Published: Friday, January 8, 2021
Trump, Wheeler, Bernhardt, Brouillette. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News(Wheeler, Bernhardt, Brouillette); Gage Skidmore/Flickr(Trump); Britannica, Inc.(text)
Questions have emerged over who among energy and environmental agency heads could remove President Trump from office under a never-before-used process laid out in the Constitution s 25th Amendment. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News(Wheeler, Bernhardt, Brouillette); Gage Skidmore/Flickr(Trump); Britannica, Inc.(text)
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt could weigh in. So could Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. But EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler? Maybe not.
Calls to remove President Trump from power have grown in the aftermath of mob violence at the Capitol he helped incite earlier this week that left dozens of people injured and at least five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer.
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The Sierra Club decries the attack on the US Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob: “We won’t stand down, and we won’t stand by. We will, instead, speak up.”
The three iconic 775-foot smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant in Arizona fall in a planned demolition.
Two endangered Florida panthers are killed by vehicles in the first week of 2021. Nineteen panthers were killed by cars in 2020.
Americans are buying so many SUVs and light trucks that, for the first time in five years, the fuel efficiency of new vehicles declined and emissions increased.
A federal judge on Tuesday declined a request by conservation groups to prevent the Trump administration from issuing leases for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, though the broader case that seeks to stop the federal government’s oil and gas program in the refuge has not been decided.
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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Thursday she would leave office on January 11.
In the day since violent protesters breached the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were in the process of certifying the results of the presidential election, many Trump administration officials, including a number of Cabinet secretaries, have condemned the violence and a few officials have resigned.
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said on Wednesday the mob assault was “an intolerable attack on a fundamental institution of our democracy.” In another statement early on Thursday, he said the Justice Department “is committed to ensuring that those responsible for this attack on our government and the rule of law face the full consequences of their actions.” He said the department would bring charges against some of the perpetrators on Thursday and more in the da
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