This may be the first step in Pruitt's plan to repeal the rule entirely—a rule that was created in response to a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 workers.
The Trump administration wants to get rid of this popular program, which has saved families and businesses $430 billion on utility bills and reduced climate-changing pollution by 2.7 billion metric tons since it started 25 years ago.
EPA head Scott Pruitt is undoing the Obama administration's policy to set standards to limit this potent greenhouse gas—the second-largest industrial contributor to U.S. climate pollution.
As part of the administration’s public lands giveaway, the Interior Department has abruptly stopped enforcing a rule that seeks to close a loophole that the fossil fuel industry has been exploiting at taxpayers’ expense.
As part of the administration’s public lands giveaway, the Interior Department has abruptly stopped enforcing a rule that seeks to close a loophole that the fossil fuel industry has been exploiting at taxpayers’ expense.
The Interior Department celebrated the rollback of the Stream Protection Rule, which had protected streams and communities from the toxic slurries and wastes resulting from mountaintop-removal coal mining.
Coal-mining companies are now free to dump their waste into community waterways, exposing residents to serious health risks, including cancer and birth defects.
This Valentine's Day, the president gave the fossil fuel industry a big gift: the repealing of an energy industry anti-corruption rule. The scariest part? The rule can never be reintroduced.
Shutting down the environmental review process ordered by Obama, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has greenlit the hotly contested Dakota Access Pipeline, threatening the climate, land, drinking water, and hard-won sovereignty of the tribe.
In the wake of the Trump administration's freeze on all regulatory processes, the EPA rescinded a rule that would protect the public from more than five tons of mercury discharges each year—which is especially harmful for babies, children, and pregnant…
President Trump reopened the bitter fights over the KXL and DAPL pipelines by issuing executive memoranda that will pave the way for their quick federal approval and possible construction.
In a meeting with several auto industry CEOs, President Trump claimed to be “to a large extent an environmentalist” but nevertheless stated that the government’s environmental regulations are “out of control.”
The true test for Trump on trade is whether he secures agreements that put the environment, working families, and healthy communities first—and there are no indications so far that he will.
President Trump promised U.S. CEOs that he would cut regulations, which would include standards that keep lead out of drinking water, protect people from pesticide poisoning, reduce air toxins that threaten children’s health, and reduce climate-wrecking carbon pollution.
A radically backward approach to environment and energy, the America First Energy Plan reiterates President Trump’s commitment to rolling back federal safeguards that allow Americans to breathe clean air and drink clean water.
