Saturday, January 21, 2017

RSN: Congress Moves to Give Away National Lands, Discounting Billions in Revenue, US Intelligence Investigating Russian Links of Leading Trump Associates - Report, Who's Paying for Inauguration Parties? Companies and Lobbyists With a Lot at Stake





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Dakota Access Company Files Motion to Halt Environmental Study 
Matt Black Eagle Man, middle, a member of the Long Plain First Nation, chats with friends outside his teepee at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 1, 2016, outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (photo: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) 
Allen Cone, UPI 
Cone writes: "The company asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Monday to block the study, claiming it already has the necessary approval to drill under the lake." 
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Who's Paying for Inauguration Parties? Companies and Lobbyists With a Lot at Stake 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "Corporate interests that were largely reluctant to embrace Donald Trump during the presidential campaign last year are finally opening their checkbooks to underwrite the festivities sweeping Washington, D.C., to welcome his incoming administration." 
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US Intelligence Investigating Russian Links of Leading Trump Associates - Report 
Catherine Garcia, The Week 
Garcia writes: "U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been looking at intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a counterintelligence investigation into potential links between Russian officials and at least three of Donald Trump's close associates." 
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Thousands Protest in Washington, New York City in Defiance of Trump 
Michael James, USA TODAY 
James writes: "Raucous protesters squared off against Washington police Thursday night outside a meeting of Trump supporters, the first of what may be several demonstrations before and after the new president's inauguration." 
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Congress Moves to Give Away National Lands, Discounting Billions in Revenue 
Heather Hansman, Guardian UK 
Hansman writes: "In the midst of highly publicized steps to dismantle insurance coverage for 32 million people and defund women's healthcare facilities, Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation to give away Americans' birthright: 640m acres of national land." 
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On an Apache Reservation in Arizona, a Toxic Legacy and a Mysterious History of Chemical Spraying 
Nigel Duara, Los Angeles Times 
Duara writes: "A dioxin-laden herbicide was spread over a population of 10,000 for more than a decade. Now, half a century later, the federal Environmental Protection Agency is sending investigators to the reservation this month to find out exactly what was sprayed and what lingering effects it may have on one of the nation's poorest Native American reservations." 
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Humans Have Destroyed 7% of Earth's Pristine Forest Landscapes Just Since 2000 
Chelsea Harvey, The Washington Post 
Harvey writes: "The world's natural places are disappearing at a galloping clip, says a new study, released Friday in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that more than 7 percent of Earth's natural, intact forest landscapes have been lost since 2000." 
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