"President Trump tweeted Monday that he will nominate David Bernhardt, a veteran lobbyist who has helped orchestrate the push to expand oil and gas drilling at the Interior Department, to serve as its next secretary."
"The pounds of pollutants and waste that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reduced under the Trump administration are at their lowest levels in a decade, according to an analysis by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) published Friday.
EPA’s 2018 reduction of pollution and hazardous waste is the second-lowest amount on record, dating back to 2008. President Trump’s first year in office, 2017, was the worst year, according to the analysis.
"A Canadian mining company has ditched its plans to extract copper, cobalt and other minerals from approximately 200 acres of land that the Trump administration carved out of the boundary protecting Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."
"The Western Governors' Association is asking President Trump not to impede states' abilities to veto Clean Water Act permits."
"Six Northeastern U.S. states and New York City have sued the Trump administration over its refusal to toughen smog restrictions in industrial states that blow pollution across their borders, officials said on Thursday."
"The lands President Donald Trump carved from Grand Staircase-Escalante included a 40-acre parcel owned by his ally and former Utah state Rep. Mike Noel."
"The Attorneys General from 15 states are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to draft a policy to collect more data on harmful asbestos."
"Acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler today announced a new slate of appointments to the agency's Science Advisory Board that mingles mainstream academics with an Alabama professor who rejects mainstream climate science."
To a duck hunter in the marshes of southeast Louisiana, what happens in the prairie potholes of the upper Midwest makes all the difference. The Trump administration wants to end protections for such isolated wetlands."
"White House officials are seriously considering former cattle rancher and Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis to serve as President Donald Trump’s next Interior secretary, according to people familiar with the deliberations."
