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A Minnesota scientist who leads an Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory board says she was pressured by the agency's chief of staff to change her congressional testimony to downplay the Trump administration's decision not to reappoint half the panel's members. Emails show that EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson asked Deborah Swackhamer, who recently retired from the University of Minnesota, to stick to the agency's stance at a hearing last month that the decision on those appointments had not yet been made.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration added another Obama-era regulation to its list of policy rollbacks. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a proposal to strike the 2015 "Waters of the United States" regulation, which had expanded the number of U.S. waterways subject to federal review for pollution control purposes.
U.S. Sen. John Thune said Tuesday that he applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for initiating a formal process to withdraw the Waters of the United States rule. He said the EPA and the Corps now begin a replacement rulemaking process that will gather input and re-evaluate the definition of WOTUS.
Don Benton, a former Republican Washington state senator, talks about his new job leading the U.S. Selective Service System, which registers men for a nonexistent military draft. He also talks about why he likes taking the metro in Washington, D.C. , why he no longer works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and what really happened when he allegedly called another lawmaker "a trashy, trampy mouthed little girl."
With a near tie for second place between Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "It's hard to be worse than Sessions or Pruitt.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and the Trump administration are quietly delaying the implementation of a major Environmental Protection Agency air pollution rule from the Obama administration. Governors were notified this week of the delay of an ozone pollution rule.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media at the White House on June 2, 2017, about President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made the Sunday morning talk show rounds in an effort to defend President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate accord.
Even before he pulled the plug on the Paris Climate accord, there was an equally chilling assault on science waged by President Trump. It was orchestrated by Scott Pruitt, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency who recently decided that the agency responsible for protecting the environment and human health should be recast as a steward for the fossil fuel and chemical industries.
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Donald Trump's chief argument for withdrawing from the Paris climate accord is that it would destroy jobs, stifle growth, cause electricity blackouts and raise energy prices to ruinous levels.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, declined to say on "Good Morning America" on Friday whether President Trump believes global warming is a hoax when pressed by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos. "The president believes in a clean environment, clean air, clean water," Conway said the day after President Trump said he is withdrawing the United States from the multination Paris Climate Agreement.
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President Donald Trump's administration says it's time for state and local governments to ... . FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2016 file photo, steam rises up on the surface of Lake Michigan at sunrise in Chicago.
The Trump Administration budget released Tuesday slashes funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly one-third, eliminating more than 3,800 jobs while imposing dramatic cuts to clean air and water programs. The White House's proposed spending plan for the EPA amounts to $5.7 billion, a 31 percent cut from the current budget year.
The chairwoman of an Environmental Protection Agency science panel told lawmakers Tuesday that she was "surprised" by the agency's dismissal of several scientific advisers earlier this month. The EPA did not renew the terms for nine members of the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors earlier in May. Agency officials have said they hoped to add to the board more representatives from industries regulated by the EPA.
Though the official release is planned for Tuesday, leaked versions of the 2018 budget proposal show dramatic funding cuts for environmental programs - even those supported by the president's own party. The budget, which still needs congressional approval, would cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 35 percent .
That's according to a report from the global anti-poverty organization Oxfam, which specifically calls for Australia to stop propping up the coal industry - especially the $300 million in subsidies it's offered up for a proposed mine in Queensland. "Against the backdrop of an imperiled Great Barrier Reef and extreme weather disasters, Australia's carbon pollution is continuing to climb - the tragic consequence of more than a decade of climate policy paralysis and short-term political opportunism," Helen Szoke , CEO of Oxfam Australia, says.
Only four units of the entire 417-part system of national parks, monuments, seashores and historical sites carry the names of remarkable plants and trees. California hosts three of these - Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua Tree national parks.