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Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Restoring Environmental Rules Rolled Back by Trump Could Take Years Source: By Coral Davenport, New York Times • Posted: Sunday, January 24, 2021 President Biden has promised to reinstate more than 100 rules and regulations aimed at environmental protection that his predecessor rolled back. It won’t happen overnight. President Biden signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Biden, vowing to restore environmental protections frayed over the past four years...

Restoring Environmental Rules Rolled Back by Trump Could Take Years President Biden has promised to reinstate more than 100 rules and regulations aimed at environmental protection that his predecessor rolled back. It won’t happen overnight. President Biden signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 27, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden, vowing to restore environmental protections frayed over the past four years, has ordered the review of more than 100 rules and regulations on air, water, pu...

John McCain’s Apache Land Grab Is Finally Happening The fight for a copper deposit beneath sacred lands shows the extent of the government’s extractive greed. Eric Thayer/Getty Images In 2014, the late Senator John McCain quietly slid a dagger into the backside of the Arizona tribal nations he was ostensibly elected to represent. Deep in an appropriations package for military funding, McCain tacked on a rider, known as Section 3003. The rider accomplished what the Arizona Republican had been trying to do through standalone legislation since 2005—hand over 2,400 acres of sacred Apache la...

Trump Administration Offers Drilling Leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but No Major Oil Firms Bid Future oil development will be hampered by the Biden administration’s commitment to protect the refuge and lawsuits from Indigenous and environmental groups. Related Share this article As election officials in Georgia tallied votes to determine the control of the Senate and the U.S. Capitol was rocked by violent protests Wednesday, the Trump administration quickly and quietly made good on its promise to sell oil leases in one of the nation’s last truly wild places. The coastal plain of th...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday finalized a rule that narrows what studies it will consider in future rulemakings, based on whether the underlying data is public. EPA said it will now give greater consideration to scientific studies that provide public data when considering how a particular pollutant or contaminant impacts human health and the environment, in an effort to be more "transparent." Critics of the rule, including former EPA officials, environmentalists and public health officials, say the move will limit the ability of the agency to consider critica...