Advocates say Lee Zeldin’s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox More than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, to resign or be fired. “No [EPA] administrator in history – Democratic or Republican – has so brazenly betrayed the agency’s core mission,” the groups wrote in an
Industry groups say delay to defence investment plan (DIP) leaving UK behind in global race for funding Defence manufacturers are going bust while others have been left in “paralysis” and “bleeding cash” as they wait for a long-delayed UK military spending plan for the next decade, MPs have heard. Industry groups said that a more than six-month delay to the defence investment plan (DIP) has also left the UK behind Germany and the US in attracting cash from global investors. Continue reading...
Bright Line Watch researchers see stabilization in democratic health but at lower levels after sharp decline The health of American democracy, as measured by those who study it most closely, has settled into a diminished state – stabilizing after a sharp decline last year, but still well below the levels recorded at any point before the start of Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new survey released on Tuesday. The findings, by the nonpartisan democracy-tracking project Bright Line Watch
GB Energy chief Jürgen Maier says boost could bring economic benefits amid energy cost crisis and actually help transition from fossil fuels The head of the UK’s national green energy champion has joined other high-profile renewable energy leaders in making the case for more North Sea oil and gas production as the government braces for an energy cost crisis. GB Energy boss Jürgen Maier used a social media post on LinkedIn to reject the claim that more North Sea oil and gas could help to bring do
German rescue teams have been trying to ease the humpback’s path back into deeper waters without success A 10-metre-long humpback whale stranded on a sandbar in the Baltic Sea is in danger of dying if rescue workers don’t manage to help it move into deeper waters soon, experts have said. Believed to be a young male, the mammal was spotted by guests of a hotel in Niendorf in Lübeck Bay, northern Germany, on Monday after they heard its deep moans and alerted police. Continue reading...
NPR News · Oct 8
New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.
NBC News · Oct 8
Jeff Webb in 2011 in Los Angeles.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Charles announced as patron of Community Security Trust hours after attack on another Jewish charity’s ambulances King Charles has been made patron of a charity that protects Jewish communities in the wake of the firebomb attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in north London. The Community Security Trust (CST), which provides protection to Jewish communities, said Charles’s acceptance of the position highlighted his support for the “fight against antisemitism”. Continue reading...
NBC News · Oct 8
Watch live coverage as President Trump hosts a swearing-in ceremony at the White House for Markwayne Mullin to serve as the Homeland Security Secretary.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Chancellor says package offered by Liz Truss’s government was unaffordable and any future help will be targeted Rachel Reeves has ruled out universal support to deal with any future rise in energy bills, saying any government help would be targeted, and criticised the support offered by Liz Truss’s government as unaffordable and irresponsible. The chancellor also said she would review the planned fuel duty rise in September, but she did not commit to delaying or postponing it. Continue reading..
