Week 43: Hawking Coal at a Climate Change Summit. Awkward…
The Trump administration evades ethics rules, closes a science center, and seeks to end protests at the Washington Monument. Am I at the Wrong Meeting? The Uni…
White House | |Week 42: Our Air Is Too Clean?
The EPA hires off-the-wall scientists (again), plays hide-and-seek with Congress, and more. What a Load of Bull U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administra…
White House | |Voters Rewrite 2018 Political Playbook
This year’s decisive election results remind us that voters, not pundits or political operatives, will decide what we can accomplish in America. Voters yesterd…
Updates | |Virginia’s Golden Opportunity to Lead
On Tuesday, Virginians have an opportunity to reject the Trump administration’s reckless and destructive environmental agenda. Showing up to vote has rarely, i…
Updates | |Week 41: Introducing . . . Pseudoscience Advisory Councils
The EPA chief asks corporations to run U.S. science policy, and a USDA nominee is caught up in the Russia scandal. Conflict of Information U.S. Environmental P…
White House | |Senator Rubio: Loyal To Oil, Or Florida’s Beaches?
Congress is on the brink of turning Florida’s vital beaches and ocean economy into a sacrifice zone for private oil companies. Unless Florida’s delegation and …
Updates | |Week 40: Ryan Zinke Calls for More Drilling (and Lying) in the Gulf
Plus, shadiness in Montana and an insult-slinging EPA. No Oil Left Behind The Interior Department announced this week that in March “all available un-leased ar…
White House | |Week 39: Did the EPA Chief’s Cattle Propaganda Video Break the Law?
Scott Pruitt falls out of love with suing the EPA and puts a chemical industry shill on the payroll. This week’s column is a trifecta of stories on EPA Adminis…
White House | |Donald Trump vs. the Pursuit of Happiness
To stop President Trump’s and his congressional allies’ assault on human health and the environment, return to America’s founding principles. President Trump a…
Updates | |Week 38: According to Scott Pruitt, Your Children’s Health and Safety Aren’t Worth Much
The EPA administrator devalues our future, Congressman Bishop devalues our history, and industrialists devalue Rick Perry. Pruitt’s Price Tags U.S. Environment…
White House | |Week 37: Rick Perry Wants to Drag Dirty, Old Power Plants Out of Retirement
Reading Pruitt’s Outlook calendar; Trump’s unholy pick for the EPA’s toxics office. Rick’s Picks: Coal and Nuclear U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Per…
White House | |Budget Brings Job Killing Offshore Drilling Close To Florida’s Shores
Congress begins official consideration of the nation’s budget this week, and while Capitol Hill ponders our fiscal fate, residents of Florida and our friends a…
Updates | |Week 36: Scott Pruitt Can’t Hear You Anymore (Not That He Was Listening)
The EPA chief’s new $25,000 soundproof booth, Ryan Zinke hates solar panels, and the Arctic refuge is in danger yet again. But Is It Leakproof? The U.S. Enviro…
White House | |Week 35: Trump Throws His Weight Behind the Valley Lateral Pipeline
FERC gets federalism wrong, Zinke gets monuments wrong, and Pruitt gets babysat. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Pipeline! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—und…
White House | |Week 34: House Votes to Slash EPA Budget by Half a Billion—and Now for the Bad News…
Congressional Republicans are still doing their damnedest to ignore climate science. Good News and Bad News The House of Representatives took two votes relatin…
White House | |Week 33: The EPA Has No Time for Texas
Trump stalls on Texas smog pollution and continues to stock his administration with the unqualified. The Dog Ate My Pollution Remediation Plan Lawyers for the …
White House | |Tropical Storm Harvey: Another American Deluge
As we lend our immediate support to Gulf Coast communities, we must also protect people from such future disasters by addressing infrastructure, safety measure…
Updates | |Week 31: I’ve Got Beef, with Scott Pruitt
The EPA chief puts cows ahead of clean water, the monuments mystery, ExxonMobil’s history of denial, and more science censorship. Don’t Give Me Your Bull . . .…
White House | |Week 30: Build in a Flood Zone without Taking Precautions? Go Ahead, Says Trump.
Plus, EPA chief Pruitt moves in favor of more water pollution and the renewable energy report Rick Perry doesn’t want you to see. Flooding America with Crazy P…
White House | |Week 29: Can Trump Resist the Temptation to Censor the National Climate Assessment?
EPA’s Pruitt does denial all wrong, and U.S. diplomats are told to peddle coal to countries outraged over Trump’s Paris withdrawal. Censor-in-Chief In addition…
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