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A copy of President Donald Trump’s first budget.
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White House Budget Plan Slams Climate and Environmental Programs

by Randy Showstack 17 March 201720 April 2023

The spending blueprint unveiled yesterday precedes a detailed budget proposal expected later this spring. Democrats declared the newly released plan "dead on arrival."

A dredge (right) deepens the shipping channel to the port of Savannah, Ga., in 2015.
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Water Infrastructure Needs Get Bipartisan Nod at House Hearing

by Randy Showstack 15 March 201720 April 2023

A letter released at the event calls on President Donald Trump to ensure that money from a national harbor maintenance fund is used solely to improve ports and harbors.

A city employee checks on the pumps as a sandbag wall keeps flood waters from the Illinois River at bay in January 2016.
Posted inNews

Key House Member Makes a Conservative's Case for Water Projects

by Randy Showstack 13 March 201723 March 2023

The White House and Democrats want to see an infrastructure package move through Congress. One House subcommittee chairman intends to make sure that water resource projects are part of the plan.

Biologist Chris Guy with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helps a volunteer identify widgeon grass in the Chesapeake Bay.
Posted inNews

Critics Assail White House Proposal for Steep Cuts to EPA

by Randy Showstack 3 March 201720 April 2023

Even EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, a longtime critic of the agency, said that he disagrees with the White House about some of the planned cuts.

Coal is excavated at a Wyoming mine in 2014.
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Policy Experts Debate Trump Energy Plan

by Randy Showstack 28 February 201724 October 2022

Lauded by free-market proponents at a policy forum, the White House plan sparked disagreements among panelists about climate implications, the potential for a coal comeback, and carbon taxes.

Myron Ebell is interviewed by Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein.
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Climate Rules on Chopping Block, Says Trump EPA Transition Head

by Randy Showstack 17 February 201720 April 2023

Myron Ebell, whose transition role has ended, denied that President Donald Trump's agency appointees or nominees are antiscience. They're "willing to find out the best science," he said.

Michelle Coombs of the U.S. Geological Survey walks along a ridge just south of Akutan volcano in Alaska.
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Hiring Freeze Sparks Worries at Science Agencies

by Randy Showstack 6 February 201720 April 2023

Other presidents have instituted hiring freezes, but some federal employee representatives worry that President Donald Trump's order is different because more draconian measures might follow.

protestors at airport
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Immigration Ban Takes Toll on Earth and Space Scientists

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 31 January 20177 November 2022

Some researchers can't come to the United States or fear leaving the country to visit their home nations because of a new federal ban on immigrants.

The Enguri Dam, nestled in the highly seismic mountains of the Caucasus, is surrounded by steep, landslide-prone slopes.
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International Effort Tackles Landslide Hazards to Keep the Peace

by A. Tibaldi and N. Tsereteli 30 January 201713 January 2022

Earth scientists work with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to help keep a border-straddling hydroelectric power plant on the Black Sea coast safe from landslides.

Newt Gingrich offered a blueprint for working with the Trump administration on science and environmental issues.
Posted inNews

Gingrich Suggests Ways to Guide Trump on Science and Environment

by Randy Showstack 27 January 201720 April 2023

Former House Speaker urges thoughtful, aggressive, articulate arguments to influence an administration that he says generally lacks its own plan.

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