Week 73: Six Out of Seven Global Leaders Fight Climate Change—the Other Promotes Coal
Trump won’t sign the G7 climate commitment, Pruitt doesn’t have time for smog limits, and Zinke cancels science. Trump, Out! President Trump skipped out of the…
Week 72: Trump’s “Soviet-Style” Plan to Save Coal
Plus, it turns out Trump’s cabinet was ordered to praise him, and Pruitt’s ethical adventures continue, now with chicken chains and used mattresses. National E…
Week 70: The Trump Administration Joins the Climate Fight . . .on the Side of the Polluters
Also, Zinke takes aim at wolf pups while Pruitt takes aim at reporters. A Refuge from What, Exactly? In 2017, Congress and the Trump administration used the Co…
Week 69: Trump Buries Study on Contaminated Drinking Water
Plus, Pruitt is now under 12 separate investigations. Your Health Emergency Is Trump’s PR Problem In late January, word began spreading through the Trump admin…
Week 68: Why the EPA Let a Pesticide Violator Off Easy
Also, Administrator Scott Pruitt equates hard questions (and mustache doodles) with security threats. The Problem With Hiring Lobbyists In January 2016, a subs…
Week 67: Zinke Declares Open Season on Yellowstone’s Grizzlies
Also, top EPA staffers jump ship, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry is confused about how research works. No Picnic for Yogi Bear The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv…
Week 66: Scott Pruitt’s Selective Memory
Pruitt can’t recall his misdeeds, science is out at the EPA, and Rick Perry wants to declare a national emergency to keep coal plants open. Pruitt’s True North…
Week 64: Scott Pruitt, (Almost) Everybody Is On to You
Trumps stands behind his man as the EPA chief lies about raises, breaks ethics rules, and steals taxpayers’ money. Mr. Administrator, Your Pants Are on Fire We…
Week 63: Scott Pruitt Even Sleeps Unethically
While Pruitt’s ethical lapses threaten to destroy the EPA, he rolls back clean car standards and panders to oil refiners. Just Like a Bunch of Used-Car Salesme…
Week 62: Ryan Zinke Thinks You Can’t Enjoy the Outdoors Without an Internal Combustion Engine
Zinke’s council of ATV manufacturers, EPA’s giveaway to carbon black producers, and money for something that sounds an awful lot like climate change. Made in (…
Week 61: Zinke Loves Drilling Anywhere but in His Own State
The Interior secretary lines up drills just outside Bears Ears; Pruitt tries to wipe out decades of research and refuses to explain his soundproof booth. At Le…
Week 60: Trump Finds a Way to Make Tillerson Look Good. And Pompeo Is His Name-o.
State gets a climate denial upgrade, judge orders Pruitt to move on smog, and oil companies write their own offshore drilling rules. Stalling on Smog A federal…
Week 59: Trump Called Elephant Hunting a Horror Show. Now He Wants a Front-Row Seat.
EPA’s science board isn’t meeting, Trump backtracks on trophy hunting, and Interior says only oil can save our national parks. See No Science, Hear No Science …
Week 58: Trump Maybe Admits Obama’s Regulations Were Good for the Economy
Plus the Koch brothers reveal themselves, and Rick Perry is negotiating our nuclear agreements? Really? Shhhh. Regulations Are Good for the Economy. The Office…
Week 57: Judge Tells Pruitt to Stop with the Formaldehyde Already
Pruitt is in trouble over toxic chemicals and travel, Rick Perry gets it wrong on whistle-blowers, and Ryan Zinke is driving scientists out of Interior. Safety…
Week 56: Pruitt’s Travel Is a First-Class Waste of Money
The Trump administration has the money to fly Scott Pruitt first class, but not enough for renewable energy or climate change research? Pruitt Doesn’t Travel C…
Week 55: EPA Climate Confusion―What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger
Pruitt speculates that climate change is healthy, Trump is looking for a few good scientists, and the dog ate the State Department’s carbon emissions report. &…
Week 54: Dear President Trump, Coal Is Neither Clean Nor Beautiful
Trump sees beauty in environmental destruction and lies about sea ice, while Scott Pruitt is outed for personally scrubbing climate change from the EPA website…
Week 52: Zinke Didn’t Do His Job
The Interior secretary’s negligence on offshore drilling, a mass resignation at the National Parks Service board, and the oil and gas industry’s hunger for eve…
Week 51: Back to the Drawing Board, Rick Perry
FERC smacks down Rick Perry on coal, Zinke plays favorites with Florida, and Pruitt is investigated (again). Rick Perry Gets Totally FERC’d The Federal Energy …