"Six national park sites in the Bay Area would be in danger of being slimed by oil — one of the most hard-hit areas in the country — if President Trump goes through with his plan to expand offshore oil drilling along the California coast, a national report on federal parks said Wednesday."
"White House officials last year weighed whether to simply “ignore” climate studies produced by government scientists or to instead develop “a coherent, fact-based message about climate science,” according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post."
"The state Department of Environmental Protection has conceded it erred in allowing the spreading of hundreds of thousands of gallons of salty “brine” wastewater from gas and oil well drilling on dirt roads in Farmington Township, Warren County last year."
"Arguing against cities that want Big Oil to compensate for climate damages, federal lawyers say such an outcome would curb fossil fuel production, a Trump priority."
"The Trump administration's push to allow oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain will have a hard time surviving required environmental reviews, a former Interior Department official said today at a Capitol Hill Democratic forum."
"The Interior Department said Thursday it plans to approve the Palen solar farm, which would be built on public lands just south of Joshua Tree National Park, in the open desert east of California's Coachella Valley. The 3,100-acre, 500-megawatt power plant would be one of the country's largest solar projects, generating enough renewable energy to balance out the planet-warming emissions of 17,000 average homes in nearby Palm Springs."
"For all of the administration's efforts to open more federal and tribal lands to drilling, oil and gas companies bid on just 6.7 percent of the acreage offered for sale by the Bureau of Land Management in President Trump's first year."
"President Trump late Thursday replaced an executive order signed by former President Obama that sought to reduce federal agencies’ energy use and greenhouse gas emissions."
"Samantha Dravis, who was the EPA’s senior counsel and director of its Office of Policy until she resigned last month, had more than 90 scheduled meetings with representatives of energy and manufacturing companies, trade associations, agricultural interests, car makers, and other industry groups between March of 2017 and January of this year, according to emails that were made public as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club. "
"Plans for the state’s largest solar farm are stuck in limbo while a coal giant, once run by West Virginia’s governor, drags its feet on required reclamation."
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