Here’s RMI’s cofounder Amory Lovins shaking hands with Jimmy Carter. It may come as a surprise that there was a time before environmentalism became a partisan issue. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the Nixon administration. Nowadays, notions like …
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The most recent “Take a Cool Guess” called for readers to take a stab at the number of scientists who left the EPA during the Trump administration. Below is a breakdown of their fields of specialization. Will these folks be …
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From Ars Technica: With the days counting down to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration has been undertaking a series of actions that will make it more difficult for its replacements to reverse any of its policies …
From this piece: With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to …
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In my recent post It’s All Happening Right Under Our Noses, I fear I may have left the impression that every single atrocity Trump commits is done in plain sight. That’s not true. The big ones are made obvious, not …
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Of the 100+ rollbacks in environmental regulations under the Trump administration, its official replacement of Obama-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks is probably the most egregious.
From the Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration on Tuesday weakened one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to combat climate change, releasing new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks that handed a victory to the oil and gas …
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From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic.
As a nation, we tend to do a great deal of hand-wringing about job loss. Given that, it’s strange that there isn’t more concern for the passel of scientists that have been fired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over …
Given the overall success of the EPA in cleaning up America’s air and water, it’s hard to remember what things looked like half a century ago, before the agency was formed in the early 1970s. At left is a shot of …
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