"Supreme Court: Justices Decline Mine Spill, Air Pollution Cases"
"The Supreme Court [Monday] declined to add two environmental cases to its docket for the fall term."
Source: Greenwire, 06/27/2017
EJToday: Top Headlines
EJToday is SEJ's selection of new and outstanding stories on environmental topics in print and on the air, updated every weekday. SEJ also offers a free e-mailed digest of the day's EJToday postings, called SEJ-beat. SEJ members are subscribed automatically. Non-members may subscribe here. EJToday is also available via RSS feed.
"Lobbying Fight Erupts Over Coal Country Bill"
"The lobbying fight over a House bill to revitalize coal country has heated up ahead of a key committee hearing on Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 06/27/2017Mayors Back 100% Renewable Energy, Vow to Fill Climate Leadership Void
"As the nation's mayors closed their annual meeting on Monday in Miami Beach, they sent a clear signal that cities are looking for action on climate change and are eager to fill a policy gap created by the Trump administration."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/27/2017SC's GOP Gov Sides With Coastal Communities Against Seismic Testing
"South Carolina’s republican governor has publicly come out in opposition to seismic testing off the southeastern coast, siding with the state’s fishermen, business community, and environmentalists."
Source: Think Progress, 06/27/2017"Why the World’s Rivers Are Losing Sediment and Why It Matters"
"Vast amounts of river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s large dams, depriving areas downstream of material that is badly needed to build up the marshes and wetlands that act as a buffer against rising seas."
"In September 2011, after 20 years of planning, workers began dismantling the Elwha and Glines dams on the Elwha River in northwestern Washington state. At the time, it was the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, and it took nearly three years for both barriers to be dismantled and for the river to once again flow freely.
Source: YaleE360, 06/27/2017Enviros Rejoice: Court Says Land Regulation Doesn't Go 'Too Far'
"In a major property rights decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a decisive victory to state and local governments and environmental groups."
Source: NPR, 06/26/2017"Arkansas Tries To Stop An Epidemic Of Herbicide Damage"
"Arkansas's pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. Today, the Arkansas Plant Board voted to impose an unprecedented ban on that chemical."
Source: NPR, 06/26/2017"Conference: US Mayors May Shape National Climate Policy"
"With the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, national policy on climate change will emerge from U.S. cities working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at the annual U.S. Conferences of Mayors meeting in Miami Beach."
Source: AP, 06/26/2017Campaign To Eliminate Plastic Straws Sucking In Thousands Of Converts
"It started so innocently. A kid ordered a soda in a restaurant."
Source: Washington Post, 06/26/2017"Invasive Asian Carp Found In Waterway Beyond Great Lakes Barriers"
"A single live Asian carp, a species of invasive fish that has infested the Mississippi River and is seen as a threat to the Great Lakes, has been caught in a waterway beyond a barrier designed to keep them out, state officials said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 06/26/2017"EPA's Methane Estimates for Oil and Gas Sector Under Investigation"
"An environmental group argues the agency significantly underestimates methane emissions from the oil and gas industries. The inspector general is now investigating."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/26/2017"Forests: Republican Eyes Western Dems On Wildfire Bill"
"Legislation to ease environmental hurdles for forest-thinning projects will likely pass the House in July before facing an uncertain future in the Senate, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) said yesterday."
Source: E&E Daily, 06/26/2017'Garbage Juice' Seen As Threat To Drinking Water In Florida County
"To Waste Management, the nation's largest handler of garbage, the liquid that winds up at the bottom of a landfill is called 'leachate,' and it can safely be disposed of in a well that's 4,200 feet deep. But to residents of mostly rural Jackson County, the stuff is just 'garbage juice,' and it carries a toxic taint that they don't want in their drinking water."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 06/26/2017Trump Proposes Dumping Protections For Shipyard, Construction Workers
"President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has proposed scrapping key protections intended to protect shipyard and construction workers from exposure to beryllium, a toxic mineral that can cause deadly lung disease."
Source: Reveal, 06/26/2017"The Battle For Transparency on North Carolina Factory Farms"
"Advocacy groups have challenged an especially egregious ag-gag law designed to keep the public in the dark about industrial animal farming operations."
Source: Civil Eats, 06/26/2017
Advertisements 
