Several states sued the Trump administration Tuesday to challenge its decision to suspend the 2015 clean water rule aimed at protecting lakes, rivers and streams from pollutants. California Attorney General … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trump administration takes aim at California desert protection plan
The Trump administration is threatening to scrap a major Obama-era agreement that sought to protect millions of acres of the California desert by placing sensitive areas off-limits to major solar- … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trump unites Democrats and Republicans – to oppose his offshore drilling plan
Members of Congress from both parties and both coasts have intensified their opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to open almost all of America’s outer continental shelf to energy exploration. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Immigration hardliners on DACA deal: Trump betrayed us
The Republican party’s toughest anti-immigration voices say they’ve been abandoned in the debate over the fate of the 800,000 young people living in the country under DACA’s protections. There’s little … Click to Continue »
Read More »Editorial: Stop Trump from drilling for oil off California’s majestic coast
Remember the devastation of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: Union oil’s inadequate safety precautions resulted in 3 million gallons of crude oil spewing into the Pacific Ocean, spawning what … Click to Continue »
Read More »Northeastern lawmakers unite against Trump offshore drilling plan
Lawmakers in the Northeast united across party lines on Monday to hazard against President Donald Trump’s offshore drilling plan to re-open more than 90 percent of the U.S. coastline to … Click to Continue »
Read More »Analysis: Trump has big plans for offshore oil development; but will it ever happen?
With characteristic flamboyance, the Trump administration has set in motion a grand scheme to lure energy companies to explore for oil and gas across virtually all of America’s outer continental … Click to Continue »
Read More »West Coast, Florida officials resist Trump administration offshore drilling plan
There is a reason why the last federal sale of oil or gas drilling leases off Florida’s Gulf coast or California’s Pacific coast was in the 1980s: The local and … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trump administration moves to expand oil and gas drilling off US coasts
The Trump administration, inviting a political backlash from coastal state leaders, on Thursday proposed to open for exploration the largest expanse of the nation’s offshore oil and natural gas reserves … Click to Continue »
Read More »Climate scientists exiled by Trump form panel to continue work
The Trump administration disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change last year but the scientists on the panel won’t be deterred. They’re taking their research elsewhere. Columbia University’s Earth … Click to Continue »
Read More »As fish disappear, Trump administration seeks to pump more California water south
The Trump administration is taking steps to pump more water through the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the southern half of the state despite fresh documentation of the estuary’s declining … Click to Continue »
Read More »Trump is said to open door for oil drilling off East Coast
The Trump administration is preparing to unveil as soon as this week an expansive offshore oil plan that would open the door to selling new drilling rights in Atlantic waters, … Click to Continue »
Read More »California hit hard by Trump administration’s undoing of green policies
When 50,000 acre-feet of water went gushing out of the Sacramento River last month, it fast became a test of California’s ability to protect its environmental policies from an increasingly … Click to Continue »
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