Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, an Australian organization founded and funded by the alcohol industry is distributing a poster suggesting pregnant women can drink safely.
"A Colorado ballot initiative that would sharply increase the required distance between new oil wells and populated areas will go before voters in November, Colorado officials said on Wednesday."
"With Lake Mead dropping to levels that could trigger water cutbacks in less than two years, there's been a lot of talk lately about negotiating a deal to keep the reservoir from falling even further."
"A shadowy mass comment campaign has emerged to support President Trump's proposed rollback of Obama-era clean car standards."
"A California man was arrested on Thursday and charged with threatening to shoot Boston Globe employees, calling them the “enemy of the people” for leading a nationwide editorial campaign critical of President Donald Trump."
"Twenty environmental and civil liberties groups are fighting back against lawsuits they believe are aimed at limiting free speech and silencing critics."
"The Trump administration is reviewing a major Obama-era clean air regulation on the emission of mercury — a pollutant linked with damage to the brain, to the nervous system and to fetal development — with the intent of proposing a replacement rule, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday."
"Environmental groups argued in federal appeals court on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to analyze the risks Bayer AG Monsanto’s dicamba-based weed killer posed to nearby crops before approving it in 2016."
"In 19 years of piloting his boat around Lake Superior, Jody Estain had never observed the water change as it has this summer. The lake has been unusually balmy and cloudy, with thick mats of algae blanketing the shoreline."
"As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday."
" Detroit's city school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 of 24 schools recently tested."
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today [Wednesday] rolled out the department's proposed management design, which would shift most bureaus into 12 'unified regions.'"
"More than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency placed San Antonio in its “non-attainment” category because of persistently high levels of smog-producing ozone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn the federal designation."
"A progressive advocacy group is accusing oil and gas companies of sitting on federal leases to boost their balance sheets. In a report released today, the Center for American Progress alleges that companies routinely scoop up oil and gas leases without actually developing them in order to elevate their financial profile. Federal agencies enable the activity, the report says."
"Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice."
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