Trump is Pushing a Major Rollback of Environmental Protections. The NRDC is Pushing Back.
The Natural Resources Defense Council is leveraging everything from lawsuits to solidarity with other movements to fight back against the Trump administration.
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Pittsburgh Company Gets ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Letter Over Anti-Trump T-shirt
Smokey Bear’s time in the resistance might be short-lived.
Trump Wants to Ax the Clean Water Rule, But It Might Be Easier Said Than Done
On everything from healthcare to immigration, President Trump has been busy doing 180s on Obama-era policy. This week, he set his sights on a controversial expansion of the Clean Water Act.
What Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Means for the Environment
Whether Neil Gorsuch will be friend or foe to Trump’s environmental policies is hard to predict.
Pennsylvania Has a Big Problem Enforcing Drinking Water Standards. Here’s How to Fix It.
How the state ended up with such a lousy record enforcing federal safe drinking water standards is hardly a mystery. A former DEP secretary says the solutions aren't complicated either.
Trump’s First Weeks Fuel Optimism Among Drillers, Angst for Environmentalists
Environmental groups, climate scientists and others who worry about the rolling back of regulations are steeling themselves for a long, hard fight.
Trump’s First 12 Days, the Planet’s Next 1,000 Years
In the latest episode of the Trump on Earth podcast, veteran journalist Andrew Revkin talks about why we've been focusing on the wrong question when it comes to climate change.
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What’s Up with Trump and the EPA?
Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says the Trump administration appears to be taking a "scorched earth" approach with the agency. And we all stand to lose big.
For Scientists, the Race to Backup Critical Climate Data is On
Government agencies like NASA and NOAA have huge archives of climate data that are decades in the making. But some worry that research is in danger of disappearing under the Trump administration.
