Dinah Pulver
National Environment Reporter at USA Today
Climate / environment reporter. Mom & daughter of veterans. Crazy Grandma. Former blue checkmark recipient.
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6 days ago |
usatoday.com | Dinah Pulver
Coming up with a final federal budget always involves arm twisting and other negotiating tactics as everyone lobbies for their priorities, so the initial budget proposal released by the White House in early May remains far from final. However, pick any topic related to conservation, environmental protection, climate change or weather and it’s not hard to find someone concerned by the cuts the Trump administration is proposing in its quest to shrink the federal budget.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Dinah Pulver
Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are trained to respond to disasters, but have struggled this spring with the situation unfolding at their own agency. While they've been deployed to wildfires in Los Angeles, flooding along the Kentucky River and throughout the southeast in response to Hurricane Helene, FEMA workers have watched a roiling turmoil of staff cuts, slashed budgets and threats to dismantle their agency.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Elizabeth Weise |Dinah Pulver
In his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump has orchestrated a campaign to fundamentally reshape the government's role in protecting the climate and the environment. He has launched a major deregulation effort, saying existing rules stifle business.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Dinah Pulver
Work has been halted on the next National Climate Assessment, according to an email from the Trump administration, dismissing the more than 400 volunteer scientists and scholars who were its co-authors. The Congressionally mandated report, produced roughly every four years, summarizes the data and science on how the climate is changing and how that affects the people of the nation, its agriculture and natural resources.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Dinah Pulver
Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency got another nudge toward the door in an email offering a second chance at voluntary retirement or deferred resignation. The agency is encouraging thousands of workers who remain after several rounds of buyouts and layoffs to voluntarily leave the agency, according to an April 28 email received by USA TODAY.
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President Trump's proposed budget recommends chopping more than $32 billion across agencies charged with monitoring weather, climate change, oceans and atmosphere and protecting natural and historic resources. https://t.co/xdCLjYMkdG via @usatoday