Trump Administration Ending Long-Standing Protections for Migratory Birds
At more than 100 years old, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was among the first environmental laws in the United States. Until recently, power companies and other industries could be prosecuted by the f...
20 Feb 202017min
Manipulating Data to Exploit a Disaster
Did the Trump administration manipulate wildfire science to promote the logging industry? An investigation in the Guardian newspaper says yes.
6 Feb 202013min
Is this Trump's Biggest Environmental Rollback?
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is often called the Magna Carta of environmental law. President Nixon signed it into law 50 years ago this month. And President Trump honored the anniversa...
23 Jan 202018min
Strengthening Transparency or Silencing Science?
Word leaked a few weeks ago that the EPA is poised to finalize a rule to limit the types of scientific studies that can be used to create new regulations. The proposal -- named "Strengthening Transpa...
12 Dec 201929min
What's the Future of Global Climate Policies?
The Paris Climate Agreement was put in place to prevent catastrophic and runaway global warming. And since taking office, President Trump has been threatening to pull the U.S. out of it. Earlier this ...
28 Nov 201918min
Murray Energy, A Major Trump Ally, Goes Bankrupt
President Trump came into office promising to save coal and coal jobs. Instead, the industry has continued to slide. The question now is--how far will it go? The coal industry once employed hundreds o...
14 Nov 201929min
One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Wildfires have once again spread across California...and millions of residents have been living without power for weeks. The deliberate blackouts by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, or PG&E, are ...
8 Nov 201929min
Rick Perry Made Me Do It
President Trump says a key phone call at the center of the Ukraine scandal was Energy Secretary Rick Perry's idea. But Perry asserts that in his conversations with Trump, "not once, as God as my witne...
17 Okt 201918min
