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Trump BLM OKs 200-Mile Industrial Road Through NW Alaska Wilderness [3]

"The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday issued a right-of-way permit supporting a roughly 200-mile industrial road through the Northwest Alaska wilderness to a region that the state says could support several mines."

Environmental Politics [4]
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Alaska and Hawaii [8]
Source: Anchorage Daily News [9], 07/24/2020
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HB 6 Repeal Would Address Only Part Of Ohio Actions To Slow Renewables [10]

"Both Republican and Democratic Ohio lawmakers are pushing to repeal the state’s nuclear bailout bill after this week’s release of a federal criminal complaint against House Speaker Larry Householder and others. Clean energy advocates say that would be a start, but more is needed to address eight years of lawmakers’ actions to slow the growth of renewables in the state."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: Energy News Network [17], 07/24/2020
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Trump EPA Streamlines Uranium Mining Rules In Bid To Boost Mining [18]

"The Trump administration on Thursday moved to streamline water rules on uranium mining, in a move environmentalists said allows the Environmental Protection Agency to give up authority on regulating water pollution."

Economy & Business [13]
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Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 07/24/2020
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"U.S. Senator Duckworth Floats Plan To Rescue Coal Country" [22]

"Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth on Thursday unveiled a plan to rehabilitate communities hurt by the decline of the U.S. coal industry - an appeal to a political constituency seen as important in the November election."

Disasters [23]
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Natural Resources [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [25], 07/24/2020
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There's So Much Poop Along the Texas Coast, Swimming Could Make You Sick [26]

"Texas beaches may be open during the pandemic, but that doesn't mean they're safe places to swim, according to a new study of levels of fecal bacteria along the Gulf Coast."

Environmental Health [15]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: San Antonio Current [30], 07/24/2020
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"Congress Passes Sprawling Plan To Boost Conservation, Parks" [31]

"A bipartisan bill that would spend nearly $3 billion on conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands is on its way to the president’s desk after winning final legislative approval."

Environmental Politics [4]
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Source: AP [32], 07/23/2020
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"Major New Climate Study Rules Out Less Severe Global Warming Scenarios" [33]

"Researchers studying one of the most important and vexing topics in climate science — how sensitive the Earth’s climate is to a doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — found that warming is extremely unlikely to be on the low end of estimates."

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International [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 07/23/2020
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"EPA Proposes Airplane Emission Standards That Airlines Already Meet" [37]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday made public the federal government’s first proposal to control planet-warming pollution from airplanes, but the draft regulation would not push the airlines beyond emissions limits they have set for themselves."

Air [38]
Climate Change [11]
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Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [27]
Transportation [39]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [40], 07/23/2020
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"How the United States Fails Its Most Important Fish Habitats" [41]

"A new report concludes U.S. waters “have insufficient protections for a healthy future,” and that the problem has gotten worse under the Trump administration."

Fish & Fisheries [42]
Natural Resources [6]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Revelator [43], 07/23/2020
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Chinese ‘Dark Fleets’ Illegally Fishing In North Korean Waters [44]

"Chinese “dark fleets” illegally fished a $440 million haul of the squid species Todarodes pacificus in North Korean waters during 2017 and 2018, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances."

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Technology [45]
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International [35]
Source: Mongabay [46], 07/23/2020
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"Whitmer: Enbridge Dodging Responsibility For Potential Spill" [47]

"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer criticized Enbridge Inc. on Wednesday for what she described as the company’s refusal to make an airtight pledge to pay for damages caused by a potential oil spill from its pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel."

Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: AP [48], 07/23/2020
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Zurich Insurance Drops Coverage For Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline [49]

"Insurer Zurich has decided not to renew cover for the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline, said a spokeswoman for the project, which is opposed by environmental campaigners and some indigenous groups."

Disasters [23]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Pollution [27]
Public [7]
Canada [50]
Source: Reuters [51], 07/23/2020
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"EPA Finalizes Rule to Speed Up Disputes Over Permitting" [52]

"The EPA issued a final rule Wednesday that speeds up permit disputes that go before its Environmental Appeals Board."

Environmental Politics [4]
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Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [53], 07/23/2020
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Michigan To Adopt New, Low PFAS Drinking Water Limits [54]

"New standards limiting how much toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS can be in Michigan’s public drinking water will take effect after a legislative committee adjourned without taking action to block or change them."

Chemicals [55]
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Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: Grand Rapids Press [56], 07/23/2020
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"The Sierra Club Faces Its White-Supremacist History" [57]

"The group is speaking out against John Muir, its founder and an environmental icon who fought to preserve nature and disparaged African Americans and Native Americans".

Activism [58]
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People & Population [59]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [60], 07/23/2020
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