Marianne Lavelle Posts

The EPA’s boards, including its Science Advisory Board, now have more industry members and consultants and fewer academic scientists.

The new advisers include industry allies and consultants with ties to the fossil fuel, tobacco and chemical industries.

The contest is elevating climate policy conversations on the campaign trail and in Washington. It could inspire compromises that bring together pieces of each.

The senator from Arizona brought climate science into Capitol Hill hearings and cap-and-trade legislation to a vote, but then moderate Republican politics changed.

The Trump administration’s proposed freezing of tailpipe regulations would reverse one of the most effective climate actions on the books.

Kelvin Droegemeier is vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma and a climate change scientist. His selection was widely welcomed.

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee has a history of opposing regulations Congress didn’t explicitly authorize. That could be a problem for greenhouse gas policies.

With Scott Pruitt's resignation, Andrew Wheeler inherits some important decisions, including on the Clean Power Plan, auto standards, methane and use of science.

Pruitt tried to lead Trump's assault on environmental policy and climate science, but even there he had a shaky record and ethics scandals kept piling up.

The EPA has taken at least 15 major actions on air pollution since Pruitt took over the agency—all opposed by leading public health groups.

Any crimp in solar’s growth could also forestall the kind of rapid clean energy transition that climate science says is urgently needed.

From ‘it’s not real’ to ‘it’s not urgent,’ take a tour through the many shades of climate change denial wielded by Donald Trump's administration.

Democrats in Congress claimed victory for protecting funding for science, but the president has different ideas for the future.

The Oklahoma GOP billed the fundraiser as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. A U.S. senator filed a formal complaint.

President Trump's first budget proposal includes cutting EPA funding by a third, ending international climate work, squelching research.

After questions were raised about foreign donations, the foundation's new plan for a Hillary Clinton presidency means less money for combating climate change.