Week 130: Trump Takes His War on Science on the Road
The administration relocates science jobs, refuses to fill others, and tosses a lifeline to polluters (while silencing citizens). Go West, Young Man. Or You’re…
Week 129: Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Chooses a Pseudo-Italianate Urban Planning Nightmare Over an Endangered Bird
Plus, the USDA stops counting bees, and Rick Perry is wrong on carbon emissions. I Know What You Did Last Summer, David Bernhardt In the fall of 2016, Mike Ing…
Week 127: Even Rice Is Getting Worse Under Trump. (And He’s Trying to Keep a Lid on It.)
The Trump administration buries more climate change research, Ivanka rents from a mining magnate, and another ethics fail at the EPA. Carbon Fried Rice An inte…
Week 126: Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule: Neither Affordable nor Clean. Let’s Discuss.
Also, Trump finds a new way to limit scientific advice to his administration. On the Rebound: Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule The U.S. Environmental Prote…
Week 125: Trump to Climate Scientists: Don’t Write Anything Down!
Plus, the president warns states against protecting their own waterways, and the man Scott Pruitt would call for scientific advice is not a scientist. Trump Ce…
Week 123: Off-Roading Over Endangered Species Really Revs Trump’s Engine
Plus, the president’s crazy logic on federal coal leasing and climate modeling. Riding Roughshod Over Endangered Species The Trump administration kicked off Me…
Week 122: Trump’s Power Plant Rule Could Kill Thousands. He’s Hoping You Won’t Notice.
Trump also kills 20 years of child health research and continues to neglect chemical safety. Smoke and Mirrors According to a report in the New York Times, the…
Week 121: David Bernhardt’s (Document) Dump on Congress
Plus, Big Oil (literally!) writes its own offshore drilling rules, Trump fast-tracks his border wall through more wilderness areas, and the Interior Department…
Week 120: Trump Can’t Even Run a Garbage Dump Properly
Plus, the president sacrifices an endangered species to oil drillers, and Mike Pompeo makes bizzare climate change comments. Trump’s Legal Arguments Are Garbag…
Week 119: Trump’s Swamp Monsters Are Coming for Alaska’s Bristol Bay
Plus, Sonny Perdue doesn’t understand cancer science, and offshore drillers are writing their own rules. Swamping Salmon Donald Trump promised to create jobs, …
Week 117: The EPA Finds a Clean Water Act Loophole . . . and Widens It
Otherwise, it was just an ordinary week of secret meetings and betrayals of the public interest. Chain of Fools The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announ…
Week 116: Trump to Let Pork Producers Police Themselves. What Could Go Wrong?
Plus, the president defies Congress on conservation and wants to force pipelines on states that don’t want them. This Little Piggy Carries Listeria The Trump a…
The Other Front in Trump’s War on the Environment
This week, senators will vote on whether to confirm former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior. Much has been written about th…
Week 114: Trump’s EPA Questions if Air Pollution Really Kills (It Does), and the Interior Department Sells Out Nearly 1,400 Endangered Species
Interior’s Bernhardt helped bury a damning pesticide report, the Clean Air Committee goes soft on soot, and Trump nominates a climate change denier to the Fed …
Week 112: Trump’s FY2020 Budget Is DOA (Dangerous on Arrival)
Trump hates science, and the Department of the Interior hates transparency. Slashing Funding for Science, Yet Again President Trump released his budget for fis…
Week 111: Trump Censors Scientists (Twice!)
Trump officials tell NASA they’re not needed, political appointees interfere with chemical safety research, and former military brass tell Trump to stop denyin…
Week 110: Has Trump Forgotten the Lessons of the Gulf Oil Disaster?
Offshore drillers don’t have to follow safety rules, and an EPA official says Congress should stop asking so many questions (about how she’s not doing her job)…
Week 109: Trump’s Flood Insurance Flub Could Cost Us Billions
Plus, the administration plans a debate on climate change as coal executives continue to party in Trump’s hotel. Drowning in Debt It’s no secret that the Natio…
Week 108: Who Put the Appalachian Trail in the Way of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline?
The Trump administration undermines an historic trail, tries desperately to save just one coal-fired power plant, and sells out the endangered delta smelt. Tak…
Week 107: The Butterfly Effect of Trump’s Inhumane Border Wall
Trump slices a butterfly sanctuary in two, the EPA celebrates its second-worst year on record, and the president goes oddly silent on climate when it’s warm ou…