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Donald Shaw looks at a sculpture in the John Hope Franklin reconciliation park in Tulsa, Okla., Monday, June 15, 2020, a few hundred yards and on the other side of what's historically the city's white-black dividing line, where President Donald Trump will rally Saturday, June 20. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Near Trump’s rally site, black Tulsa lives with fiery legacy

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press WriterJune 16, 2020

TULSA, Okla. — In the real world, 74-year-old Donald Shaw is walking on the empty, parched grass slope by Tulsa’s noisy crosstown expressway. He’s on the other side of the city’s historical white-black dividing line from where President Donald Trump…

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil industry and environmental groups say they expect the Environmental Protection Agency to release a proposed rule over the next few days that will roll back requirements on detecting and plugging methane leaks at oil and gas facilities (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EPA moves to revoke rules on oil industry methane leaks

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and Cathy Bussewitz Associated PressAugust 29, 2019

A monarch butterfly perches on milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, May 31, 2019. Farming and other human development have eradicated state-size swaths of its native milkweed habitat, cutting the butterfly's numbers by 90% over the last two decades. It is now under considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Monarch butterflies caught up in rewrite of endangered species rule

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressAugust 13, 2019

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016 file photo, a bald eagle takes flight at the Museum of the Shenandaoh Valley in Winchester, Va. While once-endangered bald eagles are booming again in the Chesapeake Bay, the overall trajectory of endangered species and the federal act that protects them isn't so clearcut. (Scott Mason/The Winchester Star via AP, File)

Trump weakens wildlife protections

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressAugust 12, 2019

FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration announced on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, that it has rolled back a landmark Obama-era effort targeting coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

EPA defies climate warnings, gives coal plants a reprieve

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressJune 19, 2019

FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration on Friday targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation. The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, led to what electric utilities say was an $18 billion clean-up of mercury and other toxins from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

EPA Targets Coal Plant Regulations

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressDecember 28, 2018

FILE- In this Feb. 9, 2018, file photo, a radiology technician looks at a chest X-ray of a child suffering from flu symptoms at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Ga. The Trump administration is quietly trying to weaken radiation rules, relying on scientific outliers who argue that a little radiation damage is actually good for you _ like a little bit of sunlight. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Experts: EPA To Ease Rules On Radiation

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressOctober 3, 2018

In this Aug. 1, 2018, photo, cars on the Grand Central Parkway pass LaGuardia Airport in New York. The Trump administration has proposed rolling back tougher Obama-era gas mileage requirements that are set to take effect after 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Trump Targets Fuel Efficiency

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and Tom Krisher Associated PressAugust 2, 2018

Protesters gather to demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies during the Families Belong Together - Freedom for Immigrants March in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, June 30, 2018. Marchers have gathered in major cities and tiny towns across the U.S. to oppose family separations and push the Trump administration to swiftly reunite them. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Protesters March Against Policy

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressJune 30, 2018

Napa County firefighter Jason Sheumann sprays water on a home as he battles flames from a wildfire Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, in Napa, Calif. Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through Northern California sending residents on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames as homes burned. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Wildfires Rage in California

by Jeff Chiu Associated Press, and Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressOctober 10, 2017