Infrastructure: Trump Decries 'Painful' Permitting, Big Enviro Reviews
"President Trump concluded his 'infrastructure week' today by promising to 'hold the bureaucracy accountable.'"
Source: Greenwire, 06/12/2017
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Federal Judge Denies Trump Admin Appeal In Youth Climate Lawsuit
"A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's appeal in a climate change lawsuit, paving the way for the unprecedented suit to go to trial."
Source: Think Progress, 06/12/2017
Transit Projects Across US at Risk As Trump Infrastructure Plan Falters
"Dozens of public transit projects around the country are in danger of stalling as the White House’s plan to boost U.S. infrastructure fails to gain momentum — with thousands of jobs at risk."
Source: Washington Post, 06/12/2017
"Trump Budget Risks Harm to U.S. Energy Future: 7 Former DOE Officials
"Seven former heads of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy — from both Republican and Democratic administrations—teamed up on Thursday to warn Congress that the Trump administration's budget could do 'serious harm' to America's energy future."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/09/2017
Trump May Combine Offshore Oil Regulatory Agencies Split After BP Spill
"After the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Obama administration broke the scandal-plagued federal agency that policed offshore drilling into separate bureaus. Now the Trump administration is considering putting it back together again."
Source: Bloomberg, 06/09/2017
Trump Administration To Review A Controversial Sage Grouse Plan
"The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will review a massive and controversial federal plan to protect the dwindling population of greater sage grouse in 11 western states."
Source: Washington Post, 06/09/2017
"Lawmakers Take Aim At Trump’s Interior Budget"
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended the Trump administration’s budget request for the department as 'what a balanced budget looks like' in the face of bipartisan criticism on Thursday."
Source: The Hill, 06/09/2017
Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States, Business
"President Trump will lay out a vision this coming week for sharply curtailing the federal government’s funding of the nation’s infrastructure and calling upon states, cities and corporations to shoulder most of the cost of rebuilding roads, bridges, railways and waterways."
Source: NY Times, 06/08/2017
"Hawaii Enacts Law Committing To Goals Of Paris Climate Accord"
"Hawaii has become the first U.S. state to enact legislation to bring its environmental standards in line with the Paris climate accord, officials said on Wednesday, less than a week after President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the global agreement."
Source: Reuters, 06/08/2017
"Canada’s Strategy on Climate Change: Work With American States"
"OTTAWA — The timing was coincidental, but the meeting had a new urgency. One day after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord — saying he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris — the transport minister in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet visited with the mayor of Pittsburgh to discuss climate change."
Source: NY Times, 06/08/2017
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