DOE

Free-market advocate tapped for efficiency, renewables post

Published: Monday, May 1, 2017

President Trump has picked Daniel Simmons — formerly with the Institute for Energy Research and American Legislative Exchange Council — for a leadership position in the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, according to a memo obtained by E&E News.

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CLEAN WATER ACT

Experts predict legal trouble for Scalia-inspired rule

The Trump administration is breaking with its predecessors by using a 2006 opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from a famously muddled wetlands case in a bid to limit Clean Water Act protection of isolated wetlands and waterways. Many legal experts don't think that's a good idea.

By Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire 1:17 PM EST

EPA

Something's happening on the endangerment finding. But what?

EPA's detractors are worried the agency is taking a step that could weaken the cornerstone of the Obama administration's climate policy.

By Niina Heikkinen in Climatewire 7:38 AM EST

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