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What If Trump & Pruitt Do Clobber US & California Fuel Economy Standards?

March 9, 20177 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

As a couple of our writers have highlighted this week, there may be a war brewing between California and the US Environmental Protection Agency. If that seems strange to you (knowing that California is super green and the EPA is all about keeping our world green), note that the United States under Donald J. Trump has a dude running the EPA who basically wants to see the EPA destroyed — so, yes, we are living in backwards land at the moment.

Record Heat Brings An Early End To Winter

March 7, 20177 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.

Gutted EPA Mileage Rules Will Please Global Petro-States

March 6, 20177 years ago susan 0 Comments

On Tuesday, March 7th, the Trump administration will reverse the Obama administration’s Final Determination requiring automakers meet an average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, according to Inside EPA.

An alliance of manufacturers had urged protection for fuel inefficiency in a letter to Trump EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in February, and the industry request is one of hundreds of industry-requested rollbacks in Obama rules that are now on the chopping block, according to the New York Times.

Trump, The CPP, EPA, & Renewable Energy Jobs — What To Expect This Week?

March 6, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

For many of us the discontent that has been quietly growing (quickly escalating?) over the future of America’s environmental, climate, and energy policies were set to come to a head this week — and then Donald Trump took to Twitter to decry an act of McCarthyism of the former US President, and then everything else sort of took a backseat for a while.

Why Bannon’s & Trump’s Attack On US Government Is Idiotic Ideological Nonsense

February 27, 20177 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

If you haven’t heard, Steve Bannon’s ideological obsession that is so far guiding Donald Trump’s presidency* is that federal government administration and regulation is somehow a cancer to our society. This ideological obsession is idiotic, and it shows how far an obsession with ideology detached from reality can take someone.

Scott Pruitt Already Planning Rollback Of EPA Authority, But Gets Graded Down By Environmental Academics

February 27, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s new administrator, Scott Pruitt, has already signaled plans to roll back several Obama-era policies and planned to provide businesses with “regulatory certainty” — but at the same time, his first speech has been graded a D+ or C- by environmental academics.

EPA Almost Immediately Castrated By Scott Pruitt’s Senate Confirmation

February 20, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott Pruitt, US President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination to head the agency, was confirmed by the Senate last week.

Reports Suggest Trump Is Planning To Begin Dismantling EPA

February 17, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

Reports this week have suggested US President Donald Trump will move to begin dismantling and hamstringing the country’s Environmental Protection Agency as soon as his nominee to head the agency is confirmed by the Senate.

Oklahoma Is Sweltering In February

February 16, 20177 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

The state that gave us Scott Pruitt and James Inhofe just saw temperatures near 100º in the dead of winter.

Donald Trump’s EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Squirms In Confirmation Hearing, Remains Committed To Restricting Agency

January 19, 20177 years ago Joshua S Hill 0 Comments

President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head up the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, faced tough questioning in his senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but remained staunchly intent on restricting and minimising the role of the EPA.