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Pruitt: Trump asked, 'Should we shut down the agency?'
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt delved into his legacy at his official portrait unveiling last month and recalled discouraging Donald Trump, then the president-elect, from shutting down the agency.
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EPA broke rules in shake-up of science panels, federal watchdog says
The Government Accountability Office found that the administration “did not consistently ensure” that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.
E.P.A. experts objected to ‘misleading’ agency smog decision, emails show
One agency scientist expressed “disbelief” over a 2018 decision to exempt most of southeastern Wisconsin from federal limits on smog.
Scott Pruitt was gifted multiple copies of 'Global Warming for Dummies,' climate denial books, while EPA administrator
He also received accepted six gifted copies of "The Lorax."
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Andrew Wheeler, who continued environmental rollbacks, is confirmed to lead E.P.A.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Andrew R. Wheeler to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, giving oversight of the nation's air and water to a former coal lobbyist and seasoned Washington insider.
Credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Peter Dykstra: Year in review — Measuring the US government’s 2018 footprint ... on Mother Nature’s throat
Some of the worst outrages of the year
The year saw President Donald Trump's promised multi-front assault on environmental values, regulations and science bear some toxic fruit.
Climate denial may finally be in decline in much of the world, but in the U.S. government, it rises again and again, like the drowned-in-the-bathtub villain in a Stephen King movie.
From the Environmental Protection Agency to the Education, Energy and Commerce Departments, government websites were scrubbed clean of information on climate change. Trump also continued his pitch for "clean coal" and promised a big comeback for a domestic industry that began and ended the year on life support.
The U.S. embarrassed itself at a December United Nations climate meeting in Poland with an awkward and misplaced pitch for fossil fuels.
Ted Cruz won re-election despite an unexpectedly strong challenge from Congressman Beto O'Rourke. Cruz is expected to become chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. As a subcommittee Chair, Cruz oversaw a hallucinatory hearing on climate science that featured a panel of five climate scientists, four of whom were deniers.
It seems that just about anything that the Obama Administration had done related to the environment has been targeted by the Trump Administration.
Just this month alone: the Trump Administration proposed rollbacks for the Waters of the United States rule, which protects tens of thousands of small streams and adjacent wetlands; and Congress failed to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a bedrock piece of the federal conservation effort that had seen bipartisan support and virtually no controversy in its 53-year history.
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Ryan Zinke, Into the Sunset
The secretary of the Interior departs under a cascade of ethics investigations.
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