Coral Davenport

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Coral Davenport

4 hours agoI'm tired of being mocked and hated because I'm a conservative woman | OpinionProgressives claim to value women, but they routinely demonize conservative women who refuse to conform to the molds that the left tries to force us into. As a conservative woman living in Texas, I often feel like I'm living a dual reality. I'm a mom and a writer, but that's not all.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Coral Davenport

The Interior Department is one of a handful of large agencies, including the Pentagon and the Agriculture Department, that house payroll hubs through which flow the salaries of thousands of federal workers at dozens of other agencies. The Interior Department hub processes payrolls for the Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security departments, as well as the Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other federal agencies.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Coral Davenport

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage. Fresh out of law school in 2022, Rachel Rothschild wrote a memo laying out the legal justification for a new strategy to fight climate change: States could force oil and gas companies to pay for the damage caused by extreme floods and wildfires that are made worse by the use of their products. Ms. Rothschild's work was foundational.

Feb 20, 2025 | sanjuandailystar.com | Coral Davenport |Chris Cameron

By Coral Davenport and Chris CameronThe Trump administration fired about 1,300 additional employees at the Interior Department over the holiday weekend, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding to the widespread purge of thousands of federal workers with probationary status that began last week.

Feb 12, 2025 | mahoningmatters.com | David Fahrenthold |Sharon LaFraniere |Coral Davenport |NYT Washington

WASHINGTON -- Last year, the Ritenour School District in Missouri won a $9.5 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace its worn-out diesel school buses with clean-running electric models. By mid-January, the buses were almost there, waiting at a dealer’s lot just an hour away. All the district had to do was withdraw its grant money and make the last payment. Then President Donald Trump took office, and the EPA refused to let the district take the money.