing south, however; the carbon-loving Trump Administration did that three days earlier. On late Friday, Aug. 9, the Environmental...