Trump administration ignores its own scientists to allow deadly air pollutants
EPA scientists have estimated exposure at current limits causes the early deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually.
By Associated Press - December 08, 2020EPA scientists have estimated exposure at current limits causes the early deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually.
By Associated Press - December 08, 2020General Motors is backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to expand electric vehicle use instead.
By Associated Press - November 24, 2020A provision of the 2017 tax law may make it difficult for Joe Biden to prevent oil drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge.
By Amy Lieu - November 24, 2020She’s touting decreased greenhouse gas emissions that are tied to America’s struggling economy.
By Josh Israel - November 24, 2020‘We’re going to see a real scorched-earth effort here at the tail end of the administration.’
By Associated Press - November 22, 2020Americans have lost more jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than during the entire Great Recession.
By Associated Press - November 03, 2020The Trump administration tried to bury the last national climate assessment in 2018.
By Amy Lieu - October 17, 2020‘I don’t think that my views on global warming or climate change are relevant to the job.’
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 15, 2020Also: Congress passes a bill to create a national suicide hotline, transgender individuals win a lawsuit over locker room policies, and California passes a law to mandate more diversity on corporate boards.
By Emily Singer - October 02, 2020Donald Trump also repeated unfounded claims that Joe Biden would destroy suburbia.
By Associated Press - September 09, 2020The Democrats’ Green New Deal would create over a million jobs a year.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 25, 2020Environmental groups are taking Trump to court over his plan to let oil companies drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By Associated Press - August 25, 2020Also: The world’s largest plastic recycling plant is coming to Pennsylvania, and gay lawmakers make history at the Democratic National Convention.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 21, 2020Trump praised his environmental record minutes after reports surfaced that he’s opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
By Emily Singer - August 17, 2020The former chiefs say that under Trump the agency has been ‘derailed’ from its mission.
By Associated Press - August 14, 2020Trump’s latest assault on the environment is weakening showerhead standards because he claims people cannot wash their ‘beautiful hair properly.’
By Emily Singer - August 13, 2020Households will pay more for over the lifetime of appliances thanks to tariffs and anti-environmental policies.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 13, 2020Donald Trump continues to roll back environmental policies put in place by former President Barack Obama.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 09, 2020‘You have turned EPA into Every Polluters’ Ally,’ Sen. Ed Markey told EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2020Engraved in the monument is this warning: ‘The destruction or displacement of this monument is a misdemeanor punishable by the United States or Mexico.’ Now the government is proposing to commit such a misdemeanor.
By Associated Press - May 17, 2020Trump expressed concern at a White House ceremony that people would consider his ‘specimens’ an ‘exaggeration’ or ‘a Trump term.’
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2020The coronavirus pandemic is making the problem even worse.
By Josh Israel - April 08, 2020Critics say Trump’s latest move to erase Obama’s legacy could lead to more illness and death.
By Associated Press - April 01, 2020The Sierra Club said that by ‘barreling forward with construction during a global pandemic,’ the pipeline company was ‘putting already vulnerable communities at even greater risk.’
By Associated Press - March 31, 2020The EPA’s ‘temporary policy’ has no end date, even as Donald Trump pushes for the nation to return to normal by Easter.
By Josh Israel - March 27, 2020‘Don’t silence our voices.’
By Associated Press - February 26, 2020The 2010s averaged 58.4 degrees Fahrenheit worldwide, or 1.4 degrees higher than the 20th century average.
By Associated Press - January 19, 2020Under Trump, the US has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic clean-up projects in at least 15 years.
By Associated Press - January 05, 2020A federal appeals court on Friday upheld former President Barack Obama’s designation of a federally protected conservation area in the Atlantic Ocean.
By Associated Press - December 27, 2019The number of criminal prosecutions against polluters are at the lowest level since George H.W. Bush’s presidency.
By Associated Press - November 22, 2019