Trump

For three years, the Trump administration delayed an update to the EPA's peer-reviewed report on climate change indicators.

The White House’s OMB mandated a review process over the EPA health assessments on the safety of chemicals. This process lacks transparency and opens up opportunities for delay and political interference.

The Trump administration manipulated disease models to justify lifting COVID-19 restrictions.

The Trump administration removed over three million acres of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl, a threatened species, and ignored the concerns raised by federal scientists.

The Trump administration made approximately 1,400 changes to agency websites that removed science-based information on environmental issues, such as water pollution, climate change, and endangered species.

Two White House officials posted a series of debunked scientific reports that deny the existence of human-caused climate change.

Political appointees at the DOI pushed federal scientists to cherry-pick data on the 2018 California wildfires to support political positions.

The EPA finalized a rule that could increase hazardous air pollutant emissions from industrial facilities.

The federal government failed to adequately track vital COVID-19 data and instead relied on non-governmental groups to fill in these data gaps.

The EPA withdrew its proposed ban on three chemicals TCE, NMP, and methylene chloride.