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"Trump’s EPA Is Seeking A 24/7 Security Detail For Its New Leader"

"The Trump administration has proposed whacking the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third, eliminating thousands of employees and scrapping dozens of programs, including climate-change research and cleanup efforts in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. But a detailed budget plan obtained by The Washington Post last week includes a request to add positions within the agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 'to provide 24/7 security detail' for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt."

Source: Washington Post, 04/13/2017

Science Group Lauds Climate Research Targeted for Elimination by Trump

"The federal program overseeing climate change research has won an important endorsement from the authoritative National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine just as it faces the threat of budget cuts under the Donald Trump administration."

Source: InsideClimate News, 04/13/2017

"Trump Eyes Climate Skeptic For Key White House Environmental Post"

"President Donald Trump may tap a vocal critic of climate change science to serve as the highest-ranking environmental official in the White House."

Source: Politico, 04/13/2017

"Trump’s Policies Are Already Making Workplaces More Toxic"

"The 'wellbeing of America and the American worker is my North Star,' President Donald Trump trumpeted at a recent White House event. But the Trump administration’s policies are already adversely affecting workers’ health by undermining occupational illness prevention — including for cancers, musculoskeletal disorders and respiratory diseases that afflict hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers."

Source: In These Times, 04/13/2017

"Pipelines: 'America First' May Put Coal Country Last"

"Canada is warning the Trump administration that a "Buy American" plan for U.S. oil and gas pipelines could have an unexpected casualty: coal country."

Source: Greenwire, 04/12/2017

"Regulations: White House Moves To Kill Lawsuit Over 2-For-1 Order"

"The Trump administration yesterday asked a federal court to toss a lawsuit challenging the president's requirement that agencies scrap two regulations for every new one created."

Source: Greenwire, 04/12/2017

"D.C. Circuit Grants EPA’s Request To Delay Smog Rule Case"

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s request Tuesday to delay oral argument in a case over its 2015 smog standard, allowing the agency time to reconsider the Obama-era rule."

Source: Washington Post, 04/12/2017

"What’s at Stake in Trump’s Proposed E.P.A. Cuts"

"What is at stake as Congress considers the E.P.A. budget? Far more than climate change."

Source: NY Times, 04/11/2017

"Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites"

"Among the sweeping cuts in the Trump administration’s 53-page budget blueprint released last month, one paragraph stood out to climate researchers. It proposed eliminating four of NASA’s climate science missions, including instruments to study clouds, small airborne particles, the flow of carbon dioxide and other elements of the atmosphere and oceans."

Source: NY Times, 04/11/2017

Calif. AG Wants Records on EPA’s Scott Pruitt Ties To Oil & Gas Industry

"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a Freedom of Information Act request Friday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to compel it to turn over documents on its administrator, Scott Pruitt, and potential conflicts of interest with his past ties to the fossil fuel industry."

Source: Sacramento Bee, 04/11/2017

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