skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

NV Conservation Groups Criticize Trump’s Cabinet Choices

play audio
Play

Wednesday, December 14, 2016   

CARSON CITY, Nev. – President-elect Trump's picks for Secretary of State and Energy Secretary are seen as alarming by leaders in Nevada's conservation community.

Trump will nominate Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil, one of the world's largest oil companies, as Secretary of State. And he has chosen former Texas Governor Rick Perry, a climate change skeptic, to run the Department of Energy,an agency Perry famously said he wants to eliminate.

Andy Maggi, executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, said he fears these choices will lead the country in the wrong direction.

"The track record of both appointees is one of strong support for fossil fuels," he said. "As a country, we're at a place where we need to be ramping up generation of clean energy, creating those jobs, building the economy around clean energy and moving away from traditional fossil fuels."

Nevada has almost no fossil-fuel reserves. But according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the state is second in the country for utility-scale solar generation, and third in the nation for tapping geothermal energy.

Trump has said he selected Tillerson in part for his experience with international business dealings. But David von Seggern, who chairs the Sierra Club's Toiyabe Chapter in Nevada, said the president-elect's choice of leadership shows, as he put it, "complete disregard" for America's leading role in the fight against climate change.

"It appears that he's trying to throw up a defensive wall around the fossil-fuel industry and that's unfortunate, because they are the prime cause of the global warming threat," he said.

Von Seggern pointed to the boom in clean energy that has become a large part of Nevada's economy. The Governor's Office of Energy said since 2009, tax credits have led to 30 renewable power plants and four-thousand jobs, with $6.5 billion in economic benefit to the state.


get more stories like this via email

more stories
A report from the Tennessee HealthCare Campaign recommended the federal government needs to strengthen 340B drug pricing and other federal negotiation mechanisms to make needed medicines more readily available and less expensive for hospitals to purchase and administer. (Spotmatikphoto/AdobeStock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

A recent report examined how some rural Tennessee hospitals have managed to stay afloat despite financial challenges. The report includes interviews …


Social Issues

play sound

Earlier this month, a new Arizona Public Service rate hike went into effect and one senior advocacy group said those on a fixed income may struggle …

Social Issues

play sound

Michigan recently implemented a significant juvenile justice reform package following recommendations from a task force made up of prosecutors…


Nearly 13 million Americans receive health coverage through unique plans under both Medicare and Medicaid. They are known as Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans. (Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Medicare and Medicaid are key sources of health coverage for many Americans and some people qualify for assistance under both programs. With lagging …

Social Issues

play sound

A mix of policy updates and staffing boosts has helped to put wage theft enforcement on the radar in Minnesota, and officials leading the efforts are …

More than six in 10 Americans favor keeping the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. as a prescription drug, while over a third are opposed, according to a Gallup poll. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

New research shows more than six in 10 abortions in the U.S. last year were medically induced, and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto - D-NV - is …

Social Issues

play sound

Colorado is working to boost the state's agricultural communities by getting more fresh, nutritious foods into school cafeterias - and a new online …

Social Issues

play sound

Missouri lawmakers are concerned with protecting people from the potential risks of the increasing accessibility of AI-generated images and videos…

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021