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The article examines the consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump's regulatory rollback on the health and safety of Americans. It discusses reports which claims that farm workers in California are being sickened by a previously banned pesticide. Also discussed are claims that West Virginia is still being contaminated with hundreds of pounds of selenium, while pollutants from energy production are threatening health problems in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

The article presents the author's views on environmental issues related to the West part of the U.S. He notes that though the area is the fastest-growing part of the country, it is also the driest and climatic changes there could make things more difficult. He believes that the problem of the West is its bigger populations and environmental regulations. He says that the water problem of the West is known as the "other" problem and that even water managers don't know how long will a drought last.

The article discusses the proposed rule released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on August 29, 2019 which plans to cut back on the regulation of methane emissions, the gas tied to climate change. Topics covered include the aims of the proposed regulation, how the rule would reopen the discussion of whether the agency had the legal authority to regulate methane as a pollutant, and the benefits of the new methane standards on the oil and gas industry.

Comments on the efforts of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to alter rules protecting the national forests against commercial exploitation. Forest Service's decision to weaken agreements aimed at preserving old-growth trees and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest and in the Sierra Nevada; Threat to overturn former President Bill Clinton's roadless rule protecting the most remote areas of the forests; Administration's call for radical overhaul of the rules governing the management of the nation's 155 national forests; Possible elimination of vital environmental reviews.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's disclosure on December 17, 2004, that about a third of Americans live in counties that do not meet standards for microscopic particles of pollution. Deadline set by the agency for affected states to develop plans to bring their problem counties into compliance; Provisions of the Clean Air Act; Measures proposed by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to reduce emissions of particulate matter and other regulated air pollutants.

Focuses on the Bush administration's plan to allow developers to complete construction and other projects even after belated discoveries that the work could endanger protected species.

Focuses on the environmental agenda of U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration and the Republican Party after Bush's re-election. Proposals to revamp laws on air pollution and endangered species; Energy bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration; Emphasis of the administration's environmental conservation efforts.

Comments on the risk of extinction of salmon species in the Columbia and Snake River basins due to the rejection of a recovery plan devised by the administration of Bill Clinton by a federal judge who found its recommendations too speculative and ordered the administration of President George W. Bush to draw a better one.

Editorial. Argues that the administration of United States president George W. Bush distorts science to override basic environmental protections in favor of industry. Undermining of the authority of science itself; Conclusion of the Bush administration that is contrary to that of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the threatened seabird marbled murelet.

Reports on the federal lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue stricter national standards to limit storm water pollution seeping from construction sites.

Reports on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's plan to reduce mercury pollution from power plants to protect children and pregnant women.

Reports on the New Jersey Supreme Court's ruling that the State Department of Environmental Protection overstepped its bounds in curtailing residential construction near freshwater wetlands. Developers' legal battle against environmentalists; Overturning of departmental regulations prohibiting home building within 20 feet of wetlands and wetlands buffer zones.

Reports on the downsizing of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation since 1994. Environmental Advocates of New York's argument that the job cuts weaken oversight and allow more violations; Agency's insistence that the state was continuing to enforce environmental laws.

Reports on the implementation of regulations to prevent global warming in the U.S. through the reduction of emissions and fuel consumption. Cost and benefit analysis for the regulations; Implications for the automobile industry; Environmental policies.

Comments on developments related to environmental protection in the U.S. Decision of U.S. President George W. Bush to open U.S. forest lands to development; Emphasis of the Bush administration on commercialization of natural resources; Call on environmentalist groups to encourage more people to have contact with the outdoors.

Reports that Engelhard Corp. has been fined and ordered to donate to a Hudson River environmental group after pleading guilty to two counts of solid-waste violations at a pigment manufacturing plant it owns in Peekskill, New York.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to add New York City's suburbs to the list of areas it believes are not meeting federal small-particle air pollution standards.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's identification of counties that fail federal air standards. Discovery of microscopic soot from diesel-burning trucks, power plants and other sources; Results of preliminary analysis by the agency suggesting that several counties may have to take additional measures to curb pollution to meet the standards by 2010.

