President Donald Trump loves coal. He has given dozens of speeches saying, “My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. We’re going to have clean coal, really clean coal.” But what actually is clean coal? Depending who you ask, it could be a historical reference, a fantasy or an evolving technology.
Read MoreOn the campaign trail Donald Trump vowed to save coal mining jobs. But he never said he'd have us foot the bill.
Read MoreCan Trump really reduce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments by some 2 million acres, gutting protections for 100,000 artifacts like Native American graves, cliff dwellings and dinosaur bones? It's now up to the courts to decide.
Read More“We've been sitting here for 10 months thinking, what other crazy thing can happen? How can they get away with this? And this was one time where I felt like there's a stand that I can take that at least will send a message.”
Read MoreAs more drilling rigs encroach on subdivisions across the country, what happens when people and oil and gas become neighbors?
Read MoreFrom the front lines, The Washington Post's Brady Dennis gives the latest on the increasing influence of industry over science at the EPA.
Read MoreIf the top steward of our public lands is modeling himself after a conservationist, why is he making headlines for rolling back land protections?
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What is the danger if President Trump's infrastructure policies do not consider the risks that are coming with climate change?
Read MoreDoes a reckoning with some of the horrifying possibilities move us to action or complacency?
Read MoreIt's now official. The Clean Power Plan is no more. What were they thinking?
Read MoreThe President's pick for Head Scientist at USDA is the latest example of politics trumping science.
Read MoreWhile the world has been paying attention to President Trump's action on immigration and health care, his administration has been steadily reshaping environmental policy. But how far has it gotten? And what can we expect out of Washington in the coming months?
Read MoreIncreasingly sophisticated climate science is able to tell us a lot more about the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events. But while Hurricane Irma was bearing down on South Florida last week, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said now is not the time to talk about climate change and its impacts on these terrifying storms. So if not now, when?
Read MoreWho are the people who gave Trump their votes? And where does their vision for the environment come from?
Read MoreWhat is the future of renewable energy under Donald Trump? Are recent gains made by solar and wind in jeopardy? Or has the momentum these industries have gained over the past eight years made them borderline unstoppable?
Read MoreWhy don't conservatives believe climate change is real? Former GOP Congressman Bob Inglis has some answers. . . and a plan to get them to.
Read MoreThe Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funds projects that protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world. Can it be saved?
Read MoreIn this episode of Trump on Earth, we talk with environmental justice lawyer Lisa Garcia, who was senior adviser to the administrator for Environmental Justice at the EPA during the Obama Administration. Garcia explains just what environmental justice is, why we need it, and how she plans to keep fighting the good fight in spite of the cuts.
Read MoreTrump fulfilled one of his biggest campaign promises in taking the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. But is pulling out really doing very much besides telling the world what the world should already know?
Read MorePresident Trump’s proposed 2,000-mile long, 30-foot high border wall would obstruct more than just a pretty landscape. It could bring an end to the species that live in the lush coastal grasslands, searing hot deserts, and staggering mountain peaks in the path of the wall.
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