US Politics in Trump era Public date: 02.10.2020 20:59:01

3 Aug 2017

Sam Clovis: Trump’s pick for top science job called progressives ‘race traitors’

Sam Clovis, who has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the department of agriculture’s top scientist, previously ran a  blog where he called progressives “race traders” and likened former president Barack Obama to a “communist” and a “dictator”. Clovis, previously a college professor and radio talk show host in Iowa, wrote the blog for his show Impact with Clovis. The website has been taken down but is archived.
Sam Clovis, who has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the department of agriculture’s top...
28 Jun 2017

EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to dismantle the federal clean water rule, which protects waterways that provide drinking water for about a third of the US population. The EPA, with the US army, has proposed scrapping the rule in order to conduct a “substantive re-evaluation” of which rivers, streams, wetlands and other bodies of water should be protected by the federal government.
The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to dismantle the federal clean water rule, which protects...
4 Mar 2017

‘Just racist’: EPA cuts will hit black and Hispanic communities the hardest

Planned cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency are set to fall heaviest upon communities of color across the US that already suffer disproportionately from toxic pollution, green groups have warned. Proposal would remove environmental justice office, tasked with bridging gap in pollution in black, Hispanic and low-income areas and wealthier white ones
Planned cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency are set to fall heaviest upon communities of color across the US...
24 Nov 2016

Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’

Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said. Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to  explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on...

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