"U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration backed off an assertion he made earlier indicating he persuaded Saudi Arabia to effectively boost oil production to its maximum capacity, which would have threatened to blow up a fragile truce agreed by OPEC and inflamed the Saudi-Iran rivalry."
"The Trump administration acted Friday to try to bolster its case to repeal the Obama administration’s controversial water pollution regulation."
"Robert Powelson is giving up his seat at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to take over the leadership of the lobby representing the nation’s private water companies."
"The retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from the Supreme Court could significantly reshape environmental law in the decades ahead and potentially make it easier for the Trump administration to roll back Obama-era climate change policies in the coming years, legal experts said."
"A group of U.S. states led by New York sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, accusing Administrator Scott Pruitt of trying to illegally roll back limits on the use of climate change pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons."
"The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, announced Wednesday in a letter hand-delivered to President Trump, could bring about sweeping changes to U.S. environmental law, endangering the federal government’s authority to fight climate change and care for the natural world."
"The Trump administration began the process Tuesday of reviewing federal standards for smog, a move that clean air advocates fear could worsen already poor air quality in New Jersey."
"The U.S. is pressing its allies to cut all oil imports from Iran by Nov. 4, a senior State Department official said Tuesday."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed setting a blending mandate of 19.88 billion gallons for 2019 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), 3 percent higher from this year’s and in line with expectations."
"The Trump administration appears to be planning to shift the mission of one of the most important federal science agencies that works on climate change — away from climate change."
