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More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/trump-anti-environment-agenda-pushback
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, re…

"Darmstadt. Unbekannte Täter hatten es zwischen Dienstagabend und Mittwochmorgen gegen 7 Uhr auf eine Kindertagesstätte in der Kurt-Schumacher-Straße in Darmstadt abgesehen. Als Beute ihres Einbruchs stahlen sie kurioserweise eine einzelne Wurst. Die Schäden des Einbruchs sind dennoch erheblich, so die Polizei Südhessen."

Trump’s plan to shift IRS criminal investigators away from tax crimes and into immigration enforcement isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle
—it’s a direct threat to the deterrence model that underpins the voluntary tax system.
https://news.bloom…

IRS Shift to Immigration Enforcement Hurts Voluntary Tax System
Opinion: Columnist Andrew Leahey says reassigning IRS agents from tax crimes to immigration signals selective enforcement of the law and could cause a gradual erosion of tax compliance.

Au Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, « l’empereur » qui ne voulait pas quitter son trône
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2026/03/15/au-congo-denis-sassou-nguesso-l-empereur-qui-ne-voulait-pas-…

Au Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, « l’empereur » qui ne voulait pas quitter son trône
Au pouvoir depuis 1997, le président du Congo-Brazzaville brigue, dimanche 15 mars, un cinquième mandat consécutif. Malgré la corruption et l’autoritarisme du régime, il reste un acteur incontournable sur le continent.

"Say no to pesticides, mix up your lawn – and six more ways to help bees to thrive"
#Environment #Bees #Insects

Daarom ook geen accijnsverlaging, de oliebedrijven verdienen (!) aan deze crisis, als we ergens geld vandaan moeten halen dan is het bij deze partijen.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

An environmental disaster in Moldova has Russia’s fingerprints all over it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/11/environmental-disaster-moldova-russia-ukraine-war-drinking-water

In his first term, Trump appointed a record-setting 54 federal appellate judges.
Circuit judges are nominated by presidents and, if confirmed by the Senate, serve lifetime appointments.
This analysis provides an early look at how those appointments will likely reverberate nationwide in terms of dismantling or failing to uphold environmental laws and policy, legal scholars said.
“Long term, it’s going to set a lot of precedent that pushes the law away from environmental pr…

Man v. Nature: Trump Appointees Are Shredding Environmental Protections
Federal appellate courts are enacting an anti-environment agenda—especially in the ultraconservative 5th Circuit, new analysis shows.

Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/15/quapaw-nation-oklahoma-superfund-cleanup

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…

The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.