With swing states worried about climate change and toxic algae, the White House is talking green—while still working to strip away environmental protections.
Hilco Redevelopment Partners, whose $240 million bid won an auction to acquire the bankrupt Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site, aims to move quickly to clean up the 1,300-acre South Philadelphia property and redevelop it.
It takes water to grow crops, and an increasing portion of the country's irrigation water is unsustainably mined from groundwater sources that are being depleted.
"Texas claims to be very sympathetic to property rights. On the other hand, they support oil and gas. What this project has exposed is that these two priorities are not equal."
No, not the war against the press. Or impeachment. Or immigrants. Or reality. But the swamp-draining, regulation-stomping, soul-crushing assault on the environment.
