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Better Call Becerra: The Planet’s Lawyer
California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, plans to keep the Trump administration tangled up in the courts.
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Scott Pruitt took a $14,000 flight to Oklahoma to talk about closing EPA offices
The EPA chief has taken at least four trips on chartered and government flights since his confirmation, at a cost of $58,000.
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While hurricanes struck, Scott Pruitt was up to some interesting activities
Business as usual: blasting the Obama administration, denying science, and rolling back regulations.
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California rewrites the GOP’s climate playbook
Golden State Republicans are testing out new paths for the party on warming.
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Trump’s proposed cuts to weather research could make it much harder to prepare for storms
The cuts would cripple NOAA’s ability to keep afloat its satellites and data-gathering activities, affecting those depending on it when planning for snowstorms and hurricanes.
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Trump axed a federal climate panel, turning a blind eye to public safety
“We didn’t see this coming.”
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Trump revoked an Obama rule that protected against flooding
But he's also seeking to protect his golf course.
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An attempt to avert Trump’s interference in climate science might actually invite it
The New York Times ‘leak’ of a bombshell climate report may have put both scientists and the White House on the defensive.
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Pruitt is on a deregulation spree, but legal backlash is coming
His “rule of law” method has pretty much ignored the law.
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Killing the Clean Power Plan is harder than Trump thinks
“This is nowhere near over.”
