The EPA issued celebrated 143 businesses and organizations for improving energy efficiency technologies, all while the Trump administration is proposing to kill off the Energy Star program.
"Human activity contributes to that [climate] change in some measure," Pruitt says. The reality: Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that carbon pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels is the major driver of global climate change.
A supervisor at the agency reportedly has banned the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction," and "Paris Agreement" in memos and other written communications.
The State Department has officially issued a permit authorizing construction for KXL, which will contribute to climate change, destroy Canada’s boreal forests, injure the region’s First Nations, and see property snatched from America’s heartland.
“Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today,” said Defense Secretary James Mattis, warning that climate change could lead to “increased maritime access to the Arctic, rising sea levels, desertification, among others.”
The EPA's Office of Science and Technology is no longer working “to develop scientific and technological foundations to achieve clean water” and instead aims to “develop technologically and economically achievable performance standards.”
Severe storm warnings, flood forecasts, and daily weather forecasting, as well as important work for healthy oceans and safe seafood, would all be drastically weakened by the proposed cuts.
The budget blueprint includes a massive 24 percent cut to funding for the agency—which will prevent it from carrying out its mission to safeguard public health and the environment.
The Trump administration omitted the names of individuals working with the EPA transition team, including that of former tobacco and coal lobbyist Steve Milloy.
Some of the changes to the site so far: Carbon pollution is no longer listed as a contributor to climate change; Obama’s legacy is being scrubbed; international commitments could be in jeopardy.
A leaked memo reveals explicitly orders for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to cease communicating with or responding to requests from elected lawmakers.
The Trump administration has moved to muzzle federal officials. The EPA; Departments of Health & Human Services, Transportation, Agriculture, and Interior; and the National Institutes of Health were ordered to halt press releases, social media, blogs, and web content.
