Politics

This was written by Mandy Warner for Climate 411: Details of President Trump’s budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have started leaking out — and they are alarming, to say the least. The reported budget cuts outline a disturbingly stark vision for the nation’s...

This excerpt was written by Joe Ryan for Bloomberg News:  Dozens of U.S. cities are willing to buy $10 billion of electric cars and trucks to show skeptical automakers there’s demand for low-emission vehicles, just as President Donald Trump seeks to review pollution standards the industry opposes....

The New York Times made it a front-page story: “EPA Chief Doubts Consensus View of Climate Change.” Trump’s appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, stated (again) that carbon dioxide was not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” He...

You would think that with the former CEO of Exxon, Rex Tillerson and the climate denying Scott Pruitt, ensconced in Trump’s cabinet…Big Oil and Gas would be resting easy. Not so. They’re on a renewed mission to convince the public that domestic oil and natural gas are...

This was written by Martha Roberts. It originally posted on Climate 411: New legislative proposals on the Hill put long-standing public health, safety and environmental protections at risk. These so-called “regulatory reform” efforts sound innocuous, but they would dramatically increase red tape and industry lobbyist influence...