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Why Are Federal Energy Regulators Disrespecting States’ Rights?
The Trump administration knows better than to disrespect states’ energy rights. In a recent Federal Register entry, the administration confirmed that FERC is required to defer to state choices regarding electricity generation, quoting the Federal Power Act and Supreme Court opinions.
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Leadership in a Crisis
With the 10th year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill disaster coming up in a few days, many are writing about lessons learned from that tragedy.
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Earth Day at 50: Our System of Protections Is Failing Us
Earth Day 1970 energized America to construct the system of environmental protection that is in place today. Fifty years later is a propitious time to issue a report card on how well the system is doing.
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Flatten the (Climate) Curve
COVID-19 is teaching us an important lesson about “flattening the curve” and this teaching also applies to the climate crisis.
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Our Health
We usually take our health for granted. No more. The COVID-19 pandemic presents an acute health risk that is upending our country, and our world.
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Energy & Culture Wars
The administration is fomenting another culture war. The president has ridiculed the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, claiming that their replacements give off bad light. Wind turbines cause cancer and toilets now require multiple flushes (really?).
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Reducing Corporate Environmental Accountability, Whether Industry Wants it or Not
Everyone is aware that the Trump administration has been rolling back scores of environmental and climate regulatory requirements. What’s less apparent is how the rollbacks fit into a broader administration strategy to reduce industry accountability for environmental damage.
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Ideology Trumps Science in Clean Water Rollback
The administration has issued a new rule that ends Clean Water Act protection for large portions of our nation’s wetlands, lakes and tributaries. Internal government documents estimate that more than half of our wetlands will lose protection under the rollback.
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The Trump Administration's Deregulation Agenda is Putting Americans at Risk
In the corporate world, “EHS” — “environment, health & safety” — is a serious concern. Any company worth its salt pays attention to EHS issues because workers, customers and neighbors can be negatively impacted by a company’s poor EHS performance.
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Cutting the Heart out of NEPA
In the administration’s latest effort to do a NEPA work-around, the it is proposing revisions to long-standing NEPA regulations.
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The Climate Travesty Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Even though the path to achieve emissions reductions from industries is clear, and despite the Clean Air Act’s requirement that EPA reduce those emissions, EPA is moving in the opposite direction
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Coal in Your Stockings
The holidays are arriving soon. Look for some proverbial lumps of coal in your stockings from the Trump administration.
