"Split Panel Sends OIRA, OMB Nominees To Senate Floor"
"A split Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved President Trump's picks today for overseeing federal spending and regulatory changes."
Source: Greenwire, 06/22/2017
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"Trump’s ‘Puddle And Ditch’ Order Will Have Destructive Ripple Effect"
"As President Donald Trump signed one of his first executive orders, he was surrounded by smiling, clapping homebuilders, farmers and other supporters eager to see the new president rein in a 45-year-old law protecting the nation’s waterways."
Source: Reveal, 06/22/2017
"Alaskan Appointed To Head U.S. Fisheries Management for NOAA"
"Chris Oliver of Anchorage has been appointed to manage fisheries nationally for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration announced Tuesday."
Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 06/22/2017
"Trump Regulators Trigger Pollution Fight"
"The fight over former President Barack Obama’s methane agenda has moved to the courts."
Source: The Hill, 06/21/2017
Miami-Dade Backs Paris Climate Agreement That President Trump Rejected
"Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday endorsed the Paris climate accord, giving the symbolic and explicit backing that the county’s mayor declined to provide after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement three weeks ago."
Source: Miami Herald, 06/21/2017
"EPA Plans To Buy Out More Than 1,200 Employees This Summer"
"The Environmental Protection Agency plans on shedding more than 1,200 employees by early September through buyouts and early retirements, as part of a broader push by the Trump administration to shrink a government entity the president once promised to eliminate 'in almost every form.'"
Source: Washington Post, 06/21/2017
"Zinke, Perry Take Heat Over Trump Budget"
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Energy Secretary Rick Perry went to opposite sides of Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend President Trump's proposals to slash their departments' budgets."
Source: The Hill, 06/21/2017
"AP-NORC Poll: Few Favor Trump Move To Ditch Paris Accord"
"Less than one-third of Americans support President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a new poll shows, and just 18 percent of respondents agree with his claim that pulling out of the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S. economy."
Source: AP, 06/20/2017
"Rick Perry Denies Climate Change Role of CO2"
"Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide emissions are the main driver of the earth's record-setting warming, a core finding of climate science."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/20/2017
"Energy Department Closes Office Working on Climate Change Abroad"
"The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month."
Source: NY Times, 06/19/2017
