Trump administration’s strategy on climate: Try to bury its own scientific report
Since the National Climate Assessment is required to be produced every four years, not issuing it would have violated the law. Instead, three sources familiar...
EPA aide questioned deleting Pruitt meeting details, then was fired
An aide to Scott Pruitt lost her job this past year, according to a former senior staffer, after objecting that the changes to official calendars...
In Trump White House, science is unwelcome and so is advice
The lack of traditional scientific advisory leadership in the White House is one example of a significant change in the Trump administration: the marginalization of...
EPA chief works closely with industry, not environmentalists
EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s supporters, including President Donald Trump, have hailed his moves as an uprooting of the administrative state and a clearing of onerous...
EPA chief doubts scientific consensus that carbon dioxide is behind global warming
Statements made by the head of the EPA appear to signal that the Trump administration intends not only to roll back President Barack Obama’s climate-change...
Trump’s EPA pick long a backer of industry donors against pollution regulators
If confirmed by the Senate, Scott Pruitt could be in charge of policing industries that have long helped advance his political career.
Bill Gates to commit billions for clean energy
The announcement of the Gates fund is intended to give momentum to the two-week climate talks in Paris.
Climate-plan foes prepped for battle
Move to fight Obama’s new environmental regulations was shaped many months ago by Republican strategists, coal states and lobbyists.