Environment
fromArs Technica
4 hours agoEPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines
EPA proposes rule limiting state use of Clean Water Act Section 401 to prevent political blocking of projects unrelated to water quality.
Earlier this year, we were critical of the US's National Academies of Science for seemingly refusing to respond to the Trump administration's attacks on science. That reticence appeared to end in August with the release of the DOE climate report and the announcement that the EPA was using that report as the latest word on climate science, which it argued had changed considerably since the initial EPA decisions on this issue in 2009.