"Hospital Plumbing A 'Vast, Resilient Reservoir' Of Superbugs"
"Hospital plumbing is a “vast” reservoir of drug-resistant superbug germs, researchers reported Tuesday."
Source: NBC News, 02/07/2018
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"Vietnam Jails Activist For 14 Years For Livestreaming Pollution March"
"A court in central Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant’s spill of toxins into the ocean."
Source: AP, 02/07/2018"Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration Over Water Rule"
"Eleven Democratic state attorneys general on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump’s administration over its decision to delay implementation of an Obama-era rule that would have expanded the number of wetlands and small waterways protected by the Clean Water Act."
Source: Washington Post, 02/07/2018"Trump's State Department Misses Climate Report Deadline
"The Trump administration has missed a deadline to submit a report to the United Nations on climate change action."
Source: AP, 02/07/2018"It Looked As If Earth’s Ozone Layer Was Healing Nicely — Until Now"
"The rescue of the planet’s protective ozone layer has been hailed as one of the great success stories of modern environmental regulation — but on Monday, an international team of 22 scientists raised doubts about whether ozone is recovering as expected across much of the world."
Source: Washington Post, 02/07/2018Idaho Stripped Climate Change From School Guidelines. Now It’s a Battle
"The political fight over global warming has extended to science education in recent years as several states have attempted to weaken or block new teaching standards that included information about climate science. But only in Idaho has the state legislature stripped all mentions of human-caused climate change from statewide science guidelines while leaving the rest of the standards intact."
Source: NY Times, 02/07/2018Washington AG Threatens To Sue Zinke Over Offshore Drilling
"State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, in a letter sent Monday to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, called the proposed oil and gas lease sales off Washington “unlawful, unsafe and harmful to the economy.”"
Source: Seattle Times, 02/07/2018"Dem Senator Questions EPA On Stark Decline In Grant Awards"
"The top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent a letter to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday, calling into question a dramatic decrease in grant funding awarded by the agency in the past year."
Source: The Hill, 02/07/2018"GOP Lawmakers Take Aim at WHO Agency Over Roundup Ingredient"
"Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization’s cancer research program over its finding that the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans."
Source: AP, 02/07/2018Floods Are Getting Worse, and 2,500 Chemical Sites Lie in Water’s Path
"Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain and industrial data shows. About 1,400 are located in areas at highest risk of flooding."
Source: NY Times, 02/06/2018Judge Curiel, Whom Trump Ripped During Campaign, Will Hear Case on Wall
"A federal judge in California who Donald Trump once derided for his ethnicity will hear a case Friday that could determine the president’s latitude to waive environmental laws, paving the way for his 'big, beautiful' border wall."
Source: McClatchy, 02/06/2018"Leading Ivory Trade Investigator Found Dead In Kenya"
"A prominent American investigator of the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found dead in his Nairobi home with a stab wound in his neck, media reported."
Source: Reuters, 02/06/2018"Of Science, Certainty, and the Safety of Cell Phone Radiation"
"How to cover an issue when the stakes for human health seem so high, scientific questions still linger, and passions run so deep?"
Source: Undark, 02/06/2018"Monsanto Faces Farmer Antitrust Suit on Dicamba, Resistant Seed"
"Monsanto Corp. faces a treble damages class action alleging that its pesticide Dicamba poses such a risk to farmers they are forced to purchase resistant seed — marketed under patent at high prices by Monsanto — to avoid catastrophic damage to their crops from pesticide drift."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/06/2018"Sierra Club Sues EPA Over FOIA Request On FOIA Requests"
The Sierra Club has filed suit in a federal court in California over EPA's failure to respond to its Freedom of Information Act request for records on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's changes to the agency's FOIA policies.
Source: Washington Post, 02/06/2018
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