Week 125: Trump to Climate Scientists: Don’t Write Anything Down!
Plus, the president warns states against protecting their own waterways, and the man Scott Pruitt would call for scientific advice is not a scientist. Trump Ce…
White House | |Week 123: Off-Roading Over Endangered Species Really Revs Trump’s Engine
Plus, the president’s crazy logic on federal coal leasing and climate modeling. Riding Roughshod Over Endangered Species The Trump administration kicked off Me…
White House | |Climate Deniers Warn GOP Lawmakers: Stay Loyal
“I don’t lose any sleep over it.” Those were the words Interior Secretary David Bernhardt used at a House hearing on May 15 to describe his level of concern ab…
Week 122: Trump’s Power Plant Rule Could Kill Thousands. He’s Hoping You Won’t Notice.
Trump also kills 20 years of child health research and continues to neglect chemical safety. Smoke and Mirrors According to a report in the New York Times, the…
White House | |Week 121: David Bernhardt’s (Document) Dump on Congress
Plus, Big Oil (literally!) writes its own offshore drilling rules, Trump fast-tracks his border wall through more wilderness areas, and the Interior Department…
White House | |Week 120: Trump Can’t Even Run a Garbage Dump Properly
Plus, the president sacrifices an endangered species to oil drillers, and Mike Pompeo makes bizzare climate change comments. Trump’s Legal Arguments Are Garbag…
White House | |Week 119: Trump’s Swamp Monsters Are Coming for Alaska’s Bristol Bay
Plus, Sonny Perdue doesn’t understand cancer science, and offshore drillers are writing their own rules. Swamping Salmon Donald Trump promised to create jobs, …
White House | |House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
WASHINGTON (May 2, 2019) – The House of Representatives today, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act. The following is a statement fro…
Congress, Press Releases | |House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
WASHINGTON (May 2, 2019) – The House of Representatives today, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act. The following is a statement fro…
Press Releases | |Trump Backs Down on Offshore Drilling
WASHINGTON (April 25, 2019) – Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today told the Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration’s plans to open up nearly all…
Press Releases | |Week 117: The EPA Finds a Clean Water Act Loophole . . . and Widens It
Otherwise, it was just an ordinary week of secret meetings and betrayals of the public interest. Chain of Fools The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announ…
White House | |Week 116: Trump to Let Pork Producers Police Themselves. What Could Go Wrong?
Plus, the president defies Congress on conservation and wants to force pipelines on states that don’t want them. This Little Piggy Carries Listeria The Trump a…
White House | |Gardner Backs Oil Lobbyist to Run Interior
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm oil lobbyist David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary, paving the way for Bernhardt to dramaticall…
Press Releases | |N.C. Senators Back Oil Lobbyist to Run Interior
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm oil lobbyist David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary, paving the way for Bernhardt to dramaticall…
Press Releases | |Oil Lobbyist Confirmed to Safeguard Public Lands and Waters
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary. The following is a statement from John Bowman, Managing …
Press Releases | |Oil Lobbyist Confirmed to Safeguard Public Lands and Waters
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary. The following is a statement from John Bowman, Managing …
Press Releases | |The Other Front in Trump’s War on the Environment
This week, senators will vote on whether to confirm former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior. Much has been written about th…
Federal, White House | |Week 114: Trump’s EPA Questions if Air Pollution Really Kills (It Does), and the Interior Department Sells Out Nearly 1,400 Endangered Species
Interior’s Bernhardt helped bury a damning pesticide report, the Clean Air Committee goes soft on soot, and Trump nominates a climate change denier to the Fed …
White House | |Week 112: Trump’s FY2020 Budget Is DOA (Dangerous on Arrival)
Trump hates science, and the Department of the Interior hates transparency. Slashing Funding for Science, Yet Again President Trump released his budget for fis…
White House | |Week 111: Trump Censors Scientists (Twice!)
Trump officials tell NASA they’re not needed, political appointees interfere with chemical safety research, and former military brass tell Trump to stop denyin…
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