Politics is trumping science in many government decisions about endangered plants and wildlife, according to a new report by the Endangered Species Coalition. Despite the requirements of the Endangered Species Act, pressure from special interest groups often unduly influence agency…
President Trump today is scheduled to tout one of his worst ideas since taking office: a dangerous order directing federal agencies to kill two regulations for every new one added.
As a child growing up in the rust belt, I saw how attempts by polluting industries to ward off environmental regulation hastened the loss of jobs and led to the rust belt's rusting. Regulation would have promoted innovation, and likely…
On the second anniversary of the adoption of the historic Paris climate agreement, President Macron of France convened a wide array of public and private sector leaders at the “One Planet Summit.” Far from giving themselves a collective pat on…
Every living former EPA Administrator under Republican Presidential Administrations joined forces to make a statement in opposition to the Pebble Mine proposed in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Their statement appeared today as a full-page ad in the Washington Post.
The Natural Resources Defense Council today called on the Senate to reject the nomination of Leonard Steven Grasz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, expressing "great concern" over his ability to “carry out his judicial responsibilities…
This summer the Trump administration began the process of scrapping the existing Five Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program that should have been the final word on drilling off our coasts through the year 2022.
