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Coalition Takes Trump’s Order to Pillage Public Lands for Coal to Court “This isn’t putting Americans first, this is putting corporate polluters first.” By Andrea Germanos
Gutting Climate Protections Won’t Bring Back Coal Jobs Trump is using sympathetic out-of-work miners as a cover for what is really just a handout to dirty industry. Trump claims the (Climate Protection) plan puts coal miners out of work. But it hadn’t even been implemented yet. In reality, cheap natural gas and the use of machines instead of people to mine coal are responsible for putting far more miners out of work. By Jill Richardson
Why Has Trust in Media Collapsed? Look at Actions of WSJ, Yahoo, Business Insider and Slate. Last week we published documents that definitively debunked and disproved a claim which numerous media outlets had circulated and affirmed for years: that Edward Snowden lied about where he was during his first 11 days in Hong Kong. Contrary to the fable these outlets dispensed to their readers — that Snowden did not check into the Mira Hotel on May 21 as he claimed but only did so on June 1: 11 days later — these new documents, obtained from the Mira, prove that Snowden arrived there exactly when he always said, rendering their published stories factually false. Many of these stories had even claimed that anonymous U.S. investigators were unable to find hotel or credit card records for Snowden during these 11 days — exactly the records we just published. By Glenn Greenwald 
Environment:
Media Matters Report Shows Stunning Lack of Climate Change Coverage on TV Networks in 2016 A new report from Media Matters for America details the astounding lack of coverage of climate change from major U.S. television news outlets in 2016. According to the report, there was an overall decrease in coverage, dropping about 66 percent from the previous year. By Farron Cousins
Trump EPA Rejects Pesticide Ban, Threatening Kid’s Health Toxic pesticide residues on food will remain a threat to children’s health as a result of the Trump administration’s rejection of the proposed ban on chlorpyrifos – a pesticide linked to increased risk of learning disabilities and behavioral problems. This is yet another example of EPA Administrator Pruitt’s willingness to go against the expertise of the Agency’s own staff and sacrifice children’s health for industry profits. By Miriam Rotkin-Ellman and Jennifer Sass
Will Trump’s EPA Greenlight a Pesticide Known to Damage Kids’ Brains? By Friday, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency will have to make a momentous decision: whether to protect kids from a widely used pesticide that’s known to harm their brains—or protect the interests of the chemical’s maker, Dow AgroSciences. The pesticide in question, chlorpyrifos, is a nasty piece of work. It’s an organophosphate, a class of bug killers that work by “interrupting the electrochemical processes that nerves use to communicate with muscles and other nerves,” as the Pesticide Encyclopedia puts it. Chlorpyrifos is also an endocrine disrupter, meaning it can cause “adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects,” according to the National Institutes of Health. By Tom Philpott 
Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
Chile: end of the copper strike and mass mobilization against private pensions system After 43 days of striking at the world’s largest copper mine, Minera Escondida in Chile, the workers have decided to return to work by accepting an extension of the current contract. This means the workers maintain all the conditions and benefits that the company wanted to destroy. By Carlos Cerpa Mallat 
World:
Tory Brexit begins – fight for a socialist Europe! The die is cast. In her letter, hand-delivered this afternoon to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, Theresa May has announced the beginning of Brexit negotiations under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, marking a point of no return for both British and European capitalism. Socialist Appeal (Britain) 
Syrian Refugees Are ‘Left Out in the Cold’ by the Biggest Arab States That Refuse to Welcome Them Fighting inside Syria continues with grave implications for its population. ByVijay Prashad 
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