Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
"It looks like white geese out there. Eight million of them." That's how David Stovner, manager of the recycling center in tiny Bethel, AK, views the plastic bags and Styrofoam littering the tundra around his town. The city council in the town of 5,700 has just voted to ban the bags and foam food containers. A similar ban passed earlier in the decade but was overturned by a public vote, writes Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News.
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Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
