EPA

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/26/2023
  

  Will the Debt Ceiling Deal Derail Environmental Justice?

  by Robert Bullard and Larry Shapiro

  The idea of permitting reform—easing the environmental constraints on building new energy infrastructure—has been a bargaining chip in the debt ceiling negotiations. Reforms could help bring a green energy grid online, but it could also put more polluting industry in poor and minority communities. 

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• SOURCE: Legal History Blog
  6/30/2022
  

  Legal Historians as Authority in West Virginia v. EPA

  This is a note identifying the legal history sources cited in both Elena Kagan's dissent and Neil Gorsuch's concurrence in the court's ruling limiting the power of the EPA to limit emissions. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/29/2021
  

  Hope And Skepticism As Biden Promises To Address Environmental Racism

  "The federal government has known of environmental injustice for decades. Presidents have promised to address it. But a legacy of weak laws and spotty enforcement has left Black, brown and poor communities mired in pollution and health hazards."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/19/2020
  

  Erin Brockovich to Joe Biden: Are You Kidding Me?

  "Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  A proposed EPA rule prioritizes industry profit over people’s lives

  by Mona Hanna-Attisha

  Limiting access to peer-reviewed science undermines the agency’s effectiveness.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7-6-18
  

  How Republicans came to embrace anti-environmentalism

  The deep roots of conservative opposition to the environmental state, explained.

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• 1/4/18
  

  Doing History in the Age of Trump

  An interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on the perspective historians offer.

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  7-30-17
  

  At EPA museum, history might be in for a change

  Different administrations tell very different stories about the past and the present.

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• 4-30-17
  

  Is America Going the Way of Norse Greenland?

  by Fred Zilian

  Like the Norse, the Trump administration is showing indifference to long-term interests.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  1-31-17
  

  Scott Pruitt Will Make America Great Again — For Polluters

  by Bill Moyers

  In this exclusive web essay, Bill Moyers takes on President Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.

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• SOURCE: EdgeEffects
  7-7-15
  

  Historian Brian Allen Drake says Barry Goldwater, whatever his other policies, was an enthusiastic environmentalist

  by Brian Hamilton

  In an interview he notes that Goldwater even supported the establishment of the EPA. 

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  2-24-15
  

  The Secret History of the EPA

  by Carol Van Strum

  The EPA, created with much fanfare by Richard Nixon in 1970, was an agency crippled at birth by inadequate funding, political hypocrisy, and laws protecting industry profits above all.