"Interior Dept. (Again) Hosts People Who Want To Sell Off Public Land"
"For an administration that says it opposes pawning off federal lands, it sure is cozy with pro-land-transfer zealots."
Source: HuffPost, 02/17/2020
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"Trump’s Plan To Create A Uranium Stockpile Excites Utah Mines"
"The Trump administration’s newly proposed budget would throw a $1.5 billion lifeline to the struggling U.S. uranium industry, long battered by declining demand and cheap imports."
Source: Salt Lake Tribune, 02/17/2020
EPA Poised for Mercury Rule Rollback That Industry Doesn't Want
"For more than three years, the Trump administration has prided itself on working with industry to unshackle companies from burdensome environmental regulations. But as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to finalize the latest in a long line of rollbacks, the nation’s power sector has sent a different message: Thanks, but no thanks."
Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2020
Gunasekara, Who Pushed Trump To Exit Paris Pact, Named EPA Staff Chief
"Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agency’s top air-policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter."
Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2020
"EPA: Agency Discloses Rise In CO2, And Undercuts A Talking Point"
"U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased 3.1% between 2017 and 2018, according to figures published yesterday by EPA."
Source: ClimateWire, 02/14/2020
"Ex-Utility Exec, Hill Aide Tapped for EPA's No. 2 Job"
"President Trump plans to nominate a former utility executive and Hill aide to serve as EPA deputy administrator, the White House announced today."
Source: Greenwire, 02/14/2020
Trump May OK Strip Mining on Tennessee’s Protected Cumberland Plateau
"The Obama administration designated 75,000 acres “unsuitable” for coal mining at the state’s behest four years ago. Now, Trump officials may be making an exception."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/14/2020
"Green Group Sues Trump Over Major Environmental Rollback"
"An environmental group is trying to block one of President Trump’s most far-reaching environmental rollbacks from taking effect, arguing the administration has not provided proper access to public documents on a new rule that would limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)."
Source: The Hill, 02/14/2020
"Trump’s Path to Weaker Fuel Efficiency Rules May Lead to a Dead End"
"Last April, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, proclaimed at an auto show ... that he would soon roll back President Barack Obama’s stringent fuel efficiency standards. ... Nearly a year later, the rollback is nowhere near complete and may not be ready until this summer — if ever."
Source: NY Times, 02/14/2020
"Trump ‘Turns Back Clock’ By Luring Drilling Companies To Pristine Lands"
"The Trump administration has offered oil companies a chunk of the American west and the Gulf of Mexico that’s four times the size of California – an expansive drilling plan that threatens to entrench the industry at the expense of other outdoor jobs, while locking in enough emissions to undermine global climate policy."
Source: Guardian, 02/13/2020
