Environmental Politics

Climate Report Could Force Trump to Choose Between Science and His Base

"The impending release of a key government report on climate change will force President Trump to choose between accepting the conclusions of his administration’s scientists and the demands of his conservative supporters, who remain deeply unconvinced that humans are the cause of the planet’s warming."

Source: NY Times, 08/10/2017

"U.S. Interior Department Rescinds Coal Valuation Rule"

"The U.S. Department of the Interior said on Monday it has rescinded an Obama-era rule that reformed how energy companies value sales of oil, gas and coal extracted from federal and tribal land to protect taxpayers because it caused 'confusion and uncertainty' for energy companies."

Source: Reuters, 08/08/2017

"EPA: No Review Of Mine Spill Claims After State, Tribe Sued"

"Days after the Environmental Protection Agency pledged to reconsider damage claims it previously rejected after a mine spill, the agency said Monday it could not review multimillion-dollar requests from the state of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation because both have sued the agency."

Source: AP, 08/08/2017

"Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S."

"The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration."

Source: NY Times, 08/08/2017

"U.S. To Relax Rules Protecting Sage Grouse, In Win For Oil Drillers"

"The U.S. Interior Department on Monday launched an overhaul to an Obama-era plan to protect sage grouse that it says aims to both preserve the species of bird while expanding opportunities for oil development in western states where they live."

Source: Reuters, 08/08/2017

"Amid California’s Toxic Dumps, Local Activists Go It Alone"

"One warm spring day a year ago, Griselda Barrera, a Mexican-born mother of three, went to a middle school auditorium in Thermal, California, an unincorporated community in the desert east of Los Angeles, to square off against a panel of regulators. Barrera, who is just 5 feet tall, wore a black pencil skirt and platform pumps, the kind of shoes she favors now that she no longer works in the fields. She was flanked by mothers like herself, there to give public comment to the South Coast Air Quality Management District."

Source: High Country News, 08/07/2017

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