"Japanese automakers Suzuki Motor Corp., Mazda Motor Corp. and Yamaha Motor Co. have admitted using falsified emissions data to inspect their new vehicles after the government ordered the industry to review its procedures."
"The Trump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint is hastening the demise of local newspapers across the country, forcing already-struggling publications to cut staff, reduce the number of days they print and, in at least one case, shutter entirely."
"Dolphins, manatees, sea lions, elephant seals and other animals no longer produce an enzyme that protects land mammals against harmful chemicals, including some pesticides."
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) is conducting an investigation after beachgoers visiting an Alabama island re-arranged eggs of a federally protected bird species and left them to "cook" in the sun, according to the Birmingham Audubon Society."
"An indigenous Mexican corn gets its nitrogen from the air."
"Scientists say California’s record wildfires have been fed by an abnormally hot and dry fire season made worse by climate change, but the Trump administration insists there’s another culprit: environmentalists and their policies."
"Conservationists on Wednesday notified the Trump administration that they would sue over its reversal of a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing pesticides and genetically modified crops on U.S. wildlife refuges."
"When climate science deniers and fossil fuel evangelists met Tuesday in New Orleans for the Heartland Institute's second "America First" conference on U.S. energy, they had every reason to celebrate the unprecedented influence they enjoy in the Trump administration. Instead, they found plenty of reasons for dread."
"The Trump administration is pushing back against a rash of criticism that new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies could lead to the import or manufacturing of asbestos."
"The risk of devastating floods like the one that damaged California's Oroville Dam in 2017 will soar in many of North America's Western river basins by 2100, if we don't dramatically slow climate change, according to a new study."
"The Interior Department is improvising again to temporarily fill a long-standing vacancy, with the move of Andrea Travnicek to oversee the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service."
"A group of former officials with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are urging acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to turn the agency around following a number of decisions they are calling reckless."
"The Southern California Gas Co., or SoCalGas, has agreed to pay $119.5 million in a settlement with several government entities over the company's massive methane natural gas leak in 2015 and 2016."
"Smoke from fires has been linked to asthma attacks and heart problems and has contributed to a decline in air quality".
"As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms large – dangerous exposure to wildfire smoke.
"Spraying a veil of sun-dimming chemicals high above the Earth to slow global warming could harm crop yields in an unintended side-effect of turning down the heat, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday."
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