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 | |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…
White House | |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 | |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 | |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 | |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 | |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 | |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 | |Week 12: The EPA Turns into the PPA—the Pruitt Protection Agency
Now hiring: 24-hour bodyguards for the EPA administrator, as he seeks to fire thousands and risk the bodies of all Americans. Hey Italy, Rick Perry Wants to Se…
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