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Environmental Rules Rolled Back

Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline | Bill McKibbenThe oil industry saw its opening and moved with breathtaking speed to take advantage of this moment

These 30 Regimes Are Using Coronavirus to Repress Their Citizens — VICEDog cages, crackdowns, censorship, surveillance, expanded police powers... Authoritarians are having a moment.

Trump’s Path to Weaker Fuel Efficiency Rules May Lead to a Dead EndPresident Trump’s long-promised rollback of Obama-era fuel economy standards may not be completed until this summer, and may not be tenable even then.

Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules Against Killing BirdsA proposed regulation would codify a legal opinion in 2017 that declared the accidental killing of birds during the course of business as no longer subject to punishment.

Here's What Trump's Environmental Agencies Were Doing Amid The Pandemic This WeekThey approved pipelines and gold mines while attacking science as the death toll rises from the novel coronavirus and mass layoffs begin.

Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure PlanningThe administration will propose that federal agencies be allowed to disregard climate change when assessing the environmental effects of major projects.

95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under TrumpA comprehensive list of environmental policies the Trump administration has targeted, often in an effort to ease burdens on the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses.

Not even a pandemic can stop Trump from pushing fossil fuelsAnything for Big Oil.

To Fight Covid-19, Trump's EPA Will Bravely Allow Companies to Pollute with ImpunityAs covid-19 continues to ravage all corners of the world, the Trump administration has a plan to protect the real victims: polluting companies.

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