After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially rescinded the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that found greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane to be a threat to human health and well-being. That finding has so far supported the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Currently, the … Read more
A senior Democratic lawmaker with knowledge of some of the US government’s most classified operations said he had “deep concerns” about certain activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The two-line letter, written by Senator Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not reveal the nature of the CIA’s activities or the … Read more
The Trump administration announced this week that the US government will work to build an $11.7 billion stockpile of critical minerals. That’s the headline; the subtext is more interesting. The stockpiling initiative, dubbed Project Vault, is the administration’s latest attempt to secure supplies of critical minerals for American manufacturers, and what President Donald Trump says … Read more