President Trump signed an executive order aimed at weakening environmental protections to make widespread commercial logging the guiding purpose of federal forest management.
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded with cautious optimism as nations adopted new measures to track and fund efforts to halt biodiversity loss.
According to published media reports, the Trump administration is considering the unprecedented move of putting political and policy strings on federal aid in response to the devastating Los Angeles fires.
President Trump said today that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to cut up to 65 percent of the agency's staff, an unprecedented move that would catastrophically weaken the EPA's ability to protect human health and the environment.
In response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recommended striking down the agency's 2009 finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare.
Today, Earthjustice and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, representing the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for…
The Trump administration has revoked the Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations that guide federal environmental reviews, ending nearly 50 years of precedent.
