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"Donald Trump's undying loyalty to coal CEOs is literally killing Americans. Today's action provides yet another egregious giveaway to corporate polluters and fossil fuels," said 2020 candidate Jay Inslee.

"We are moving forward to address climate change," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said.

This would not be the first time the Trump administration has tried to change the math in an apparent effort to justify its policy proposals.

He also received accepted six gifted copies of "The Lorax."

The president celebrated his second year in office by speaking out against climate change, tweeting about the cold weather on the East Coast before adding that it “wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!”

"You are the nominee to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency. You just, in your opening statement, did not mention the words 'climate change,'" said Sanders.

Several studies have found evidence that exposure to PFAS can have negative health consequences in humans.

Furloughs have prevented staff from holding meetings on proposals to undo Obama-era environmental protections.

Republican dialogue on climate change has hit a five-year low, while Democratic messaging has soared, according to an analysis by public affairs software company Quorum.

Environmentalists fear most waterways will no longer be protected.

The administration’s proposal, the study said, relied upon an economic analysis that discarded at least $112 billion in benefits to keeping a higher standard of emissions.

The smoke has created hazy conditions in locations as far east as Philadelphia.

The Camp Fire has burned about 113,000 acres, destroyed more than 6,700 homes and businesses, and claimed at least 29 lives.

Wildfires in California have claimed the lives of more than 30 people.

The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative called the site's removal a "substantial reduction of access to the EPA's historical public information about climate change."

Earlier on Tuesday, Donald Trump told reporters that "we'll be taking a little ethanol tonight" during a rally in Iowa.

Over a five-year period, Whole Foods and two other companies allegedly mishandled hazardous waste.

Rollbacks in air-quality regulations will cause a rise in heart disease, dementia and many other ills.

The Trump administration has revealed its plan to replace former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan—and it could prove deadly.

"The decision clearly shows that EPA – and by implication OSHA and other federal agencies – can't just delay a rule protecting the American people on a whim, or to do the bidding of some outside group."

He's creating a new form of trickle-down economics—where the benefits go to corporate executives and major investors, while the costs and risks land on the rest of us.

Internal emails obtained by The New York Times show that a decision to leave certain uses of asbestos unregulated caused alarm among EPA staff.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency appears to have blamed the Obama administration for failing to put regulations in place that would stop the current government's plan to allow "new uses" for asbestos.

Andrew Wheeler champions the deregulation of national automobile fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for all new automobiles produced in the U.S.

"Voters deserve public officials who seek to represent them honestly and fairly."

The Russian asbestos producer thanked Trump for backing EPA head Scott Pruitt, who has resigned amid more than a dozen investigations.

Pruitt, who resigned as EPA administrator amid a number of scandals, is succeeded by an energy industry lobbyist.

The Environmental Protection Agency will not evaluate the health risks of asbestos already in the environment when evaluating the dangers associated with it, Scott Pruitt announced quietly last week.

If the case proceeds as scheduled, the EPA will have to produce research to back Pruitt's claims about climate change.

The EPA secretary set up a call with the fast-food chain's top executive last year for a "business opportunity."