Executive Order promoting energy independence and economic growth — Full Text
President Trump's executive order on energy independence. Full text.
President Trump signs energy independence E.O. — Full Remarks
President Trump signed an executive order rolling back various Obama climate and energy policies at EPA headquarter today. Here are his full remarks.
Trump wants to slash EPA’s budget to the lowest level in 40 years
President Donald Trump will recommend cutting the EPA budget 31 percent.
Trump orders EPA to ‘zero out’ global warming programs
The White House is pushing for significant cuts to EPA programs and staff levels, giving a glimpse of how the Trump administration plans on devolving more control to the states.
Trump orders roll back of EPA’s WOTUS rule
President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting a major Obama-era policy expanding federal authority over bodies of water. “Let’s start hiring those people, fellas,” Trump said before signing the order while surrounded by federal lawmakers and county officials. Trump ordered federal agencies to make sure “waters are kept free from pollution, while at the same time promoting economic growth, minimizing regulatory uncertainty” and respecting the role of states and Congress. Trump also ordered agencies to define “navigable waters” in a “manner consistent with the opinion of Justice Antonin Scalia in Rapanos v. United States” — a more narrow interpretation of [...]
Trump will issue executive orders to dismantle Obama’s ‘Climate Action Plan’
President Donald Trump will order EPA to begin dismantling a regulation central to former President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming. Trump will issue a second order instructing the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rewrite the “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule.
Ebell: White House will likely exit Paris climate agreement
President Donald Trump will likely bow out of last year’s Paris climate agreement by executive order sometime later this week, according to a former official with the president’s transition team.
Reversing Obama’s 11th hour drilling ban
President Trump should overturn this unwise drilling ban. When the inevitable legal challenges arise any unbiased court should uphold his order as he has congressional intent, precedent, and his own constitutional authority on his side.
Dems plotting to block Trump’s EPA pick
Democratic lawmakers are planning a confirmation battle over President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. It probably won't work.
Scott Pruitt tapped to reform EPA
Scott Pruitt's principled stands as Oklahoma's Attorney General against such follies as Obama's misnamed "Clean Power Plan" and his reasoned skepticism of climate alarmism indicate he knows the difference between radical Green ideology and genuine environmentalism.
Liberals are freaking out over Trump’s EPA pick
Trump says he will refocus the EPA to its core mission protecting air and water, instead of focusing on man-made global warming.
EPA could see HUGE changes under Trump
EPA celebrated its 46th anniversary Friday, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump likely takes the agency in a totally different direction.
Cash, Trump denial and Fiji at the climate conference
The UN climate talks in Marrakesh, Morocco, finished with demands for more climate cash, which the bureaucrats call accelerated or enhanced commitments, and pleas for incoming President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. within the UN climate regime and send over the cash. Next year Fiji's military Junta gets the ball.
Controversial NASA climate scientist threatens to resign over Trump
Dr. Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the Independent he and other government scientists are “not going to stand” for any funding cuts or other interference in their work.
CFACT delivers “State of the Climate” report to UN COP 22
A funny thing happened on day two of the UN conference. The U.S. voted Trump.