"Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts"
"The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: ProPublica, 01/24/2017
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Trump Beach Team Slaps Gag Order on EPA Employee Communications
The Trump "landing team" has ordered U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff not communicate publicly -- whether via press releases, website, or social media.
Source: Huffington Post, 01/24/2017
As EPA, Other Agencies Muzzle Staff, WatchDog Issues Leaker's Guide
At a time when government information may be harder than ever to access, WatchDog offers a unique guide to leaks that reporters can offer potential whistleblowers. Also in the latest column, sealed records on a weedkiller-cancer connection, secret talks on coal-ash regs and more.
What Plans for Clean Power Plan?
This week's TipSheet looks at the murky legal and regulatory prospects for the Clean Power Plan, an EPA effort to cut carbon emissions now being challenged by the Trump administration. Will it be revoked in presidential action, or is more likely to get drawn into a murky court proceeding?
Big Oil May Finally Get to Drill in Arctic Refuge, But Is It Worth It?
"Far above the Arctic Circle, one of the longest-running controversies in U.S. oil drilling is about to reignite. Bouyed by Donald Trump’s election, Republicans are pushing to allow oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the frigid wilderness in northern Alaska that’s been a political battleground for drillers and conservationists for decades."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/23/2017
Trump Regulatory Freeze Halts 4 Obama Rules Aimed At Energy Efficiency
"Nearly simultaneously with President Trump’s oath of office Friday, the White House website shifted to remove climate change related content from the Obama administration and supplant it with a new statement of Trump’s energy policy — one focused, it said, reducing “burdensome regulations on our energy industry.”
Source: Washington Post, 01/23/2017
"The Scramble to Protect Climate Data Under Trump"
"Fearing what might happen to the data that catalogues the details of climate change in an administration with so many climate deniers, researchers rush to save it."
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/23/2017
"Trump’s Cabinet Picks Contradict Him on Climate Change"
"Contradicting President Donald Trump, his choices to head the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency each told members of Congress during their confirmation hearings this week that climate change is not a hoax, as Trump has alleged."
Source: ENS, 01/23/2017
"Proposed Presidential Autism–Vaccine Panel Could Help Spread Disease"
"A White House panel that questions vaccine safety and attacks immunization standards set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control—a possibility raised last week in meetings with incoming president Donald Trump—could actually lead to increased disease outbreaks."
Source: Scientific American, 01/23/2017
"As Trump Enters White House, California Renews Climate Change Fight"
"California released new measures to fight climate change within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, signaling the state's commitment to be the nation's environmental steward under an administration that has questioned the reality of global warming."
Source: Reuters, 01/23/2017
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