The Trump admin wants to dramatically cut—by at least 1/3—the expert panels that widely advise federal agencies.
The Trump administration wants to dramatically cut the number of expert panels that widely advise federal agencies on pollution, public health, spending, and planning, according to a White House executive order released late Friday.
Just what the white, rural working class wanted, right?
The Trump administration announced Friday that it will kill a Forest Service program that trains disadvantaged young people for wildland fire fighting and other jobs in rural communities, laying off 1,100 employees — the largest number of federal job cuts in a decade.
The soon-to-close centers — in Montana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Virginia, Washington state, Kentucky, North Carolina and Oregon — include hundreds of jobs in some of Trump’s political strongholds.
The Republican Party is intellectually and morally bankrupt. This isn’t Trump, this is the position of nearly every elected Republican in the country.
In what could be Mr. Trump’s most consequential action yet, his administration will seek to undermine the very science on which climate change policy rests. The attack on science is underway throughout the government.
The EPA plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution, one that experts said has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution....
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 and we're wrapping up our Series by posting exclusively about it this week.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Trump again attempting to gut the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative before changing his mind when someone told him he's an idiot.
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget ends a ban on dumping in Lake Erie. Happy Earth Day!
In April 2017, Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at ending the ban on offshore drilling in certain areas. Smart Dissent painfully covered that here. In late June, Trump spoke again on the topic (see here), claiming that progress is being made to make his "vision" a reality and sell our environment to the highest bidder.
Disgraced former Interior secretary Ryan Zinke was a corrupt, unethical person who was finally forced from the role. Replacing him on an acting basis is David Bernhardt. He is an oil lobbyist who is working on behalf of corporations to destroy our country. We wrote extensively about him in January 2019. Please revisit our BE SMART post on him by clicking here.
Since minute one, Trump's Republican administration has been focused on expanding oil, gas and coal development and sweeping away Obama-era environmental initiatives that the administration contends hurt America’s energy industry. It continues and receives zero coverage.
The Trump administration is aggressively pressing ahead in expanding federal oil and gas industry leases that could lead to more drilling on land and at sea, defying an assessment by government scientists that the production and use of fossil fuels is accelerating climate change.
In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are detailing as many of the White House proposed budget cuts as we can keep up with. We seek to learn and share what's hidden beneath the surface which are so many programs, facilities, and people that don't receive proper headlines and focus.
Since Trump and his cronies aiming for societal destruction released the White House 2020 budget earlier in March, we've been reviewing numerous details we'll discuss in the coming weeks. First up are savage proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency.