Energy, environment reporter at E&E News/Politico. Michigander. rbravender@eenews.net - Signal: @r_bravender.93
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26 Feb 2025
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin “thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental,” Trump said Wednesday at the White House.
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18 Jan 2025
EPA staff directory reveals Trump appointees, with @rbravender
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11 Jan 2025
Trump has picked his longtime environmental consultant Ed Russo to lead an environmental advisory task force. Russo wrote a 2016 book called, "Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero." subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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11 Jan 2025
He suggested then that he'd make a good EPA spokesman. "If I was an EPA spokesman, as soon as the first question came up, 'Do you believe in climate change?' No, hold the phone, stop, what happened to global warming, everybody? I would stick to that until their brains melted."
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11 Jan 2025
Russo called climate change a "serious concern." But he also said there's too much focus on climate and not enough on dirty air and water. "This is all bullshit, it's a distraction," he said. "It's like everybody hides behind global warming." subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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9 Jan 2025
.@theAAG Place names may seem simple, but they carry deep meaning & controversy. Renaming Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' could spark global tension, significant costs & nationalist worldview. Is it worth it? Thanks @rbravender for chance to contribute eenews.net/articles/how-trum…
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6 Jan 2025
Two articles to absolutely read today, from what was then the @BusinessInsider Washington, D.C. Bureau.
Includes reporters and editors @TinaSfon @rbravender @KaylaEpstein @leonardkl @elvina_nawaguna @WARojas @adamwren @cryanbarber @ngaudiano and @cdechalus. 👇
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12 Dec 2024
EPA's largest union, @SavetheUSEPA, is pressing the agency to extend its contract past the Trump admin
That and other union moves to prepare for Trump at @EPA @BLMNational @FERC & @NatlParkService in this epic story by @rbravender, Scott Streater and me
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10 Dec 2024
Former Trump Interior officials - Kate MacGregor and Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto - are in the running to be Interior deputy, w/ @KevinBogardus subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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5 Dec 2024
I asked @elonmusk whether he’d like to scrap EV tax credits under the IRA.
He said: “I think we get rid of all credits.”
5 Dec 2024
Elon Musk @elonmusk walks into meeting with incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Musk will help lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is meeting with lawmakers today.
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25 Nov 2024
Lobbyists are always quick to adapt, and they're telling @davelevinthal the new power center for K Street is...Florida. businessinsider.com/inside-t…
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5 Nov 2024
This #ElectionDay, @rbravender and I break down how the coming transition could get bumpy
One nugget — if we don't have a obvious winner by next week, both Harris and Trump could have their own separate transition teams visiting the agencies
More here eenews.net/articles/how-this…
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16 Oct 2024
‘They’re so vindictive’: Why some federal employees are fearing Trump 2.0 politi.co/4h8rCyU via @politico
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6 Aug 2024
The E&E treatment of the Tim Walz pick for VP and what it means for climate, by @Timothy_Cama and @AdamAton eenews.net/articles/what-har…
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31 Jul 2024
Just over a year after Greenpeace USA hired Ebony Twilley Martin as its executive director, she quietly left the group this month. Greenpeace says only that she "has transitioned from her role." Her allies say she was sidelined after an internal fight.
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29 Jul 2024
The vice president’s campaign is seeking a “utility player” who can “break through the noise” about climate change.
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29 Jul 2024
Worth noting that this ad appears to have been posted before Biden dropped out of the race and retooled for the Harris campaign. h/t @KevinBogardus
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