To deliver on his promises of “getting climate under control,” Biden will need to follow the prevailing science that suggests the United States achieve about a 45 percent reduction in its greenhouse gas pollution by 2030.
- September 25, 2020
Trump still managed to scramble the trajectory of American climate policy, creating a tangle of legal fights that will have to be cleared up for US climate policy to move forward. And he left almost no part of our environmental regulatory structure untouched.
- April 24, 2020The team at BillMoyers.com brings you news — some of it good, some of outrageous, all of it important — that’s been covered up by COVID-19.
- April 23, 2020The Trump administration has brought its brand of corruption and self-dealing to every agency in the federal government.
- November 17, 2017Big business has appropriated cultural discussions surrounding food in the US in a way that boosted profits rather than protecting consumers. And the Trump administration looks like it's ready to go along.
- November 10, 2017“Her record is abominable.”
- November 1, 2017All told, Pruitt shrunk the Science Advisory Board from 47 to 42 participants and more than doubled the number of its polluter-friendly members.
- September 29, 2017As president of the EPA’s employee union, John O’Grady feels a duty to defend the jobs of the union’s 9,000 members across the country who can’t afford to speak up so publicly.
- June 27, 2017The agency will shed at least 1,200 jobs by September.
- June 22, 2017Pruitt has now gotten rid of most of the EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors.