Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Offshore Tracts Auctioned By Trump Draw Bids
"Oil and gas companies bid on fewer than one percent of the offshore tracts made available by the Trump administration during an auction Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 08/16/2018
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"Mining: Trump Admin OKs Sprawling Alaska Gold Project"
"The Trump administration approved a massive gold mine for southwestern Alaska yesterday that would rank among the world's largest mining projects."
Source: Greenwire, 08/15/2018
"A New Golden Age for Trophy Hunters"
"Trump once called the practice a 'horror show.' But his Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, keeps doing favors for big-game killers."
Source: New Republic, 08/15/2018
"Draft Details Trump’s Plan For Reversing Obama Climate Rule"
"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to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO’s review of a portion of the unpublished draft."
Source: Politico, 08/15/2018
"EPA Challenged Safety Of Administration Mileage Freeze"
"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."
Source: AP, 08/15/2018
Illinois Sues Trump Tower for Violating Chicago River Water Protections
"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."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 08/15/2018
"Federal Agencies: Scientists Report Political Meddling, Self-Censorship"
"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."
Source: Greenwire, 08/15/2018
Zinke: Blame Wildfires on Environmentalists — Not Climate Change
"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."
Source: Guardian, 08/14/2018
"GOP Lauds States' Rights. Why Is It Against Calif. Car Rule?"
"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."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/14/2018
"Court Losses Pile Up For EPA"
"Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's legacy took another hit last week as a federal court ordered EPA to ban a heavily used farm chemical.
During the Obama administration, EPA said it would ban chlorpyrifos after health assessments showed current uses posed dietary and drinking water risks to humans, especially children. But Pruitt reversed the proposed ban in March 2017, declaring that the agency was returning to "sound science."
Source: Greenwire, 08/14/2018
