Trump’s EPA won’t stop uranium miners from contaminating water July 26, 2020 Trump Watch Toxic radioactive heavy metals and chemicals from uranium mines put drinking water off-limits for generations—and in places where there is no water to spare
Trump takes a torch to the National Environmental Policy Act July 15, 2020 Trump Watch The Trump administration sets its sights on dismantling the Magna Carta of U.S. environmental law.
On land or at sea, no national monument is safe from Trump June 5, 2020 Trump Watch The president opens the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts monument to commercial fishing.
Trump’s unprecedented attack on birds June 5, 2020 Trump Watch Under a radical legal reinterpretation, the oil and gas industry won’t have to worry about killing birds.
Trump thinks eliminating environmental regulation will stimulate recovery. He’s 100 percent wrong. June 4, 2020 Trump Watch The evidence shows that environmental protection is a boon to the economy.
Trump invites offshore drillers to make the same mistakes again June 2, 2020 Trump Watch The administration’s rollback raises the risk of another Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Trump tells states and tribes they’re thinking too much about clean water June 1, 2020 Trump Watch The EPA shortchanges authorities’ ability to accept or reject proposals that threaten their waterways.
Trump proposes logging burned land without environmental analysis May 29, 2020 Trump Watch Postfire logging has been called “mugging a burn victim.” Trump wants to make those muggings easier.
Trump to communities trying to protect their forests: Shut it. May 29, 2020 Trump Watch Communities currently have 15 days to object to logging sales on nearby federal lands. The president says that’s unfair to logging companies.
Trump’s car emissions rollback is a disaster March 30, 2020 Trump Watch It’s bad for the environment, the economy, and public health.
Trump to withdraw protections for the sage grouse March 30, 2020 Trump Watch Yet another iconic North American species swept aside in the relentless pursuit of fossil fuels.
The Trump administration issues a free pass to pollute during pandemic March 26, 2020 Trump Watch The move will leave Americans in the dark about the levels of contaminated air and water coming into their communities.
Trump’s EPA refuses to give Americans more time during the pandemic to respond to its pro-pollution proposals March 23, 2020 Trump Watch The public health professionals who would have the most to say about the agency’s new rules are a little busy right now.
EPA officially issues the Dirty Water Rule—and ignores the science in doing so January 23, 2020 Trump Watch The drinking water supplies for millions of Americans are at risk.
Trump proposal guts NEPA, the bedrock law protecting environmental reviews January 9, 2020 Trump Watch The plan could have far-reaching implications for controversial infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.
Trump administration rollback keeps light bulbs stuck in the 19th century December 27, 2019 Trump Watch But the shift to energy-saving LED bulbs should be a no-brainer.
For decades, science said to ban this toxic pesticide. Now, Trump’s EPA wants to allow more in our waterways. November 17, 2019 Trump Watch The public's health, as well as the health of exposed wildlife, are on the line.
Coal plants get the EPA’s OK to keep polluting waterways November 4, 2019 Trump Watch Public health will pay the price.
Trump administration flushes endangered fish protections down the drain to boost Big Ag October 22, 2019 Trump Watch The move is a win for lobbyist-turned-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's old employers.
Trump’s Forest Service puts protections for Alaska’s majestic Tongass on chopping block October 17, 2019 Trump Watch That's bad news for wildlife, the climate, and Indigenous groups.