When the Trump administration ends - whether that be in 12 months, five years or, god forbid, longer than that somehow - one of its lasting legacies will be the dismantling of environmental protections.
President Trump arrived this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a sales pitch for American energy and little patience for climate activists - which he called "perennial prophets of doom."
The Trump administration has put one of the largest new water projects on the Colorado River on the fast track, moving oversight to the Bureau of Reclamation from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and raising concerns among environmentalists.
In a speech to a conservative US think tank, Abbott heaped praise US President Donald Trump, essentially endorsing him for a second term in the White House.
The rule change targets scientific studies underpinning pollution standards. Generations of private health data could be linked back to patients, a new study warns.
"How can he face his children and his grandchildren? How can he face citizens of the United States and of the world? I don't understand how he can do that," Christiana Figueres, former United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said.
The World Economic Forum meeting this upcoming week in Switzerland is scheduled to play host to round two of the public fight between President Trump and teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.
New York and Connecticut sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging it has failed to enforce the U.S. Clean Air Act and allowed five neighboring states to pump unhealthy levels of pollution into their states.
Among 20 of the most powerful people in government environment jobs, most have ties to the fossil fuel industry or have fought against the regulations they now are supposed to enforce.
As the conditions on the Ohio — and its cargo — become more hazardous, key regulatory organizations struggle to keep up with the growing demands of this water highway.
Whether rural Pakistan or the Salinas Valley, neglect and injustice pervade farm work. Environmental scientists, policymakers and citizens need to step up for the workers who feed our nation.
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