Bloomberg @environment reporter covering #climatechange and #EPA. 🇨🇦 Send tips to [email protected] or stephen_lee.86 (Signal).
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A sit-down with the EPA's new science chief, Teresa Booeshaghi, on why the Trump administration's shakeups aren't exposing agency scientists to political influence. bloomberglaw.com/product/bla…
SCOTUS this morning weighed the question of how many times, and from how many agencies, do you have to get a permit? news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
Great story by @ben_h0722 about the gap between Trump's deep-sea mining ambitions and the reality of how much refining the US can actually do. news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
“Do I want to take choice away from the American people? You may want to take their choice away, and so does Joe Biden, and so does Pete Buttigieg." - Sean Duffy to @ZachReports on the fuel economy rollback. (No paywall) news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
"[O]ften the easiest ways for employers to reduce emissions into the community involve increasing the amount of pollutants that remain in the workplace," re: @Adamfinkel0 (via @PennRegulation). theregreview.org/2026/09/16/…
Convincing article by Martha Roberts (via @PennRegulation) on why OIRA should empowered to hit rulemaking timelines and skip past policy bickering. theregreview.org/2026/09/15/…
Biden's clean air boss Joe Goffman weighs in on the Trump administration's unwinding of the power plant rule he spearheaded (no paywall). news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
Stephen Lee retweeted
Canada could become the European Union's first associate member. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered the invitation to Canadian PM Mark Carney during her annual state of the union speech. bloom.bg/4707TNP
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Stephen Lee retweeted
Trump says the only reason to oppose data centers is if communities want to be “backwards and poor.”
A quick refresher of the air rules the EPA's still working on--who stands to win, who stands to lose, and what happens next (no paywall): news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
Trump administration says "without the United States, Canada could not survive," and "Canada is joined only by the People's Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation."
EPA says six Superfund sites are being delisted, and two others partially delisted, an indication of significant cleanup. news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
If the government uses AI to help write a regulation, does that make it more vulnerable to litigation? (No paywall.) news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
White House: DC "is no longer a Democrat-run nightmare of murder and lawlessness. Violent predators, gangbangers, drug traffickers, and sex offenders have been removed from the streets. Homeless encampments cleared. Parks reclaimed. Crime driven toward historic lows."
Trump's first 18 months were all about deregulating; now comes the heavy building phase, says John Reiten, National Energy Dominance Council. news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
Have randomly come across two Columbo tributes, in different parts of town, in less than 48 hours in Budapest. Peter Falk must have been Hungarian.
Trump says Canada must pay extra tariffs for pollution caused by forest fires. Accuses Canada of "willful negligence." EPA's Lee Zeldin: we "strongly encourage them to do everything in their power to extinguish these fires as fast as possible."
Why Trump pardoned nine people charged with modifying their cars' emission sensors, and what it means for EPA enforcement going forward. (No paywall) news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
