A surprising grant of certiorari places a high-stakes regulatory case on the Court's docket, with profound implications for EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
The D.C. Circuit rejected the Trump Administration's approach to regulating power plant emissions of greenhouse gases. Some states and industry groups want the Supreme Court to take a look.
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The Sackett's' litigation with the Environmental Protection Agency has continued, and may provide the Court with a new opportunity to consider the scope of federal regulatory jurisdiction.
The Trump Administration's Clean Water Act rule will remain in place while the Biden Administration works on a replacement.
The Biden Administration suffers a significant setback in its efforts to curb fossil fuel development.
The goal is to drastically reduce the population of disease-carrying bloodsuckers.
Senate Democrats vote to repeal a Trump Administration regulation easing restrictions on methane emissions.
If there is an urgent need for emission reductions, regulatory ossification and legal risks counsel the consideration of other approaches, such as a carbon tax.
Rioters who ransacked a Senate office may have prevented a few Trump policies from taking effect.
A marathon oral argument on EPA's attempts at climate policy.
A symposium looking back at the agency's history, and forward to its future.
A book review of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump" by James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg
Federal clean water regulations are a confusing mess for property owners. The Supreme Court just made things worse.
Another big legal victory for environmental groups this week.
The EPA has talked the talk of cooperative federalism, but it's not yet fully walking the walk.
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Congress wants to know if the agency is strengthening transparency or silencing science.
As we await the Trump Administration to finalize a new definition of "waters of the United States," federal courts continue to reject the Obama Administration's effort
In redefining "waters of the United States," the Obama Administration failed to follow the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Trump Administration is attempting a welcome redefinition of "waters of the United States"
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That's wrong. Promoting fear hinders more than helps environmental progress.
The EPA and Supreme Court set the stage for important legal decisions on the scope of the Clean Water Act.
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The $45,000 grant goes to a New York environmental group's "Going Strawless to Save the Sea Turtle" campaign.
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A welcome new federal approach under the Clean Water Act.
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A discussion on how to reform federal environmental policy.
Thanks to a design bug in a government transparency website, dozens of social security numbers were mistakenly made public.
For the second time this week, a federal court has rejected the EPA's effort to delay an Obama Administration rule.
The Trump Administration faces another legal setback in its effort to reform federal environmental regulation.
California jurors misled by activist misinformation
The Trump Administration is seeking to roll back federal automotive fuel economy standards and prevent California from maintaining more stringent standards of its own.
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California might end up asking conservative judges to strike down federal rules for vehicle emissions.
The administration says its proposal will make cars more affordable and save lives.
President Trump announced the EPA administrator's departure in a pair of tweets.
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The EPA administrator's perks now include a $43,000 phone booth, a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife, and ratfucking.
A parade of nearly comical ethics scandals is overwhelming his record as a deregulator.
EPA head bars reporters from 'unfriendly' media from public meeting on pollution
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"A standard demanding the return of the Stone Age would not prove 'requisite to protect the public health.'"
How cowardly politicians avoid telling voters that they should pay more for the privilege of driving
Hated by activists, he should have known that he needed to be squeaky clean in his personal and professional life.
Pruitt's recurring waste of taxpayer money undermines his laudable regulatory reforms.
Unlike everyone else, Scott Pruitt apparently can't get enough email.
The Scott Pruitt condo scandal is all about rent-seeking, but not in the way the D.C. city government seems to think.
Meanwhile, corruption scandals dog Scott Pruitt at EPA.
According to federal regulations, they are. But Congress is now subjecting that rule to scrutiny.
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And another $840,000 subsidizing parking spaces, despite federal rules meant to limit commuting by car as a way to protect the environment.
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