The Trump administration has proposed fundamental changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) according to a January 9, 2020 Washington Post report. EPA’s proposed changes to NEPA regulations are an attempt to speed up new mines, pipelines and hundreds of other projects around the country. Prior to NEPA, Federal agencies were mission oriented. […]

In December, 2019 the New York Times published an interactive Web site allowing users to compare the worst levels for 2019 PM 2.5 pollution where they live to those of the world’s most polluted cities.  From the Bay Area to New Delhi, users can see how the world’s worst air pollution compared with their local […]

The bosses of some of the world’s biggest oil companies discussed adopting much more ambitious standards for carbon emission targets at a closed-door meeting in Davos on January 22, 2020, a sign of how much pressure they’re under from activists and investors to address climate change according to a Bloomberg report on WorldOil.com. The meeting, […]

On January 16, 2020 the Washington state Supreme Court reinstated a severely limited version of Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan to cap carbon pollution, a decision Inslee described as a “clarion call” that lawmakers must act on climate change according to an Associated Press report in the Olympia HeraldNet. But in its 5-4 ruling, the court […]

The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission voted January 16th to adopt rules to enforce fines for oil and natural gas companies that pollute New Mexico’s air and water according to a January 20, 2020 Albuquerque Journal report. The Oil Conservation Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department had lost the bulk of that […]