Eric Lipton, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a reporter at The New York Times for nearly two decades, has spent the last year tracking the effort by the Trump administration to remake federal environmental regulations, as well as policies that govern the management of more than 700 million areas of national parks and federal lands.
Lipton is based in Washington, but has traveled around nationwide—to spots including Montana, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio and Illinois—to see how these Trump-era policy changes are impacting individual families and communities in consequential ways. He has also used Freedom of Information Act requests–with the help of a legal clinic at Yale Law School-to collect thousands of pages of federal documents detailing these shifts.
Sample recent articles by Eric Lipton include:
Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman, E.P.A. Chief’s Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home, New York Times, October 3, 2017.
Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton, “How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science,” New York Times, June 4, 2017.
Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton, “Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret, Critics Say,” New York Times, August 12, 2017.
Eric Lipton, “Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots,” New York Times, October 22, 2017. Related “The Daily” Podcast
Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, “How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas,” New York Times, May 21, 2017.
Eric Lipton and Barry Meier, “Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands,” New York Times, August 7, 2017.
Eric Lipton and Roni Caryn Rabin, “E.P.A. Promised ‘a New Day’ for the Agriculture Industry, Documents Reveal,” New York Times, August 19, 2017.
Eric Lipton and Danielle Ivory, “Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers,” New York Times, December 11, 2017.
Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman, “E.P.A. Employees Spoke Out. Then Came Scrutiny of Their Email,” New York Times, December 18, 2017.