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 …
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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…
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…
Trump Tells U.S. Forest Service to Get Out of the Way of Oil Drills
Proposal would undermine the Forest Service’s ability to protect forests. The Trump administration wants to make it easier—much easier—for oil and gas companie…
Trump Blames Clean Energy to Distract from His Failings
We must speed up the just and equitable shift we need away from burning coal, gas, and oil and toward cleaner ways to power our future. In the face of his epic…
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…
Trump Invites Oil Drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The move threatens 60 years of legal protections for this near-pristine land in our country’s far north. The Trump administration has finalized its plan to bri…
Trump Tells Oil and Gas Companies They Can Stop Curbing Methane Emissions
The rollback undoes a historic 2016 rule to control one of the worst greenhouse gases. The Trump administration has relieved fossil fuel companies of their leg…
Trump Proposes Redefining Showerhead So He Can Waste Water
Apparently, his royal locks demand more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. The U.S. Department of Energy is changing the definition of showerhead so that Pr…
Pebble Mine: Calls to Stop Reckless Mining Scheme Intensify
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Jr. announce opposition to proposed Bristol Bay mine, reflecting widespread condemnation of destructive Canadian mining project.  …
Trump Quietly Offers Another Handout to the Oil Industry
The federal government was already undercharging for oil and gas taken from federal lands. Trump wants to ask the industry for even less. The Trump administrat…
Trump Refuses to Free the Lower Snake River of Its Dams—Ignoring Science, Tribes, and Starving Orcas
The Trump administration admits that removing the four dams would give endangered salmon their best chance against extinction, feed imperiled whales, and help …
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…
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…
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…
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…