5: White House Told EPA to Remove Climate Change Page from Its Website, Report Says
This is the latest move in what is seen by some as a campaign to silence dissenting voices on the environment and climate change.
The Trump administration begun the process of removing the climate change page from the website of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday, according to two sources at the organization. This is the latest move in what is seen by some as a campaign to silence dissenting voices on the environment and climate change.
Vice News
On Tuesday, Donald Trump signed a pair of presidential memorandums to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines—two major projects halted by the Obama administration following massive resistance from indigenous and environmental groups. Native American groups and their supporters have long opposed the Dakota Access pipeline being laid a mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and beneath the tribe’s primary source of drinking water. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe tweeted, “Trump’s executive order on #DAPL violates the law and tribal treaties. We will be taking legal action.” The tribe added, “Creating a second Flint does not make America great again.” We speak to Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and executive director of the group Honor the Earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
Democracy Now
3: SEYMOUR HERSH BLASTS MEDIA FOR UNCRITICALLY PROMOTING RUSSIAN HACKING STORY
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
The Intercept
2: Trump signs order for border wall with Mexico
President Donald Trump has signed directives to begin building a wall along US border with Mexico and crack down on US cities that shield undocumented immigrants, moving quickly on sweeping and divisive plans to curb immigration and boost national security.
The order, signed on Wednesday, will enable construction of “a large physical barrier on the southern border”, spokesman Sean Spicer said.
“Building this barrier is more than just a campaign promise, it’s a common sense first step to really securing our porous border,” Spicer added.
Aljazeera
1: Greenpeace activists hang giant ‘Resist’ banner over White House
Activists from Greenpeace unfurled a 70ft banner inscribed with the word “resist” near the White House on Wednesday morning.
Speaking from a crane 300ft in the air, where she was holding a rope keeping the banner up, Pearl Robinson, 26, described her view to the Guardian: “I can see the White House, where we now have a president who doesn’t have the interests of the majority of the people.”
The anti-Trump activist called the message “all-encompassing. We want Donald to know that we won’t stand for the crony capitalism, for the assault on women’s reproductive rights and the assault on the environment.”
The Guardian
