"As Climate Envoy, Kerry To Seek 'Ambition' With 'Humility'"
"John Kerry is looking to resume climate diplomacy that was disrupted under President Trump."
Source: NPR, 12/14/2020
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CDC Scientist Ordered To Delete Email From Trump Appointee: House Probe
"Congressional investigators say Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield may have directed officials to delete a contentious email sent by a Trump appointee that demanded the health agency halt weekly COVID-19 mortality reports that the official called CDC “hit pieces on the administration.”
Source: USA TODAY, 12/11/2020
"Newsom Taps New Head Of Powerful California Air Board"
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped a veteran regulator Wednesday as the next chair of the powerful Air Resources Board, which implements the state’s ambitious climate change goals. Liane Randolph, 55, will begin the job in January."
Source: AP, 12/10/2020
"Democrats Question Legality Of Speedy Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sales"
"Three Democratic lawmakers are raising legal questions about the rapid timeline the Trump administration is using to advance oil and gas development at a wildlife refuge in the Arctic."
Source: The Hill, 12/09/2020
Trump EPA To Set Rule Making It Harder To Issue New Air Pollution Curbs
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will finalize on Wednesday its overhaul of how it measures the costs and benefits of proposed new curbs on pollution, a move that is likely to sap the agency’s power to impose tough future regulations, according to a source familiar with the process."
Source: Reuters, 12/09/2020
"Trump Administration Is Planting Loyalists in Biden Transition Meetings"
"Loyalists to President Trump have blocked transition meetings at some government agencies and are sitting in on discussions at other agencies between career civil servants and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s transition teams, sometimes chilling conversations, several federal officials said."
Source: NYTimes, 12/09/2020
Trump Admin Seeks To Allow Polar Bear Disturbance For Oil in ANWR
"The Trump administration on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears living there."
Source: Reuters, 12/08/2020
Trump Admin Nixes Tighter Soot Rules, Despite Link to Covid Deaths
"The Trump administration on Monday declined to tighten controls on industrial soot emissions, disregarding an emerging scientific link between dirty air and Covid-19 death rates."
Source: NYTimes, 12/08/2020
"DOE Rolls Back NEPA Reviews For Gas Export Projects"
"The Department of Energy has issued a final rule rolling back liquefied natural gas project reviews under a landmark environmental law, the latest in a string of Trump administration actions aimed at overhauling the federal approach to the National Environmental Policy Act.
The rule would exempt liquefied natural gas facilities from NEPA review at DOE through so-called categorical exclusions and is aimed at boosting an industry that has faced headwinds amid a slump in global energy demand brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: E&E News, 12/04/2020
Despite Signing Outdoors Act, Trump's Enforcement Has Been Sporadic
"President Trump signed a big public lands conservation bill this summer. But so far the White House’s implementation of the new law has been scattershot and controversial."
Source: NPR, 12/04/2020
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