Week 152: Houston, You Might Have a Problem With Your Air. But We Can’t Be Sure.
The Trump administration failed to monitor air pollution in the toxic aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Also: Trump is taking a chainsaw to our protections, and t…
White House | |Week 151: Flushing Conservation Down the Drain: Donald Trump’s Toilet Troubles
The president wants the EPA to fix his toilet, and an Interior official finds himself in deep doo-doo. A Plumbing Emergency on Pennsylvania Avenue? When Presid…
White House | |Week 150: Trump Is Pro-Fence When It Comes to Immigration, Anti-Fence When It Comes to Protecting Kids’ Health
Plus, the solar industry pleads for mercy, and the president says he thinks about climate change “all the time.” Hmm. Good Drones Make Good Neighbors? The U.S.…
White House | |Week 148: Trump Hates California. James Inhofe Hates California. So They Both Love Andrew Wheeler.
Plus, get ready for the rise of hermaphroditic frogs, and the EPA’s Science Advisory Board can’t meet until after the agency corrupts science. How Andy Wheeler…
White House | |Week 147: Trump Officials Stonewall Investigators . . . at the EPA. (What Did You Think We Were Talking About?)
Plus, the EPA’s secret science rule is so “1984,” and Trump declares himself “very much into climate,” which is so “Pinocchio.” Stonewall Jackson Ryan Jackson,…
White House | |Week 146: Trump Starts the Paris Withdrawal Clock (and Nudges the Doomsday Clock Forward)
The president’s promise to renegotiate the international climate agreement was always a smogscreen, the oil industry has a red phone at Interior, and will Trum…
White House | |Week 144: Trump Wants to Turn Alaska’s Tongass Rainforest Into a Drive-Thru
Plus, David Bernhardt does more favors for his former client, the USDA allegedly suppresses climate research (a whole lot of it), and the president launches pe…
White House | |Week 142: President Trump Honors Science Denial. Again.
And sticks it to California. Again. The Science Denial Is So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades One of the few comforts we can take during the current renaissance of …
White House | |Week 141: Bernhardt Moves to Make a Big Dam Bigger—and His Old Clients Richer
Plus, the Trump administration dodges Senate hearings, and loses to environmentalists in two big court cases. Dam Shameless Before he was the interior secretar…
White House | |Week 140: Trump Ignored Climate Change’s Role in the Migration of Guatemalans—and Then Cut Off Aid
Plus, the BLM’s new location will be next door to Big Oil, and it just issued a hilarious new bit of climate change denial (something about Vikings and grapes)…
White House | |Week 139: Trump Wants to Turn the Golden State a Hazy Shade of Gray
Plus, NOAA deletes important renewable energy research, and the border fence steamrolls a national monument. Smog of War Federal clean air standards are suppos…
White House | |Week 138: NOAA v. Hurricane Donald
President Trump revokes the Clean Water Rule and doubles down on his fake weather forecast, while the Bureau of Land Management hitches up its wagons to move w…
White House | |Week 137: Trump’s Light Bulb Rollback Takes Us Back to the 19th Century
Plus, the EPA wants kudos for complying with a legal settlement, and another Trump official flees into the arms of an oil company. Not So Bright Back when Geor…
White House | |Week 136: Trump Gives a Pass to One of the Nation’s Worst Polluters
Also, the self-styled environmentalist-in-chief skips a climate summit, and the EPA’s Science Advisory Board misses a big, big deadline. Fuzzy Math, Hazy Air I…
White House | |Week 135: California Is Driving Trump Crazy on Auto Emissions
Plus, national parks are getting hazy (again), and Trump makes a quixotic bid to buy Greenland. Backfire About one month after President Trump took office, the…
White House | |Week 134: Trump Will Save Endangered Species Only When It’s Cheap
Plus, Bernhardt tries to sink offshore wind, and our first-term president takes credit for building a plastics factory that was announced seven years ago. Enda…
White House | |Week 132: America First! (with the United Arab Emirates’ Permission)
Plus, Andrew Wheeler holds story hour at an oil refinery, and the new Bureau of Land Management director doesn’t believe the B should be M-ing L. America First…
White House | |Week 131: Trump Is a Few Firefighters Short of a Full Department
Plus, the administration’s culture of secrecy is under investigation, and Ryan Zinke is now working for oil and gas companies (officially, I mean). Stop, Drop,…
White House | |Week 130: Trump Takes His War on Science on the Road
The administration relocates science jobs, refuses to fill others, and tosses a lifeline to polluters (while silencing citizens). Go West, Young Man. Or You’re…
White House | |Week 129: Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Chooses a Pseudo-Italianate Urban Planning Nightmare Over an Endangered Bird
Plus, the USDA stops counting bees, and Rick Perry is wrong on carbon emissions. I Know What You Did Last Summer, David Bernhardt In the fall of 2016, Mike Ing…
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