"EPA: Trump Team Phasing Out Oil Field Enforcement Initiative"
"Trump administration officials at EPA are phasing out the agency's enforcement focus on animal waste pollution and the oil and gas industry."
Source: EnergyWire, 08/27/2018
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Pesticide Studies Won EPA Trust, Until Trump Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’
"Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation."
Source: NY Times, 08/27/2018
Trump Seasonal Worker Clampdown Harms Maryland’s Crab Businesses
"Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn’t get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico."
Source: Washington Post, 08/24/2018
"EPA: Agency Follows Industry Playbook To Attack Science"
"The Trump administration is assailing the science behind an influential study that helped lead to a ban on a widely used insecticide linked to brain damage in children, mirroring arguments made by the pesticide industry."
Source: Greenwire, 08/24/2018
"Trump’s False Claims About Coal, the Environment and West Virginia"
"President Trump claimed that coal was “indestructible,” that West Virginia had one of the strongest state economies and that the U.S. was the “cleanest country in the planet.” None of that was true."
Source: NY Times, 08/23/2018
"Climate: You Can Kick The Planet 'In The Butt' — Trump's Science Pick"
"President Trump's pick to lead the White House science office told scientists four years ago that "he doesn't know" if there's a climate tipping point and said the planet can be kicked "in the butt really, really hard" and recover."
Source: Greenwire, 08/23/2018
"Coal: This Section Buried in EPA's Rule May Be The Most Important"
Trump's replacement for the Obama Clean Power Plan would revive a once-settled legal battle over "New Source Review," a key part of the Clean Air Act that limits many pollutants not related to climate.
Source: ClimateWire, 08/23/2018
"'Affordable Clean Energy' Plan Won't Save Coal — Analysts"
"President Trump's diluted Clean Power Plan is unlikely to save the coal industry, but it represents a setback for U.S. efforts to address climate change, analysts say."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/22/2018
Trump’s EPA Says More Americans Will Die Under Its Power-Plant Rollback
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says its proposal to relax greenhouse gas limits on power plants will cause as many as 1,630 additional premature deaths annually by 2030 from heart and lung disease -- an estimate independent experts say may be low."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/22/2018
"How Much Damage are Trump’s Solar Tariffs Doing to the U.S. Industry?"
"The tariffs on imported solar panels imposed by the Trump administration six months ago have done little to dampen the booming solar market in the United States."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/21/2018
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