According to reports from Inside EPA, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is considering shutting down the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), a move which would echo the president’s nominee Scott Pruitt’s move to close his own environmental enforcement unit as Attorney General of Oklahoma. “Scott Pruitt endangered the health and welfare of […]
According to reports from Inside EPA, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is considering shutting down the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), a move which would echo the president’s nominee Scott Pruitt’s move to close his own environmental enforcement unit as Attorney General of Oklahoma. “Scott Pruitt endangered the health and welfare of […]
By Adam Markham U.S. natural and cultural resources—the parks, landmarks and history of America—are under assault from climate change. So it is troubling that Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump‘s pick to run the Department of the Interior (DOI), seems unsure whether climate change is a real problem or not. Just this week, in an interview with […]
In the midst of three pending mega-mergers between agrichemical corporations, Donald Trump‘s recent pick of Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris to head the American Manufacturing Council signals yet more serious potential conflicts of interest in top government posts that could damage American farmers, the health of the public and the environment. The council serves as […]