Week 28: Trump’s Wall Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Break Laws (Environmental or Otherwise)
The president won’t subject his offensive border project to environmental review, but his administration will subject the EPA museum to censorship. Wall of Sha…
White House | |Week 25: EPA Chief Wants to Host His Own Un-Reality Show on Climate
The military’s battle against climate change is victorious in the House, and Pebble Mine is back (and just as terrible). Not Ready for Prime Time Climate…
White House | |Deadly Water and Dashed Coverage: GOP’s Two-sided Attack on Americans’ Health
By Lauren Karpinski The disastrous Senate “health care” bill, crafted behind closed doors, would result in tens of millions of Americans losing their health in…
Updates | |Week 24: More Judges for Trump to Hate?
A court rejects the EPA’s methane maneuver, and Scott Pruitt is costing you a lot of money. Laying Down the Law The week got off to a good start on Monday: The…
White House | |Week 23: Trump’s EPA Chief Doesn’t Understand Where River Water Comes From
The EPA plans to rescind the Clean Water Rule, and the Senate gives Scott Pruitt a tongue-lashing. As Clear as a Prairie Pothole When reporters ask Donald Trum…
White House | |Week 22: Trump Gives Even More Top EPA Scientists the Boot
. . . and Rick Perry blames climate change on the ocean. Shoot the Messenger Joe Kernen of CNBC asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry the following question this w…
White House | |Scott Pruitt Defends the Indefensible
The budget testimony from the EPA Administrator leaves us wondering who exactly is protecting our environment and health. On the basis of congressional testimo…
Updates | |Week 21: The Corporate Takeover of Our National Parks
Welcome to Best Buy’s Yosemite Hiking Center? Glacier National Park, brought to you by Aquafina, and Shenandoah-Verizon, can you hear it now? All Ears U.S. Dep…
White House | |Week 20: Humpty Trumpty’s Wall Goes Solar?
Plus: Dems in Congress get gagged, while oil drillers get ready to make a noisy mess of the Atlantic. Not Quite Seeing the Light President Trump pitched a new …
White House | |Week 19: The United States Is Now One of Just Three Nations to Neg the Paris Climate Accord
(The other two are Nicaragua and Syria.) A Laughingstock President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would begin the process to withdraw from …
White House | |Paris Pullout: Fight Back at the Ballot Box
When the president and our elected representatives in Congress ignore reason, science and public opinion, the only way to get their attention is at the ballot …
Updates | |Week 18: The Pope Gives Trump Some Science Homework
And the Senate prepares to give Trump’s budget proposal its last rites. First, Some Perspective The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal rec…
White House | |A Budget That Scorches the Planet
President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health on Tuesday, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth…
Updates | |Week 17: A Would-Be-Banned Pesticide Is Blamed for Sickening Farmers—Thanks, Trump!
And the president nominates two more saboteurs to top positions at the Interior and Transportation Departments. At Least They Have Regulatory Certainty . . . D…
White House | |Week 16: The Senate Negs Trump’s Love for Methane Leaks
Now the bad news: The administration continues to stifle innovation and science. A Win! A Win! In a week of big surprises and dramatic twists in Washington, D.…
White House | |Week 15: Trump Brainstorms Ways to Weasel Out of Paris Climate Treaty
And hires a fossil fuel lover to run the DOE’s renewable energy office. We’ll Always Have Paris . . .Won’t We? The smoke signals emanating from the White House…
White House | |Week 14: 100 Days Later, Trump Not Yet Bored of Attacking the Environment
The president ponders whether to undo protections for America’s national monuments. Monumental Error President Trump asked Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wed…
White House | |Join us at the People’s Climate March
This Saturday in Washington and cities around the world many will be marching to demand climate action. NRDC Action Fund staff, donors and friends will be part…
Updates | |Week 13: Pruitt Doesn’t Trust His EPA Staff to Work Hard Against Clean Water Protections
Because why would they? Let’s not make a deal. Last week, the G7 meeting in Rome ended in discord, as some of the world’s leading economies failed to agree on …
White House | |TV Ad: Montana Can’t Afford Trump’s Dangerous Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON (April 18, 2017) – Television ads launched today across Montana warn that budget cuts sought by the Trump administration could threaten the health o…
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