environment
4 briefs
The EPA Deregulated 180 Polluters Via Email. It Called This the Biggest Deregulatory Action in US History.
ProPublica revealed that the Trump EPA granted two-year Clean Air Act exemptions to over 180 major industrial facilities through a simple email request system. The agency's own air quality scientists were sidelined.
Trump's EPA Cuts Are Making the Air Dirtier. The People Breathing It Cannot Afford to Move.
DOGE-driven EPA staff cuts have gutted enforcement capacity in the same states where air quality was already failing federal standards. The regulatory apparatus still exists on paper. It has stopped functioning.
Seven Days to Comment on a Sacred Site
The Trump administration gave the public one week to weigh in on opening 336,000 acres near Chaco Canyon to oil and gas drilling. 70,000 comments arrived. The review continues anyway.
The EPA Deleted the Legal Foundation for Every Federal Climate Rule. Zeldin Called It 'Vindication.'
The 2009 endangerment finding was not a regulation. it was the scientific warrant that made regulation possible. Repealing it doesn't just kill pending rules; it retroactively questions whether any climate regulation was ever lawful.