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"Trump Aims To Slash Number Of Federal Advisory Committees"

"president Donald Trump is trying to take an ax to federal advisory committees, ordering that their numbers be slashed. Trump signed an executive order Friday that directs every federal agency to evaluate the need for all of its advisory committees created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. And it gives agency heads until September to terminate at least one-third of current committees created by agency heads."

Source: AP, 06/17/2019

"U.S. Green Groups Ramp Up Legal Attacks On Federal Oil Leases"

"U.S. environmental groups fighting fossil-fuel development made headlines years ago with public demonstrations against big pipeline projects including the Dakota Access and the Keystone XL - only to be steamrolled by President Donald Trump’s executive orders to approve them. Now the so-called ‘keep it in the ground’ movement has a new strategy to slow Trump’s pro-oil agenda: Burying the administration in formal written protests and lawsuits challenging nearly every oil and gas lease it plans on public land."

Source: Reuters, 06/14/2019

"USDA Relocates 2 Research Agencies"

"Two key research agencies in the Department of Agriculture will move to the Kansas City area, Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today. The plan will move hundreds of jobs at USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) out of Washington, despite objections from employees and some members of Congress."

Source: Greenwire, 06/14/2019

PEER Goes After Interior For Sidestepping Senate When Filling Posts

"An environmental group filed a complaint against the Department of the Interior on Tuesday, saying the agency shuffled controversial employees into roles without Senate confirmation."

Source: The Hill, 06/13/2019

Trump Admin Seeks Overhaul Of Environmental Rules For Federal Forests

"A new proposed rule from the U.S. Forest Service designed to make environmental reviews more efficient would shortcut important oversight of industry plans, environmentalists say."

Source: The Hill, 06/13/2019

"Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Ease Approval of New GMO Crops"

"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to ease rules for approving genetically modified crops and other agricultural biotechnology."

Source: Bloomberg, 06/12/2019

Trump Admin Quietly Makes It Legal To Import Elephant Parts As Trophies

"The Trump administration will allow Americans to bring tusks and other elephant body parts back to this country as trophies, in a pivot away from the support President Trump voiced last year for an Obama-era trophy ban."

Source: Washington Post, 06/12/2019

Greens Sue Trump Administration For Gutting Offshore Oil Safety Rules

"A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department’s rollbacks of safety measures put in place by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the fatal 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill."

Source: Reuters, 06/12/2019

"Former Obama EPA Head Tells Trump's EPA: 'Just Do Your Jobs'"

"An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator under former President Obama told lawmakers Tuesday the agency under the Trump administration is ignoring its mission."

Source: The Hill, 06/12/2019

State AGs: EPA Water Pollution Policy a 'Road Map' For Skirting Law

"Eleven attorneys general sent a letter last week urging EPA to reconsider its recent interpretive statement specifying that Clean Water Act permits are not required for pollution that moves through groundwater before reaching a federally regulated waterway."

Source: Greenwire, 06/11/2019

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