"Trump Administration Eliminates Animal Welfare Rule"
"The Trump administration officially withdrew an Obama-era rule that would set higher standards for the treatment of animals whose meat could be sold as organic."
Source: Newsweek, 03/13/2018
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Forest Service Names Female Interim Chief Amid Harassment Allegations
"The Trump administration named a new interim U.S. Forest Service chief on Thursday, just days after the prior head of the agency stepped down due to sexual misconduct allegations."
Source: The Hill, 03/12/2018
"Trump's Infrastructure Push Hits Wall In Congress"
"Less than a month after its release, President Trump's infrastructure plan appears to have crashed and burned in Congress."
Source: The Hill, 03/12/2018
"Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’"
"PORT FOURCHON, La. — A dozen miles off the coast, on a rusty, aging platform, workers in hard hats and overalls spend their days extracting oil and gas from the ocean floor before retreating at night into tiny weather-beaten steel cubes that act as dorms."
Source: NY Times, 03/12/2018
Pruitt Wanted Red Team Climate Science Debate. Kelly Stopped Him.
"John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to stage public debates challenging climate change science, according to three people familiar with the deliberations, thwarting a plan that had intrigued President Trump even as it set off alarm bells among his top advisers."
Source: NY Times, 03/12/2018
"Greens Sue Trump Over Walrus Protections"
"An environmental group sued the Trump administration over its decision not to institute federal protections for the Pacific walrus species."
Source: The Hill, 03/09/2018
"Interior: Climate Skeptic Oversaw Sprawling Review Of Agency Policy"
"A longtime federal employee who sees 'good news' in rising greenhouse gases was tasked early in the Trump administration with retooling the Interior Department's public positions on climate change, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act."
Source: ClimateWire, 03/09/2018
"What Swamp? Lobbyists Get Ethics Waivers To Work For Trump"
"President Donald Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate the very industries from which they previously collected paychecks, despite Trump’s promises as a candidate to drain the swamp in Washington."
Source: AP, 03/09/2018
Dems Unveil $1T Infrastructure Plan, Undo GOP Tax Cuts To Pay For It
"As the White House struggles to finance an ambitious infrastructure plan, Senate Democrats are proposing one alternative — albeit one unlikely to pass muster with President Trump: rolling back the recently passed Republican tax overhaul."
Source: Washington Post, 03/08/2018
Trump Official Slams USGS Scientists For Documenting Glacier Shrinkage
"A U.S. Geological Survey study documenting how climate change has “dramatically reduced” glaciers in Montana came under fire from high-level Interior Department government officials in May, according to a batch of newly released records under the Freedom of Information Act, as they questioned federal scientists’ description of the decline. "
Source: Washington Post, 03/08/2018
