One of the oddities of the Trump administration's environmental policy is that it permits levels of pollution well beyond what business is even asking for.
On Thursday a report emerged that the Trump administration tried to remove the phrase "climate change" from an international statement on Arctic policy while Senate Republicans refused to take up a bill on the Paris climate agreement.
Members of a former federal advisory committee on climate change that was dismantled by the Trump administration continued their work to localize climate change research.
