"Trump’s ‘Scorched Earth’ EPA Budget Draws Swift Reactions"
"No agency in the federal government fared worse under Thursday’s proposed budget than the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Washington Post, 03/17/2017
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"White House Proposes Reviving Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site"
"The White House’s fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition."
Source: Reuters, 03/16/2017
National Academies Praise Obama Climate Report Pending Under Trump
"The United States’ top independent science experts have blessed a draft Obama administration climate science report — left behind for the Trump administration to finish — that presents a strong contrast to inaccurate scientific claims by President Trump’s top environmental official."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
Interior Department To Withdraw Obama-Era Fracking Rule, Filings Reveal
"The Trump administration plans to withdraw and rewrite a 2015 rule aimed at limiting hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” on public lands, the Interior Department indicated in court filings Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
"Trump, Easing Emissions Rule, Vows to Expand Auto Jobs"
"President Trump came to the heart of the auto industry on Wednesday with a manifesto for American manufacturing: to remove the shackles of regulation and restore an age of industrial glory."
Source: NY Times, 03/16/2017
"Trump’s Budget Takes A Sledgehammer to the EPA"
"The Trump administration plans to take a sledgehammer to the Environmental Protection Agency. Thursday’s proposal by the White House would slash the EPA’s budget by 31 percent — nearly one third — from its current level of $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion. It would cut 3,200 positions, or more than 20 percent of the agency’s current workforce of about 15,000."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
"U.S. Group Sierra Club Seeks Probe Of EPA's Pruitt Over CO2 Comments"
"U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to investigate whether the agency's head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 03/16/2017
"Gorsuch's Environment Record Not Easy To Define"
"By the time a lawsuit over pollution from a nuclear weapons plant had reached Judge Neil Gorsuch, it had crawled through the courts for more than two decades, outliving some of the landowners who said the contamination destroyed their property values."
Source: AP, 03/15/2017
Trump Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change as National Security Threat
"Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves."
Source: ProPublica, 03/15/2017
Trump Poised To Issue A Sweeping Order Dismantling Obama’s Climate Plan
"President Trump could issue a sweeping executive order within days aimed at reversing his predecessor’s climate policies, a measure that energy industry officials and environmentalists have been anticipating for weeks."
Source: Washington Post, 03/15/2017
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