The article reports on the mounting cases of cancers in Johnson County, Indiana ever since U.S. President Donald Trump has rolled back health and environmental regulations. It links the disease to an old industrial site in Franklin, Indiana that the federal government had ordered cleaned up decades ago. A complaint sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by a the affected families is discussed.

The article offers information on the repeal of the Stream Protection Rule by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics include pollution at the Kanawha River, West Virginia, release of contaminants from coal-powered utility John E. Amos Power Plant, and the cost of the rule on coal mining jobs according to the National Mining Association.

The article offers information on the reversion of natural gas flaring limits by the U.S. Interior Department. Topics include limits on the flaring of natural gas produced on federal or Indian lands, administration by U.S. President Donald Trump, and the amount of gas flared per well in North Dakota on October 2016 and October 2018.

The article reports on a panel discussion on fossil fuels, hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump's international energy and climate adviser, Wells Griffith, at the United Nations conference in Poland in 2018. It notes that the Trump administration is finding allies in its defense of fossil fuels, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Also mentioned is Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement, which could encourage other countries to slacken their own efforts at cutting emissions.

The article reports on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump's report that contradicts its own climate change policies. According to the article, the government is expected to ignore the National Climate Assessment's scientific findings of the economic impact caused by climate change to the economy, public health, coastlines and infrastructure. Also discussed are Trump's encouragement of coal burning and the increase of greenhouse gas pollution and the 1990 climate assessment law.

The article focuses on a scientific report issued by 13 U.S. federal agencies on November 23, 2018 which cites the climate change's heavy toll on the environment, health and the U.S. economy. Topics covered include the report's findings which are at odds with U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda of environmental deregulation, and the belie by experts that the report could be a legal tool for opponents of Trump's efforts to dismantle climate change policy.

The article reports on internal agency emails at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which show that in-house scientists and lawyers have objected a proposed measure to review applications for using asbestos in consumer products. Topics discussed include efforts by the administration U.S. President Donald Trump to roll back environmental rules, the potential health impacts of the new approach, and calls from consumer groups for EPA to prohibit asbestos entirely.

The article reports on the plan by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze antipollution and fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles. The proposed rules would weaken former President Barack Obama's policies aimed at preventing global warming, as well as challenge the right of states to set their own, more stringent pollution standards. The government claims the proposal would give consumers greater access to safer, more affordable vehicles while protecting the environment.

The article reports that thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in American cities and towns have gone to landfills after China banned in summer 2018 imports of various types of plastic and paper for recycling as part of its antipollution campaign. Topics covered include the difficulty of waste managers in finding a substitute for the Chinese market, and six ways to properly recycle to prevent the recyclable materials from being contaminated.

The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a change to the way it assesses scientific work. The change would restrict the research available to the agency when writing environmental regulations. According to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, the release of raw data would let other scientists and industry groups test the findings more thoroughly.

The article reports that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is said to be using the agency as a launching platform for his political aspirations in 2024. Topics discussed include the possibility that Pruitt will run for senator or governor in Oklahoma in 2020, his plans to rollback several regulations including the clean water rule and climate change rules, and the speculation on whether he will run for the presidency in 2024.

The article focuses on release of a scientific report on climate change by several U.S. agencies indicating role of humans in the global temperature rise that has contradicted claims of the U.S. President Donald J. Trump's administration on the same. It states that report was approved for release by the White House, but the findings have come as the Trump administration has been defending its climate change policies, and mentions pertinence of Trump's withdrawal from Paris climate accord.

The article reports that the U.S. courts keep ruling that the U.S. President Donald Trump administration is violating federal law as the administration attempts to deregulate former U.S. President Barack Obama's environmental legacy. Topics include the court decision on the move by the U.S. Department of Interior to delay compliance with rules curbing flaring, how environmentalists see Trump's legal positions, and the public implications of the rules at the center of the legal challenges.

The article reports on the withholding of its endorsement on climate pact in G-7 meeting by U.S. Topics discussed include environmental policy of U.S., political alliance, green house gas emission policy, climatology law and legislation, bilateral trade agreement, foreign policy of U.S. and global climate change policy.

