Trump’s Air Pollution Adviser Denies Link Between Dirty Air and Health Problems
The chairman of the EPA’s smog and soot panel has made his living challenging health findings on behalf of industry.
In Nod to Farmers, High-Ethanol Gasoline Will Be Sold Year-Round
During an Iowa trip, Trump announces that a summer sale ban will be lifted. The action removes an EPA anti-smog rule.
EPA Watchdog Faults Agency for Pruitt's 24/7 Security Costs
The Environmental Protection Agency failed to justify its expenditure of more than $3.5 million to guard Scott Pruitt, the report finds. Travel costs for his bodyguards from February 2017 to December 2017 were $739,580.
Rollback of Pollution Rules Will Hurt Coal Country
West Virginia may have lots of Trump fans, but part of the state will be ground zero for increased deaths and illnesses because of his plan to ease regulation of power plant emissions, according to an EPA analysis.
States Blast Move to Dismantle Rule on Coal Plant Emissions
The administration's proposal would roll back President Obama's 2015 Clean Power Plan, which requires reductions in climate-changing emissions from coal-fired plants.
Rules for Handling Toxic Coal Ash Eased
The EPA makes the change, which affects more than 400 U.S. coal-fired power plants, after utilities push back against Obama-era regulations. The companies are expected to save roughly $30 million a year as a result.
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Scott Pruitt Got Off Easy: Ecocide Is No Small Matter
The former EPA chief’s career has been dedicated to two things: filling his family bank account and bending energy policy toward the extraction and burning of every last hydrocarbon on earth.
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Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Will Drive U.S. Law Hard to the Right
The president has chosen a candidate who poses a great threat to progressive values and causes—and one who might shield him from Mueller.
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Bye, Scott. Is Donald Next?
Scott Pruitt's resignation as head of the Environmental Protection Agency is an ethical and environmental victory—and makes a case for the president's own resignation stronger.
Scandal-Plagued EPA Administrator Pruitt Resigns
Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt is the latest Trump Cabinet official to be forced out over ethics investigations.
