Environmental Politics

"President Trump on Monday withdrew his nominee to lead the National Park Service (NPS)."

"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s being dismantled."

"The new investigation by DeSmog and Politico found boutique Paris-based PR firm Digital Tellers is linked to a web of connected Facebook groups and accounts, which regularly share false claims about the cost, noise and reliability of heat pumps."

"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wrestled with House Democrats on Monday in a hostile hearing that culminated in the top Democratic appropriator facetiously suggesting the agency chief drink weed killer."

"Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back."

"Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program."

"A new agency for offshore energy development that’s seen its workforce shrink in recent years — and is targeted for funding cuts next year by the Trump administration — will be taking on a quickly growing portfolio of responsibilities."

"The Trump administration announced two more payouts Monday for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development."

"U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF). Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency."

"Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s forests could result in the loss of more than a century of critical historical documents, conservationists warn."