"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this morning announced a series of concrete steps to address health concerns associated with a class of nonstick chemicals at an event marred by mishandling of the press."
"The Trump administration's push to allow oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain will have a hard time surviving required environmental reviews, a former Interior Department official said today at a Capitol Hill Democratic forum."
"Coyote killing competitions, where contestants vie to shoot the most animals, are held throughout the U.S. But some hunting groups are denouncing these events as unethical, and states from New Mexico to New York are considering bans on these and other wildlife killing contests."
"Three conservation groups have sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying it fails to protect marine habitat because it doesn’t adequately regulate seawalls and other structures built along many stretches of Puget Sound shoreline."
"TSAGAANNUUR, Mongolia - Erdenebat Chuluu, a nomadic herder, shouts words of encouragement to the reindeer he is riding."
"TAMPA — If you looked up and down the Hillsborough River in the 1980s, you would have seen much of the shoreline reinforced with vertical walls built in an attempt to stave off erosion or, in some cases, as a convenient place to park a boat."
"The proud Navy town sees itself as a living lab for coastal resilience, one in desperate need of solutions as flooding worsens. Not every neighborhood will be saved."
"Arguing against cities that want Big Oil to compensate for climate damages, federal lawyers say such an outcome would curb fossil fuel production, a Trump priority."
"The state Department of Environmental Protection has conceded it erred in allowing the spreading of hundreds of thousands of gallons of salty “brine” wastewater from gas and oil well drilling on dirt roads in Farmington Township, Warren County last year."
"India’s white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world’s eighth-most polluted city."
Both Flint and Pittsburgh have recently faced crises from high levels of toxic lead in their drinking water. Several causes of the problems ran parallel in both cities. They had another thing in common: the same private water company.
"A high-profile case of alleged scientific censorship ended Friday when the National Park Service published a long-delayed report outlining how rising seas could damage parks across the country."
"Wastewater treatment plants taking discharges from nearby pharmaceutical manufacturers have 'substantially' higher concentrations of drugs in the water, according to a new national study."
"At the age of 46, DeWayne Johnson is not ready to die. But with cancer spread through most of his body, doctors say he likely has just months to live. Now Johnson, a husband and father of three in California, hopes to survive long enough to make Monsanto take the blame for his fate."
"The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia’s decades-old ban on uranium mining."
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