It normally takes months for government scientists to analyze the environmental impact of oil drilling. Trump is using every trick in the book to auction off Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as possible.
U.S. Geological Survey director Jim Reilly, who—surprise, surprise—used to work for the oil industry, is telling scientists how to count polar bear dens in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Trump appoints David Legates, a climatologist who couldn’t hack it at the Delaware state government, to a leadership position at our country’s leading climate agency.
The Trump administration admits that removing the four dams would give endangered salmon their best chance against extinction, feed imperiled whales, and help restore Indigenous practices and traditions along the river, but decides against it.