"Arguing that public health and safety are at risk, researchers, health experts and administrators from leading scientific institutions across the nation have joined in opposition to a controversial Trump administration proposal that would restrict the use of science in federal policy making."
"Oil and gas companies bid on fewer than one percent of the offshore tracts made available by the Trump administration during an auction Wednesday."
"The Trump administration approved a massive gold mine for southwestern Alaska yesterday that would rank among the world's largest mining projects."
"Trump once called the practice a 'horror show.' But his Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, keeps doing favors for big-game killers."
"The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan for undoing Barack Obama’s most ambitious climate regulation — offering a replacement that would do far less to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO’s review of a portion of the unpublished draft."
"The Environmental Protection Agency privately challenged the Trump administration’s rationale for freezing Obama-era mileage standards, saying the proposal would actually increase U.S. highway deaths."
"Trump International Hotel & Tower is endangering fish and other aquatic life in the Chicago River, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan alleges in a new lawsuit targeting the president’s skyscraper for multiple violations of clean water laws."
"Federal scientists at EPA, the Interior Department and other agencies are reporting political interference with their work, requests to remove 'climate change' from research and declining staff levels, a new survey of government employees said."
"The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and claimed, contrary to scientific research, that climate change had “nothing to do” with them. Instead, he said the fires were worsened because of limits on logging."
"An influential conservative organization last week mirrored a broad debate within Republican circles over states' rights on environmental issues — it's OK sometimes, but not always."
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