"Trump Anti-Reg Push Likely To End Up In Court"
"An executive order signed by President Trump directing agencies to slash regulations in order to boost the economy is likely to lead to a number of court challenges."
Source: The Hill, 05/26/2020
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Administration Leaves Testing Responsibility To States: Report
A report to Congress "doubles down on the administration’s stance that individual states, not the federal government, should bear primary responsibility for carrying out diagnostic tests to help curb the pandemic."
Source: Washington Post, 05/26/2020
"Endangered Species Records Ruling Would Undermine FOIA, Feds Say"
"The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the government to keep certain endangered species records out of the public eye."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/25/2020
"First Piece Of Disputed Keystone XL Pipeline Finished"
"A Canadian company has built the first piece of the disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline across the U.S. border and started work on labor camps in Montana and South Dakota. But it has not resolved a courtroom setback that would make it hard to finish the $8 billion project."
Source: AP, 05/22/2020
"Trump Lawyers Urge Supreme Court to Reject Border Wall Case"
"The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to steer clear of green groups’ complaints about environmental waivers for the U.S.-Mexico border wall."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/22/2020
"Interior: Investigation Highlights Challenges For 'Ethics Weenies'"
"Interior Department ethics honcho Scott de la Vega knows some senior staffers grimace at the medicine he prescribes."
Source: Greenwire, 05/22/2020
"Trump Admin Slaps Solar, Wind Operators With Retroactive Rent Bills"
"The Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials."
Source: Reuters, 05/21/2020
"U.S. Cuts Royalty Payments for Drillers on Utah Federal Land"
"The Trump administration has granted at least 76 petitions to cut royalty payments for oil and natural gas produced on public land in Utah -- a move condemned by critics as encouraging production the market doesn’t need."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/21/2020
"Democrats Decry ‘Pandemic Of Pollution’ Under Trump’s EPA"
"Democrats on Wednesday blasted the Trump administration’s moves to roll back environmental regulations during the coronavirus crisis, with one senator saying a “pandemic of pollution″ has been released."
Source: AP, 05/21/2020
"Dam Failure Threatens a Dow Chemical Complex and Superfund Cleanup"
"Floodwaters from two breached dams in Michigan on Wednesday flowed into a sprawling Dow chemical complex and threatened a vast Superfund toxic-cleanup site downriver, raising concerns of wider environmental fallout from the dam disaster and historic flooding."
Source: NYTimes, 05/21/2020
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