Many of Trump's choices for cabinet offices are closely linked with the Koch brothers.

One small positive step: Trump fired a crony's son for spreading the false "Pizzagate" accusations against Clinton.

This in itself isn't much, but just maybe it will develop into something more.

We will see.

Australia is lobbying the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to support coal and nuclear projects rather than renewables.

Assad's troops have captured the old city of Aleppo and most of the former rebel areas.

Acid water in an old open pit mine in Montana killed thousands of migrating geese that found no other place in the area to stop in.

It goes to show that we need to clean up old mines — putting up "danger" signs is does not make them safe. Cleaning up the mine has to be treated as part of running the mine. Indeed, starting to operate a mine should require posting a bond for the expected costs of cleanup.