Trump NEPA rules take effect after court denies freeze
The White House Council on Environmental Quality's implementing rules for a bedrock environmental law are going into effect as planned today, after opponents of the...
The Trump administration’s disastrous policy shift on methane emissions
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S daily affronts to decency make it hard to focus attention on the substantive damage his administration is causing. But on Thursday, the administration...
Trump administration scraps limits on methane leaks at oil and gas sites
The Trump administration is scrapping limits on methane leaks, allowing oil and gas companies to decide how much of the potent greenhouse gas can escape...
Trump Eliminates Major Methane Rule, Even as Leaks Are Worsening
The Trump administration formally weakened a major climate-change regulation on Thursday — effectively freeing oil and gas companies from the need to detect and repair...
States Pushing Back On Trump’s Environmental Policy Changes With Updates To Trucking
The Trump administration has reversed 68 environmental regulations over the past three years. There are more than 30 supplementary rollbacks that have yet to be...
E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
The reversal is the latest move in the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to weaken environmental rules, but it could be quickly undone after the November...
Trump administration says massive Alaska gold mine won’t cause major environmental harm, reversing Obama
Trump officials concluded Friday that a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska — which would be the largest in North America — would not...
Trump Weakens Major Conservation Law to Speed Construction Permits
President Trump on Wednesday is set to unilaterally weaken one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws, the National Environmental Policy Act, limiting public review of...