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Trump's budget cuts drastically into science and health programs

By Nsikan Akpan

The White House’s budget proposal for 2018, released Thursday, seeks cuts in science and health agencies across the board. Yet, some budgetary wallets will be lightened more than others.

News Wrap: Russian officials, hackers charged in Yahoo case

By PBS News Hour

In our news wrap Wednesday, two Russian intelligence officers and two cyber hackers have been charged in a Yahoo data breach that compromised 500 million accounts. Also, the Federal Reserve announced that short-term interest rates are going up again, for…

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Trump set to challenge Obama-era fuel standards in Detroit

By Associated Press

Moving forcefully against Obama-era environmental rules, President Donald Trump is set to announce in Michigan plans to re-examine federal requirements that regulate the fuel efficiency of new cars and trucks.

Pruitt dismisses climate science, environmental policy in flux

By PBS News Hour

Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, defied longstanding scientific consensus in an interview this week when he said that neither human activity nor carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of global warming. Pruitt has stacked…

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EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not primary cause of warming

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and his own agency.

Trump administration freezes Obama rule on water protection

By PBS News Hour

EPA chief Scott Pruitt recently promised an aggressive rollback of regulations that had been put in place by former President Obama, and President Trump made good on Pruitt’s promise with an order to dismantle a rule about smaller bodies of…

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Trump orders review of Obama rule protecting small streams

By Jill Colvin, Associated Press

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution.

New EPA chief Pruitt cozy with fossil fuel industry, emails reveal

By Michael Biesecker and Jason Dearen, Associated Press

More than 7,500 pages were released under court order Tuesday evening after an Oklahoma judge ruled that Pruitt had been illegally withholding his correspondence.

WATCH: Scott Pruitt makes first speech as EPA director

By News Desk

Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt made his first speech as head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, to employees at the EPA's headquarters in Washington, D.C.