By Sarah Lazare Donald Trump’s transition team is instructing the Department of Energy (DOE) to hand over the names of all of the agency’s contractors and employers who have worked on key climate policies under President Barack Obama, raising concerns that a witch hunt is being orchestrated by the incoming administration. The request was included […]
The Obama Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers officially denied the easement to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota after a many months-long campaign by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps will undertake an environmental impact statement (EIS) to look at potential alternative routes […]
By Mary Sweeters President-Elect Donald Trump formally announced Thursday his support for the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. His transition team noted that his support for the pipeline “had nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans.” Trump’s May 2016 financial disclosure revealed significant […]
By Ryan Schleeter Flint, Michigan still does not have clean drinking water. Now, President-elect Donald Trump—whose campaign stump speech included a crude joke about the city’s water crisis—has tapped one of the people responsible for the crisis to join his cabinet. Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, and her family have a long […]
The Donald Trump camp added fracking enthusiast, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critic and ALEC-linked Amy Oliver Cooke to the EPA landing team on Thursday. Cooke once co-authored an op-ed titled Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret: Cancer. Trump Tower is President-elect Trump’s transition hub.Wikipedia NBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted that Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson […]
With a climate change denying White House and cabinet taking shape, there’s not much environmentalists are excited about these days. But a new report from Politico indicates that our ever-warming planet might have an unlikely defender: Ivanka Trump. Future First Daughter Ivanka Trump.Flickr A source told the publication that the future First Daughter plans to […]
More than 2,300 scientists, including 22 Nobel laureates, released a letter on Wednesday to Donald Trump and the 115th Congress with a wish list that includes respect of scientific evidence and letting scientists work without political or private-sector interference for the public’s benefit on policies such as climate change. “Congress and the Trump administration should […]
Sources close to the Trump transition team told Politico that Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is the frontrunner for the Interior secretary position. Fallin, who is a climate change denier and was one of the first governors to oppose the Clean Power Plan, met with Trump last week in New York, where their conversation focused on […]
By Jeremy Symons As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his cabinet, he has an opportunity to continue the long, bipartisan tradition of appointing qualified leaders to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who will protect and defend the public health of all Americans. The outlook took a turn for the worse, however, when Trump met […]
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