Week 79: Zinke Ignores Damage to Public Lands
Plus, Wheeler ignores factory farm pollution, and Trump ignores public opposition to drilling the Arctic Refuge. Damage? What Damage? If oil drillers damage a …
White House | |Week 78: Zinke Wants More Engines and Wi-Fi Towers in Our National Parks
Plus, Trump proposes to gut the Endangered Species Act—extinction is going to be yuge. An Ounce of Prevention . . . The Interior Department announced a plan on…
White House | |Week 77: Pruitt Is Gone, but the Pollution Isn’t
Plus, the EPA’s stall on chlorpyrifos and Ryan Zinke’s criminal socks. Pruitt’s Parting Gift Poof! Scott Pruitt disappeared from the U.S. Environmental Protect…
White House | |Week 75: When the EPA Has Job Openings, the Oil Industry Polishes Its Resumes
Also, the EPA launches a pincer attack on smog standards, and Pruitt faces (yet another) investigation. EPA, Meet API One month into his tenure at the EPA, Adm…
White House | |Week 74: Move Over, Pruitt . . . Zinke Is This Week’s King of Corruption
Also, Trump sells off our oceans. Two Oil Men Walk Into a Brewery . . . Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has launched an assault on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt…
White House | |Week 73: Six Out of Seven Global Leaders Fight Climate Change—the Other Promotes Coal
Trump won’t sign the G7 climate commitment, Pruitt doesn’t have time for smog limits, and Zinke cancels science. Trump, Out! President Trump skipped out of the…
White House | |Week 72: Trump’s “Soviet-Style” Plan to Save Coal
Plus, it turns out Trump’s cabinet was ordered to praise him, and Pruitt’s ethical adventures continue, now with chicken chains and used mattresses. National E…
White House | |Week 70: The Trump Administration Joins the Climate Fight . . .on the Side of the Polluters
Also, Zinke takes aim at wolf pups while Pruitt takes aim at reporters. A Refuge from What, Exactly? In 2017, Congress and the Trump administration used the Co…
White House | |Week 69: Trump Buries Study on Contaminated Drinking Water
Plus, Pruitt is now under 12 separate investigations. Your Health Emergency Is Trump’s PR Problem In late January, word began spreading through the Trump admin…
White House | |Week 68: Why the EPA Let a Pesticide Violator Off Easy
Also, Administrator Scott Pruitt equates hard questions (and mustache doodles) with security threats. The Problem With Hiring Lobbyists In January 2016, a subs…
White House | |Week 67: Zinke Declares Open Season on Yellowstone’s Grizzlies
Also, top EPA staffers jump ship, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry is confused about how research works. No Picnic for Yogi Bear The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv…
White House | |Week 66: Scott Pruitt’s Selective Memory
Pruitt can’t recall his misdeeds, science is out at the EPA, and Rick Perry wants to declare a national emergency to keep coal plants open. Pruitt’s True North…
White House | |Week 64: Scott Pruitt, (Almost) Everybody Is On to You
Trumps stands behind his man as the EPA chief lies about raises, breaks ethics rules, and steals taxpayers’ money. Mr. Administrator, Your Pants Are on Fire We…
White House | |Week 63: Scott Pruitt Even Sleeps Unethically
While Pruitt’s ethical lapses threaten to destroy the EPA, he rolls back clean car standards and panders to oil refiners. Just Like a Bunch of Used-Car Salesme…
White House | |Week 62: Ryan Zinke Thinks You Can’t Enjoy the Outdoors Without an Internal Combustion Engine
Zinke’s council of ATV manufacturers, EPA’s giveaway to carbon black producers, and money for something that sounds an awful lot like climate change. Made in (…
White House | |Week 61: Zinke Loves Drilling Anywhere but in His Own State
The Interior secretary lines up drills just outside Bears Ears; Pruitt tries to wipe out decades of research and refuses to explain his soundproof booth. At Le…
White House | |Week 60: Trump Finds a Way to Make Tillerson Look Good. And Pompeo Is His Name-o.
State gets a climate denial upgrade, judge orders Pruitt to move on smog, and oil companies write their own offshore drilling rules. Stalling on Smog A federal…
White House | |Week 59: Trump Called Elephant Hunting a Horror Show. Now He Wants a Front-Row Seat.
EPA’s science board isn’t meeting, Trump backtracks on trophy hunting, and Interior says only oil can save our national parks. See No Science, Hear No Science …
White House | |Week 58: Trump Maybe Admits Obama’s Regulations Were Good for the Economy
Plus the Koch brothers reveal themselves, and Rick Perry is negotiating our nuclear agreements? Really? Shhhh. Regulations Are Good for the Economy. The Office…
White House | |Week 57: Judge Tells Pruitt to Stop with the Formaldehyde Already
Pruitt is in trouble over toxic chemicals and travel, Rick Perry gets it wrong on whistle-blowers, and Ryan Zinke is driving scientists out of Interior. Safety…
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