The Latest: Our Earth
Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report
• November 25, 2018 12:00 PM
Coral Davenport, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate-change policies.
Top interior staffer who backed shrinking national monuments to join BP
• August 28, 2018 12:00 PM
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
For much of last year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s deputy chief of staff pursued his agenda with vigor.
Andrew Wheeler, New E.P.A. Chief, Details His Energy Lobbying Past
• August 01, 2018 12:00 PM
Lisa Friedman, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The acting chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, has come under scrutiny for his years spent as a powerful energy lobbyist. He has represented an electric utility, a uranium producer, and, most significantly, a coal magnate who paid Mr. Wheeler’s former lobbying firm more than $2.7 million over eight years.