The EPA continues to put our health and climate at risk with its delay tactics, placing a stay on federal rules aimed at curbing smog-forming, cancer-causing methane emissions.
The Trump administration has halted a plan to stop the spread of invasive species that threaten the health of native plants and in Chicago’s waterways.
The more than 7,500 e-mails confirm Pruitt's chummy relationships with Big Oil, showing that he worked to thwart the EPA’s rulings for the benefit of polluters, all at the expense of public health and the environment.
While the move brought some relief to state environmental agencies—which rely on federal funding for programs like pollution monitoring and cleanups—the hiring freeze and communications restrictions remain.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has imposed not just a federal hiring freeze but also a suspension of grant awards and contracts by the EPA—which are for a wide range of functions, including important environmental testing work and remediation…
This freeze, which will make it more difficult for agencies to carry out their missions, is part of the opening salvo of Trump’s full-scale assault on our government’s ability to protect public health and the environment.
Among the environmental rules impacted by Trump’s move is a set of energy-efficiency standards that would save consumers billions of dollars' worth of wasted electricity, standards to improve pipeline safety, and the addition of bumblebees to the Endangered Species List.
A list of questions sent to the department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs included this one: “How much does the Department of State contribute annually to international environmental organizations in which the department participates?”
After the DOE refused to comply and critics decried the questionnaire as an illegal “witch hunt” aimed at targeting scientists for retaliatory action, Trump officials disavowed their probe. Democrats in Congress call for a federal investigation of the matter.