Using a rarely invoked law that gives Congress the power to reverse regulations within 60 legislative days with a simple majority, the Republican-controlled Congress nullifies a measure intended to curb the venting of gas wells on federal lands, and begins rolling back other regulations, including one enacted to limit damage that coal mines cause to streams.nytimes.com(See also First 100 Days, Environment, Conflicts of Interest, Rex Tillerson)
2017.02.14
Trump signs law that cancels out a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that would have required oil and gas and mining companies to disclose in detail the payments they make to foreign governments.washingtonpost.com(See also Assaults on Government, First 100 Days, Corruption)
2017.02.22
Thousands of pages of emails made available today show that the new EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, coordinated with major oil and gas producers and political groups tied to the Koch brothers to roll back environmental regulations during his tenure as Oklahoma attorney general.mobile.nytimes.com(See also Environmental Protection Agency, First 100 Days, Scott Pruitt)
2018.01.04
The Trump administration will allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States waters, giving the energy industry broad access to drilling rights in most parts of the outer continental shelf, including Pacific waters near California, Atlantic waters near Maine and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, reversing a ban on drilling, imposed by President Obama in his final days in office, that protected more than 100 million offshore acres along the Arctic and Eastern Seaboard.nytimes.com(See also Ryan Zinke, Department of the Interior, Environment, Reversals)
