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The article provides information on the actions taken by Sierra Club's badass team of environmental lawyers against Presidential administration of the U.S. President Donald Trump as the administration tries to weaken environment regulations. Topics discussed include regulations for methane pollution from oil and gas, Environmental Law and fossils fuels.

The article claims that the U.S. administration is weakening the national environmental laws of the country. Industry-funded polemicists and politicians who deride national standards as inefficient command and control approaches argue that problems can be better solved at the local level. The federal government has slashed spending on clean water, even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the nation's sewage-treatment facilities need $390 billion over the next 20 years. U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress have tried to give responsibility to whatever level of government is least likely to do a good job. The Bush Administration and the radical right in the U.S. Congress are trying to destroy modern pollution control, while trying to strip citizens of their power to stop them. When California required that automakers to sell zero-emission vehicles in the state, the administration and auto companies sued. Some of the judges on the federal bench dispute the right of citizens to challenge the lax enforcement of environmental laws in court.

The article presents information on several developments related to environmental and energy policies in the U.S. The U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill in June 2007 that mandates the first major increase in vehicle fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles in 25 years. A Seattle, Washington, federal district court judge has rejected the U.S. President George W. Bush administration's policy of lumping together wild and hatchery-raised fish when making endangered-species decisions. It informs that the U.S. Department of Energy has unveiled electric-transmission corridors that ignore environmental laws.

The article reports on the progress of cases in favor of upholding environmental laws and regulations ignored or circumvented by the Bush administration. Two landmark outcomes involved the decision of the court to vote in favor of the ruling to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants and the need for power companies to secure Environmental Protection Agency permits for renovation work. The spring of 2007 also marked the decision to rule mountaintop removal mining as a violation of the Clean Water Act.

The article reports on the reinstatement of the roadless rule by a U.S. federal district Judge Elizabeth Laporte, which is a ban on road construction, logging, mining and other development on acres of wild national forestland. The ban, which was put in place after a three-year process that included more than 600 public hearings and which has elicited comments, was abolished by the Bush Administration in 2005. Judge Laporte concluded that the Bush Administration violated the National Environmental Policy and Endangered Species Act by not conducting an environmental analysis when it removed the roadless protections.

The article focuses on the growing problem of electronic-waste in the U.S. Since computers and other electronics contain lots of heavy metals and chemicals, dumping them is a serious concern in moat countries. Monitors can contain four to eight pounds of lead each, and once one goes into a landfill, it can sink to the bottom and the lead can get into the water. Large electronics companies are now making new products with less metals. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, only about 10 percent of obsolete computers are currently recycled in the country.

The article discusses what U.S. Congressmen are doing about issues related to environmental protection. The popularity of the U.S. Congress has dipped below that of the U.S. president's because of the long and growing list of environmental crises needing urgent attention. However, doing something serious about such issues would discomfit the same corporate interests that put politicians in power. Senator Conrad Burns made it clear that nothing meaningful will be done to fund needed to keep the country's water pollution free. Representative Charles Taylor promised that U.S. Forest Service resources would not be redirected to protecting rural communities on his watch.

Looks at the efforts made by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to reduce its environmental policies without full public knowledge. Rules announced by the Interior Department in April 2003; Changes in environmental policies announced by the government during holidays.