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With Official Report In Hand, Will Trump Now Act On Climate Change? (Video)

With Official Report In Hand, Will Trump Now Act On Climate Change? (Video)

It appears the walls of reality are beginning to close in on climate change deniers.

Friday, the White House released the fourth National Climate Assessment, which confirms what scientists have been warning us about for decades: human activity is the primary cause of global warming, and dire consequences like sea level rise of eight feet by century’s endand more catastrophic weather are…

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EPA Administrator Pruitt Lost The Methane Battle So He'll Screw Clean Water And Wetlands Instead

EPA Administrator Pruitt Lost The Methane Battle So He’ll Screw Clean Water And Wetlands Instead

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt has taken another step in his plan to roll back the rules put into place during former President Barack Obama’s presidency to protect isolated wetlands and small streams.

Pruitt held a meeting with business people in South Carolina last week to discuss plans to roll back federal wetland protections. The forum included farmers, energy…

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EPA set to limit chemicals in drinking water

In a landmark decision aimed at safeguarding public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced updated regulations on drinking water quality standards across the United States. This significant development comes in response to growing concerns over the presence of harmful contaminants in drinking water supplies and underscores the agency’s commitment to ensuring the safety…

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Trump Administration Deep-Sixes Obama WOTUS Rule

Trump Administration Deep-Sixes Obama WOTUS Rule

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~

Putting an end to decades of uncertainty over how much regulatory power the federal government has over bodies of water – from ponds to oceans — the Trump administration has overturned and replaced an Obama-era rule that would have imposed federal zoning on millions of acres of private land throughout the country.

Unveiled Jan. 23, the Navigable Waters Protection Rule is…

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Trump’s EPA Rolling Back Obama-Era Anti-Coal Regulation

Trump’s EPA Rolling Back Obama-Era Anti-Coal Regulation

By Fred Lucas ~

The Environmental Protection Agency will propose easing rules on disposal of coal ash, the residue from burning coal, to make it less likely the federal government would shutter a coal-fired utility plant, in an announcement set for Monday.

Heavy machinery excavate and carry coal ash from drained coal ash pond E at Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Va. on June 26, 2015.…

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EPA’s Reversal On Alaska’s Pebble Mine A Victory For Regulatory Process

EPA’s Reversal On Alaska’s Pebble Mine A Victory For Regulatory Process

By Nicolas Loris and Patricia Patnode ~

For more than a decade, the owners of Alaska’s Pebble Mine just wanted a shot at going through the permitting phase of the project. But before the mine’s owners could even submit a permit application, the federal government in effect said, “Don’t bother.”

The EPA has withdrawn the Obama administration’s pre-emptive veto of the Pebble Mine, allowing the…

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Common Sense Finally Coming To EPA With Cost-Benefit Analysis

Common Sense Finally Coming To EPA With Cost-Benefit Analysis

By Daren Bakst ~

Shouldn’t Environmental Protection Agency regulations do more good than harm?

The agency hasn’t always thought so.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, pictured at a hearing in April, issued a memorandum directing the agency to “ensure that its regulatory decisions are rooted in sound, transparent and consistent approaches to evaluating benefits and costs.” (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty…

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Majority Of Coal-fired Power Plants Guilty Of Poisoning Groundwater

Majority Of Coal-fired Power Plants Guilty Of Poisoning Groundwater

There are 265 power plants monitoring groundwater in the United States.

242 of them report unsafe levels of pollutants from coal ash waste disposal.

According to an analysis from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), nine out of every 10 coal plants, three-quarters of all U.S. facilities with reportable data, claim groundwater is poisoned with at least one coal ash pollutant; a majority…

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