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"EPA Science Advisers Say Wheeler Is Limiting Their Role"

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler vowed on Wednesday to make greater use of the agency's official board of science advisers. But soon after he spoke, some of those advisers and other outside experts protested that the agency was instead limiting their role."

Source: InsideClimate News, 06/06/2019

"Carnival Will Pay $20 Million Over Pollution From Its Cruise Ships"

"Carnival Corp. reached a settlement Monday with federal prosecutors in which the world’s largest cruise line agreed to pay a $20 million penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar conduct."

Source: ap, 06/05/2019

Judges Grill Both Sides in Youth Climate Case Against the Government

"Three federal judges heard arguments Tuesday about whether young people have a constitutional right to be protected from climate change. In the lively, hourlong hearing, the judges, from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushed skeptically on the arguments of both sides."

Source: NY Times, 06/05/2019

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