Trump's alarming environmental rollback: what's been scrapped so far.
Environment
Since January, the White House, Congress and EPA have engineered a dizzying reversal of regulations designed to protect the environment and public health
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‘The EPA’s...
Commentary: The end goal of Trump’s war on science.
Climate-change deniers go to great lengths to convince the public that there’s a legitimate scientific debate about whether humans are the main cause of...
Is inequality bad for the environment?
Inequality
From buying stuff to eating meat to wasting water, there is growing evidence that countries with a bigger gap between rich and poor do...
What Trump is doing to allow oil drilling near New Jersey beaches.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Interior Department said it will begin rewriting the five-year oil drilling plan that currently excludes the Atlantic Ocean.
The first stage is a request for comments, which...
The Paris climate deal won’t save us – our future depends on de-growth.
Global development professionals network
Development 2030
Jason Hickel
The success of the Paris climate deal depends on ‘negative emission’ technologies that have never been proven at scale
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Minnesota loons could get aid from BP oil spill cleanup funds.
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Kevin Woizeschke peered through binoculars at a pair of loons gliding across the water.
Woizeschke, a nongame wildlife biologist for the Minnesota...
Court blocks EPA effort to suspend Obama-era methane rule.
By LISA FRIEDMANJuly 3, 2017WASHINGTON — Dealing a legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency...
D.C. Circuit rejects EPA methane rule delay.
Drilling operations near Bakersfield, Calif. Manuel Quinones/E&E News
A federal appeals court today vacated the Trump administration's decision to delay an Obama-era U.S. EPA rule...
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