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RS/BS Newsletter: The Trump Presidency 100 Day Edition

The 100 days have come and gone. Some of the news of the moment has been condensed for this month’s RS/BS Newsletter for April.   What could Possibly Go Wrong? The newly appointed head of the EPA-Scott Pruitt has begun his assault on Environmental Protections for the US. First, Research & Development, along with water quality studies have been eliminated (Tell the people of Flint that we don’t need such things, right?) Trump has ordered Federal Agencies to stop using the Social Cost of Carbon -the estimated economic cost of emitting 1 ton of carbon into the air-as the measure which they have used to help big business to pollute at will. What could Possibly Go Wrong? The Trump Administrations anti EPA wants to gut Obama's Clean Power Plan , a nod to big coal and other polluters. And there is a bill up now from Representative. Lamar Smith called the HONEST Act- which is designed to prevent the EPA from even using sound science as the measure in studying is