Advisers say the president pulled back from proposed restrictions intended to curb teenage vaping after he was warned of the political fallout among voters.
The Trump administration's nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency repeatedly said Thursday he doesn't know the reasons behind climate change, despite his agency often being in the position of responding to the crisis' impacts.
The next time you hear a Republican brag about how the Trump administration is "deregulating," getting rid of "onerous rules" or "streamlining government," remember that it is doing nothing of the sort. It is just changing who government is working for.
A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.
Since his arrival at the Interior Department, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has shown a willingness to press ethics lawyers for decisions that help his agenda.
California firefighters say climate change is a big subject when they're out in the field, with the recent level of destruction described as "unprecedented".
If there is a philosophy behind the president's policy other than his reflexive impulse to nullify his predecessor, it's that corporations should decide how they're regulated. That the automakers can't agree on an answer reveals the folly of this ideology.
The proposed changes to the coal combustion residual rule won't survive the courts, says Betsy Southerland, who wrote the rule in 2015. But it will delay protections for vulnerable communities.
Meteorologists were addressing public concern, not the president's tweets, when they assured Alabamians that a hurricane would not hit them, according to new documents.
The United States notified the United Nations on Monday that it would leave the Paris climate agreement, staring the clock on a yearlong withdrawal process.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
Jim Inhofe, the Senate's unwavering climate denier, turns 85 on Sunday. I requested a Q&A with him when he turns 100 to see how the "hoax" has turned out.
