"EPA: Ebell Proposes Slashing Staff To Nixon-Era Levels"
"The leader of President Trump's U.S. EPA transition team wants to see the agency's 15,000-person staff axed to about 5,000 employees."
Source: Greenwire, 01/27/2017
Laws & Regulations
"TransCanada Submits New Application To Build Keystone XL Pipeline"
"The company that wants to build the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline says it has submitted a new permit application to the U.S. State Department."
Source: NPR, 01/27/2017
Fla. DEP Secretary Going To Work For Firm That Just Got New DEP Contract
"At the end of January, two things will change about the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. One is that Secretary Jon Steverson will leave his post after two stormy years in charge, to take a new job with the law firm of Foley & Lardner. The other is that Steverson's new employers at Foley & Lardner will take over representing Florida in handling the billions of dollars awarded to the state as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 01/25/2017
"Climate Regulations Under a Watchful Internet Eye"
"A new tool launched by the Columbia Law School on Donald Trump's first day in office is tracking every step the Trump administration takes to roll back or eliminate existing federal rules on climate change and energy."
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/24/2017
"Standing Rock Leaders Tell Dakota Pipeline Protesters to Go Home"
"After months of largely peaceful protests by thousands of demonstrators from across the country who congregated at a camp near Cannon Ball, N.D., to help bring the Dakota Access pipeline to a halt, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has asked the pipeline opponents to go home."
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/24/2017
"Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts"
"The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: ProPublica, 01/24/2017
As EPA, Other Agencies Muzzle Staff, WatchDog Issues Leaker's Guide
At a time when government information may be harder than ever to access, WatchDog offers a unique guide to leaks that reporters can offer potential whistleblowers. Also in the latest column, sealed records on a weedkiller-cancer connection, secret talks on coal-ash regs and more.
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What Plans for Clean Power Plan?
This week's TipSheet looks at the murky legal and regulatory prospects for the Clean Power Plan, an EPA effort to cut carbon emissions now being challenged by the Trump administration. Will it be revoked in presidential action, or is more likely to get drawn into a murky court proceeding?
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Big Oil May Finally Get to Drill in Arctic Refuge, But Is It Worth It?
"Far above the Arctic Circle, one of the longest-running controversies in U.S. oil drilling is about to reignite. Bouyed by Donald Trump’s election, Republicans are pushing to allow oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the frigid wilderness in northern Alaska that’s been a political battleground for drillers and conservationists for decades."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/23/2017
Trump Regulatory Freeze Halts 4 Obama Rules Aimed At Energy Efficiency
"Nearly simultaneously with President Trump’s oath of office Friday, the White House website shifted to remove climate change related content from the Obama administration and supplant it with a new statement of Trump’s energy policy — one focused, it said, reducing “burdensome regulations on our energy industry.”
Source: Washington Post, 01/23/2017
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