Week 99: Trump Waters Down Wetlands Protections
Plus, hawking coal at a climate summit and selling out polar bears to Big Oil. Wetlands: From “No Net Loss” to “Pave It Over” Wetlands protection became a nati…
Week 98: Trump Tries Again (and Fails Again) to Save the Coal Industry
Plus, the president looks to autocrats for anti-climate allies, and the Atlantic coastline is about to get really noisy. Trump Embraces Coal, Energy Markets Do…
Week 97: The Attempt to Discount Climate Change on Black Friday
The administration released climate doomsday predictions while you were at the mall, and Scott Pruitt is the gift that keeps on giving. Black News on Black Fri…
Week 95: As California Burns, Trump Continues to Make a Bad Situation Worse
Trump’s wildfire lies, Zinke’s acronym defense, and the EPA’s forced altruism involving truck pollution. Where There’s Smoke Donald Trump’s ignorant Twitter fi…
Week 93: One of Ryan Zinke’s Ethics Scandals Heads to the Justice Department
The Interior secretary’s shady land deal, and his shady trophy hunting council, are under scrutiny. Zinke Could Use a Brewski Right Now Over the summer, Politi…
Week 91: Speak No Climate Change, Hear No Climate Change . . .
Trump denies climate change on “60 Minutes,” and yet his administration says climate facts are indisputable in court. Also, strange things are afoot between Be…
Week 90: Perhaps the IPCC Should Have Drawn Trump a Picture
The president doesn’t know what the U.N.’s climate report is, Ryan Zinke’s “pay-to-protest” plan, and Andrew Wheeler’s racist index finger. Who Drew This Thing…
Week 89: If You’re Reading This, Ryan Zinke Probably Thinks You’re Un-American
Zinke doesn’t think Americans should cross state lines to protest, and the EPA leaves kids to fend for themselves. Stars and Stripes and Pipes U.S. Department …
Week 88: Trump’s Runaway Train of Deregulation
Oil trains won’t get better brakes, air conditioners won’t get safer chemicals, and children lose their EPA advocate. Bombs Away! After several tragic rail acc…
Week 87: You Don’t Want to Live Downwind with Trump Around
The EPA lets states pollute other states’ air, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline fails and fails again to follow the law, and Ryan Zinke actually says the government…
Week 86: No, Trump’s Methane Proposal Is Not “Neat”
Plus, your one-and-only chance to save the Clean Power Plan, and Steve Bannon’s role in the Paris climate withdrawal. See No Evil According to documents review…
Week 83: The Grim Details of Trump’s “Climate” Plan
The new proposal would take us backward on climate, tilt the grid toward coal, and actually kill people. This Is Your Plan? The U.S. Environmental Protection A…
Week 82: Indestructible (Yet Combustible) Coal?
Trump is confused about coal, NHTSA is confused about math, and Zinke is confused about climate change. Trump’s Coal-Fired Echo Chamber If you surround yoursel…
Week 81: Under Trump, National Wildlife Refuges Are No Place for Bees
Plus, Trump’s wildfire hot air and the job-killing effects of fuel efficiency rollbacks. Bayer Over Bees Would you be surprised to learn that the federal gover…
Week 80: Making Cars Dirty Again
Trump rolls back fuel efficiency standards while his EPA chief celebrates the country’s clean air (achieved by past administrations). Hot Air Bags The Trump ad…
Week 79: Zinke Ignores Damage to Public Lands
Plus, Wheeler ignores factory farm pollution, and Trump ignores public opposition to drilling the Arctic Refuge. Damage? What Damage? If oil drillers damage a …
Week 78: Zinke Wants More Engines and Wi-Fi Towers in Our National Parks
Plus, Trump proposes to gut the Endangered Species Act—extinction is going to be yuge. An Ounce of Prevention . . . The Interior Department announced a plan on…
Week 77: Pruitt Is Gone, but the Pollution Isn’t
Plus, the EPA’s stall on chlorpyrifos and Ryan Zinke’s criminal socks. Pruitt’s Parting Gift Poof! Scott Pruitt disappeared from the U.S. Environmental Protect…
Week 75: When the EPA Has Job Openings, the Oil Industry Polishes Its Resumes
Also, the EPA launches a pincer attack on smog standards, and Pruitt faces (yet another) investigation. EPA, Meet API One month into his tenure at the EPA, Adm…
Week 74: Move Over, Pruitt . . . Zinke Is This Week’s King of Corruption
Also, Trump sells off our oceans. Two Oil Men Walk Into a Brewery . . . Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has launched an assault on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt…