While simultaneously placing a gas company executive at the top position in the State Department, the GOP-led House passed a resolution ending an SEC requirement that oil, gas, and mining companies disclose payments to foreign governments.
After passage of HR 3293 the Republican Congress has moved one step closer to requiring all grants awarded by the National Science Foundation to meet the vague criteria of "promoting the progress of science in the United States."
The Army Corps of Engineers approved an easement necessary for completion of the Keystone Pipeline. This approval came nearly 2 weeks before the end of it's own established public comments period and without regard for it's own policy of waiting 14 days after Congressional notification before granting an easement.
Representative Matt Gaetz (FL-1) has filed legislation named "To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency" (H.R. 861). According to the Louisville Courrier-Journal, the bill would "create chaos" and result in a dramatically underfunded, haphazard effort to protect our planet.
Though recreation on public lands creates $646 bilion in economic stimulus and 6.1 million jobs, Republicans are setting in motion a giveaway of Americans’ birthright.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/bureau-land-management-federal-lease