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E.P.A. Will Ease Path to New Coal Plants
This article discusses how EPA intends to violate its charter to protect citizens; instead, it will protect coal plants.
The Trump administration is poised to roll back a significant climate change regulation on coal-fired power plants,making it easier to build new coal plants in the United States.
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Trump’s pick for EPA already rolling back climate change protections
This article discusses how Trump’s pick for EPA (Wheeler) is already rolling back climate change protections.
Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who is now acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was a “driving force” behind the agenda of Sen. James Inhofe, who called climate change a “hoax,” […]
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EPA PLANS TO ROLL BACK WATER PROTECTIONS DESPITE CLIMATE CHANGE WARNINGS
This article discusses how EPA intends to ignore science and roll back protections for American waterways.
WHILE ONE BRANCH of the U.S. government issued a report last week outlining the grave threats posed by climate change, another branch was preparing a rollback of water protections that will further exacerbate some of […]
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Trump officials mount full-court press against their own climate report
This article discusses how Trump officials are mounting lying to cover up their own climate report. The White House press secretary said it was “not based on facts.” The secretary of the interior said it focused only on the “worst scenarios.”
And President Trump said that when it comes to the devastating effects of climate change described […]
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Assault Against Science Continues at the E.P.A.
This article, by Christopher S. Zarba, former staff director of the Scientific Advisory Board at the EPA, discusses how the assault against science continues at the EPA. The agency jettisons expert panels providing guidance on important health and environmental issues.
The Environmental Protection Agency effectively disbanded a scientific panel of […]
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EPA head Andrew Wheeler’s highly effective campaign to sacrifice public health in favor of the fossil-fuel industry
This article discusses The President’s Coal Warrior. Inside EPA head Andrew Wheeler’s highly effective campaign to sacrifice public health in favor of the fossil-fuel industry.
If you could design the ideal character to assure the continuing domination of Big Coal and Big Oil in America and to reaffirm their faith in their […]
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The EPA’s Climate Change Page Is Just Gone Now
This article discusses The EPA’s Climate Change Page Is Just Gone Now. A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration.
EPA.gov pages that previously […]
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EPA is downsizing regional office staff – quietly
This article discusses how EPA is downsizing regional office staff.
EPA trimmed employees from a regional office and in other departments this year as the Trump administration continued its push to downsize the agency.
Employees in EPA’s San Francisco-based Region 9 were offered buyout and “early out” options over the summer, […]
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EPA Weighs Allowing Oil Companies to Pump Wastewater Into Rivers, Streams
This article discusses EPA considering allowing Oil Companies to Pump Wastewater Into Rivers, Streams.
For almost as long as there have been oil wells in Texas, drillers have pumped the vast quantities of brackish wastewater that surfaces with the oil into underground wells thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface.
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Skeptics named as finalists for Science Advisory Board
This article discusses the Trump picks for EPA’s Science Advisory Board – climate change deniers.
Finalists for EPA’s Science Advisory Board include researchers who reject mainstream climate science and who have fought against environmental regulations for years.
Among them is an economist from the conservative Heritage Foundation whose work was cited […]
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