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 | |U.S. Leadership Absent in Amazon Emergency
The Amazon is experiencing devastating forest fires, and the fallout may be felt for generations to come. This is terrible news for nature and wildlife, for th…
Federal, 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 | |Fifty Years of Environmental Progress Threatened
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, but there was more to the summer of ’69 than bell bottoms, blues, and butterflies. That s…
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 | |Voters Deserve 2020 Candidates’ Plans to Fix U.S. Water Woes
WASHINGTON (July 30, 2019) – As Democratic presidential candidates gather in Detroit for this week’s debates, the specter of Michigan’s water woes loom in the …
Press Releases | |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 | |Ohio Lawmakers Bail Out Coal Plants, Boost Trump
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump promised to save the coal industry by eliminating environmental safeguards and cutting limits on greenhouse gas …
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 | |Care About the Climate Crisis? It’s Time to Go All In.
NASA just reported June 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history, and July’s global average temperature will likely be even hotter. All-time heat records…
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…
White House | |Trump Fears Environmental Record Could Hurt His Re-Election
WASHINGTON (July 8, 2019) – President Trump is expected to tout his environmental record in a speech today in part to shore up his prospects for reelection. Ke…
Press Releases | |Week 127: Even Rice Is Getting Worse Under Trump. (And He’s Trying to Keep a Lid on It.)
The Trump administration buries more climate change research, Ivanka rents from a mining magnate, and another ethics fail at the EPA. Carbon Fried Rice An inte…
White House | |Week 126: Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule: Neither Affordable nor Clean. Let’s Discuss.
Also, Trump finds a new way to limit scientific advice to his administration. On the Rebound: Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule The U.S. Environmental Prote…
White House | |Trump’s Presidency Has Been a Disaster; One Term is Enough
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2019) – President Trump is set to kick off his reelection campaign Tuesday in Florida, where voters are already experiencing the obvious i…
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