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Trump administration issued 1,700 exemptions to offshore drilling rules

Feb 25, 2019

Trump’s Interior Department has issued a large number of exemptions to an Obama-era offshore drilling rule put in place after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Critics say the readily available waivers...

Trump’s critics should back his HIV plan, but hold him to it on all fronts

West Side Story

Feb 6, 2019

Health, Opinion, Policy, Science

For the most part, President Trump’s second State of the Union speech met the expectations of his critics, with plenty of boasting, showboating, and many statements that only make sense given the worldview of T...

The EU’s diplomatic status was quietly downgraded by the Trump administration

West Side Story

Jan 8, 2019

Policy, Science, World

Trump’s state department downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union’s US delegation at some point in 2018, without informing the EU, according to the Washington Post. Since 2016, the EU delegatio...

Trump’s EPA challenges the legal basis for Obama-era mercury rule

West Side Story

Dec 29, 2018

Environment, Policy, Science

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that regulations limiting mercury and other emissions from power plants are not providing benefits worth the cost of their implementation, according to NPR. While...

New impact report advances plans for oil drilling in Alaska’s fragile Arctic

West Side Story

Dec 21, 2018

Environment, Science

The Trump administration advanced its efforts to allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Thursday, with a draft environmental report, the Washington Post reports. The assessment...

Thank Trump’s trade war and regulatory rollbacks for the GM layoffs

West Side Story

Dec 2, 2018

Opinion, Policy, Science

General Motors announced Monday plans to cut almost 15,000 jobs from its North American workforce, in its biggest restructuring since declaring bankruptcy in the 2008 financial crisis and receiving its governme...

Trump administration agencies issue new, dire climate change warning

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Nov 23, 2018

Environment, Science

The fourth National Climate Assessment report was released Friday, and warns that damage from climate change is already occurring across the US, according to the Washington Post. The congressionally mandated re...

House Democrats are ready to challenge Trump on environmental policy

West Side Story

Nov 16, 2018

Environment, Policy, Science

Three Democrats set to chair committees in the House of Representatives have promised to investigate the Trump administration’s rollback of climate measures, and investigate officials they say have been given a...

Trump administration to consider tightening limits on diesel emissions

West Side Story

Nov 12, 2018

Environment, Policy, Science

New regulations under consideration by the Trump administration would further restrict emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from large trucks, according to The Hill. The consideration process will formally start ...

Trump is blaming California for its deadly wildfires while ignoring the role of climate change

West Side Story

Nov 10, 2018

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

As massive wildfires continued to rage through California, with 25 dead and a town entirely destroyed, Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to blame the state, saying: “There is no reason for these massive, dea...

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