The article reports on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. It highlights the president's plan to reverse the policies and regulations concerning climate change which is under the administration of former U.S. President Obama. Also emphasized is the fight of California for environmental protection and conservation being known as de facto negotiator with the environment worldwide.

The article discusses the intention of the U.S. president Donald Trump to revise former president Barack Obama's environmental policies to restrain global warming. It is stated that Trump has decided to cut off the budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is said that the revisions will make it almost impossible to reach the objective set by Obama to reduce the gas emissions.

The article reports on the efforts of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees to block the confirmation of U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee Scott Pruitt to run the agency, urging senators to vote against the confirmation. It mentions concerns by EPA employees that President Trump and Pruitt would completely reverse the accomplishments of EPA given the opposition of Pruitt to EPA policies, focusing on the defiance by EPA employees and potential retaliation by Pruitt.

The article discusses the construction of wind farms off U.S. coasts. Topics include the construction and use of the country's first offshore wind farm off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, the planned development of off-shore wind farms off of Massachusetts and New York, and the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on clean energy agendas of individual states.

The article covers plans by California Governor Jerry Brown and state legislators to work with other states and nations to combat climate change despite U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump criticizing such efforts and the overall concept of global warming. Information is provided on California's legislatively mandated goal of reducing carbon emissions in the state by 2030. Potential political consequences for California under Trump administration and a Republican controlled Congress are noted.

The article claims that senior advisers to U.S. president Donald Trump were considering the creation of a panel to question the National Climate Assessment, and that a growing number of members of the U.S. Republican Party were opposed to the Trump administration's stances on climate change.

The article reports on the Green New Deal introduced by Democrat and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts which was found to be incorrectly published by Ocasio-Cortez's staff after Republicans pounced on the summary of the plan.

The article offers information on the 78 environmental rules to be eliminated under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, including 11 rules reinstated following lawsuits and challenges. These rules include the limit of methane emissions on public lands, a ban on the hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges, and approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The article offers information on the pledges in the Paris Agreement for climate change and failure of signatory countries to meet their pledges, discussing the withdrawal from the Agreement by U.S. President Donald Trump, and the emission targets of the European Union, and the emissions in India.

The article discusses the need for U.S. federal government action to prevent climate change in relation to efforts to promote renewable energy and technological innovations.

The article discusses the relationship between the decrease in the price of oil and the 2015 international climate accord targeting the reduction of carbon emissions, including the U.S. and China's policy of reducing emissions. The impact that the lowering of petroleum prices has on the reduced use of clean energy, including in regard to price increases in the cost of solar energy, is discussed.

The article reports on a United Nations (UN) climate accord in which nearly every country among the 195 represented nations agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate the effects of climate change. Poor nations as well as wealthier states have agreed to reduce emissions. Scientists warn, however, that the deal will only reduce emissions by about half as much as is needed to prevent devastating environmental effects. Topics discussed include environmental policy in China and the U.S. and the energy industry.

The article discusses the U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to reject a request to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, including the impact that Obama's perspective on reducing climate change played in this decision, the environmental aspects of the pipeline and U.S. environmental policy.

The article discusses the climate change mitigation plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to be released on August 10, 2015. Topics addressed include commentary on the strictness and aggressiveness of the environmental regulations to be proposed, an overview of several particular measures addressing the energy resource industries, and discussion of Obama's motivations for the initiative in regard to his political legacy.

The article discusses several of the environmental policy issues that are expected to be addressed under the leadership of acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) administrator Andrew Wheeler, and it mentions America's climate change policy and California's vehicle emissions standards.

The article discusses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) head Scott Pruitt's loophole allowing for an increase to diesel freight truck manufacturing, including in regard to the trucks' emissions, within the context of Pruitt's resignation from the E.P.A.

The article reports that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has drafted a new proposal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, one that is far less stringent than the climate plan finalized in 2015 by former President Barack Obama.

The article discusses the self-immolation of L.G.B.T. rights lawyer and environmentalist David Bucknel in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York on April 1, 2018, including in regard to his concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's policy on environmental protection and climate change.