The Trump administration will now consider all permits for importing the remains of elephants hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia on a “case-by-case basis,” The Hill reported. The action is a reversal from President Trump’s previous statements that his administration would keep the Obama-era ban on imports of the animals. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), overseen […]
President Donald Trump boasted “a big week for infrastructure” Monday as the White House announced its long-awaited $1.5 trillion plan to improve the nation’s roads, buildings and power supplies. Infrastructure is usually a bipartisan, consensus issue, but environmental groups criticized the White House’s initiative, as it involves a drastic rollback of federal environmental review to […]
By Sam Schipani While the world was distracted by the government shutdown last Monday, Jan. 22, Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke signed a land-swap agreement with the King Cove Native Corporation to trade 500 acres of federal land in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, on the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula, for tribal land of […]
President Donald Trump‘s line, “We have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal” drew some of the biggest claps and cheers from Republican lawmakers at last night’s State of the Union address. Energy Sec. Rick Perry, who wants to bail out uncompetitive coal plants, quickly bopped up with a standing ovation. Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke, […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger slammed President Trump‘s plans to dramatically expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling. “Don’t touch California. If you want to drill, do it off Mar-a-Lago,” the former California governor and vocal Trump critic tweeted Monday, referring to the president’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “Or better yet, look to the future, follow California’s […]
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke‘s controversial decision to take Florida out of his proposed plan to greatly expand offshore drilling is causing clashes within the administration, according to multiple reports. The head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which manages offshore leasing, told a Congressional subcommittee Friday that it had “no formal decision” on Florida […]
By Elliott Negin The Trump administration’s testy relationship with science reminds me of that old saying: Advice is least heeded when most needed. Earlier this week, three-quarters of the members of the National Park System Advisory Board resigned because Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke refused to hold a meeting with them last year. The board was […]
Nearly all members of the National Park Service advisory panel abruptly quit on Monday in protest of the Trump administration’s policies, which they say have neglected science, climate change and environmental protections. “From all of the events of this past year I have a profound concern that the mission of stewardship, protection, and advancement of […]
Politicians from coastal states around the country continue to call for their states to be exempt from the Trump administration’s proposed expansion of offshore drilling following its politically-tinged decision last week to remove Florida from the plan. The Interior Department said last week that Secretary Ryan Zinke had spoken with seven coastal governors opposed to […]
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