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Amid U.N. Climate Talks, Trump Officials Attend Event Hosted By Skeptics
As some Trump officials gathered in Germany this week for U.N. talks on climate change, others attended a conference in Texas hosted by climate change skeptics.
November 10, 2017
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War on the EPA
How Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy.
October 11, 2017
How Scott Pruitt's EPA Is Erasing Obama's Climate Change Legacy
Since taking office in February, Scott Pruitt has moved swiftly to carry out one of the most ambitious efforts to rollback environmental regulations in a generation
October 11, 2017
"This Was a Hostile Takeover": How the War on the EPA Was Waged
“It was eight years of pure hell under the democrat party and Obama,” Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., tells FRONTLINE in an excerpt from the FRONTLINE documentary "War on the EPA." “But we won! It’s a wonderful victory.”
October 11, 2017
To Sway Scott Pruitt, EPA Experts Must "Hope Against Hope," Says Former Insider
Outside interests are having outsize influence over EPA chief Scott Pruitt, says Betsy Southerland, a former 30-year veteran at the EPA. What agency experts are "trying desperately to do," she says, is "hope against hope that their facts will change Scott Pruitt's mind."
October 11, 2017
Scott Pruitt Says That EPA Will Repeal the Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration says it will repeal the Clean Power Plan, but it has not released an immediate replacement, raising questions about how the agency will meet its obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
October 10, 2017
As the Clean Power Plan Is Rolled Back, FRONTLINE Investigates How the "War on the EPA" Was Waged
As the Trump administration announces it will formally repeal the Clean Power Plan, FRONTLINE explores how and why this major reversal and other environmental policy rollbacks happened in "War on the EPA."
October 10, 2017
FRONTLINE Announces Fall Slate of Documentaries on Major Challenges Facing America, from North Korea, to the War on the EPA, to the Fight Against ISIS, to Russia
FRONTLINE's fall documentaries explore the mounting tensions with North Korea, the fight against ISIS, climate change and the EPA, and Vladimir Putin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
September 29, 2017
Boom Town
There used to be one or two earthquakes a year in Cushing, Oklahoma. Now the town shakes hundreds of times each year. FRONTLINE investigates why.
September 28, 2017
DeVos is Questioned About Campaign to Influence Climate Change Education
Four Democratic senators have asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos whether administration officials have been in contact with a conservative think tank working to bring climate change skepticism into the nation’s schools.
June 8, 2017
Why is Greenland Melting?
Greenland's magnificent glaciers are melting -- faster and faster. A team of NASA scientists are trying to find out the reasons why.
June 1, 2017
A New Wave of Bills Takes Aim at Science in the Classroom
Since January, 11 measures that would influence how millions of students learn about science have been introduced in nine Republican-dominated states.
May 8, 2017