During an appearance at NYU, NY Governor Cuomo condemned the recently-announced federal plan to open offshore U.S. waters to drilling for oil and gas. Cuomo, while calling the federal plan “really, really dumb,” stated that the Trump Administration’s move towards offshore drilling showed “a total disregard for the science, the reality and the history,” and promised that New York would “lead a countermovement to what [the Trump] Administration is doing on the environment.” Cuo

Although President Trump has proposed to cut the EPA’s budget significantly, Pruitt said the EPA “will have the money it needs [to address NJ Superfund sites] by ensuring that the companies responsible for the contamination clean it up.” New Jersey has more high-priority Superfund sites than any other state, with sites located in Bridgewater, Bergen County and Newark. Environmental groups are dubious about how Pruitt’s plan will play out; Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jers