Environment

On Monday, Donald Trump jolted America out of decades of bad energy policy with the stroke of his pen.

“Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation,” he declared in one of his myriad executive orders. “To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again … the United States [will] restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen.” 

The age of climate extremism is over; the age of energy realism is upon us...

The Interior Department is helping to increase oil production in the newly renamed Gulf of America by 100,000 barrels per day under a new policy following President Trump’s executive order aimed at “Unleashing American Energy,” The Post can reveal.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that all offshore oil drilling in the Gulf will now be able to tap multiple reservoirs at the same time — and at far higher pressure than previously allowed — to immediately boost output by around 10%.

The Environmental Protection Agency continued its staffing shake-up Monday, beginning the termination of hundreds of staffers through a "reduction in force" process as it moved other workers to new roles.

Last month, the agency announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, including key tenets of the Clean Air Act, and Administrator Lee Zeldin promised to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion."

As we approach Earth Day this Tuesday, it’s tempting to believe that the world is on the brink of environmental collapse. We are constantly inundated by dire predictions of climate catastrophe and warnings about the planet’s imminent destruction.

But this is misleading. Rather than spiraling into panic, we should take a moment to appreciate the remarkable progress we’ve made in improving the environment, and acknowledge that a key factor is prosperity.

When Earth Day was first marked 55 years ago, the world faced some grim environmental challenges.

Paper receipts from major retailers in the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California’s safety threshold, new research has found.

The findings are being used as evidence in legal action aimed at pressuring retailers to stop using receipt paper treated with bisphenol S, or BPS, which is linked to cancer and reproductive problems.

President Trump plans to sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive the struggling industry.

The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning following a rupture in North Dakota, with the resulting spill contained to an agricultural field near Fort Ransom. The cause of the rupture and the amount of crude oil released remain unknown, officials said.

More than three decades ago, Congress launched an initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year empowering liberal climate scientists to spread climate change doom. 

The government group says its role is to provide the “scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States” on climate change. It’s done so by producing five National Climate Assessment reports, which are considered the “crown jewel” of climate research.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced will allow logging in national forests, which will help spur timber production amid reciprocal tariffs on other nations.

A memo by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins follows an executive order by President Donald Trump last month to expand timber production.