Thomas Galvin lobbied on behalf of a Saudi company soaking up Arizona’s groundwater. He is now mediating an ongoing water dispute in neighboring Maricopa County.
Without governments across the globe united in a plan of action, there's not much one person can do about the overall problem - except vote out the creepy science deniers at the next opportunity. But we can make a few changes as individuals.
In Mr. Wheeler's view, no single event during his tenure has forced more change at the EPA than the coronavirus pandemic — and that includes the climate crisis.
Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon’s timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing so.
Environmental activists opposing a plastics manufacturing facility in Louisiana have been booked with a felony for "terrorizing" an oil and gas lobbyist by delivering a box of plastic pellets found as pollution in bays on the Texas coast.
EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson's inbox was flooded with chummy notes from lobbyists, many of whom he'd worked with on Capitol Hill, according to a review of thousands of pages of emails released under the Freedom of Information Act.
