NEW: In a major ruling late Friday, a federal judge in Alaska ruled that Trump's decision to revoke oil and gas leasing withdrawals in 128M acres in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans was illegal. She restored the protections Obama issued in both places. wapo.st/2FLxGgM
Juliet Eilperin
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Deputy Editor, Climate & Environment, The Washington Post. Operates on land, in the air, and underwater. Retweets do not constitute endorsements.
Joined March 2010
- Sometimes Trump's tweets don't work: Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors voted today to retire the remaining coal unit at the Paradise power plant in Muhlenberg County, KY, by a vote of 7-1. The one dissenter was a former coal industry executive appointed by Trump.
- SCOOP: Park Service has diverted $2.5 million in fees --normally used to improve parks around the country -- for Trump's July Fourth extravaganza as White House hands out VIP tickets to donors and Trump's campaign staff, W/@jdawsey1 and @DanLamothe
- NEW: WH blocked an intelligence official from submitting written testimony to the House Intelligence Committee this week warning #climatechange could be 'potentially catastrophic," on the grounds it didn't jibe w/ Trump's stance. W/ @jdawsey1 @brady_dennis
- SCOOP: @JoeBiden has picked @RepDebHaaland to be the first Native American interior secretary, a historic first for the indigenous people of this country. W/ @dino_grandoni
- SCOOP: Prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington in their probe of whether former interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to federal investigators. W/ @Reinlwapo wapo.st/2UaUeMI
- Arkansas resident Richard Barnett, who posed sitting at Pelosi's desk, said on social media he was a white nationalist, anyone who wasn't should leave the U.S., and he was prepared to die a violent death. By @jonswaine
- The day Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert and 58 others connected to the team got same-day results coronavirus tests, a female paramedic lay in a Tulsa hospital a little more than 100 miles away, unable to get tested. @BenGolliver and I show the have and have-nots wapo.st/2QrcuSb
- It took Trump 27 months to make 10,000 false or misleading claims, according to the @washingtonpost Fact Checker team . Now he's doubled that total in just 14 months.
- 'I'm not a magician' is never a phrase you want to hear your lawyer uttering in public when referring to your caseThis is just an amazing moment from a defense attorney
- If you had told me a month ago I would be researching mattress styles and Chick-for-A franchise rules as part of my beat, I wouldn’t have believed you.Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job — at Chick-fil-A, via @eilperin @brady_dennis @jdawsey1 wapo.st/2JjMZgi
- Trump's niece Mary tapped "her clinical background to dissect 'a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse'" in her extended family for her book. Read @PostKranish to learn how deep that dysfunction runs washingtonpost.com/politics/mary-…
- BREAKING: President Trump is exempting Alaska's entire Tongass National Forest from the roadless rule, making more more than 9.3 million acres eligible for logging and other development. It is one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of his presidency.
- SCOOP: Tomorrow the Biden administration will move to restore protections to more than 9 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, which absorbs at least 8 percent of the carbon stored in the entire Lower 48 states’ forests combined.




