Biden’s Plan Is More than a Climate Plan
Joe Biden has provided a road map to an economically, environmentally, and morally superior future. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden relea…
Trump’s EPA Won’t Stop Uranium Miners from Contaminating Water
Toxic radioactive heavy metals and chemicals from uranium mines put drinking water off-limits for generations—and in places where there is no water to spare Wh…
Federal, White House | |The Army Corps of Engineers’ Environmental Analysis for Alaska’s Pebble Mine Is Fatally Flawed
The final environmental impact statement makes a mockery of the National Environmental Policy Act, ignoring a broad consensus of condemnation. Hopes were not h…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Airline Emissions Standards Are Meaningless
The first-ever rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft wouldn’t actually accomplish anything new. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) u…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Lax Soot Standards Could Kill More Than 140,000 People
New study shows what Trump pretends not to understand: Breathing soot is bad for you. According to a new study published in the journal Science Advances, the T…
Federal, White House | |Trump Takes a Torch to the National Environmental Policy Act
The Trump administration sets its sights on dismantling the Magna Carta of U.S. environmental law. The 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is nicknam…
Federal, White House | |Trump Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette Says 100 Percent Renewables Is Not Possible—Wait, What?
Pack it in, scientists and innovators. An anti-visionary has spoken. Scientists around the world have been debating how to get the world to 100 percent renewab…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Nominee to Manage Federal Lands Instead Wants to Sell Them
William Perry Pendley: yet another Trump nominee who rejects the basic duties of his job. The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ove…
Federal, White House | |Sharpiegate’s Conclusion: The White House Pressured the National Weather Service to Retract a Completely Accurate Statement
The culprit behind Sharpiegate will surprise no one. A new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Inspector General confirms what everyone in the world …
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Makes It Harder to Put Your Retirement Money in Socially Responsible Companies
President Trump doesn’t want your investments making the world a better place. The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule recently that would make it …
Federal, White House | |Donald Trump Is Now at War with Science AND Maps
Having learned nothing from Sharpiegate, Trump’s EPA altered a Wisconsin pollution map. What is it with Donald Trump and maps? During the 2019 hurricane season…
Federal, White House | |Trump Risks California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument in Search of Worthless Oil
Even when the value of oil was virtually nothing, Trump was still willing to destroy one of our country’s treasured landscapes to get it. In the midst of a his…
Federal, White House | |Trump to Bring Offshore Drilling to Florida, Defying Overwhelming Opposition
Floridians know offshore drilling threatens their environment and economy. Trump doesn’t care. For 35 years, both parties have agreed that drilling for oil off…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Unprecedented Attack on Birds
Under a radical legal reinterpretation, the oil and gas industry won’t have to worry about killing birds. The Trump administration is moving forward with a pla…
Federal, White House | |On Land or at Sea, No National Monument Is Safe from Trump
The president opens the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts monument to commercial fishing. Lying 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the Northeast Can…
Federal, White House | |Trump Thinks Eliminating Environmental Regulation Will Stimulate Recovery. He’s 100 Percent Wrong.
The evidence shows that environmental protection is a boon to the economy. President Trump has signed an executive order encouraging agencies to all but ignore…
Federal, White House | |Trump Invites Offshore Drillers to Make the Same Mistakes Again
The administration’s rollback raises the risk of another Deepwater Horizon disaster. Newly released emails show that in 2017, the American Petroleum Institute …
Federal, White House | |Trump Tells States and Tribes They’re Thinking Too Much About Clean Water
The EPA shortchanges authorities’ ability to accept or reject proposals that threaten their waterways. The Clean Water Act gives states and tribes the right to…
Federal, White House | |Trump to Communities Trying to Protect Their Forests: Shut It.
Communities currently have 15 days to object to logging sales on nearby federal lands. The president says that’s unfair to logging companies. The Trump adminis…
Federal, White House | |Trump Proposes Logging Burned Land Without Environmental Analysis
Postfire logging has been called “mugging a burn victim.” Trump wants to make those muggings easier. The Bureau of Land Management has proposed to allow salvag…
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