Trump Regulatory Rollback Targets Safety Rules Prompted by Industrial Disasters November 25, 2019 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration’s move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer...
Industry Flexes Political Muscle in States to Criminalize Aggressive Pipeline Protests August 20, 2019 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy After protesters disrupted construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota by chaining themselves to construction equipment and pitching tents...
EPA Begins Rewrite of Rules on Costs, Benefits of Environmental Regulations May 23, 2019 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration is planning to write new rules for how it weighs the human costs and benefits of environmental...
Supreme Court May Overturn Tradition of Courts Deferring to Regulatory Agencies March 28, 2019 By Greg Stohr and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed doubts about a precedent that business groups and the Trump administration say gives...
Assessing Effects of Government Shutdown on Wildfires, Workforce, Research January 28, 2019 By Christopher Flavelle and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger...
Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Seen as Business Friend, Regulation Skeptic July 17, 2018 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Todd Shields, Christopher Flavelle and Greg Stohr Brett Kavanaugh could add a powerful new voice on the Supreme Court to restrain what government agencies can do, ushering...
Trump Administration Begins Repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan October 11, 2017 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy When President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to pare emissions from U.S. power plants two years ago, he stressed the...
Harvey Leaves Texans to Clean Up Amid Health and Environmental Dangers September 4, 2017 By Todd Shields and Jennifer A. Dlouhy Harvey has moved on from the U.S. Gulf Coast, leaving behind a toxic stew of human sewage, dead cattle, leaking...
Trump Hands Climate Leadership Role to China to Dismay of Global Leaders June 2, 2017 By David Tweed and Jennifer A. Dlouhy President Donald Trump’s decision to isolate the U.S. on climate change triggered waves of complaints from government and business leaders...
Will U.S. Go or Will It Stay in Paris Climate Accord? Trump Gets Conflicting Advice June 1, 2017 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Jennifer Jacobs President Donald Trump is poised to announce plans to withdraw the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate accord on Thursday,...