How W. Virginia Coal Industry Changed Federal Endangered Species Policy
Coal companies got Trump's Interior Department and West Virginia officials to reverse endangered wildlife protections that had closed mines.
Source: Washington Post, 05/14/2019
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"States Fight Trump Rollback Of Obama Lightbulb Rules"
"States are preparing to fight back as the Trump administration moves to erase Obama-era standards for lightbulbs.
The Department of Energy has proposed new regulations for lightbulbs that would eliminate efficiency standards for half the bulbs on the market.
The move has prompted a backlash from a bipartisan mix of state attorneys general and governors who say it is harmful to the planet and may be illegal."
Source: The Hill, 05/14/2019
CEI Uses New White House Rule to Try to Undermine U.S. Climate Policy
"Seizing a new opportunity they believe has been opened up by the White House, hard-line foes of climate action on Monday once again asked the Trump Administration to reverse the landmark Obama-era finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health and the environment."
Source: InsideClimate News, 05/14/2019
Appropriations: 5 Questions About The Interior-EPA, Energy-Water Bills
"Proposals to reorder the Trump administration's energy and environmental priorities will come this week as the House unveils its fiscal 2020 spending bills for EPA and the Energy and Interior departments."
Source: E&E Daily, 05/13/2019
Trump Admin Following Most Of Manufacturing Group's "Wish List"
"Early in President Trump’s term, a powerful group of manufacturers delivered to his deputies a “wish list” of regulations they wanted rewritten. Two years later, the Trump administration appears to have largely followed through on those requests, according to a new report."
Source: Washington Post, 05/10/2019
"California Central Coast, Bay Area to Open for Drilling"
"A more than five-year moratorium on leasing land in California for oil and gas development will be coming to an end with a May 9 Interior Department plan to open up about 725,000 acres across the state’s Central Coast and the Bay Area for drilling."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/10/2019
House Panel Threatens Salaries Of Interior Staff Who Block Interviews
"The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday threatened to withhold the salaries of Interior Department officials who have blocked lawmakers from interviewing agency employees about whether Secretary David Bernhardt was complying with recordkeeping laws."
Source: Politico, 05/09/2019
Democrats Unveil Increase For Energy-Water, Interior-EPA Spending Bills
"House Democrats this week are set to back significant spending increases for the fiscal 2020 funding bills that cover the bulk of energy and environmental programs."
Source: E&E Daily, 05/08/2019
"Logging Plan For Alaska's Tongass National Forest Challenged In Court"
"Environmentalists in Alaska filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block a Trump administration plan to open vast swaths of the nation’s largest national forest to logging, nearly a third of it in old-growth timber."
Source: Reuters, 05/08/2019
Trump EPA Illegally Dragging Its Feet On Limiting Methane Gas: Judge
"The Trump administration has illegally delayed rules limiting the discharge of climate-changing methane gas from landfills around the United States and must act on plans for California and several other states by September, a federal judge ruled Monday.
The EPA was to approve or disapprove the state plans by Sept. 30, 2017, and to prepare its own solution two months later for states without an approved plan.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 05/07/2019
