EPA Limits States’ Power to Review Projects That Affect Water Quality
The beat goes on. For almost 50 years, states and tribal governments have played an outsized role in deciding whether projects that can harm water …
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Unfit to Lead and Unqualified to Serve
President Trump has nominated William Perry Pendley to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has kept Pendley in …
Ninth Circuit Greenlights Drilling in Alaska Reserve
Drilling can proceed in Alaska’s sensitive National Petroleum Reserve without an update to the government’s 2012 assessment of whether the oil and gas development would …
Trump Taps Pendley for Land Bureau Chief After A Year in Acting Role
A vote for Trump in November is a vote for this clown to continue to be BLM Director. The White House has announced its intention …
Agriculture Secretary Orders Environmental Rollbacks For Forest Service
Yesterday U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue ordered the U.S. Forest Service to expedite environmental reviews on its land, paving the way for more …
Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election
If Trump wins re-election, you can kiss environmental protection goodbye. The Trump administration is preparing to open the door to oil and gas drilling off …
Pandemic could give Democrats easier way to repeal major Trump EPA rules
If Democrats win big in the November election, they may have an unusual way of quickly repealing some important Trump administration environmental rollbacks. That’s because …
Mango Mussolini Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fishing
“I like scallops. Good. We’ll have plenty of scallops to eat.” Yesterday self-tanning enthusiast Donald Trump opened 5,000 square miles of ocean off the New …
States to Sue EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Restoration Failures
A group of states and environmentalists said Monday they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency based on claims that a long-running plan to tackle pollution …
Federal Judge’s Order Protects California Steelhead
To protect the spring migration of threatened California trout species, a federal judge Monday halted the Trump administration’s bid to supply farmers with extra water …