Trump adds Va. to the list for offshore drilling bans
President Trump will add Virginia to a growing list of states protected from offshore oil and gas drilling in a campaign year reversal of the...
Trump Climate Policy-The Lawlessness of It All
As the nation struggles to free itself from the grip of the coronavirus contagion and a disease of a different sort—racial, economic, and environmental injustice—our...
Trump Signs Executive Order That Will Accelerate Corporate Ocean Pollution
By Jake JohnsonPresident Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday that environmentalists warned will accelerate the corporate exploitation of oceans by relaxing regulations on...
New Emails Reveal that the Trump Administration Manipulated Wildfire Science to Promote Logging
The director of the US Geological Survey asked scientists to “gin up” emissions figures for him.
Trump administration moves controversial Keystone XL pipeline closer to construction
The Trump administration on Wednesday approved a right-of-way grant allowing for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline across 44 miles of land in...
Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning
Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts of highways, pipelines and other major infrastructure...
Trump used to call presidential executive orders ‘power grabs.’ Not anymore
It wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.” He’s switched sides in a big...
INSIGHT: Executive Orders to Speed Energy Projects May Mean Delay
The White House issued two executive orders April 10 intended to remove obstacles to developing energy infrastructure and expediting the pipeline permitting process.