The Worst Polluters Are Getting an Easy Ride Under Trump
Clean Water Act prosecutions dropped 70 percent and Clean Air Act prosecutions dropped 50 percent, compared to those during the Obama years. The Trump administ…
Federal, White House | |Trump Lets Dangerous Coal Ash Ponds Pollute Indefinitely
Ignoring massive toxic spills and years of research, Trump pretends unlined coal ash ponds are safe. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced t…
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Denies Wolverines Protection Under the Endangered Species Act
Climate change is rapidly shrinking the habitat of this iconic and dwindling North American species, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has apparently forg…
Federal, White House | |Trump Is Stalling on the Country’s Most Important Climate Change Report
The Trump administration should have started working on the next National Climate Assessment already—but it hasn’t yet recruited a single scientist. The Trump …
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Tells Tribes They Have No Say in Oil Drilling on Their Lands
The Supreme Court ruled that half of Oklahoma is tribal land—yet the EPA says the tribes don’t get to control fossil fuel extraction on those lands. The Trump …
Federal, White House | |Trump Repeals Decades-Old and Very Effective Air Pollution Rule
The “once in, always in” policy has prevented 1.7 million tons of hazardous emissions from entering the country’s air. The U.S. Environmental Protection …
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Lead Contamination Plan Is a Sham
As long as lead service lines deliver our water, there will be more Flints. In the run-up to Election Day, you’re going to hear the Trump administration boast …
Federal, White House | |Trump Moves to Block California’s Transition to Electric Vehicles
Trump loves nothing more than to troll the Golden State. If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows how to do, it’s troll. And he’s doing it again to one of his f…
Federal, White House | |The Trump Administration Says It’s Doing a Good Job Cleaning Toxic Waste Sites—Don’t Fall for It.
The president is using an accounting trick to claim credit for past administrations’ work in remediating Superfund sites. Under Donald Trump, the U.S. Environm…
Federal, White House | |Trump Has Offered NOAA Jobs to Nearly Every High-Profile Climate Change Denier
The president is trying to leave an enduring legacy of science denial at the nation’s premiere climate agency. The Trump administration is attempting to pack t…
Federal, White House | |The Trump Administration Tried to Suppress a Study Showing Oil Drilling’s Threat to Alaska’s Polar Bears
U.S. Geological Survey director Jim Reilly, who—surprise, surprise—used to work for the oil industry, is telling scientists how to count polar bear dens in the…
Federal, White House | |For the First Time Ever, Climate Change Gets Prime Time in a Presidential Debate
During a bleak night of insults and interruptions came a few important reminders (from Biden) about the climate crisis, COVID-19, and, ahem, democracy. Last ni…
Trump Recommends a Climate Change Minimizer as NOAA Chief Scientist
Ryan Maue, a self-described “lukewarmist,” is the second climate contrarian headed to NOAA within a month. The count is now at two for climate contrarians head…
Federal, White House | |Trump Ignores EPA Data Showing Pesticide Threatens Children’s Brains
A large body of data shows chlorpyrifos causes learning disabilities, but Trump’s EPA is looking the other way. Five years ago, scientists at the U.S. Environm…
Federal, White House | |A Climate Change Denier at NOAA
Trump appoints David Legates, a climatologist who couldn’t hack it at the Delaware state government, to a leadership position at our country’s leading climate …
Federal, White House | |EPA Cancels Environmental Justice Discussions, as Trump Suggests They Are “Anti-American”
No, polluting low-income neighborhoods and communities of color is simply wrong and racist—and it’s high time government agencies started addressing it. The U.…
Federal, White House | |Trump Gives Coal Plants a Pass on Toxic Wastewater, While Ignoring Public Health Consequences
Trump’s big favor to coal results in lax controls for arsenic, mercury, and selenium dumped into U.S. waterways. The Trump administration has weakened standard…
Federal, White House | |Trump Fans Flames of Climate Crisis While West Is Burning
Voting for Joe Biden is the most important individual action each of us can take this year to affect our climate future for the better. The West Coast is burni…
Federal, White House | |Donald Trump Declares Himself One of History’s Greatest Environmentalists and Saves Florida from His Own Offshore Drilling Plan.
And he did it all with a straight face. President Trump has given one of the most extraordinary speeches of his (or perhaps any) administration, telling voters…
Federal, White House | |Critically Endangered Whales Fall Victim to Trump’s Interference in Science
The administration’s political considerations around expanding offshore drilling threaten the survival of the North Atlantic right whale. The Trump administrat…
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