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How a Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research
The New York Times discusses how a Trump insider embeds climate denial in scientific research.
An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial — into […]
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Oil from federal lands tops 1B barrels as Trump eases rules
This Pittsburg Post-Gazette article discusses how oil extraction from federal lands tops 1B barrels as Trump eases rules.
Oil production from U.S.- managed lands and waters topped a record 1 billion barrels last year, federal officials said Tuesday, as technological advances helped drive development in new areas and the Trump […]
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Emails Show DOI Falsified Fire Data for Political Ends
This Outside Online article discusses how the Department of the Interior (DOI) falsified fire data for political ends. The Trump administration manipulated emissions reporting from the deadliest fires in California history to promote logging.
In November, 2018, the Camp and Woolsey Fires burned over 250,000 acres in […]
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DOI Is Speeding Harm to Lands Before Election Day
This Outside Online article discusses how the Department of the Interior (DOI) is trying to lock in fossil fuel interests before Election Day. As a Trump reelection looks less certain, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is accelerating work for oil and gas industries.
ast week, an analysis published by public lands advocacy […]
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Environmental group sues over exemptions to safety rule put in place after Deepwater Horizon
This article discusses an environmental group’s lawsuit over exemptions to safety rule put in place after Deepwater Horizon. The nonprofit group Healthy Gulf filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday against two federal agencies and their directors for allowing […]
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Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Endangered Species Act Rule Changes
This Inside Climate News article discusses the lawsuit filed by certain environmental groups to block Trump’s Endangered Species Act rule changes. The changes make it harder to take future risks from climate change into account and bring economics into the picture when determining protections for species.
Eight environmental organizations launched the […]
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Three articles on Trump’s plan to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act
The NY Times opinion piece discusses The Species Act, Endangered: ‘Like a Plan From a Cartoon Villain’. The president and his Interior Department undermine the landmark Endangered Species Act in the service of “energy dominance.” In early May, a United Nations panel on biodiversity released a deeply troubling 1,500-page
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Trump’s Interior Department is sidelining scientists, experts warn lawmakers; Virginia congressmen skip hearing
This Virginia Mercury article discusses how 2 Virginia congressmen skip a hearing where science experts warn that Trump’s Interior Department is sidelining scientists.
President Donald Trump’s administration has been sidelining researchers and suppressing climate change science at the U.S. Interior Department, experts warned Congress this week.
A climate change scientist and a former […]
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Officials removed climate references from press releases
This E&E News article discusses how the US Interior Department removed climate references from press releases.
A March news release from the U.S. Geological Survey touted a new study that could be useful for infrastructure planning along the California coastline.
At least that’s how the Trump administration conveyed it.
The news release […]
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DeSmog Blog, week of 5/23/2019
This week’s blog includes discussions about transporting fracked gas via trucks instead of pipelines; new laws in Louisiana that criminalize pipeline protests; Trump, DOJ, and “clean coal”; shipping companies and GHGs; a report on plastics; Biden and his Dominion Energy connection; Warren Buffet and fracking; FER$C and its pipeline […]
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