Trump orders EPA to ignore benefits of limiting air pollution December 9, 2020 Trump Watch The president puts a big fat thumb on the scale of cost-benefit analysis at the expense of public health.
Trump administration leaves soot standards unchanged, ignoring evidence and risking public health December 7, 2020 Trump Watch The science demands tighter limits on soot, but the fossil fuel industry does not.
Trump to allow logging without environmental review November 19, 2020 Trump Watch A new rule would exempt huge swaths of public land, already threatened by wildfire, from science-based management.
While national parks decay, the Trump administration squabbles November 9, 2020 Trump Watch A petty administrative dispute is preventing the restoration and improvement of our public lands.
Trump drops protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest October 28, 2020 Trump Watch The move threatens Indigenous communities, scores of northern wildlife species, and the fight against climate change.
Trump repeals decades-old and very effective air pollution rule October 1, 2020 Trump Watch The “once in, always in” policy has prevented 1.7 million tons of hazardous emissions from entering the country’s air.
Trump tells U.S. Forest Service to get out of the way of oil drills August 27, 2020 Trump Watch Proposal would undermine the Forest Service’s ability to protect forests.
Trump’s lax soot standards could kill more than 140,000 people July 17, 2020 Trump Watch New study shows what Trump pretends not to understand: Breathing soot is bad for you.
Trump’s nominee to manage federal lands instead wants to sell them June 26, 2020 Trump Watch William Perry Pendley: yet another Trump nominee who rejects the basic duties of his job.
Trump risks California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument in search of worthless oil June 18, 2020 Trump Watch Even when the value of oil was virtually nothing, Trump was still willing to destroy one of our country’s treasured landscapes to get it.
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 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 does coal barons a favor at the expense of our lungs April 16, 2020 Trump Watch Get ready for more air pollution, courtesy of Donald Trump’s EPA.
Trump’s EPA claims the science on air pollution is unsettled April 14, 2020 Trump Watch Data must get hard to interpret after you fire all your science advisors.
Trump considers drilling for oil on the doorsteps of national parks April 5, 2020 Trump Watch If the leases go through, visitors to Arches and Canyonlands could see methane flares from their campsites.
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.
BLM releases destructive plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument August 23, 2019 Trump Watch The plan allows industry to run roughshod over one of the country's most spectacular landscapes.
EPA offers industry a math trick that reduces air pollution (on paper) August 2, 2019 Trump Watch Meanwhile, our climate crisis in the real world heats up.
The guy who likes to sell off public lands now gets to manage them July 30, 2019 Trump Watch William Perry Pendley now has a say over the fate of one in ten acres in the United States.