August 7, 2019 Trump’s EPA revives Alaska’s Pebble Mine formerly scuttled by Obama Administration …the Army Corps preemptively vetoed the mining project even before it performed its environmental evaluations and impact assessment, which is required for projects that…
April 1, 2018 EPA’s Pruitt scraps Obama era ‘secret science’ “EPA regulators and agency-funded researchers have become accustomed to producing unaccountable, dodgy science to advance a political agenda,” Steve Milloy, author of JunkScience.com and…
October 17, 2017 EPA chief issues new directive to end abusive ‘sue and settle’ deals The EPA’s practice of handling lawsuits by using ‘consent decrees’ and ‘settlement agreements’ has violated norms of transparency and given outside groups–some of which…
June 24, 2017 New EPA chief drains swamp of advisors behind heavy-handed Obama climate regs The Trump administration is moving to revamp an EPA committee that conservatives believe rubber-stamped many of former President Barack Obama’s climate regulations. Chris White Daily…
May 9, 2017 Trump EPA strategy shifts enforcement powers from D.C. bureaucrats to states In giving EPA police powers to enforce environmental laws (30 years ago), Congress never envisioned midnight raids with SWAT teams and attack dogs, confiscating…
May 4, 2017 EPA creates illegal Superfund site to hide liability in Gold King Mine spill Shortly after the EPA triggered the release, to obscure and limit its own liability, the EPA created the Bonita Peak Mining District—around the Gold…
April 25, 2017 Farmers look forward to relief from crushing Obama-era EPA regulations By 2050, U.S. farmers and ranchers must rise to the challenge of feeding 2 billion more people than we feed today. We are fully…
March 19, 2017 Top 7 reasons Trump EPA cuts are good for America So much for “protecting public health,” ensuring “environmental justice,” and safeguarding our most “vulnerable communities.” It’s as if we’ve come full circle, and now…
December 29, 2016 EPA: Extreme Politics Agency “Government employees and contractors at universities appear to be rubber-stamping EPA’s distorted claims,” Milloy wrote in the forward of his new book, which has…
December 28, 2016 EPA employees, other agencies skirt law, delete millions of official records That’s “clearly a conflict of interest,” said Chaim Mandelbaum, counsel for the non-profit government watchdog Energy and Environment Legal Group. Mandelbaum’s group focuses on…
