Trumps War Against The Environment

From the EPA to the White House, from the budget to the federal register, his administration is dismantling climate-change regulation and the science that supports it.

The President`s proposed 2018 budget slashes the EPA by one-third with far-reaching consequences for America and beyond.

The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.

Since January, the White House, Congress and EPA have engineered a dizzying reversal of regulations designed to protect the environment and public health

Trump`s EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry.

The list shows dozens of environmental policies that the Trump administration has targeted, often in an effort to ease burdens on the fossil fuel industry.

Obama’s Clean Power Plan would have averted asthma attacks. Trump wants to undo it.

Here`s the latest from one of Trump`s most brazen appointees. 

The EPA chief’s slash-and-burn policies are punishing our most vulnerable Americans.

A former EPA scientist warns it will `mean throwing out the studies we rely on to protect the public, for no good reason,` which will `have an enormous and negative impact on the EPA`s ability to enforce the law and protect people`s health.` 

Almost a quarter of the nation`s coal-fired power plants lack controls limiting emissions of dangerous sulfur dioxide

LETTERS: `To date there are something like 15 congressional investigations into the conduct of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Yet he remains in office to blow up the remnants of our environment. What`s wrong with this picture?`

The White House proposed revoking California`s ability to set its own fuel economy standards -- a rule that 13 states, comprising 40 percent of the Ameri...

President Trump claimed that coal was “indestructible,” that West Virginia had one of the strongest state economies and that the U.S. was the “cleanest country in the planet.” None of that was true.

Transcript for the FRONTLINE film War on the EPA